Steve wrote:

I really don't need any more weight or windage on my mast. (mast
steps and oversized rod rigging is enough to cause her to heal over
under bare poles, at the dock.)

I have always thought that twin poles stowed on tracks on the mast looked
good, but they represent quite a bit of windage and weight in the wrong
place. They also require some expensive running rigging and hardware in
many cases. The idea of twin jibs downwind sounds good, but putting that
idea into effect with no chafe, not an excessive amount of windage, twin
headstays, etc., etc., is pretty hard to carry out. Besides this rig tends
to roll in heavy seas and I don't particularly like the motion.

The newer idea of poleless spinnakers and jibing downwind is probably as
good an approach as any these days if a conventional spinnaker is too much
to handle.

As a last resort you could always rig yards and square sails (smile).

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s/v Kerry Deare of Barnegat
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