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[quote=benedict]I was going over the sails I got with my Pacific Cat this morning, finishing up my shopping list for when I hit town today. New headboard, check, new zipper for the jib, check.

That's when it hit me: There are NO telltales on any of the sails. None. Three sets of telltales, check!

But now for the fun question: I've got a couple of rough guides for setting up telltales on a cat. Phil Berman's book and Rick White's book have sections on this. But it's always fun to hear people's philosophies on where they like their telltales.

If you had a complete do-over on your telltales, how would you set them up?

This boat has one headsail, a genoa that looks like it has between a 5-10% overlap. It has two mains. The smaller of the two is a high aspect main that resembles a modern cat mainsail. The larger of the two is quite a bit larger, and is closer in aspect ratio to a monohull cruiser like a Catalina 22. Both are fully battened, as cat sails should be.

I'm trying not to wind up with a sail that looks like a shag carpet, but I ordered 42 telltales I can spread between the three sails. I hope to wind up with a couple of spares to stick in the ditty bag.

Tom[/quote]

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