Do not worry about rake.

In the light air with the big chop like we had latter on Sunday, the F16 is definitely at a disadvantage to the longer and heavier boats. We accelerate more in the little gusts, but keeping momentum and the boat from bouncing is virtually impossible in those conditions. As soon as the sail shakes, you have lost flow over it and that is bad. The I20's and the Tiger were noticably less bouncy.

When it switched to that light bouncy stuff, we adjusted our sail settings to be more like a close reach and footed way off to keep up some momentum. We shiffted the weight forward and leward also as far as we could to try and keep down the hobbie horsing in the waves and reduce the drag on the windward hull.

These conditions are very bad for my head and Gina will tell you I am not much fun on the boat. As soon as you can start trapping this boat really seams to dig in and go. A lot may be the boat and a lot may be me. This discussion sort of follows the similar thread about spin shape. Tunning in general for me I figure has less than 1% effect on how I sail. Is it sort of visually the same as most of the other boats on the water? If yes then 99% of how I do depends on how I stear and trim the sheet. When I worry about the little things then they are wrong because I am not concetrating on what is making me actually go. This has been my personal view of it. While these things do have value, at my skill level they are lost in the backwash. If I was legitimately competing with the Asbhey's and other top multi guys, adjusting my sail shapes and tuning I am sure would have some merrit. But I know that given the very best equipment, set up by the top sailors, if I do not drive right I will finish no better than if I had some old sails and my kids rigged my boat for me.

Matt