[Rhodes22-list] Liquid Battens

[Ronald Lipton]

An air bladder would be hard to keep sufficiently
rigid without a fairly high pressure pump and I
would guess would be harder to engineer into a sail.
Liquid tubing could be much smaller diameter.
One could put a liquid system into pockets without
extensive recutting of standard sails.
The devil would be in the details - how do you keep
air bubbles out, how do you fill and empty the system,
what material do you use for the tubing and how is
it valved?

The real advantage of the system would be that it would
give "fill the sails" a whole new meaning.

Ron

----- Original Message -----
From: <R22RumRunner@aol.com>
To: <rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2002 2:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Liquid Battens


> Ron,
> I think water would add weight where you don't want it, but an air bladder
> arrangement might work as well.
>
> Rummy
> _________________________________________________
> Use Rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org, Help? www.rhodes22.org/list