Still Thinking About Rigs

Still pondering. Here are my latest, perhaps not best thoughts.

My first thought is to recall that I am building a light weight small catamaran.  And it should have a lightweight easily handled rig to go with it.  Call that the requirement the boat has for the rig.

So with light weight and ease of handling as my primary concerns I can evaluate rig option based on these criteria. Right? For the following I figured any boom meant moderate weight.

Here is a go:

Soft-wing sail: Heavy, Easy to handle.
     Lots of hardware aloft.

Junk-rig: Moderate weight, Easy to handle
     Many battens and associated tackle adds to weight.

Luff Pocket Boomless: Light, Easy to handle
     Serious concerns about downwind work.

Luff Pocket with Boom: Moderate weight, Easy to handle
     See example below.

Sail track with Wishbone: Moderate:weight, Easy to handle
     This is the default, performance wise should be nothing to complain about.($$$$)

Poking around the internet I found this rig combination from Schionning Designs of Australia. I'm showing this one first because you can really see the shape of the boom.

In this picture you can see a luff pocket version carrying a reef on both sides.

In other pictures its pretty obvious that the main is carried loose footed. It also looks like the mast is fixed and the boom is on a gooseneck.  I'm going to do some more research to see if I can figure out if that is true. If my boom can go high enough not to hit me in the head then this may be a possibility. You get the aero efficiency of a luff pocketed sail, downwind you have a boom to work with, and you avoid sail-tracks. Note the absence of a vang. I wonder if the boom is rigidly attached (vertically)?