Nroose:
There is no pint in publishing a preliminary laminate schedule at this time. It would just fire up more endless speculation from the "experts". When we have a final lam sched we will post it. Of course, the final bulb weight will be a function to a great degree of the final lam sched...
Casc:
there is a very simple explanation for that jump in SA.
The first listed SA was based upon an early sailplan with area using I,J,E and P.
The current listed SA is based upon some minor rig changes with more I (with the help of th other Bob P. and crew) and using the actual mainsail area...