I am very new at this cat sailing... I had my boat out last weekend.. there was some decent wind On the lake there was a E scow, sunfish and two other H16's I was sailing right past the E scow and the sunfish.. but no matter what I could do I could not pass the other hobies.. unless It was in a puff wiht my main sail trim all in. I feel that my speed limit comes from lack of sail-ability..

I feel my main loss in speed was fear.. and now knowing how to trim the jib. Fear meaning as the boat would start to lift a hull then the opposite hull would start to dive a little and seem to almost dive so I would release the mainsail... or the jib but I am going to blame my speed limiting to stupidity is there a "sailing cats for Idoits" book out there?

oh and I didn't really know how competitive sailing was untill I bought this boat.. I was just out sailing for fun when I found myself in hot lapping againts old pro's...

and are E-scows just slow in general?