On my Tiger I have one set of telltales about 16" back from the mast and in the third panel with the H . I also have about 4 leach telltales from the top panel to the fourth panel down from the top.

In light air my leach telltales are not flying. The leach are constantly bending around to leeward but the leeward side of the telltales in the middle are doing fine.

In heavy air my leech telltales flow like crazy. I can't even sheet and downhaul enough to make them stop. But while the leech are flowing like crazy my leeward telltale on my main in the H panel doesn't fly.

What am I doing wrong?

I know I'm not that far off the pace but something isn't making sense to me. It would seem to me that these telltales should break about the same time in general but they don't. The way I would think it should work would be that as I sheet tighter and the second from the top leech teltale starts to break the one in the middle of the sail should start to break about then.

Keep One Hull Flying,
Mike Hill