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.

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

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.

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).

Matt Colie - see prior sig


N1EE wrote:

What are the advantages and disadvantages
of a self-tending jib?

What rig design makes these most effective?

Do you know of any production sloops
designed with a self tending jib?

Bart Senior