Jami wrote:To be clear: this idea is only partly due to the trimming issues of my Galion. The multi-purpose minisail just popped up while I was thinking about this.
Whether it would be wise to add a foresail or not (probably not), it seems like a valid plan to use a small sail as an anchor sail and to sail a dinghy, doesn't it?
I would say that it's "probably not" in all three cases.
Arne and I looked at the profile of the Galion 22 earlier, and thought that the rudder looked OK. If there's too much angle on the helm, then the sail is in the wrong place, and the right solution is to address this, not to add a complication in the form of another sail. Weather helm should only be a problem in the stronger breezes when you won't want the extra area of the second sail. Shift the existing sail forward temporarily by moving the halyard further up the yard and letting the tack go further forward, and see if this improves the helm. If it does, then the better major alteration to the boat would be to rake the mast forward, not to add a second rudder.
Why would you want a riding sail? I don't, on a boat the same length but lighter. An anchor chum slows down the tendency to sail around at anchor.
Junk rigged dinghies are fun in their own right, and a good way of first getting into JR, but adding junk rig to a cruising yacht's tender adds complication, and it doesn't get used very often, when the novelty has worn off. KISS.