Will,

[color:"green"] >If I wax the area around my or my crews feet, I tend to not do as well...[/color]

Here, here. I agree with you on that one. Last spring's first sail was a long downwind run in winds of 20+, after days of prettying the boat up for the summer. The combination of highly polished hulls, a slippery drysuit, and rusty technique had us doing everything we could do to prevent sliding off the boat.