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Voyager
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Initially Posted - 04/30/2008 :  23:44:10  Show Profile
I'd like to get a set of lightweigh, but stiff, battens for the main. What is the best material to use and who makes it?
Bruce Ross
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Renzo
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Response Posted - 05/01/2008 :  06:10:52  Show Profile
Your local sail maker can provide you with a set of fiberglass battens, sized and shaped for your sail.
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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 05/01/2008 :  07:27:07  Show Profile  Visit Frank Hopper's Homepage
High performance battens are found on Cats more than anywhere else.
http://www.nauticexpo.com/boat-manufacturer/batten-2620.html
http://www.aquarius-sail.com/sails/index.htm
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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 05/01/2008 :  07:33:50  Show Profile  Visit Frank Hopper's Homepage
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Renzo</i>
<br />Your local sail maker can provide you with a set of fiberglass battens, sized and shaped for your sail.
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I love a post like this. "local sailmaker" It must be wonderful to live somewhere that there actually is a local marine industry. Now, if you need calve pulling gloves I have multiple local options!
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Renzo
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Response Posted - 05/01/2008 :  07:55:20  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Frank Hopper</i>
<br /><blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Renzo</i>
<br />Your local sail maker can provide you with a set of fiberglass battens, sized and shaped for your sail.
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I love a post like this. "local sailmaker" It must be wonderful to live somewhere that there actually is a local marine industry. Now, if you need calve pulling gloves I have multiple local options!
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Pardon my naivete, but I figgured that Conneticut (where I believe Voyager is from) might have a sailmaker or two within driving distance. But you are right about the links to carbon fiber battens, they would be lighter than fiberglass if you are a serious racer.
Now, about those calve pulling gloves... could thay be used for pig pushing also?
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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 05/01/2008 :  10:18:23  Show Profile  Visit Frank Hopper's Homepage
You are absolutely right, I am sure Ct does have lofts. Most have lofts we have...
http://www.tractorsupply.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Home_10551_10001
I envy people with local lofts. We have one guy 100 miles south (Kerr) and one guy 100 miles north (Wolff), both are to be admired for being sailmakers in the midwest but I don't know how much keelboat work they get.

edit, actually its calf and calves, shows what I know.
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Renzo
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Response Posted - 05/01/2008 :  10:46:30  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Frank Hopper</i>
<br />You are absolutely right, I am sure Ct does have lofts. Most have lofts we have...
http://www.tractorsupply.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Home_10551_10001
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Ah yes! For navigating the amber WAVES of grain no doubt.

Also after much research I found out that you can push a pig into the water but you can't make it float... Who Knew!
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dmpilc
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Response Posted - 05/01/2008 :  22:47:38  Show Profile
We have Tractor Supply, too, including the home office! LOL
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Voyager
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Response Posted - 05/01/2008 :  23:01:24  Show Profile
We have a North Sails in the next town. I reckon I'll give them a try.
We also have a Tractor Supply, but its up in Dave Bristle's neck of the woods, in Griswold. That's where they keep their polo-ponies!
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Champipple
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Response Posted - 05/02/2008 :  06:34:35  Show Profile  Visit Champipple's Homepage
Hey Frank, do you have the link for Wolff Sails?
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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 05/02/2008 :  12:09:16  Show Profile  Visit Frank Hopper's Homepage
oops
Wolfe Sails 1621 Northwest 35th Street, Topeka, KS 66618 (785) 286-1515
I must have been thinking of my buddy.
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Champipple
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Response Posted - 05/02/2008 :  13:31:41  Show Profile  Visit Champipple's Homepage
off topic - If they have any really cool logo'd merchandise let me know... E or F...doesn't really matter
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