No worries.

But for latest foil development, here are the pics of the latest generation of foils. http://jamesgbr.blogspot.com/2009/07/faster-craft.html Not sailed in anger as of yet, but a number of boats at the worlds will have them.

Difference from the M20 foils is that they have a flap that can be used to adjust height and reaction to wind/waves. The M20 foils have no such adjustability. They lift the boat once it hits a certain speed, but if you go too high then you run into the problems of ventilation. As soon as you get air bubbles across the surface of the foils they just stop working (like turbulence in a plane from air pockets).

Very interesting progression of development- from Marstrom A-Bananas to higher-lifting M20 Bananas: no S's yet eh?
Note regarding my avatar <-- just over there. This '72 wooden Cal Fuller A-cat has fairly primitive aluminum surface-piercing foils plus T-foils on the rudders but without proper angle of attack capability on the rudders. It has been foiling quite nicely for 7 years. It has never crashed in a pitchpole. When ventilating foils lose lift, the rig just loses altitude, its belly touches the water, then the rig takes off again.
Re breakage: I broke 2 aluminum masts 7 years ago when old mast fittings failed: a repaired Fiberform carbon mast used since then has been problem free, even running a TheMightyHobie18 spinnaker. I have never capsized my A-cat rig, foiled Hobie16 or foiled TheMightyHobie18 since starting this research program. The latter 2 sometimes "leap and crash" as shown in the yellow Banana C pic, but not violently: I suspect they need better rudder AOA. see at www.fastsail.com/catcobbler
In contrast, T-foil-lifting rigs are pitchpoleable.

Note also my signature below from Tom Edison- Boy is THAT true!

Well tomorrow is passed and gone, but the results are finally published, so is the over the line results (ignoring the ones finishing with 3 laps):

47:10 4 Laps Hurricane 5.9
49:06 4 Laps Stealth 'R'
49:32 5 Laps Moth
50:14 4 Laps 49er
50:46 4 Laps F16
51:34 4 Laps Hurricane 5.9
51:54 4 Laps F16

So on average per lap:

9:18 Moth
11:47 Hurricane
12:16 Stealth 'R'
12:33 49er
12:41 F16
12:53 Hurricane
12:58 F16

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9X5Fl_grOM

This is impressive. And I mean you stop racing and watch impressive. We are sailing courses that just over 1nm+ in length, and to get from top mark to bottom in 4 mins is just freaking quick.

And as hard as it is to say as a catsailor, moths are faster in this stuff. The guys here say big waves are ok as it is a case of adjusting the ride height.

Sorry Wouter, but beach launch just never going to happen in the moth.

Yep; Moths are faster in the moderate stuff. Simples......

To resurrect this thread, a few of the top moth guys hit peak speeds above 31 knots during the recent moth worlds. And at these times they said it was a case of holding rather than pushing hard.

20 knots on the moth used a mythical club 4 or 5 years ago. That is now old school and if you can't get to 25+ then you aren't pushing hard enough. And 17 upwind is not unusual either...

So will be interesting to see how the foiling cat projects like White Dragons and the little Hypotere will fair as they develop along, and whether that trickles down to other cat classes or not.