Fast Junk Rig cruising, on a Balkan Proa.

A short vid that sums it all up. Junk Rigs, Drive Boats! Fast enough, easy and cheap to make, very simple to fix on the way, yet above all Very, Very Safe! Nothing reefs like a Junk, I even reef while running, no need to even stop...

About 9% of camber, 18 square meters of Polytarp, and the simple Mike Mulcahy's Dart System. We stitched it up in about an hour and a half, the whole sail could be made in a weekend, it cost 120 bucks!!!

Driving about 900 Kg's of an almost fully loaded Balkan Proa. We always do half wind speed, until I reef of course... We are faster than all the monos in the hood, cruising monos, average size, which are all much longer than us.

Junks drive boats, fast ones go fast, 60 degrees to the wind on both shunts, yet moving fast! 55 is possible, but speed drops and that's not so much fun...

reefs in seconds, with only 2 parrels, yard and throat. I also have a luff parrel, but it's useless, next year I will not rig it.

Keep Shunting guys

Balkan Shipyards

 

I've been watching your work with great interest and I was wondering why you choose to use the shunting Junk rig(which is brilliant) instead of a junk schooner rig?