I would highly recommend you look at several other boats as well... James Baldwin, a fairly well known sailor and author has a good list of small boats that might do well for you. You can find it
here.
I'd personally recommend you look for a Cape Dory 25D, which has standing headroom unless you're freakishly tall.
It is one of the better smalll pocket cruiser sailboats, and has a decent size head in place of a v-berth.
As for the mainsail roller reefing system... it isn't a very good system...and most people have retrofitted the boat with slab or jiffy reefing in its place. The roller reefing boom complicates using a boom vang or a preventer.
Sailcalc has capsize and other numbers for the boats...
click HERE.
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New England
You know what the first rule of sailing is? ...Love. You can learn all the math in the 'verse, but you take
a boat to the sea you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds. Love keeps
her going when she oughta fall down, tells you she's hurting 'fore she keens. Makes her a home.
—Cpt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity (edited)
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