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Hi Matt, just had a look at the video and have a few observations:
- The rig looked great and your leech looked fine in the windier stuff but a bit hooked in the light stuff, could try letting the kicker off and taking the leech tension on the main sheet when it is light (that's what we do) and then applying kicker when it gets up
- You could do with sailing flatter, particularly when coming out of tacks (and there were plenty of those at Burghfield) to get the boat up to speed. Best options; dump the main more quickly when you get a gust to keep flat, get on the side quicker out of the tack, hike harder. At times we were absolutely fully hiked at Burghfield
- Don't get too hung up on direction that you are pointing relative to other boats, the video shows the effect of the gusts and shifts coming through which can be quite localised.

We don't have a TV / video so can't dump the footage to VHS but can show it to you at Bristol or burn a CD (with as much as I can fit on)

Happy tuning

Graham

We'll be there! (provided Graham finishes painting the centreboard in the dining room). Might need a hand to get the centreboard back in though: it normally seems  to take several hours of grovelling under the boat with a screwdriver and some silicon spray.

G&Z

Congratulations both of you, hope you are managing to get some sleep  . So when do we get to meet the new crew? Star appearance at Derwent/Filey?

Zoe xxx