Depends on the sail. Race sails usually have carbon fiber tubular battens down
low and solid carbon or glass rectangular battens up high.

--Rick

----- Original Message -----
From: Alex Zotov
To: Windtalk
Sent: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:40:39 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: RE: why do battens break?


























it's a theory, though it would work better if we were giraffes - these battens
are pretty high :-)



Are they really carbon fiber?





To: NW-WINDTALK@yahoogroups.com

From: don.ledford@...

Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:31:46 -0700

Subject: Re: why do battens break?



They break because my head is harder than carbon fiber.



Alex Zotov wrote:

> I got a couple of battens broken on a 5.0 sail (#2 and #4 from the top). No
biggie/ easy to replace with the superb Sailworks support, but I am just curious
why do they break? The sail isn't that old, and in particular it's interesting
that 2 of them broke at the same time. I wonder if this may have been because I
overtightened them - I vaguely remember giving them just a bit of twist a few
sessions back because of a few minor wrinkles I spotted on the sail.

>

>



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