Mike, thanks for the advice. I'm becoming much quicker at slipping the mainsheet cleat and keeping it in hand like you say. The times I've dropped my mainsail and tried to sail jib alone have been rough...impossible to tack...I didn't think about gybing...that's sounds like the way to do it.

You're right about the weight sensitivity. With two adults aboard, the hull gets very low in the water. I'm fighting a strong lee helm also. I don't know how large my jib is, but I think it's 115% or so. I've tried reefing it to reduce the lee helm, but the boat just won't sail very well with the jib reefed, very hard to tack, little power. Just this week end I experimented by shifting my weight. It seemed that the further forward I sat, the less lee-helm there was. If I sat completely forward, on the front crossbar in fact, I could almost keep a heading without touching the tiller. Otherwise, sitting midship, as soon as I let go the tiller to tend to something else, I fall off the wind. In a strong wind that's not very good...makes it easy to overpower the main and possibily capsize.