We have a 42 foot Center **** pit Endeavour, you cannt get any worse than that for main sail recovery
My wife is 4'11" and I am 5'8" so that makes it worse.
Then we have a Doger with full Bimini enclosure, It's like, Booom ? What Boom ? you cannt even see it let alone tie a sail to it.
Solution....
We have a System similar to the Doyle Stack Pack BUT it is not sewn to the sail, it is seperate from the sail. Banks Sail Makers did it for the PO but never finished it. If you ever work with a sailmake, dont pay them till the job is done. Anyway.....Now that we have corrected the inventors mistakes I can drop the sail anytime I want, as long as I head into the wind and it drops like a rock into the bag and thats it, period, nothing else to do, And when we get back to the dock or anchorage, I step up on the mast steps and pull the string to sip it up.
this is as far as I know the best system for us cruisers that dont want to spend the money or for some personal reasons dont like in mast-in boom systems.
I dont like the doyle being sew to the sail.
I can pull my bag/cover of the boom with out removing the sail
or pull the sail with out pulling the boom. there are several differnt ways you can do it. Talk to your sail maker....
But its really made my main sail storage very easy .