Yes, Matt, it is interesting to see the 16 reefed!

As for stalling out the boat by sheeting in, I think that may take bigger kahunas than I got! At the 1992 (?) Hobie 17 NAs in the Gorge, I pitchpoled every which way, including "stalled". I tried traveling in, sheeting out; traveling in, sheeting in; traveling out, sheeting out; and traveling out, sheeting in. None of those combinations worked. Of course, I have 13 years more experience now than the 7-8 that I had then. But still....

In Delaware it was 35-45k. The technique that Paul Hess told me to use was to travel out, sheet on hard, sail deep, deep, deep, and be ready to release the main sheet as soon as a puff hits.

After the puff passes is when the fun begins. Now you are trying to cheat that sheet in and get it in far enough so you have something to let out when the next puff hits!!

The first time around A-mark (before our 1st pitchpole), we were a couple boat lengths behind Wally and it looked like he had his main traveled out.

One thing we should've done in Delaware was let our jib flog. We were (trying to) sail with it.

We eventually did finish the race -- after flipping 6 times! But hey, we got 29th! That's because the other 42 boats had the good sense to get out of that crap!!! We even beat one poor sucker.

If anyone has any other techniques -- other than the 'stalled' technique -- I'd be interested in hearing them. It isn't that I don't believe the stalled technique will work, it's just that I don't think I have kahunas big enough to go down that path!!