Telltales from y and y
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Topic: Telltales from y and y
Posted By: Jamesd
Subject: Telltales from y and y
Date Posted: 25 Mar 08 at 6:02pm
| Just been reading the latest mag. mark rushal talks about the top leech telltales breaking 25% of the time or 10% of the time. what the hell does breaking mean?? |
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Posted By: radixon
Date Posted: 25 Mar 08 at 6:07pm
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If I am right and could stand corrected its when they fly the same way or not, ie one flies in a different direction. I am sure someone may be along soon to correct me, but thats what I recon. ------------- |
Posted By: alstorer
Date Posted: 25 Mar 08 at 6:47pm
| streaming should be smooth. Breaking means they're not drooping straight down, but neither are they streaming quite "right". |
Posted By: Lukepiewalker
Date Posted: 25 Mar 08 at 8:20pm
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It tends to disappear behind the sail when it's 'breaking' in the case of leech telltales. As Al said, in simple terms it's breaking if it isn't streaming normally... ------------- Ex-Finn GBR533 "Pie Hard" Ex-National 12 3253 "Seawitch" Ex-National 12 2961 "Curved Air" Ex-Mirror 59096 "Voodoo Chile" |
Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 29 Mar 08 at 12:35pm
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I'm disappointed nobody has suggested stronger tell tales...
------------- Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686 |
Posted By: redhotchilicat
Date Posted: 31 Mar 08 at 8:24am
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Nice one Rupert I'm sure there are some development jockeys out there who could suggest some spanky carbon composites which will always stick out at the desired angle and never actually break, may need some further thought with regards to rolling, flaking and stowing though. Redhotchilicat ------------- go on you know it makes sense |
Posted By: farc anal
Date Posted: 01 Apr 08 at 11:58am
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I cut lengths of plastic out of coke bottles , about 6 inches long or 0.00006km in metric by 21/31 of an inch wide 0.00000012 km I bend one end about 1 inch or 0.000001 km over a ruler and wobble back and forth untill it becomes pliable but doesn't break , which allows it to move easily , the short tab left I attach to sail with a soft ally rivet (for easy replacement ) and finally spray each Tell tale with a unique colour from a rainbow , so when my crew tells me which tell tale colour if flappin out of turn I know what part of the sail it corresponds too (i get faint when I look Up ) Job done works for me |
Posted By: redhotchilicat
Date Posted: 01 Apr 08 at 2:46pm
Not even going to try and compete with that Mr. Anal absolutely bloody outstanding and conclusive proof that ... well... not ...sure actually .------------- go on you know it makes sense |