Telltales on the Tanzer 16 -- March 14, 2014 -- A rare day off, so got the work bench and surrounding areas cleaned to make room for attaching telltales to the sails. I think I once knew a lot about telltales*, but now all I can remember is "ease the sails till the windward tales flutter then gently sheet it, and keep all the yarn on the leech flying." Even a cursory reading shows that there is a lot more information about sail shape that can be gathered by these simple pieces of yarn. Bottom line seems to be, keep them all flying; it will be a long time before managing sail twist is second nature. Most of our race legs aren't long enough for lots of experimenting.
This might be the original main and genoa--wonder how much a new main would cost?
(*Of course 30 years ago, I thought I knew a lot more about everything.)
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Many good articles online about correct placement of the yarn. |
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