For my light air performance is all about reducing draft in the top of my sail (that has lot of draft up there) and leech twist. When I get the settings right the boats starts to accellerate very mildly but maintains this over a long period to arrive at a rather good all-out speed. I only need to be pull in the mainheet a little over this perod (slowly) to keep accellerating.

Of course when I make an error and loose lots of speeds then I have to start over again (with the mainsheet, NOT the other settings). This is the "Feel"-part of light wind sailing. Feeling the chances before they result in lots of loss of speed.

Basically,I gently massage my boat to good speed in light air and in the past I did well in below 5 knots of wind when compared to A's, F18's and Inter-20's. My taipan is actually quite good in such conditions.

Wouter