Tag: batten

Hi Mike, I personally prefer a black cape and ftat-brimmed hat! All that furry stuff gets caught in the bearings, and that’s not safe.

batten, standard battens, salt water, innovation, mast crane

Thx Trevor! A very good tip just one question : I suppose your not using the batten tensioners :-) so are your sailing in production or just didn't bother to use batten tentioners?

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R.E. Battens For my 5.5m I roll from the top – so only remove top two battens. Other sails I roll from the bottom and leave them all in. The top two battens of my 5.5 I slip down the boom pocket.

batten, 5.5m

Dave, From my understanding all blokart battens are made to the same specification but they are hand sanded so there is slight variations in each batten.

batten, salt water, Blokart Batten

Hey Russell, I have cut my handkerchief on the diagonal and used some sticking plaster to add some wooden skewers as battens - and it looks pretty much like a 2m, and I have a spare sail too.

batten, 5.5m

Man! that was fast! The batten poll was open, voted on, voting closed and counted before I even read the opening message. As the world turns I guess.

Batterns, batten, poll

Originally sent by: Bruce Hi Marg, First tip (from Les in Tauranga) we learnt about sail assembly is don't fold it, roll it up complete with battens and boom – sticks a out of the sail bag a bit...

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Greetings Mike, Standard seals shouldn’t have this problem, as you describe it, unless the wear-and-tear process is “assisted” a bit.

batten, salt water, kilo, Championship

Originally sent by: Paul Beckett Hi Ben, Happy New Year The original 3.0 sails were all cut off one set of patterns.

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Originally sent by: Clinton Hi there all Being in the heavy weight class and over 105ks I have found that in rig tuning the battens are more important than downhaul.

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Jimi, BTW, I saw the PIC of Santa and helper all dressed in red. Should become the standard blokart racing garb, yes? I like it.

salt water, batten, Blokart Batten, committee

Hi Zorro, It is actually quiet a feat to have almost 50% performance in a race in Europe! Probably because we have 17 guys from NZL ;-) Nico 2010/​4/​1 Zorro <(Address removed)>

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Nico See the first line ".....or have those nifty adjusters then this is probably not the technique for you" IMHO the adjusters (tensioners) are a waste of time.

batten, tension

Re The Great race 09, Congrats to all the competitors who fronted up and had a BLAST!!

batten, congrats

Finally, a day with good winds and fine weather, plus of course good food and company.

batten, FUN, newcomer

Originally sent by: Paul Beckett Tim & Lee & any one else that interested! The issue of "Production" category is so that entrants to Karting are not disadvantaged.

batten, FUN

Originally sent by: grunta Hi Kem, Get hold of a copy of the Blokart one design class rule booklet, although in the draft stage it does raise a number of valid points.

Ballarat, batten

Hi Peter, Since you have been away I will put you in the picture re mast prebend:

Km Race photos, batten, kilo, tension

 Sorry Mike, I disagree,Those that went to Perth for Pacrim were given a real lesson among the middleweights by that man they call Bugs.Racing an older kart with one of the original sails ever...

Batterns, poll, batten, Perth, BOP

Hi Mike There is a proposal that sand bags be added (like horse racing) to weight every one up to the same class. Then where are they put (as this affects performance).

Batterns, poll, Proposed, batten

Originally sent by: Phil Ready So where is all the wind? It is not looking too good! Too wet to do yard work, will have to do Blokart maintenance, now what shape are the battens meant to be?

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Originally sent by: Nicko If you have the longer sail bags and dont remove your battens each time then the following method i find very efficient.

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Clean the sand and salt water out of your bearings for the first race day of the ABC Winter series this coming Sunday (22 April).

salt water, batten, newcomer, payment