[Rhodes22-list] IMF Battens

[Bill Effros]

Hank,

The advantage of the batten is that it allows you to roll up a larger 
sail in the IMF cavity.  The sail is maybe 10% larger, but the added 
size is very low adding thrust without changing balance.

Bill Effros

Hank wrote:
> Hello Rhodies,
>
> Here is a question for those of you with the vertical battens on your IMF
> Sails.  Do you think an existing IMF sail can be modified to add the
> vertical batterns?  If so, approximately where on the sail are they 
> located
> and how many are they?  How long are they?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Hank
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