Has anybody fitted telltails to their Spinny. The Spinnys are getting flatter and flatter and it must be getting near to a sail shape like a reaching sail where telltails are a method of setting the sail.

If you have had them on the spinny, where is the best place to put them ?

I can't sail without them. My first spin did not have them. When it came time to replace it, the new sail had them, and my down wind improved dramatically. Immediately rumors began to circulate that I was cheating. People "new for a fact" my spinnaker was over sized. In fact it measured slightly under sized.

That's the difference tell tales make.

I'm scheduled to sail Wednesday, I'll try to remember to get measurements and some photos.

I bought my Falcon in January and Matt ordered a red spin from Glaser for me as I didn't care for the purple ...it came with telltails. I think they've been like this for a while now though as I am pretty sure it was Matt telling me to watch the leeward telltail in order to not over sheet (a huge problem I had starting out.) I love it! Now whenever I have someone new on board I just tell them to immediately sheet so thar the leeward one is flying and not to care about the windward one ...then to make sure the luff curls slightly.

Sort of what I suspected, Pete piccies please or some dimensions approx. how far from the front of the sail and how many, thanks.

There's just 2: one on each side. I believe mine are around halfway up the luff or just below that, and maybe a foot back. If Pete doesn't beat me to it I'll measure mine and post.

Check out this pic. You can see the leeward one half way up.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-G6MzhlOVnMY/Ty...338626493_n.jpg

This is a perfect view. If you look at the very top of this picture, you can see the tell tails.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-o71UtjSc67E/T6FdOBRHOjI/AAAAAAAANWc/1uSVnwgR550/s1600/7.jpg

My sails are AHPC, there may be something on their website. But there are three sets and Robbie D. told me to watch them all! That's another reason to have four eyeballs on the boat.

One set does the job just fine. They are there to get the spin close to perfect and then you ease out as much as you can to hit the sweet spot. Could be only 5 centimeters more, but the last centimeters really matter with the spinnaker.

Gill

Wayne; I had 3 on both my Spis; about 25cm back from the luff; one about 1m up from the tack; one about 2m from the head and the third 1/2 between the two.