so here's the question. sailing solo sitting on the hull, wind is blowing medium with gusts that occasionally lift the windward hull out. you have 2 choices

1.trap out to keep the windward hull in the water and main sheeted hard

or

2.stay on the windward hull and/or tramp and try to keep windward hull out most of the time but when the gusts come you have to dump the main to stop going over and sort of splash back and die in the water

which is faster?

attached is pic from this year's summer races. getting very comfortable solo on the nacra 5.2. in fact with crew it now feels too heavy and slow. tacks still a bit of a handful with; bringing the boat around, coming in off the trap while steering through the wind, blowing the main while going under the boom, hooking on other side, un-cleating the backwinded jib and pulling in and cleating new side, pulling in the main while getting footing and pushing out on the wire again

pic shows boat in what i assume is fastest trim, windward hull just out and tilting forward. know i could be trapping lower but with just a windsurfer waist belt this is feeling comfortable. slowly adjusting the height down. note makeshift righting pole has dropped down from rear of tramp and skipping along the water. yet to test if it works