I'm sure everyone on this board is well aware of Rob's aversion to putting centreboards through the bottom of hulls yes ? Well, looking at the amount of appendage damage in the recent Sydney to Hobart i'd say Rob's leeboard style of mounting has just found another admirer. Me.

I have always been a bit cynical re the outside mounting, trickier engineering, not as efficient without the endplate effect etc. 

Nothing efficient about broken unusable foils !