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Old battens in new sails

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Charles
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Old battens in new sails

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Hi all

I picked up my shiny new sail at the dinghy show and will start playing with it at Grafham this weekend.

So far I have 'enjoyed' the hour of careful measurements to position & then gingerly stick the numbers on.

I then chortled at the ease with which my battens slid into the crisp sail cloth.

However, I then wondered if my 'old' battens were up to the job of supporting a shiny new sail.

My quiver of battens, amassed over more years than I care to remember, are of widely differing ages.

Excluding any battens that have twisted, are all battens equal?
Charles
1942, Ingrid
Halifax SWC
God does not deduct from our allotted life span the time spent sailing (or talking, texting, reading, posting to websites & emailing about it)
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