Hi,

I have just bought a "job lot" of windsurfing gear and there is one piece of equipment that I don't recognise.

I have attached a picture of the gear to help identify the item.

There are two of them and they look like they attach to the mast.

If anyone knows what they are and how they attach to the rig, could you let me know.

Thanks

garfin.

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They are removeable camber inducers- they attach to the mast at the end of battens and force shape into the sail.

It's a cam it sits inside the mast sleeve of the sail it butts up to the mast and the batten fits into it.

Ahh, I see.

So they stop the battens hitting the mast and induce the camber.

I guess there would be one above and one below the boom (where the cutout is in the luff sleeve)

Thanks for the quick response guys...

garfin

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Originally posted by mkseven

They are removeable camber inducers- they attach to the mast at the end of battens and force shape into the sail.

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also affectionately known as old men's batten benders or style cripplers and mandatory requirement of the chair police club

As they all said its a CAM (camber inducer), but since the is a lot of velcro consider this:-
Some older sailes eg: KA Reactor had extenal cams that velcroed around the mast in the cut out area - early 90's - slip over batten end (would have velcro at this end) then wrap around mast.

yer it's off one of those old sails, raf sail not raf sail kind of thing, the funny thing is, no one ever used them, like the old twin cam Pryde sails.

Gaastra:

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