FIrst of all I find the Hooter is very easy to sail upwind. Needless to say you have sheet the heck out of it
On the set up initially, my pole is not that long and for the F14 I will have a longer pole.
But for now it is about 9' or thereabouts. The sail is masthead (Not worried at all about a mast breaking -- it is like telephone pole anyway). In fact in R&D I tried fractional and the boat was no faster than a stock Wave uni. Well, a little, but not worth the handicap

The clew goes all the way to the aft beam. Sail area is around 80 sq.ft.

In August last year I won the Sandusky Steeplechase by 11 handicapped minutes over the second place boat. It was a close reach in about 10-12. Beat all the H16s boat for boat and all but one TheMightyHobie18, with a Nacra just ahead of me.

A week or so later I sailed in the Conch Cup and took 2nd. Had the proper handicap been used, I would have won it. But, the import thing was we had about a 9 mile weather leg and starting it I was ahead of every H16. By the time we round the weather mark, all had passed, but were only a few hundred yards ahead.
This was again in 10-12.

Had the wind picked up, I would have either doused the Hooter and done the dog, or trapped.
One problem, I didn't have the trap set up on the boat.

The point is the Hooter does a heck of job upwind until the wind gets too heavy.

By the way, I am the one that first started using the 1:2 furling system. We used it on the Corsair Screachers upwind. It is hard to pull at the start, but once it gets going it is really fast.
The beauty of it is you use small line around the furling drum. But, you go back a turning bullet block and back to somewhere under the furler and deadend the small furling line.
Now, from the bullet block you use large, soft and comfortable line to actually pull it.
Using 1:1 you have to use all small line. It is hard to grip and hard to hand over hand.
With the big line you start off with a gigantic tug and from there it rolls up like nothing.., and very fast.
I use the same system on my T4.9 and I can enter the 2-length zone of the C Mark with the Hooter up and within those 2 lengths have it furled and make a slam-dunk slant rounding and just miss the mark already sheeted in and going to weather. Piece of cake.

Most of the explanations are on the Wave Class Site. http://www.waveclass.com and click on the link to Super Wave.

I think this may help in figuring out some of this stuff.

BY the way, Working on a new rig for the Wave with a self-tacking jib and roller furling Hooter.

Rick