as we saw in Venice, tactics in a fleet race are certainly slow and clean air/boatspeed are king.

But I agree that the establishment will probably want to boast about their team sailors having an extensive resume on a number of different boats. Since most catsailors are anit-establishment in the first place, it may be hard to "fit" back in there to be noticed.

But here's the silver lining.... Most likely some of this technology will eventually trickle down to the "restofus" group wherein we could enjoy a somewhat scaled down version of this exciting platform

And, given that there seems to be a growing interest in multihull platforms for a number of different races, there could be a future opening up for those folk willing to put in the mileage...