You have to remember that speed sailing is effectively an efficiency competition. The theoretically perfect sailing machine would a foil in the air and a foil in the water connected by something with as little weight and drag as possible. Syroco are alarmingly close to making this happen.
An interesting choice to use a supercavitating foil. "Back in the day" there was an assumption that hydrofoils could never run above 50 knots due to cavitation, but the America's Cup people seem to do that (just). There are nice consistent supercavitating surfaces but they're called propellers.
My precise thought was "Aw, Syroco's got this, if it doesn't murder everything that gets bolted inside of it.". It's like the engineers made a force vector diagram and just stopped there.
You have to remember that speed sailing is effectively an efficiency competition. The theoretically perfect sailing machine would a foil in the air and a foil in the water connected by something with as little weight and drag as possible. Syroco are alarmingly close to making this happen.
An interesting choice to use a supercavitating foil. "Back in the day" there was an assumption that hydrofoils could never run above 50 knots due to cavitation, but the America's Cup people seem to do that (just). There are nice consistent supercavitating surfaces but they're called propellers.
Either which way, my money is on syroco.