If you want sails keep what you have and add the mast. You already own a capable motor sailor.
This is probably what I would do.
Didnt we go through the exercise of you wanting the mast awhile back?
It would be a nice boat that would certainly be fine for western Hemisphere cruising. Maybe more as I don't know the boat well enough.
A friend of mine left the Bahamas in May on his 40 something Lagoon Cat. Motored 5 straight days because of wind patterns.
Helped move my friends sailboat from Jersey to Charleston, motored 80 percent of the way.
Seems to me, unless crossing oceans with favorable tradewinds, distance (not necessarily long distance) sailing has become a motorsailing sort of adventure. Mainly, because no one wants to get caught some place by bad weather or they just want to get there.
A motorsailer is the best of both worlds and the worst....but fits my brain ....so that ought to tell you something about my brain...
The cost of swapping boats probably wouldn't cost much more than you adding that mast. Use the mast for your wanderlust in the Carribean, then take it off for your Great loop, put it back on for one last grand sail. Then take it off when you are absolutely too old to be climbing masts ...
.... and you can still have it for sale with the boat when you buy your final boat like the rest of us.
A beautiful, handmade wooden canoe on some far off mountain lake. By then I will be so sick of maintaining boats and salt water.......maybe you will be too....