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Does the tech advancing yacht racing transfer to industrial or social uses?

Foils are starting to appear in production boats

Candela ships both ferries and leisure boats with foils (though propelled by electricity rather than sails).

Nice! Although not sure I'd want to pull one up on a beach like in the marketing pics.

They've been in use for decades.

I wouldn’t call a Moth (a high performance racing dinghy) a production boat, a boat for recreational use, cruising, or general sailing.

But that‘s just me perhaps.

I don't know why you dragged those things in but (1) it is a production boat (2) it is for recreational use.

As for cruising and general sailing: neither are any of the other hydrofoils, their main purpose is racing and performance sailing.