I broke two battens on my Reflex III 7.0, on Saturday probably because of very clumsy launch...
Those battens are a bit different to ones I have broken before... (Severne gator)
With the first picture below, just the mini batten has snapped, is it just a case of removing the rest of the mini batten from the larger diameter batten and inserting a new one? Just wondering if it's glued in there, and whole batten needs replacing.
The next pic is the no 6 batten, it has cracked on the larger diameter piece, where it joins the mini batten, the batten is easily repairable, I will probably do, and keep as spare, but until then a replacement is probably going to more practicable, is this larger batten something easily sourced and replaced?
Check with WindsurfnSnow for the batten sections.
They are both standard parts (505 tube batten and 414 tube batten). If they don't have any in it won't take long for them to arrive from Perth.
You could repair that split batten.
The Leech batten will need a section of rod batten glued in for the batten tensioner, you'll see this when you pull the old one out. All this will take a few minutes and you'll be sorted.
Hi Racer X,
In your first photo the broken piece should slide straight out- there's no glue. Then you just need to cut an appropriate replacement piece to the right length and put it all back together.
For the second photo- if it was my sail I would probably try putting some clear sticky tape around the split area. That's worked for me before for the same issue..
Hope that helps!
Barn and Shane,
That helps! Not in Sydney at the moment, so can't get to windsurf and snow, in the UK at the moment.
Barn, these 505 tube batten and 414 tube battens, are these Severne part number's? Or something standard?
and for the big 505 batten, how is the reflex tensioner attached, (don't have it with me at the moment) do I need to drill some holes?
Hi RacerX,
Are you needing the battens in the UK? or back in Aus? Tushy is the UK importer, they should have stock too. Otherwise you could still get everything organised for when you get back. The 505 and 414 is the Severne part, just rods of different diameters. There's only two diameters in tubes and two diameters of rod battens.
The reflex tensioner is attached through the batten, takes 5 seconds to install.
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By the look of the beautiful sandy beach he rigged up on I'd say he's in England
Yep Hayling island, the birthplace of windsurfing supposedly. I was actually wearing a shortie that day, as it still heat wave conditions here!
