Solent Stay

[Joel H.]

Well, unfortunately a number of knowledgeable people on Sailnet are telling me, (and I'm summarizing here), that even a Solent Stay, without a running backstay, will not produce a proper sail shape ("luff sag") due to the reduced stay tension caused by the load sharing between the 2 foreword stays being balanced by only a single OEM backstay.
So, I'm going to sit on it a while, till I gather more opinions.
I'm hoping you and other people here might be able to comment on that.
Thx,
Joel H.

P.S. I do think my design would be slick, if it worked.