Our member, Nigel Barrow, writes an excellent blog about his exploits in radio sailing. I expect you all read it.

Nigel has published a great reminder that, like big boat sailing, telltales are extremely important in boat set up and tuning. This is Nigel’s excellent blog post :-

https://www.nigelbarrow.co.uk/post/thought-for-the-day-telltales-are-your-friend

Most of us already have a pair of telltales on our various jibs. What Nigel has me thinking about now is using four sets of tell tales (see photo and article).

You know how it is, the slightest bit of rain causes tell tales to stick to the sail and be useless. Nigel recommends a fly fishing spray I’d not heard of before called “fly float”. The idea is to stop your tell tales sticking down when damp. I wish I had known about fly float in my 25 year career in Flying Fifteens!

I’ve checked out fly float and it costs about £5. However, Royal Mail will not ship aerosols so you end up paying £6.50 postage extra to a courier. I need to find a local fishing tackle shop and see if I can get some there. I may be able to scrounge some off fishing friends and try out Nigel’s idea.

I can see now that the national sales figure for telltales is about to soar!….