Our sail cost 11 cents a yard and is rip stop nylon.

all told with fittings and all i think it totaled about 20 cents a yard. The Tari Tari is not to shabby in the sail ability department.
anyway I do think more information is needed form the skipper himself to asses this decision.
as any of you who have sailed for weeks at a time know sometimes the call you make has very specific criteria that may not be known by an outside observer.