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English Dave View Drop Down
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    Posted: 02 Oct 07 at 9:54am

Originally posted by moomin

Do any of you use tell tales to control the slot between jib and main.

It's on my list of things to do. The Hurricane59 SX is still in its infancy (so no hard and fast tuning guide) and controlling the slot on the self tacking jib seems to be the key to going fast upwind. As you say, with a fully battened laminate mainsail the jib doesn't visibly backwind the main so jib-leach telltales would be way to go.
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trouble with that is you can't see the jib leech a lot of the time. generally i would say if you're not sure where to put tell tales put lots and lots on.
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