Yeah the issue isnt so much trying to keep a broken boat alive tim, and trying to develop a solution to boats with rippled hulls, but a method to stop the hulls getting to the point where they ripple in the first place, by either reducing the load they are subjected to or giving them greater support and consequent ability to handle that load. My boat is currently in great condition, and thats the way id like to keep it for a long time, and if setting up a cross member at the jib bridle will help keep my boat from degrading to the point that it gets ripples in the wood then its something that is well worth considering. Its not about devloping new technologies to make the boat faster as in a development class, or band-aid solutions to boats that are already too far gone, its about protecting our investments using preventative methods to reduce the risk of them needing to be fixed/replaced in the first place, and yes, whilst the boats were built and designed to "handle" the forces they encounter, even the best built of boats will gradually degrade over time due to the forces it encounters. Helping slow down that "aging process" if you will, will only serve to increase the life of boats and keep them on the water, in a strong and sound conidition for longer, which from my perspective, being someone who cannont afford to buy a new boat every second year like alot of high level, and sponsored racers, getting as much mileage out of my boat as possible is of quite a high priority, and im sure many other current mossie sailors and/or people considering buying a mosquito, be it for merely club level racing or national level, who dont have the deepest pockets, would or do feel the same way.

Another possible solution, is it possible to run a high bridle from a cat rigged boat on a sloop rigged boat in somewhat of a duel bridle configuration, have the high bridle take the tension of the mast and be the actual forestay, and lower jib bridle setup to only take the forces of the jib? or is the jib the main culprit in the sideways forces the hulls encounter?

Has anyone ever tried using a spinnaker with the normal cat rigged "dual forestays", how much do the forestays limit the kite? does the kite need to be sheeted in enough that the forestays get in the way? or do they get in the way of or catch the kite during jibes?