T foil rudders on Cherubs?

I've sailed Andy's Aquamarina and it does feel really weird!  When you wind the foil on the nose just makes a beeline for the seabed, but as soon as you move back you really feel the boat start to fly upwind, it just feels really odd being at the back!

I think that a bistro will probably benefit even more so from a T foil than a skinny boat...be really nice to be able to lift as much of that fat hull out of the water as possible.  I'm certainly planning on building one sometime next year.

The one thing I have no idea about is the size of the T foil...there was a huge difference in size between various foils at the Nationals.  What would be cool would be to have the main spar (as in aviation) as a secure part of the rudder and then be able to put interchangeable foils on depending on wind strength!!! 

Originally posted by I luv Wight It seems to help if the crew stays back if the nose dips, instead of running forward up the gunwales, and then flying round the front.

That brightened up my otherwise quite crappy day

Thats for the replies Andy and Andy and Jim, It something id quite like to look at after ive sorted my daggerboard, snout, pole, stump, fittings, rig, trolley and a whole pile of other bits

yeh i was going to say that next, my old foil on the moth was fixed and as are most low rider t foils and they have there own benifits when it comes to inducing planing aswell quite technical but just cause they are fixed does not mean to say they are at a disadvantage

I have a T-foil on Aqua, shes a P7. Makes SO much difference - twining upwind, both myself and crew in rear fruit loops - you feel the acceleration as you put it on! It enabled us to pace a windsurfer upwind, one of these big roached sail jobbies with the bak of his sail flipping off.

http://www.sailingsource.com/cherub/dokuwiki/doku.php/aquama rina 

My foil has a very long span & quite a thick chord, so its ideal for lighter winds where I can get upto 8knots boat speed and have full foil on, twining as far back as poss & max lift!! So im now designing another foil to use in around 20knots of wind which will be alot smaller, due to the current foil needing to be eased off, and causing more drag. Where as a smaller foil will be on full angle and less drag!

Not that im planning on building one anytime soon but whilst we're on the topic, do you think a bistro style hull would benefit from a Tee?
They dont have quite the same pitchpole issues as the narrow P7 style hulls which seems to be the main reaosn the 14s use them but if you think its the lift upwind thats the main advantage then surely a fat hull would bennefit as much?