Hi Dean,
I think she sailed very well in light winds. We had 155 genoa however, which is a lot of sail and helpful in light winds. I don't know what jib or jibs you will have now. We sometimes went out to day sail in tandem with our dock mates. One boat was a Catalina 36 and the other was a Hunter 34. We out-sailed both of them by a good margin. She is fairly light for a boat 31.5'. She is about 23% lighter than a Catalina 320, for example. Less mass to push thru the water means less wind needed and less engine HP. I thought she had 18 hp, but I could be wrong. We don't have currents down here like you have up there. We felt underpowered a bit when we were coming back from Catalina once, and in the afternoon, we tried to motor straight into the teeth of a pretty stiff wind, which had stacked up the chop and swell quite a lot. We opted to fall off a bit and motor sail upwind to make better progress. But I think many boats would have also been slowed way down in those conditions. But if you are going against current rather than adverse wind and seas, you should do ok. I think we could motor at about six knots, but if you've got a six knot adverse current, you're not going anywhere! I don't know how much a fixed blade prop would help. You should talk to an expert about that. I gather there is quite a bit that goes into deciding what prop will work well with a specific engine.
When we got her, she had very low hours for how old she was. Then we didn't really put that many hours on her because we mostly just used the engine to get in and out of the harbor, and then we sailed. The engine has great access by the way.
As for the spinnaker, we kept it when we sold her and then used it on our next boat. It was an asymmetrical in a sock so the rigging was simple - just the halyard and sheets.
Were you able to see that pic of her at Pelican Anchorage?
I'm don't know the proper way to pass along an email address in this forum, but you can email me using my user name for this forum, rogerbsailor at gmail dot com (pretty tricky, eh?)
Congratz again. We're kinda jeolous.
Roger