[Pblais]

My CSY 33 still has the club foot. I like it pretty much.

My main is a bit bigger than most 33's and I use a high yankee for a jib. How the rest of your sails are set up matter too. The staysail is nice because it is self tending with the club foot. I just set the stops for each tack one time and I'm good for tacking all day. The staysail is so small that it's nothing to handle. I don't feel the need to have it furling. So long as it's good enough waether to move about the deck it's the easiest sail to take down when the need arrises. A couple sail ties and she is secured. You pull in the sheet and it centers on deck. On CSY 33 this is not a difficult sail in any condition to handle.

It's a nice small sail when you want a bit more of headsail such as going to weather. Harry says his gets a kt mine maybe hgets a bit less (smaller boat and sail).

I can see the case to have a furler though too. It's a bit easier for securing a dinghy to have the foredeck space to do it there.

You learn to take advantage of all the advatages you have and learn to compensate for the weaknesses. All good skipper would. Once you've done that as best you can there is not much else. so maybe the point is moot.