sailboats, a sail batten is a flexible insert in a sail, parallel to the direction of wind flow, that helps shape its qualities as an airfoil. Battens are long...

to obviate the need for battens and their ensuing likelihood of chafing the sail. Roach is a term also applied to square sail design—it is the arc of...

Look up batten in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A batten is most commonly a strip of solid material, historically wood but can also be of plastic,...

Mount Batten, an outcrop of rock at Plymouth Sound in England Sail batten, a flexible insert in a sail to help shape it as an airfoil BBDO (Batten, Barton...

mainsails are "full-batten" mainsails, meaning the batten extends all the way from the mast to the leach of a sail. A partial batten extends from the leech...

balanced lug sail, or sampan rig, is a type of sail rig in which rigid members, called battens, span the full width of the sail and extend the sail forward...

one may consider the following about its suit of sails: Mainsail: Lazy jacks, reefing points and battens Jib: Roller furling or reefing Spinnakers and drifters:...

surface, often as a result of their curved edges. Battens may be used to extend the trailing edge of a sail beyond the line of its attachment points. Other...

polyester/fibreglass and metal cart, often with a wing-mast and relatively rigid (full-batten) sails, has been used since 1960. In 1967, a French Foreign Legion officer...

lateen (from French latine, meaning "Latin") or latin-rig is a triangular sail set on a long yard mounted at an angle on the mast, and running in a fore-and-aft...