Checked out a few things last weekend.

• Elastic had gone on stinger, bit of a fiddle to replace but easy in the end.
• Checked the battens, all OK which shows that the original shape (bent) was very unlikely the first 20hours of flying (30 on it since then...). So it was delivered with rather dodgy battens shapes.
• The VG rope (bottom part) was indeed twisted once around the lower cable retainer - hence the extra friction. Easy to sort out when you know what to do - easiest to pull off the bottom of the upright. At least with the normal uprights and FAST bar re-threading the rope is easy.

The glider now flies good and straight with no feeling of skewness... seems I've got completely through that phase now.

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