JacksonAUS said:Yeah.. the little hawk with the mast clip is perfect.
JacksonAUS said:I agree... I'm always watching my wind indicator to watch shifts, you can catch a lot of lifts by watching the indicator. You can also look at the indicator to get a precise idea of when to tack for the mark.
Does anybody elses indicator spin around in circles in light air?
Paullingham said:a tip for little hawks is thread a couple of corks onto the arm of the hawk, this way if your not racing and it falls off you can go back and pick it up!
I've been sailing with a hawk for about half the summer. In light/shifty air it's a great help in quickly identifying a big shift. I also use it when I'm twisting and turning around at the start and need a quick idea where to put the boom after a dramatic course change. Once I'm anywhere near trimmed I use the telltales on the forward edge of the sail and ignore the hawk.Chris123 said:Sailing by the lee my (erstwhile) Hawk would spin around like a little windmill the whole time. Might have been the turbulent roll of air coming off the mast, which when sailing by the lee is the trailing edge of the sail. Maybe I should have it mounted lower....