Hi Steve,
I don't have a gunter rig so I may be out of touch on this, but I don't really see what you are trying to do with the reefing track on the yard. Will you have an additional halyard going up the yard that lets you slide the sail up and down the yard? Or are you going to have to drop the yard to reposition the head of the sail and then raise it again? If the former, it sounds horribly complicated. If the latter, wouldn't it be easier to just lower the yard, clip the main halyard back on at a higher position and re-raise it all?
Regarding the fore stay arrangement, again, I have a conventional jib so don't have direct experience, but would query the idea of fixing what is essentially a safety stay. If the stay is taut, your self-tacking jib might not set very well. If it is loose, it might catch the jib as it tacks. I think failure of the fixing of a self tacker is very rare. I have not heard of it happening apart from collision damage, which can break any arrangement. If what you want is a backup, second support, couldn't you just double up the loop on the jib boom, so if one fails, the other catches it? I think it is far more common for a mast to fall over from a shroud shackle working loose than the fore stay failing.
Or you could just go for a Bermudan main sail and conventional jib and you don't have any of these problems...