What wings breach the best?

I think today most modern foils don’t have this issue.

Today:

Modern high aspect foils all breach easily, as the tips are relatively lightly loaded (any exceptions?)

Most modern medium and aspect foils if loaded in a turn, it will breach without issue, especially for marketing content videos!

Huge foils don’t have this issue, and never really did unless breached flat, just due to the huge lift

The mast makes a huge difference, stiffness changes things entirely

(I haven’t noticed much of a difference with surface finish for lower speed downwind or prone breaches)

Here is an older thread

Anything older (when i started that thread) breaches pretty terribly, old Axis (1099, 880, 899 etc) foils were terrible with this, as were a lot of that generation. You had to work very hard to avoid breaching

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