Where should I put the tells?

BEFORE you say...." on the sails" I want to know WHERE on the sails! Any particular spots?

Nuff said!

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Blair T

I love these calm moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven...


'02 Hobie Tiger USA 1152

You notice how far I'm travelled out in that photo? And I'm still overpowered. It was honkin'.

braggin huh??

seems like your windward tells are luffing, need to center that travler and stop being a wuss!

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1981 Hobie 16
1982 Hobie 14 turbo (sold)
1996 SeaDoo GTI
1999 Hunter 340

You need to do what I do, add a few more 16oz "ballasts" to your belly the day before!!!

I tell my wife it's not a beer gut, it's a tactical ballast device!

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Blair T

I love these calm moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven...


'02 Hobie Tiger USA 1152

Uh, no. We had overstood the weather mark a bit, so I wasn't feathering in the gusts. Centering the traveller would have made the boat completely uncontrollable.

As it was, we were leading the race by a considerable margin.

This was taken a few seconds later:


If anything, we should have travelled the jib out a bit more to relieve the back-pressure on the main - but we were busy and that tack only lasted a little more than 3 minutes.

Notice I'm losing my bottom main batten out the back. The luff cap had blown off in a jibe on the first downwind leg. This was the third upwind leg.

Where were you racing?

That's Charlotte Harbor, FL - in between Port Charlotte and Punta Gorda. That's *only* a 20 hour drive for me. I get desperate in the winter. (That event is the first weekend in February.)

There's precious little racing left in HCA Division 10, especially for Hobie 16s. The fleet on Austin Lake (Kalamazoo, MI) still does Tuesday evening races, but they don't travel much anymore.

I tend to go east to do two-day regattas - Toronto, Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo. The fleet in Detroit used to put on a regatta in Port Burwell, Ontario, but we didn't do it last year (burnout).

There will be a Hobie 16 fleet at the Mayor's Cup Regatta on Eagle Creek in Indianapolis this year. Don't know the dates offhand.

There's a pretty strong 16 contingent in Iowa.

I had thought about taking this boat to Kalamazoo this summer when it is done. I raced Division 10 regattas in the early 70s. That is where I caught the bug. Waco Beach up on Lake Michigan is my favorite place around here though.

Eagle Creek was a great time last year. Trying to bring some more Cincy guys over this year and a few from northern Indiana. Should be a good 16 turn out.

Maybe we can get some of those plastic boat sailors to bring their glass boats? Chris? You ouy there? Heard any dates yet?

And by the way Matt sails that fast in light air too. And to keep to the original topic.... Matt, how do you rank the importance of each tell tale.

JB
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The most important tell-tales are the top three in the main (sets twist, prevents you from over sheeting) and the middle one in the jib - that's the one you steer by upwind and trim to downwind.

The other ones in the main are used for setting on a reach, but that rarely happens in races anymore.

The top and bottom ones in the jib are used to make sure you have the sheet attached to the correct hole in the clew plate.