Hi; My name is Mike Schooley and I recently joined the group. I'll still digesting the 1612 previous posts, but I thought I should introduce myself. I am a...
Mike, Hello. Wow, great plans you are cooking up. Here's couple of comments that you may or may not have considered. No disrespect of your intentions in the...
... boat ... I am surprised that you didn't point out the beam exceeds the legal limit and it will require wide load permits. You are right, the weight fully...
Hi Mike, "I am surprised that you didn't point out the beam exceeds the legal limit and it will require wide load permits' He He. I was so ,uh . . .,taken by...
Hi, In order to put the tests that I have done so far (and may do in the future) in the right perspective it may be necesary to call your attention to scale...
Hi Everyone my name's Edith Wilson resident in Perth Western. I am building a "Shilling Sailboat" from the Coin Collection by Macnaughtons she will carry a...
Hi Everyone my name's Edith Wilson resident in Perth Western. I am building a "Shilling Sailboat" from the Coin Collection by Macnaughtons she will carry a...
Hi Mike, I had a similar design for a charter boat a few years ago--an aluminum tug yacht, 26' L, 12' B, 4' D, shallow V bottom (15º). For your indicated...
At 09:45 AM 6/6/02 +0000, you wrote: Hi Everyone my name's Edith Wilson resident in Perth Western. I am building a "Shilling Sailboat" from the Coin Collection...
Thanks for the input Herb. I'll look into the Isuzu engine and urethane foam with zonite fireproofing. I know it is going to be challenging to fit a good Junk...
Hi, Mike, What an interesting concept! I have had a look at the website and the specifiations and it looks like a very viable project. Iappreciated the ...
Hi Edith, I am building the largest one in the series, Crown Jewel. If you are interested in some pictures and notes about the building process so far you can...
Willem; Thanks for the response and the encouraging remarks. ... the ... appreciated the ... Thanks, I think my systems engineering training has paid off. ... ...
Regarding the tabernacle, someone suggested offsetting it to the side to let the mast clear the pilothouse. Alternatively, you could angle it, so the mast is...
Hi, I have been going over all the photographs of traditional junkrigs in the few books I have on the subject, looking for camber, and the conclusion is: there...
... side ... angle ... I was planning to offset the mast(s) so that the sail was on the centerline. I took a look at angling the forward mast so that it would...
Hi all I've been reviewing the archives and I've come up with a stupid question that I can't seam to find an answer to. I've read posts talking about improving...
Since the conversation is playing with alternative rigs in general, I wonder if anyone has played with what I've heard called the "mastaft" rig"? I built...
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Tim Anderson
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Jun 10, 2002 6:37 am
It has been done on a tarpaper-currach-catamaran back in the 80s TAULUA page 70 issue #72 WoodenBoat, Tim Anderson ... From: portager36...
Hi, There is nothing wrong with the idea. You should read "aerodynamic junk" by Robert Biegler. You can find it in the files section of this group. Bernard...
... This is at the same time its prime weakness. Phil Bolger mentioned some experiments with that rig in the latest Catalyst (AYRS newsletter), saying that...
Hi Robert, Thanks for your reply. I'm afraid that I'm not a great Bolger fan. I do "like" his work but that's about as far as it goes. I would like to see the...
Hi Jules and Robert, I am a great Bolger fan (his designs), but I have to admit his insight in aerodynamics is sometimes questionable to say the least. One of...
Mike, There's nothing wrong with the idea at all! An English chap called Jack Manners-Spencer already developed the idea back in the 70s, and called it the...
Willem wrote, "An English chap called Jack Manners-Spencer already developed the idea back in the 70s, and called it the Gallant Rig. I have copies of a...
... of ... seams ... the ... of ... Not a junk rig, but I remember from my youth something like this called the Ljungstrom rig. It did not have battens, just...
I will be living in China for a year and I want to build a Junk. Where is the best place to network? And where in China are most of these are being built? Jim...
