Does anybody use telltales on there boats/sails?
If so do you think it helps and why?
Personally I don’t see the point in using them as the boats are normally to far away to see what they are doing anyway.
Peter
Peter,
I use telltales…it helped a lot at the beginning…with the telltales, I was able to setup my sails…I tried many different settings and with the telltales installed, it makes things more easy.
But you are right, if the boat is too far, you cant read them, but they are very helpfull to setup the sails
Wis
if it isn’t broken, don’t fix it!
simple answer
i use a small canadian flag. attached to the backstay line. it is just big enough for me to see when the boat is 300 feet away. and LOOKS great up close( i like pictures)
cougar
long live the cup
I use the telltales to set the boat up and watch when it is close but our pond winds come from all directions so my main wind indicator is my mast head fly. If the wind lightens and comes from behind the other sailors will not see it. One other sailors uses them and he was telling me to quit watching his fly because I forgot to bring mine. I was watching his but was standing behind him I don’t know how he knew.
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I use the telltales to set the boat up and watch when it is close but our pond winds come from all directions so my main wind indicator is my mast head fly. If the wind lightens and comes from behind the other sailors will not see it. One other sailors uses them and (he was telling me to quit watching his fly )because I forgot to bring mine. I was watching his but was standing behind him I don’t know how he knew.
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If you were watching my fly all the time I’d be worried too.[:-wiltel]
I’ve learned, That the easiest way for me to grow as a person is to surround myself with people smarter than I am.
(what am I doing here?)lol
I find using telltales useful in my rc sailing. I use 2" strips of 1/4" cassette tape.
With my US1M, I set them up as follows:
JIB: 12" up from clew, 18" down from head. Both sides, staggered, 1.5" back from luff.
MAIN: on leach, about half way up.
(Kind of like A below)
I’m building a ketch and need your advice. Should I have similiar set up with telltales on leaches of main and mizen sails (A)? Or more like jib set up on mizen (B)? Or even luff telltales on main (D)? Or just the leach telltales on main/mizen, but more of them (C)?
Any suggestions?
I did a rc sailing search for telltales yet no post listed specific locations or the links were outdated.
Thanks, yar
Hi yar
On a particular boat, setting the woolies a consistent distance from the luff is good. When wanting to move from one sail plan to another, though, it may be more useful to set 'em back according to a certain % of chord. For example, if the chord of the jib at the place where you normally place your telltales is 15", your position is 10% of chord. If you then wanted the ‘same’ position on a jib where the chord was 10", you’d position 'em 1" back, and so on.
I did a rc sailing search for telltales yet no post listed specific locations or the links were outdated.
Some theory…
http://www.onemetre.net/Race/Telltale/Telltale.htm
http://www.onemetre.net/Design/Circulat/circulat.htm
http://www.onemetre.net/Design/Boundary/Boundary.htm