New boat

you will be able to make "room at the mark"

When in docking mode they should be just heavy enough to keep the boat upright. The should also be just heavy enough to self right (whilst moving them around as the boat comes up). 

Presumably they should provide enough righting moment that the boat can move forward, get flow over the foil which will then providing further righting moment (lifting surfaces well to leeward of boat mass), before really cranking on the power.

 

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).