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28/08/2020 14:01:00
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Hi Richard,
It might be worth checking the top batten adjuster?
There is a good picture of one on the RS Parts Store Here:-
pastinghttps://www.rssailingstore.com/Catalogue/Sails-Covers/RS-Aero/RS-Aero-RS-Neo-Batten-Adjuster-AER-SA-903
It is worth enlarging the image.
When you look at the adjuster in the sail you should see the two wings engaged in the webbing loops and the small 'bubble' of plastic in the centre of the body between the wings.
If you don't see the 'bubble' then chances are the adjuster is the wrong way round and needs to be flipped over.
When inserted correctly, from the port side of the sail, the wings are offset toward the sail, i.e. to starboard. And there is no bubble on the opposite side; the side that normally bears against the sail.
I don't know for sure because I've never had this happen to me, but I can imagine the top batten having an opposite bias, to starboard tack, if the adjuster is inserted 'flipped over'.
Regards, Jonathan
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22/08/2020 16:13:00
Jonathan Rickels
Posts: 104
Possibly, the halyard could be pulling from the sraboard side of the sail at the head.
In this way the halyard crosses from starboard to port then goes through the fairlead before being cleated.
What needs to happen is for the halyard to exit the eye at the head from the port side, then cleanly through the fairlead, no twisting the head of the sail.
TT
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22/08/2020 11:16:00
Tijuana Taxi
Posts: 19
Hi all
My Aero 7 top batten appears to have a “preference†to sit in starboard tack position in light airs I.e. when flicked over to lie correctly on port tack it will often flick back again thus destroying the sail shape- tends to occur more on downwind points of sailing.
Any advice to remediate this much appreciated.
Richard Adams
Aero 2004
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22/08/2020 08:38:00
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