Maybe with in-mast furling, the extra thickness of the mast is stalling out the smaller (no roach) main until you ease it so far the main and jib work together to create a single foil. How much shape does the main have?
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There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
Shakespeare, Julius Caesar IV, iii, 217
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