[Rhodes22-list] Battened IMF - Rummy enjoy your vacation

[Mary Lou Troy]

elle, I think I can answer this for Rummy - let's let him enjoy his 
vacation in peace. He or Stan can call me on it if I get anything wrong.

We don't have the main with the vertical batten but I've studied it 
on the show boat at Annapolis. It has a single vertical batten at the 
point where the sail meets the triangular sacrificial strip toward 
the clew of the sail. The additional material this allows is all on 
the leech of the sail. It furls into the same mast and uses the same 
lines as the regular IMF sail. I don't think the batten goes into the 
mast at all or if it does it stops right at the slot.

Hope this clarifies.

Mary Lou
1991 R22 Fretless
Rock Hall, MD



At 10:37 AM 8/28/2007, you wrote:
>Rummy,
>
>  Now that your tongue is back in its hideaway..;^) ,can the 
> batttened IMF use the same mast as the regular IMF?
>  Is the furling mechanism the same?
>
>  I would guess that the entire assembly..mast, mechanism 
> (step)..are different.
>
>  Sorry about not changing the subject lines on previous posts...not 
> even the stickie note in the middle of the screen reminds me....
>
>  elle
>
>R22RumRunner at aol.com wrote: The new IMF with the batten is as Ron 
>stated, an improvement 0ver the
>original sail. It gives you more forward thrust and a better 
>balance. Side by  side
>with the same boat without, you will slowly pull away. It's really a nice
>sail. I would buy it again over the old sail.
>
>Rummy
>
>
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