And if you're alone, it's not easy to flake the sail (at least not a new one) on deck. Where I rode out the TS, only about a quarter or less had removed headsails. As it turns out, the winds never got high enough to worry about it.

I wish I had left mine on. I had all I could do to stuff it in a pilot berth. Between putting that back on and retrieving anchors and rodes, it takes a couple hours to do it all at least on my boat.

What I found odd was how some boats veered around their anchors, and some didn't. It wasn't due to sails on or off either that I could tell. Some would sheer off quite far and then go broadside. That put some strain on the rode.

A friend remarked how my boat seemed to stay very still while his and a few others veered like mad. His was a high center cockpit which may have accounted for it's veering, but others were not.