I did look at the cables connecting the bridle foil and they didn't appear to be any longer than mine (my boat was not stored near theirs so I couldn't compare directly). Who knows? Not me (yet).

In my first speed comparison with this boat and several others at RTI last year, we had our rig standing pretty straight up (like I would with my 5.2) and we were able to pass a few heavily raked 6.0's with authority upwind in a moderate (not quite yet trapped) breeze. Downwind we were terrible but it's more attributable to our infamiliarity with flying a spinnaker (and the fact that most of the spin flying was at night). At Tradewinds, we still had the rig pretty vertical and we could not even begin to point with any of the other 6.0s in that heavy air.