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If you can fit the battens on top of your car, they aren't very long 
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... In Response To: Fitting a new main is a fiddley project. 
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() The lower ones on my main are 24'. Even though they are solid pultruded S glass and 7/8 diameter, when I pick them up in the middle I have to hold them over shoulder height to keep the ends from dragging on the ground. I just took my main off the boat and put it on a pallet. We used the crane that was there for the dismasting .
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- Fitting a new main is a fiddley project.
- Sounds like a big list
- If you can fit the battens on top of your car, they aren't very long ...
