I tend to do much the same thing as described by Carbonated.

I lighter conditions I press my bows in to clear my sterns. However there is a point after which you can really feel the boat slow down. So I try to ride right up to that point without crossing it. Normally my bow is halve submerged. In really light stuff (crew to leeward etc) I may press it in till 3/4 of the bow. The slower you go the less it seems to hurt. And the more a loud stern does seem to hurt.

When the wind picks up I move further and further back and something even a long way. In a rough seastate I may even stand at the rearbeam or behind it with my crew right next to me. The bows come up then are hardly touches the water and the sterns sink but when their is really alot of wind the boat seems to go only faster. Pretty much when you speed is such that the rooster tales flatten out or disappear then you can ride the Taipan on its sterns and get lots of speed in really rought conditions. And I'm really talking about Inter-20 to fastest F18 speed. I can't really explain it as you really depress you sterns at that time but apparently the speed of hull subdues the drag of the depressed sterns to such a level that the drive increase from being further back is more than enough to overcome the extra drag and still speed up the boat. It looks rather weird when viewed from another boat.

ALso this stern riding trick seems to work when enocuntering short and steep waves. Burying the bow and recovering is never a problem with a Taipan however I find that I get better speed by standing far back and pulling the bows up. The boat seems to ride more horizontal when passing the waves and approaches the next wave in a better attitude and the direct result is higher boat speed.

In flat water however I'm still riding the hulls a horizontal as possible so that would be about halve submerged at the bow for my crew weight.

It is a funny little boat, things that work on other boats don't work on the Taipan and things that does not work on other boats work on this little Taipan. I found you really have to experience over the full range of possibilities to find ALL the "tricks".

Wouter