Re: [Cal_Boats] Mast Parts now tell tales

You're a better man that me Chris. I can not talk and watch the tell tales. Everytime I start to chat, the crew starts yelling pinching, or come up, you're luffing. Randy Cal 2-29 Out Patient Channel Islands Ca Chris Campbell <cc… [at] lsnm.org> wrote: On 2/20/2014 5:08 PM, Gerald Sobel wrote: I have a hunch most folks out there sailing haven't a clue what tel tales are for, how to read them, if they have them, which many don't. I'm addicted to tell tales, especially the ones on the jib and main. Sometimes I'll pause and wonder how I sailed before I used them. (The answer is "not very well," I think). I like to turn the helm over to guests on my boat, since (it seems to me) much of the fun is making the boat go. And often enough they get to chattering, and looking off in the distance, and sailing on a beam reach with sails close-hauled. Me, I can chatter and watch the sails at the same time. That said, it's kinda like George Carlin's comments on other drivers (those going faster than I am are maniacs; those slower are morons). We probably should be grateful that people are out sailing, and hope that some day they'll be better at it. Chris Campbell

Cigar would do it. we have a race tomorrow. looking like 5 knots or less. Maybe incense would work too. We have a non smoking boat. Randy Donald C Dutton <dn… [at] comcast.net> wrote: Tell tales are the art of the sport of sailing!! We had a champion Sunfish sailor named Earl Campbell whose name lives on at the Oktoberfest Regatta who had the standard tell tales cemented to his sails, but also taught me to put cassette tape on the shrouds for light air days, but truly knocked his competitors out by lighting a cheap cigar in the lightest air races and followed the trace of the smoke to decide how to trim his sails! Won more races than anyone I know (and I have been around Rod Johnstone and John Kolius) when using these techniques. Whenever we sailed on Galveston Bay or Raritan Bay we could always tell the sailors who had raced versus those who have not by the luffing of the luff or fluttering of the leach of their jibs -- No one who had ever been trained to watch their tell tales would ever allow this to happen!! Don Dutton 1986 Cal 33-2, "Quantum Evolution" On Feb 21, 2014, at 9:16 AM, Chris Campbell wrote: On 2/20/2014 5:08 PM, Gerald Sobel wrote: I have a hunch most folks out there sailing haven't a clue what tel tales are for, how to read them, if they have them, which many don't. I'm addicted to tell tales, especially the ones on the jib and main. Sometimes I'll pause and wonder how I sailed before I used them. (The answer is "not very well," I think). I like to turn the helm over to guests on my boat, since (it seems to me) much of the fun is making the boat go. And often enough they get to chattering, and looking off in the distance, and sailing on a beam reach with sails close-hauled. Me, I can chatter and watch the sails at the same time. That said, it's kinda like George Carlin's comments on other drivers (those going faster than I am are maniacs; those slower are morons). We probably should be grateful that people are out sailing, and hope that some day they'll be better at it. Chris Campbell

Randy, great idea! I was wondering what to do with all the incense I have laying around from my Haight-Ashbury, Palo Alto 'Mid-Pennisula Free University Be-In' days ("Tune in-turn on-drop out, but don't listen to me; I'm over 30"'..Timothy Leary.) I'ts almost 50 years old, I wonder how well it will burn? And which flavor works best. Jasmine? Jerry On Friday, February 21, 2014 11:09 AM, Randy <sa… [at] yahoo.com> wrote: >Cigar would do it. > > >we have a race tomorrow. looking like 5 knots or less. > > > > >Maybe incense would work too. We have a non smoking boat. > > >Randy > >Sent from my Samsung Epic™ 4G > > >Donald C Dutton <dn… [at] comcast.net> wrote: > > > >Tell tales are the art of the sport of sailing!! We had a champion Sunfish sailor named Earl Campbell whose name lives on at the Oktoberfest Regatta who had the standard tell tales cemented to his sails, but also taught me to put cassette tape on the shrouds for light air days, but truly knocked his competitors out by lighting a cheap cigar in the lightest air races and followed the trace of the smoke to decide how to trim his sails! Won more races than anyone I know (and I have been around Rod Johnstone and John Kolius) when using these techniques. Whenever we sailed on Galveston Bay or Raritan Bay we could always tell the sailors who had raced versus those who have not by the luffing of the luff or fluttering of the leach of their jibs -- No one who had ever been trained to watch their tell tales would ever allow this to happen!! > > >Don Dutton >1986 Cal 33-2, "Quantum Evolution" > > >On Feb 21, 2014, at 9:16 AM, Chris Campbell wrote: > > >> >> >>On 2/20/2014 5:08 PM, Gerald Sobel wrote: >> >>I have a hunch most folks out there sailing haven't a clue what tel tales are for, how to read them, if they have them, which many don't. >>I'm addicted to tell tales, especially the ones on the jib and main. Sometimes I'll pause and wonder how I sailed before I used them. (The answer is "not very well," I think). I like to turn the helm over to guests on my boat, since (it seems to me) much of the fun is making the boat go. And often enough they get to chattering, and looking off in the distance, and sailing on a beam reach with sails close-hauled. Me, I can chatter and watch the sails at the same time. >> >>That said, it's kinda like George Carlin's comments on other drivers (those going faster than I am are maniacs; those slower are morons). We probably should be grateful that people are out sailing, and hope that some day they'll be better at it. >> >>Chris Campbell >> >> >> >> >> > > > >