Thanks for that info, I was worried that I had to much weight on the front wheel. It is 14kg seated and fully sheeted which appears to be in the same ballpark as the European
yachts.

Cheers

my closest sailing site is 230k away

That sail that you run looks the same as mine is it a R&J. mine gets realty overpowered in strong winds. Had to bite my teeth and hold it as flat as possible in turns.

www.goachersails.co.uk/landyach.html seems to be the 'flavour of the month' currently. There's a waiting list and they ain't cheap.

Cheers Col

I have sussed it! Well I say I? I got talking to the owner of the yacht previous to the chap that sold me the yacht about the handling issues on Christmas eve. And it seems that I was miss informed about the where to position the mast by the guy I bought the yacht from.

The way the yacht is constructed means it has a two possible mast sockets. I was told to use the forward one. This was wrong!

It also looks like the previous owner hacked off the a captive nut that was on the bottom of the mast to allow a bolt running through another captive nut welded to the forward mast socket, to adjust the mast rake.

I tried the mast in the rear mast socket and the yacht handled like a dream! I now just have to rebuild the mast rake system, as I am currently running with max rake due to no way of adjusting the mast forward.

But I'm very pleased not to be crapping myself going into every turning mark!

Had a great sail on Christmas Eve! I can concentrate on tuning now!

Thanks for all the advice.

Hope you all had a great Christmas and you have an even better New Years!