HARKEN 3811Click To Copy System A CB Headboard Car Assembly

A Harken Battcar system along with full-length battens helps raise, douse, and reef with ease and acts as extra crew if you're sailing shorthanded. Battcar systems outperform in-mast or in-boom furling, cost less, and you don't need to recut your sail. The one-piece solid aluminum construction is lightweight and strong. The free-rolling ball bearing cars let you hoist and reef the main quickly on all points of sail. Battcars let you raise, lower, and reef at any wind angle while enjoying efficient sail shape underway. Batten Traveler Systems replace conventional sail slugs with ball bearing traveler cars to handle the compression loads from full-length battens. The main becomes easier to hoist and lower, and won't damage the sail track. Add a lazy jack system, and raising or lowering your mainsail becomes a single person operation. Battcar systems also improve sailing performance, because they do not require the sail to be cut flat, or reduce the size of the roach, as with other systems like in-mast or in-boom furling. They make mainsail handling safer, by allowing you to raise or lower the sail with practically no effort at all, even with the sail powered up. Each system consists of four basic components: The track can be installed with the mast in place. Your mainsail will need to be modified for your headboard, short luff cars and inboard batten fittings by your sailmaker. Choosing the Right Battcar System Harken Battcar Catalog Section Which Battcar System? Intermediate Car Chart