[quote=tamumpower1]I have 2 telo-cats... one broken multiple times. Epoxy cant keep it together. The other sits in my room and is never used. Forest Gump VHS tape on the bridles is all I need. Once you stare at it long enough you don't need the little arms like the telo cat has. You can just tell when the wind shifts or you are sailing high/low.
A national level competitor from back in the day I got a boat from only sailed by a mast head fly and swore by it. I feel you have to be really good to do that because theres no way you are staring straight up all day. Mostly just sailing by the seat of your pants.
As for sail tell tails, I don't have a problem with a million streamers on my sail. If you want to learn what the wind is doing then the more the better. You don't have to look at all of them, but when I was new I liked having more. Now I have less. In races even fewer because I figure they are drag. An upper and a lower luff streamer on each sail and you are done. Having a leach streamer is nice if things are really funky and you are second guessing your main sheet tension because you can see how often the air is separating.
A lower luff isnt used much on the main but dang in shifting winds sometimes you dont realize whats going on and just pulling in the traveler and seeing if the lower set stalls can get you correct faster.[/quote]
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