Google book search have a few pages from this book available to view online. Just Google the title, “Design and Build Your Own Junk Rig".  Mike ... From:...
Oh wow! That is a truly wonderful site. Thanks for that.  Mike  ... From: mauro <mgonzag@...> To: junkrig@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, 1 November,...
Hello Luis, Thank you for clarifying that China Moon initially had a mizzen, but that it was subsequently removed. Do you know what Pete was hoping to ...
... <themagicpearl@...> wrote: You know the Chinese were not sitting out there with a compass while connecting a + b at p-Ç+Y only on a full moon. I'm sure a...
How did the ancient Chinese design things? Was it purely evolutionary as often seems to be asserted? They had paper. Would it be surprising if, down at the...
As the case may be, but they didn¹t make a habit of designing their boats on paper, so I wouldn¹t be surprised if they didn¹t design their rigs on paper ...
Hi Niel. If you go to Dave and Anke Zeiger's website on their boat Luna, they mention that they may go to a lower peaked sail for their next boat. Luna...
Paul--- Thanks for the reply.... I will go and check out the site that you provided. It has been a while since I was sailing in your neck of the woods... very...
I heard somewhere: second, third etc etc hand that at least one of the problems with China Moon was to get her wind vane steering system working well. Â I can...
I recently received my Gazelle which I purchased from New York and found that the aluminum masts had badly chaffed agaist the Junk rig in places causing...
I did it on new aluminium, in your case you have to remove all existing paint. Use a paint remover specific for the kind of existing paint, usually there are 2...
Mauro, Thanks for your input. Jim Douglas ... From: mauro To: junkrig@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 11:09 AM Subject: R: [junkrig] Painting...
... Posted by: "Wally Paine" wgpaine@... wgpaine Date: Mon Nov 3, 2008 2:22 am ((PST)) ... Seems the multihull experts all prefer an autohelm system,...
A lot of folks around here know a whole lot more than me about painting aluminum, but as for the chafe, does your boat have rollers on the pareles, between the...
Yes, multihulls use autopilots for the reasons already given. Also, multihulls tend to be high and have a lot of windage. If you could keep down the tendency...
I suspect that by now everyone in this group has been receiving invites to join Grouply. It would seem that this is a "cool" site, handy if you subscribe to...
Thanks Mike for your note about Grouply. I decided to put it in the rubbish bin. Too vague about its services and too prone to being used for wrong purposes. I...
Below is an extract from a post on the AYRS group site on yahoo which might be of interest: "Slieve told us about his home made 'split junk' rig on his 31 foot...
... I have now set us up so that you should not receive any more spam as a result of a member joining Grouply. If you join Grouply then you give them your user...
... round the Isle of Wight. He is the R & D Secretary for the Junk Rig association. ... This is one motivation for my (planned)use of a wing foil forward of ...
Hi Wally The report on the Split Junk gives the basic details, but not the race result. We were in the top third of the handicap fleet of over 800 boats, but...
Don, When I was playing with the mast program from Files, I wanted a version that had more sections available. So wrote to the author, Bob Tyrrell and asked if...
Anyone have a picture of this 'split junk' rig on his 31 foot Westerly cruising yacht? I'm having trouble visualizing it. Thanks, Dan [Non-text portions of...
... Thank you Dan! You are not alone! I cannot visualize it either. If no image is available can we please have a more detailed description? TIA Kev...
Look at the cover photograph of the Junk Rig Association Newsletter 50 on - http://www.junkrigs.com/contact.htm Cheers, Slieve. ... From: Kevin Golden To:...
Dave, Did you ever get a reply to your query? I have two fiberglass masts, about a foot in diameter and about 50 ft from keel to masthead that whip like crazy...
Thanks, Slieve, I understand now. It seems same as the full one except for: Forward panels do not close the leech aft unlike the entire ones where the mast...
