"I am not against foils as my Stealth has them but eventually someone somewhere is going to grumble when the rear of the foil is some 400 - 500 mm behind the boat."

If you are honest with yourself people who sail boats (I won't include sailboarders or kite boarders in this) have more than their fair share of crybabies...LOL...

If you have been on this forum or any other sailing forum for more than 10 min you know what I mean...

Your boats lighter than mine/more expensive than mine/larger sail than mine/is wider than mine/ has carbon hulls/has carbon beams/has glued in beams/has carbon mast/has carbon dagger boards/has Kevlar hulls/has canted dagger boards/has canted hulls/has longer dagger boards/has bigger sails/has better sails/has a taller mast/has a longer spinnaker pole/has a self taking jib/has a wave piercing hull the list goes on and on ad nauseas...it's amazing any progress gets made at all. Your probably right add the "T" foils to the list LOL...

Regards,
Bob