Should I stick telltales on charter yacht's main?

[tudorsailor]

On my own yacht, I had a single line of tell-tales "fitted" to the main when I had a new main from Hood. This was on the advice of the book Illustrated Sail and Rig Tuning

Now I am used to using tell-tales to trim the main I wonder what to do on my forthcoming charter holiday.

Do you think the charter company will object if I stick some telltales on the main? I see one can get adhesive ones so I suppose they can always take them off if they want.

thanks

TudorSailor

 

[capnsensible]

Pointless it will be stretched and knackered. Spend the money on ouzo or whatever!!!

 

[Deleted member 36384]

I dont see why not if that is how you like to trim. Use the stick on ones - if they stick.

I prefer beer and luff watching, its less involved.

 

[sailchris]

i would rather be watching Bikinis than tell tales on a charter yacht after all you are not racing.

 

[dylanwinter]

certainly not

who is to say that where you want to put them is the right place for everyone?

they also leave unsightly circles of glueiness - so that not fair

if you really cant sail without help from telltales I suggest you get an aidio cassette tape and secure a couple of bits up the slot, from the shrouds and also on the genoa foil

they will tell you if you have laminar air flow

and you won't upset anyone

Dylan

 

[alahol2]

Or just push some woolies through with a needle, knotted both sides. You can easily take them out again after your charter.

 

[dylanwinter]

surely thats worse

Or just push some woolies through with a needle, knotted both sides. You can easily take them out again after your charter.

can you really push a woolly through without damaging a sail

I am amazed

tyhats it

I was going to put the slug out to charter next spring once I got up to the Humber

a week on the Humber in the slug has got to be worth at least £1

but I ain't going to rent my boat out to any you guys

Dylan

 

[RichardS]

As far as I can remember all the yachts I've chartered already had tell-tales on the mainsail leech.

Richard

 

[Ubergeekian]

a week on the Humber in the slug has got to be worth at least £1

Nah, you'd have to pay me more than that. It's the "Humber" bit that puts the price up, not the "slug" bit.

 

[dylanwinter]

humber yawls

Nah, you'd have to pay me more than that. It's the "Humber" bit that puts the price up, not the "slug" bit.

being able to spend a day filming the humber yawls racing from the slug would be worth paying for

D

 

[Ubergeekian]

being able to spend a day filming the humber yawls racing from the slug would be worth paying for

Why are they racing from you? Sprouts for dinner?

 

[alahol2]

can you really push a woolly through without damaging a sail

I am amazed

Dylan

Have a look at a genoa that's had the UV strip removed and try to count the holes, 3 or 4 more won't hurt. How many holes have you already got along every seam and piece of re-inforcement?

 

[dylanwinter]

well I would not do it to another persons sail

Have a look at a genoa that's had the UV strip removed and try to count the holes, 3 or 4 more won't hurt. How many holes have you already got along every seam and piece of re-inforcement?

But then I have never chartered a yacht so I have no idea about the etiquette

Dylan

 

[Seajet]

Have to agree with Dylan, I briefly chartered out a previous boat of mine and I'd have had a serious sense of humour failure if she'd come back with someone else's ideas stuck on the sail/s.

One of the prices of chartering is that one gives up the perks of ownership...

 

[alahol2]

You have to remember I sail in the Solent. A needle hole in a sail, I would say, is the very least of a charter company's problems. The etiquette is down to the OP.

 

[Lakesailor]

a week on the Humber in the slug has got to be worth at least £1

Oh dear. I can think of better ways to spend a week than running aground in the middle of the estuary at high tide.

BTW I used to sail with a friend in his father's Humber One Design on the Humber. An 18' clinker dinghy with a huge bermudan rig and a centre plate that took the draught from 3" to 4' 6".
Anyone come across one?

 

[dylanwinter]

Frit

Oh dear. I can think of better ways to spend a week than running aground in the middle of the estuary at high tide.

BTW I used to sail with a friend in his father's Humber One Design on the Humber. An 18' clinker dinghy with a huge bermudan rig and a centre plate that took the draught from 3" to 4' 6".
Anyone come across one?

You have spent far too long on your nice, safe, tide free lake

time to put that little boat of yours on a trailer and get out and feel salt on your lips and experience the power of the tide

its a wondereful thing

just imagine if you could have a two not tide running one way up your lake and then after lunch it would turn around and take you back to your mooring

you don't know what you are missing.

Anyway I am looking forward to the humber - and all those other rivers up the North East Coast.

The sluig draw 18 inches all the time

Dylan

 

[snooks]

Do you think the charter company will object if I stick some telltales on the main? I see one can get adhesive ones so I suppose they can always take them off if they want.

thanks

TudorSailor

Yes they probably would mind, how would you like it if someone left adhesive residue on the leech of your sails?

You'll be on holiday, you won't be racing, set the main roughly where it should be, open a cold beer and look at the sceanery. If you spend your holiday tweaking the mainsail every couple of minutes it will be hard for anyone to on board to relax.

Take a bit or red wool with you if you really have a pressing desire for tell tails, tie it to the batten pockets if you have to, but make sure you take it off afterwards

 

[Alfie168]

Its not your boat. Don't mess with it without consulting the owner.

Do people really need to be told that ?

Tim

 

[Lakesailor]

People do need to be told.
At the activity centre we work at the chalets are constantly being "modifed" by people who think it is theirs for the week and there is no harm in sticking drawing pins, cup hooks or nails into the walls and door frames.