The airplane builders figured it out many years ago, we are still operating with 1903 vintage "Wright Brother's Technology" in our (thin) soft sails, vs. the (fat) hard wings, but obviously it would be expensive to transition every beach cat to hard wings, to say nothing of the extra time and effort to trailer them to regattas every weekend.

Still, I do love to see them go like that! I saw Ben Hall's A cat wing up close when he had it at GYC a while back, it was very impressive, but I don't see myself building one in my garage any time soon. Soft sails roll up quicly and don't fold up when you fall on them...usually, I mean we have all broken a batten or two when we landed on the sail but it's usually a quick and easy fix vs. a complete re-do on the wing after you land on it.


And is that a Sea Cart tri?