I talked to Greg about the self-tacking jib before I ordered my boat. In order to squeeze the f16 sail area into the triangle in front of the beam (as required by a self-tacker), the foot will need to be brought lower. My understanding was that Greg was going to play with this configuration on his own boat first to get the angles right, then make it available. Problem is, Greg has a bit of a conflict of interest with regard to the F16 sail plan and experimenting with it--he doesn't want to push it only to alienate the standard T4.9 faithful.

Incidentally, the cost of a new set of standard T4.9 sails is the same as the cost of a set of new Goodall F16 sails. Another interesting thing Greg told me is that the lighter 4.9 sailors still prefer Dacron mainsails.

I'm still awaiting info on the cost of F16 insignias.