We always ran the 3 sail setup and liked it. The only difference with our setup was we ran all of our sails on masts with rotofurlers. I never had much luck with snuffers, (apparently I suck at designing snuffers, lol). I always concentrated on upwind performance and the ability to be able to point really close to the wind upwind, (15-20 deg off the wind upwind), and in particular ‘low wind’ performance, (winds under 7mph). In the typical low winds we have around here (we typically on are out in under 5mph winds, ( which is 80% of the time here thru the summer). The stock sail offers no propulsion whatsoever, (it just luffs and literally does nothing), most everyone else stays home on those days, (pretty much all sailboats), why own a boat you can’t use most of the time.
We have always ran dual halyards, it wouldn’t take much effort to add a pulley and a second halyard line to the front of the Hobie mast topper. On my TI we had a giant loop for the spinnaker halyard for a short time back in 2010 but hated it, and switched to a fixed rear stay and a single halyard and pulley for the spin mounted on he front of our mast topper. To keep the halyard pull down line(s) from tangling up in the sails we run both the halyard down a single 3/8” dia pvc waterpipe.
I really like Chadbachs side stays attached directly to the top of his jib, (so they go up and down with just the jib, (solves the flexy mast problem without effecting performance at all when the jib is not deployed, (brilliant solution).
Hint, we made our halyard lines extra long so when we drop any of the foresails we can leave the halyard at the top of the foresail mast, (which is at the back of the boat when the masts are laid down), we just grab the loose halyard line and bungy or tie it to the front aka crossbar someplace handy.
With a big jib, ( ours is 33sq ft) and a barbor hauler for the main downwind performance is not half bad, as a result we seldom use our spinnaker anymore, (except in key west, we always brought it along down there), up in Sarasota we typically leave the spinnaker at home hangin in the garage, 80% of our sailing in sarasota is upwind because of geography and prevailing winds.
We also keep all the control lines and furler lines for all the foresails connected all the time and never removed, (even when the masts are laid down for transport and storage).
Just tryin to give you ideas here, that’s all
FE
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The main reasons why I did everything the way I did had everything to do with setup and takedown time. I don't want to spend any more than 15 minutes setting up and 10 minutes taking down, but it's pretty useless to me launching just a stock boat, (can't get anywhere unless you really love peddling), so I tend to lean toward complex boats, where I have all kinds of options to suite any conditions I may encounter, (up to around 260 sq ft of sail).
The below video shows me setting up my TI on a typical day up in Sarasota, (we typically leave the spinnaker at home when in Sarasota), setup of the spinnaker in addition to the jib, (either a wing jib or regular jib, ( I have both)) is done with the second halyard line, and takes a couple extra minutes. We wanted a boat with similar performance and capability to a Windrider 17 or WETA tri, but still have the ability to easily car top, and also use as a kayak (when traveling around the country, 40% of the time we only use the kayak, leaving the sails and AMA's back at our campsite, (but we often take the wing along kayaking for kayak sailing (without AMA's). Actually since 2008 I don't ever recall taking any kayak out without a furled up kayak sail strapped to the side, (lol just in case we find wind).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az2_doAgzCM&t=3s[youtube2]Az2_doAgzCM&t=3s[/youtube2]
This video pretty much shows what it's like sailing in very low wind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW62S1_RfYQ&t=25s[youtube2]zW62S1_RfYQ&t=25s[/youtube2]