Thank you all for your experiences and opinions. At this point if two boats
were close I'd go with the stackpack option over in-mast furling. If a boat
is clearly superior, in-mast furling will not disqualify it from selection.
In-mast furling seems to be more susceptible to "operator error". What did
not appear here, and what I was nervous about, was a litany of horror
stories of furling disasters.
thanks again.
Ed