I have followed this forum for a number of years. Now I am kitting out my new Moody 41DS which has a Solent Rig.
A sailmaker advised me to choose a large Yankee instead of a conventional Genua of 140%.
My jib is a self tacking small one. While I know that Yankees work well on conventional Schoner Rigs, I am not sure that I see an advantage on a Solent Rig.
I wonder if there are members of the group who have experience or advice.

The Solent rig boats I've sailed (and I have a good few miles on a Discovery 67 with this rig) have light, full genoas on the outer forestay, and a self-tacking blade on the inner one.

On CUTTER rigged boats, like mine, a yankee, not genoa, is used on the forestay.

The advantages are easier to tack across the innner forestay (not applicable to a Solent rig, where in any case you have to furl to tack), and better control of sail shape.

If I had a Solent rig boat, I think I would plan to use the blade most of the time, with a light genoa available for light wind and off the wind. With a pole where necessary. I don't think I would want a yankee for that.

YMMV.

On my boat, I have two alternate sails for the forestay -- 120% yankee and 95% blade. The blade is on the forestay 90% of the time. I also use an A2 with a long carbon pole, and it's actually less trouble (!) to fly the spinnaker than to change out the blade for the yankee.

That's why I say I think I would prefer a light, large sail on the Solent rig. The blade is your all purpose sail; you'll use it 90% of the time. When you want to shift gears, you want a bigger difference in area and shape, then you would get with a yankee.

Just my subjective opinion.

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