Shouldnt be too much of an issue adding a bridle foil to the front, only gives performance increase in that it allows a larger jib to be used (as well as giving an almost negligible lift force to the bows), so makes no difference for cat rigged, and as long as people continue to use standard jib, theres no performance increase there as well, and yes i agree, it could drastically improve the survivability of wooden boats, which in the long run is only going to serve to help the class, by keeping more boats on the water, and giving boat builders and 'small budget' sailors more reasons to choose the class.

Had a look at Nacra Bridle Foils, the one for the 5.0 was $500+, think it would be possible to just go down to an aluminium worker and get something simple made up, no need for a NACA foil to give extra lift at the bows like on the nacras (thought if i was desperate for that extra lift i could just make a "cover" for the aluminium tube shaped into a foil out of balsa or foam with maybe a layer of fibre glass over the top for strength, could even use the balsa wing sections from a cheap model/rc plane, the only real reason for the foil give the amount of lift it would produce would be to offset some of the weight of the bridle foil it self), just need something that will easily redistribute load, i know i can just use a high bridle for cat rigged, but id quite like an alternative solution to the sloop bridle for when i wish to take it out with a crew, as despite taking it out sloop rigged numerous times without detriment, i just realised that ive always done so using the cat forestays in addition to the jib and bridle, so to be honest im not too keen about the sloop bridle by it self, which would be a necessity once the spinnaker is setup, as spinnaker+forestays dont work for obvious reasons, which i guess is the whole issue behind this, setting up a single forestay for use with the spinnaker without putting too much sideways load on the hulls, hence the high bridle, however the high bridle doesnt allow the jib to be used.

Can anyway please specify whether the use of a bridle arrangement similar to a nacra bridle foil would breach any class rules? Not that us mossie sailors up here in queensland really do much in the way of class racing ... yet.