do you think the foils may have hurt the hull's ability to recover from the nose-dive during the turn down?
Since those things aren't adjustable, I would figure at some point the foils were actually trying to dive for lobster along with the bows...
And having 131 feet of wing pushing didn't help, either...
They are adjustable. They can adjust the angle of attack. There is a learning curve here and they missed the setting for the conditions at hand. If you check out Sailing Anarchy ,Tide Tech shows that the conditions changed when they made that last bear away. Had they had the time or knowledge to set the foil properly they may have been alright.
They are not counting on forward buoyancy to keep the bows up. They are counting on the foils for that.
