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Having a loose footed mainsail really has no affect on ease of single-handing except that you don't need to have a flattening reef on a loose footed mainsail which in some ways makes life easier and you can flake the mainsail and tie it off before your remove the sail from the boom which makes removal single-handed much easier. My boat a 45' luff by 18' foot mainsail. I have both a loose footed and a shelf footed main for the boat and I single-hand the boat routinely. I don't see any difference in convenience between single-handing the two sails.
BTW is the sail in question for 'Trix' and are you considering singlehanding her across the Pacific?
Don't even think of getting rid of your boom. The boom is your friend when single-handing. It sure makes reefing a lot easier.
Jeff
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