Hi Stephen,

Yes, you're right. The pole on Aaron's boat does look a little high. Compare it with the pole on Dave's boat (the uni). In the shots where the two are side by side you can see that the angle of the unarigged boat is much lower.

or on my own boat:



The jib is on a self-tacker on the front of the main beam. You could physically get the whole setup about 200mm lower by changing the bridle geometry or using a 'prodder' (Dave's boat has one) but I'd want to recut the jib as well as it sets very well in its present position.

At the nationals we had the opportunity to compare 6 Stealths and it was fair to say that we were each 'doing our own thing' in various areas. We do need to race against each other a lot more to develop a consensus on what is the 'norm' or what is fast. Nonetheless, a good video for the class don't you think?