Am I too understand that the self-tacking jib takes no hit? Even though it is a smaller sail the ease of tacking with it makes me think some hit should apply.
No rewards or penalty for going to a smaller sail unless of course you are taking it off and sailing uni-rig or uni-rig and putting one on. Therefore if it were me I would leave that alone.
I looked into sail size early on and was told the Tiger main is smaller, I cut a foot off the TheMightyHobie18 boom and its still too long for the Tiger main. The mast is only 1.5' taller and this is the old ST main, not the STX.
Anywhere we can get a look at this Frankenboat - sounds like an interesting project.
