It's nice to see that the delamination issues of 15 years ago seem to be mostly behind us, at least for the more robust cruising oriented laminate sails.

Right now I'm leaning toward North 3DL.

I'm a little concerned about the effect of sailing with a laminate sail reefed since the strain angles would change and the reinforcing strings would no longer be optimized. I've noted that Evans and Beth are quite careful about rolling up the genoa rather than sailing reefed when the apparent wind gets up.

Where we sail mostly right now in inland waters, the wind is up and down quite a bit. There's no way we'll change to the cutter jib in a hurry, so that means we will abuse the genoa from time to time as we did the old dacron one (I hope none of my potential sail suppliers is reading {grin}). As they say, there's no such thing as a free lunch! The sailmakers are quoting 140% genoas built for up to 25 knots apparent. We're likely to push a rolled genoa to 35 knot gusts (apparent). Maybe it's time to experiment with quicker ways of setting the inner forestay and keeping the cutter jib bagged and ready.

I'm kind of intrigued by the UK Halsey genoas where they have several reinforcing string arrays starting from each of several points you roller reef to on the sail.