higgins,
I think that people are probably thinking that thing about using a rake handle to make a club-footed jib on a beach cat is some kind of joke, so they don't take your post seriously.

Most catamarans have overlapping jibs, so a club-footed, self-tacking jib is not possible with those particular jibs. Obviously, you can have a jib made for any boat to use a club foot and be self-tacking -- but why?

Some of the newer classes that have spinnakers come stock with self-tacking jibs, but they don't use a club foot.
I think a club-footed self-tacker is a monohull thing.

But even then -- a rake handle????