Howard, We had a main up with a reef tucked in. For a headsail, Jason has a working jib marked "working jib" hahaha, not sure of the exact size but it was pretty small. We were pushing her as hard as we could. Couple of times we put the lee side winch in the water and shipped some water into the cockpit. He doesn't have an inclinometer but I'd say we were well past 25 degrees. When it was at its strongest (the wind) we were beating back to the line. The thing that was giving us the biggest challenge was keeping boatspeed up while crashing into the waves. Finaly we decided it would be better to foot off a little and build speed rather than point as high as we could. Seemed to work a lot better. And yes, the 6.9 was hit sometime during one of our reaches with the swell behind. We were using a handheld GPS for speed so I wasn't looking at it like I would a fixed mount knotmeter. The 6.9 was our max speed. All in all it was really a fun sail!!