New boat

Requiring grinding for hydraulic pressure just moves it from having a good team of sailors to a good team of meat heads 

It would also make it interesting in terms of tactics. do you go for less crew and less weight or more crew and less work 

Now add this new boat into the mish mash of club handicap racing, ouch.

 

Foils outside max beam are a massive negative for match racing. Could be a good trickle down for ocean racers though where proximity and frequent manauvers aren't as much part of the game. Having said that, these weight foils will be battery powered. Not sure how that will trickle down to ocean racers.  

Otherwise I think the racing will be less close. Essentially, once foiling the new boats won't be much different to the cats (except T foils with flaps moth style, rather than whole foil rake). However, as a 'launch pad' for foiling the mono-hull will have much more drag and much less righting moment. The speed differences will be huge... as if they weren't big enough in the cats. 

Personally, it seems like a lot a effort just so we can the thing a monohull. I like the Cats foiling, and I liked the old monohulls too. They produced different racing each compelling in their own way. This seems like a worse of both worlds design (for match racing).