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Hello,
It sounds as though you will need a constant-diameter splice, to get it past the stopper. That is fine, except that you also will need to reef this sail, and the splice you would make would be rather weak, so in order to avoid loading the splice you would have to bury the new piece twice the depth of the deepest reef. No savings there, and a lot of work.
You will also,of course, need to have the covered portion finishing above the stopper.
It might make more sense to -- as you suggest -- make a constant-diameter end-end splice to a cheap double-braid Dacron tail onto your Warpspeed, proportioned such that the splice is past the stopper, even when deeply reefed.
Fair leads,
Brion Toss
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