Fed up with the difficulties of handling your bermudan rig? Don 't be downhearted! There is (very nearly) a much better alternative.

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Beneteau have realised what a massive turn-off the bermudan rig is, to those who are new to sailing:
The Beneteau Sense 43 Wing sail prototype
and:
Matt Sheahan 's YW article

and for the DIY-friendly, user-friendly, downmarket, low-stress alternative, my own offering:
Soft wing Sails for Cruising
I 've been sailing with my new wing sail on the W coast of Vancouver Island; not much sea time yet, but it 's looking promising. This is a single sail of 54 sq m, as opposed to the ketch rig with wing sails that I sailed with on Tystie for 40,000 miles.

No, really, this is the future. I predict, with my tongue only slightly in my cheek, that in 50 years time, the bermudan rig will be looked back on, much as we look back on gaff rig, as being "well, as good as they could manage to invent and make at the time, and as suitable as they could make it for cruising, with the technology and materials they had, but oh! what a relief it is to sail the way we do now..."