This thread HAS been completely hijacked,
As I understand it the theme should not have been a debate about how "lift" is generated, but more to the applicable "direction" that the lift that is generated by a spinnaker acts on the performance of a cat, or more directly whether the direction of that lift can be used to relieve downward pressure on the bows, increase it, or remain neutral to the horizontal direction of the hulls through the water?
