I think foiling is a dead end for cats, but I love to see people tinkering with it trying to make the technology work well around the course in a cat configuration. If somebody makes it work well enough to beat a Tornado around the course, I would say "lets go!". Preferably with the current aesthetic looks.
Reason I think it is a dead end: Power to weight ratio is not large enough on the common beachcat to give best performance around a course. (I am very narrow minded, thinking about racing only, I admit that)
I have heard anectdotes like taipanfc gives about moth speeds relative to cats, but I have still not heard about a "grugde match" where moths were faster around the course. I dont doubt that the moths can be faster, just never seen any non-biased reports of top moth sailors racing top cat sailors on the Tornado or similar and beating the T? Or M20 or any similar really high-perf racing cat.
In August last year on Sydney harbour, the moth beat the all the A-Cats in 3 out of 4 races. The first placed A was Steve Brewin who is a quite handy sailor.
Here in Singapore we had a couple of races that were informal (no results taken). More of a reaching course. 3 lap race. First leg to the top I couldn't foil so the F16s scooted away. Then the breeze came in from the side so all boats got fairly much at the same time. F16s were close to a leg away. Once I could foil i easily caught up and won by over a leg.
At first i was sceptical that the moth was that much quicker than an A/F16, but it truly is, with the caveat of the right conditions of course
