KITE BOAT SETTING UP My 1992 kitesailer and replicas can be set up for different conditions by fitting washers or spacers under the hull mounting bolts to change the angles of the hulls. By setting hulls with more "nose up" they will be more resistant to nose diving (front hull) and capsizing (rear hulls). The boat will then also plane more easily. The penalty is that setting the bows up increases displacement mode drag (low speed performance suffers) up to about 10 degrees doesn't seem to cause a noticeable low end problem however. Earlier models with pivoted hulls should have eliminated this compromise but tended to suffer from going too "nose up" at higher speeds. Current thinking is to use controlled flex of the structure to trim the hulls back flatter at higher speeds. Seats should be set as low as possible to keep the pull line low (to resist capsizing) but not to the point that your bum drags in the water.