Matt Colie wrote in message ...
Bart,
There are two disadvantages you don't get the performance to weather an
overlapping jig will give you and - they don't go to leeward worth a damn.

What prevents you from setting a spinnaker when sailing to leeward?
Either a runner or asym?


The obvious advantage is that you can come about without any commotion.

Not just once, but short tacking becomes a breeze. Imagine fighting
headwinds
and current in a channel where you need to tack often! A self tending
jib would be a breeze while tacking a jib would rapidly wear you out.

If a young man happens to have barrowed someones knock about (sloop
without bowsprit) to spend some quiet time with a young lady. It allows
a lot of sailing time without much distraction caused by the rig.

True. It leaves your hands free for other things.


A wonderful way to have an evening on Fishers Island Sound but you
better be real close to the mooring when the nine o'clock calm drops on you.

All the boats I have know to have a selftending jib were fractional
sloops or ketch. It never made sense to me that some of the long boom
boats had runniong backs and a club-foot jib.

I haven't seen a boat built with a jib boom and traveler in several
decades (other than two reproductions).

There is no requirement for a jib boom. I don't like them except as
staysails.

Bart Senior