The Solution.

I've raced it twice in quite blustery conditions that would normally see me swimming or bringing up the rear and I'm doing quite well in it, actually racing in the mix, rather than just surviving, it's all back there^ find your glasses, this episode started around page 8.

To be honest you have gone about things in an arse about face way.  Most people start out with slower, normal craft then move up into boats like the solution.  If skiffs etc. take their fancy they move that direction having had a good go at learning in 'Normal' boats.  Without blowing smoke up your bum, you should be able to get a sailing dinghy around a course in a reasonable manor, history tells us you have the 'Chess' side of sailing sorted or else you wouldn't of been so successful on a race board.  The fact you started dinghy sailing in a Musto Skiff and have been determined not to go down the conventional route has really bent your view of what good dinghy racing is.  Even the EPS is still a fairly fast boat for a small lake, the very fact that they are a dead class probably suggests its execution is not great.  So now you are in a 'Normal' dinghy i think you will now see what you have been missing.  All you need to do is learn where to put your feet and what makes the rig tick!  Glad you seem to be enjoying it.

Especially keeping them out of your mouth 

'Bent' you think I'm bent? The EPS has served me well, I've enjoyed it, but 9.4 is just a tad too big when it's blowy the small sail sucks and I don't want to miss out , I get the feeling this one I can sail in pretty much anything that everyone else can, although that guy in the streaker who's ten or twelve kilos heavier with a smaller sail demonstrated how I'm still ineffectual upwind when over powered even though I am wearing this designer waist tyre I've purposely constructed for myself out of my own flesh, sacrificing my svelte pussy magnetic attraction to the altar of dinghy performance.