Swimboy must be one tough guy to do so well singlehanded. But to answer the question of how the turbo rig does against the standard rig in heavy air, there shouldn't be much difference as both boats would be reefed down anyway.
I could not do the race this year due to a conflicting event but our CS17 La Perla was sailed by Nomadic (Alex Mehran) and Rover (Drew McMillan). The "turbo" rig is about 300mm taller than normal and the sails have a small fat head. In the big wind on Sunday they had a tough beat down by Sanibel but with deep reefs in they had no problems other than getting soaked.
Their original plan was to stop every night which they did, sometimes in good style, the first two nights. After that they camped on Indian Key and then Highland Beach (they woke up to low tide and the boat 100' from the water....blow up the rollers). At Flamingo they decided they needed to do a nighttime run to make it to Key Largo or be late for the party. While running west out of Flamingo to go the long way around in deep water Alex spotted a light just before they jibed to head south. Looking again he saw it was signaling SOS. They sailed back to find Capt Bones in the mangroves without his Hobie Adventure Island, hypothermic, dehydrated and a bit delirious. They drained his dry suit which was open and got him into the boat. Then getting no sign of help from CG or Park Rangers, they sailed him back to Flamingo....Bones was then transported by Rangers to an ambulance and spent the night in the Homestead Hospital. At one point that night I texted Alex to see how they were making out not knowing this was going on. His reply was "your boat is an ambulance right now". Great thing they did saving Bones.