As another thread post says - one batten missing ! Silly question :

[Daydream believer]

It would be messy but you could lay up your own batten with grp. Probably 10 layers of 450 cloth would give you the depth. Then trim the sides down to fit. Probably to much bend to flowcoat it, but could just paint it for cosmetic finish. Depends how hands on you want to be and the messy stickiness you want to be involved in.

Do not bother with flow coat. Just cover with heat shrink tubing. Probably would only need 4or 5 layers of tape instead of cloth sheet

 

[Refueler]

Just got back from sailmaker ... 10m of batten ... so now I can sort out not only this missing batten - but also any others I need.



My 5m weekender has wood dowels in the main - I bought set of sails of ebay for it and they did not have battens. Now I have the material to do properly.

 

[Refueler]

All done ... luvly jubbly !!

 

[William_H]

It sounds like you have fixed the problem Nigel. I hope that material works out ok. However if it does not I would suggerst jopining the 2.5m batten with apiece iof the shorter one. Yes a scarf joint wold be fine with epoxy. but then I would also wrap the joint or parallel the joint on the wide sides with kevlar. (this is very strong in tension and could enhance the joint without much increase in thickness. Of course this area at leach of main sail should be quite flat so good to have more stiffness there. (you might want to add the kevlar for the last metre of batten for stiffness. (I can get kevlar 40mm wide tape at just a few dollars per metre. i love it. Biggest problem is cutting it) ol'will

 

[Refueler]

Hi Will,

All good ... the new batten is fine and works same as the others ...