Thanks guys... good info. I will probably take the tales off and loosen the luff a little to see what that does for me. As for the sheeting angle, the boat I have has two points for mounting the rachet on the hull and I have the block on the forward one (maybe 1.5ft ahead of the shrouds). There is another about 4 (??) inches ahead of the shrouds. From looking at it the angle seems appropriate but I'll take some pics.
I will play with is some more tomorrow probably. I have been a sailing madman this week! Raced (crewed) over the weekend both days then took the blade out on sunday after the race was done. Sailed solo on blade yesterday. Work today then sail on the blade weds/thurs/fri and RTI (crewing, if one of the rudders gets fixed) on saturday. My hands hurt... but in a good way <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />