[sailingdog]

Originally Posted by Gorlog

Thanks for the info., I'm glad I asked before I went out and got stuff I didin't need, and it's nice to hear from someone with my same who boat rigged his own, particullary because of my lack of expirence with sail boats what-so-ever. I will also be single-handed much of the time so easy controll is important to me as well. Now I know exactly what to get, line size and all.
When I got my boat it had no mast or rigging at all, I got all of that on ebay. Thus the first essential on your list is taken care of, the mast has an internal track, and the sails have slugs. I actually just kind of guestimated that the mast would be proportionally correct for my boat (the only part that wasn't a guess was what someone told me on a forum in this website - and was that as a rule of thumb, that the mast should be slightly longer than the boat). The mast is about 23', the boats a 21'. Latter on I got the sails, which were made for a 20' boat. Well, guess what, the luff is about 23'.

A 23' mast on a 21' boat may in fact be too short. You probably should have checked with the specifications of the boat's original design at a minimum. Also, how do you know this spar has the right cross section for what you're trying to do with it??

This gets into sailingdogs question about why I think I should modify my mast for a boom vang. With a 23' luff on a 23' mast, well, that leaves a the vang perpendicualar to the mast. From reading I understand that a 45 degree angle on the Vang is fortuanate indeed, but onece you drop below 30 degrees, the vector force is pushing the boom into the mast too much, and is not pulling the boom down enough. I could have my sailed shortend, but that would be sacrificing valuable sail area. So I have prompted instead to raise the mast enough to get a good angle on the boom vang. This will also give me a more high aspect sail plan, which I also might imagine to be harmful - for the wind will then have greater leverage in heeling the boat? What do think?
As far as reefing goes, I was planing no reefing on the jib at all, just clip the clew right onto the fitting on the bow. Right now I have a jib, and a genoa, and was thinking that with a stormsail as well, I got it covered...?
Well Good Night, or Morning, or Day, or Evening, or whatever it is for you right now - Gorlog

You should never have a luff on a main sail that is the length of the mast. If you check the specifications of almost any boat made, the mainsail is usually a few feet shorter, so that the boom will be off the deck. Your sail is too big for the mast you've got.

As for not reefing... if you're only planning on sailing in very settled conditions, that might be fine...