Solent Stay

[andert]

I recently purchased an old Allied Seawind Ketch (she's a real peach!), which has a Solent Stay, currently detached at the deck and stowed at the shrouds. The boat is equipped with Roller Furling on the headstay, with a 135% Genoa furled on it. I also have the original working jib, an old 150% and a storm jib, all fitted with tape luffs, but no UV strips. The 135 overlaps too far to sheet inside the shrouds unless partially furled, which I don't particularly like....this makes an already somewhat unweatherly boat even less weatherly.....close reaches upwind, not much VMG. Check my thought process....I'm thinking about getting a CDI flexible furler for the Solent stay, putting the working jib on the headstay furler and then either putting the 135 or the storm jib on the Solent, depending on the forecast. That way, I could sheet inside for better upwind performance under normal circumstances (it always seems like eveywhere I want to go is directly upwind!), but have reasonable choices for other conditions. Whadaya think?