His only capsise was with the "bingle" with the Tornado, the Tornado came up on the Alpha “hidden” behind the Alpha’s spinnaker Gary, and called starboard at the very last minute, which made Antony have to manoeuvre in a split second otherwise there was going to be one hell of a “coming together”. It was a very near thing as it was and in the process Antony was “wrong sided”, wrenched his shoulder badly, and the Alpha went over side ways (ever so gently as it turned out), He had dropped the spinnaker sheets but couldn’t uncleat the main in time.
The way that we have set up the T foils Rich is so that the foils are parallel with the deck line of the hulls, (fore and aft) which for us that makes them parallel to the ambient water surface (assuming that the water surface is flat) this means that when the hull is sailing “level” the foils are doing nothing. When the bow dips the foil is then travelling through the water but inclined downwards. This creates downward lift to the underside of the foils and pulls the transom down (or the bow back up). The reverse happens when the bow lifts. The resulting effect is that any and all pitching motion of the hulls is greatly reduced. It seems that with the foils the skipper doesn’t have to move his weight back and forth anywhere near as much on the boat with the foils as he would normally do with out them. Even having his weight “in the wrong place” doesn’t seem to induce any noticeable increase in drag
We just placed the foils at the bottom of the rudders, but others have them a little up from the bottom, so their position (up and down) on the rudders is not critical as long as they are in the water.