It was blowing pretty well, if a bit chill, this weekend so I took the H14 out for the first time. Even with the mast adjusted as far forwards as the shroud adjusters would allow, it was raked aft so much that attempting to go upwind resulted in going into irons and staying there. The crew swam the bow of the boat downwind and climbed aboard, then we made our way back to shore.

I had one extra shroud adjuster in my truck, so we grabbed that and my spare-parts bottle. I used the jib halyard to hold the mast up in front while I removed the furling drum and forestay adjuster. Now I had two adjusters to use for lengthening the side-stays. I flipped them "up-side-down" and slide them over the current adjuster, so three holes lined up. I pinned the first and third holes on both sides and got enough slack to go work on the forestay.
I took to bridle wires and forestay and tied them tight together with some halyard line, two wraps through each eye before tieing them off. Then I took in the slack on the side-stays, and was able to move the top adjuster down to the second-lowest hole of the bottom adjuster (I'll take pictures later if this isn't clear enough). With the mast now raked considerably further forwards, we took the boat for another spin and it did considerably better. I can remove the swivel from the upper end of the forestay to rake the mast even further forwards if I have to, later.

My biggest problem at the moment are the rudders. They won't go all the way down and lock because the came (plastic cams) as frozen in the down position. I tried looping a rope around them and pulling them up, to no avail. Does anyone know of another method?
The other problem was the sail... I need to re-rivet all the batten-pockets, and buy some new battens that will fit better.