Why not go to http://www.junkrigassociation.org/ and read through the public pages?
I did put a short video that I took in the middle of the Tasman Sea onto YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nO3BTM7NAc (I had a ketch soft...
Gentlemen, The vessel is awash with guesswork, suppositions and misinformation. It's time to pump the bilge out. The spectrum of junk-rigged...
Looks good. Another thing to bear in mind is that with an unstayed mast, the actual mast line is further aft than the one you draw. No mast is...
I've consulted "Principles of Yacht Design", Larsson, Eliasson & Orych. They recommend using geometric centres only and the empirical rules of...
There are those of us who make things and do stuff. Like building our boats and sailing them across oceans. That's a life. And a good one, too.
"Different folks, different strokes". It would be a boring old world if we all sailed the same boats. We'd have nothing to talk about.
I'm a bit puzzled there. You're anti junk rig but like lug sail rigs - but the more correct name for junk rig is the Chinese lugsail. It shares...
So: "I've tried it and it doesn't suit my kind of sailing" "I've tried it and I don't like the way it handles" "I've tried it and I don't like...
You'll need to consider the drift needed, between clew and deck blocks, for chinese sheeting. The minimum is 1.25 x the panel width, for the...
Are you a shorthanded cruising sailor? Have you sailed a modern junk rig alongside a marconi/bermudan rig? Do you have personal experience to back...
There's a lot to reply to here! I initially used square section GRP tubular battens in my previous wing sails (chosen to make the hinging...
Yes- please could a bermudan rig advocate start a thread entitled "The top 50 advantages of the bermudan rig for cruising" (racers are forced to...
"I've tried it and it doesn't suit my kind of sailing" "I've tried it and I don't like the way it handles" "I've tried it and I don't like the...
Among open-minded, serious cruising seamen, acceptance is easier to gain. The difficulty is with those sailors for whom open-mindedness is a habit...
She and Pete built the catamaran China Moon in SA, but then split up. She married again, and sailed aboard the gaff-rigged Ironbark (and hated the...
I have it on good authority that three of this year's awards by the long established and most prestigious Royal Cruising Club have gone to junk...
Makes sense My battens are quite wide, and I have to avoid having too much of a change of angle in the sailcloth above and below each batten...
Yes, that's the idea, but with two vertical pins, as the second axis has turned out to be a bad idea*. Just shape the ends of your two inserts...
That's very wide cloth - what make is it? Your batten pockets in the after part of the sail will work fine; they are similar to the ones in my...