Batten cars

[NickCharman]

I have a cat ketch with one full length batten in the new main. One beauty of this rig, is being able to allow the sail forward of the beam - especially useful for a broad reach when running goosewinged. However we are having problems finding a batten car which will allow the batten to articulate forward of the beam on both gybes. It perhaps needs a batten car with a longer than standard standoff for the pivot point.

Beyond having one specially fabricated, anyone know of a batten car made for this rig/which will have this feature?

Nick C