A roll-up jib on a 17-foot sailboat is a display of no logic.

Adding extra weight and extra lines and extra complications
on a postage-stamp-sized headsail is totally illogical and
justifying it for *safety* reasons, as not having to go forward
as often, is ludicrous.

If you don't want to go forward then you don't want to sail
and you are no sailor. Sailing even a small yacht is similar
to making love to an attractive woman. Would you who justify
a roll-up jib also justify not going below the waist of that
attractive woman?

See what I mean? Use what's there to the best advantage and
don't attempt to substitute a vibrator or some such for what's
below the waist of an attractive women. Don't eschew the fore-
deck of a sailboat either.

--
Sir Gregory