This morning was analytics time. The Angle Pro, kindly on loan from Mark Wolny came out and setups were compared with the club pace leader and mine. As a couple of people have suggested, the rudder was the main source of my pain, with the angle of attack set completely the wrong way. After a quick adjustment, the numbers were looking a lot better, so I decided to use that setup today. Comparing the new setup to the old one is like comparing apples and oranges as it was only 7 knots last time out and we had gusts up to 20 today. The boat felt much better and I managed to clock 17.2knots. The boat has a lot more speed in it, and I was spending most of the time trying to slow it down. For the first time I was managing to stay up from tack to tack, and I am now starting to get to hang of this whole flying thing. All I need to do is learn how to tack, gybe and sail downwind on a foiler, and I might be getting somewhere.
