Well, you seem to have found the edge of the envelope Scooby!! <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
Certainly reaching without the kite up - was a bit like sailing the Hurricane 5.9 in the way it sailed away from me !
Shame I did not get the kite up (but this may have been a good thing as a Spitfire broke a mast and there were a whole gagle of 1/2 boats with broken sticks).