Irons.. WTF is the physics of it?

Originally posted by Jamie600 Just a thought GRF with your windsurfing background, are you tacking standing up?

No, I'm grovelling on my knees then climbing up the sides. But you're point about the stern is very well taken, I do tend to be further back in the boat when it's windy, I don't want to be but it just ends up that way.

Originally posted by Steve411 In really light winds when you have virtually no kicker on,]

Really? Are you not supposed to use kicker when it's light, doesn't it screw up your ability to point?

If the batten still won't pop with very little tension, you can try a stiffer batten or more downhaul, but you may find the ugly truth is that the sail is past it.
Do you have any control over pre-bend?
EPS is all full length battens though?
So it shouldn't have so many issues, the lower battens should pop easily and that cascades up the sail?
It's never an issue on the 400, but I see the lower few battens look very far apart on the EPS?

I assume you are sailing with the racks a long way out, as you are light?
Maybe move them in, concentrate on learning to throw the boat through tacks, then progressively move the racks out?

Also it has a gnav? So you can raise the board. But does that actually help? That bow looks like it's going to dig in if the boat stops?, or given even a little chop it's not going to slide sidewise.

Where is all the drag coming from to stop the boat? Too much rudder? Rudder working against roll?
Wings in waves? that bow resisting the turning from the rudder?

In my 600 comedy, I was lucky enough to get a coaching day. That helped me immensely. Unfortunately it was a bit late and soon after that I had more two-up sailing and it got pushed out.

Jeffers has it, I've got a soft sail with just a full top batten - big mistake should have gone soft all the way up, but then leech stand out might have been a problem.

Raising the board tried that no help, even tried to wiggle it to angle it back a bit, I remember that bit as I saw it float away from a capsize. Wings, yes they are a bloody nuisance in waves, digging in if it rolls to far, which of course it does. I'm wondering also following something Jamie said about the stern, normally I spend as much effort as I can to keep it out of the water except when it's windy when i tend to be back there on the lable. I wonder if I should concentrate on trying to stay further forward and overcome the natural windsurfer tendency of moving back when it's windy.

Another thing, it's always on the tack to my fakie side, so I need to keep practising and chuck myself out there I guess.