Hi all,
don't know about you guy's, but I hate having the boards up above deck line. They get in the way of moving around the boat and hurt like anything when you slide up the hull and hit them <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />.
I don't (so far) find it a problem as when they are up, it's so windy I'm either on the wire or at the back of the boat. So far, it looks to me like they are better when the wind is below about F4, and then I just (when I remember <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" /> ) pull them up a little.
