Rick,

Sorry to hear that the UPS hasn’t worked out for you.  By ‘crowds out’, I assume you mean that the reefed 175 creates a roll that’s big enough to interfere with the deployment of the UPS.  

My thought was to replace the 175 with a smaller genoa, and generally use the UPS in light air and the genoa in heavy.  Using both wing-on-wing downwind sounds like fun too.

Since you rarely use your UPS, would you be interested in selling it?

—Peter

> On Jan 23, 2018, at 10:09 AM, Rick <sloopblueheron at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Peter,
> 
> I'm the Devil's advocate on the UPS.  It has given me the least pleasure or
> utility return on any equipment investment I've made in the boat.
> 
> I have a 175 genny that crowds out use of the UPS by itself.  The only time
> I use it is to sail wing-on-wing with the genny in up to 10 knots.  But how
> often and how long I want to sail like that rarely justifies the bother of
> raising and deploying the UPS.
> 
> Rick