I'd guess you must have had some sort of hard chine or other lateral area
forward. I calibrated my daggerboard with a felt tip marker: 3" for
running, 9" for a close reach, and full down for beating. With zero
protrusion, my Sunfish pivots about the rudder! No style here, it just
can't be pointed with the rudder.

The return on your investment is hours of pleasure/use. A friend spent
several years restoring a trawler. Two months after he finished, he'd sold
it. His comment was "You can only run up and down the river so many times."
I have a dinghy that's been sailed exactly once -- bad investment.

Roger

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"bowgus" wrote in message
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As to daggerboard, I guess our styles differ ... in
a dingy/on a wind surfer on a broad reach and plane, up comes the
daggerboard ... take care though else yer rockin an rollin :-) And hey,
no boat is an investment :-)