Thanks David. Not yet fully recovered but mercifully still alive. I'm now back home rehabilitating\convalescing which is going to take a while. I have resumed...
Sorry Kent I was not trying to insult your country in which I am currently enjoying its hospitality and with one exception, there always seems to be the one,...
Oh, that was lovely. Even in your "apology," you couldn't resist taking one more jab at the country in which you are currently living. Fortunately, I won't...
I notice from the excellent WB thread on cambered junk sail construction that the old-guard sailmakers (represented ably by Todd Bradshaw) believe that a...
Hi De, If I can give you some advise based on making six junk sails to date and a sail for my dinghy. Three off the sails that I have made were over 600 sq.ft....
Well, Gary I am an American, born and bred, and you will find that many Americans agree with Kent, not because they are insulting their native land, but...
Hi, the design is based on the pram in Sam Rabls book "Boatbuilding in your Backyard". This is the fifth one I've built and first to be rigged for sail. His...
... some of them are on the yahoo group files pages. some on a CDROM given me by another JR fan (I keep meaning to upload them; so little time, so many good...
Stavanger, Fri. Hi De I have no strong opinions about what method you choose to produce camber, shelf foot or barrel cut. Since you are to use professional...
... when you said "stick to conventional" did you mean "don't hook the leech" or "stick to the barrel cut, not the shelf foot method"? ... I'll get a quote on...
... Nope -- $60 per hour. But they are good at what they do and way faster than I would be (I live on the boat and have no large space to work in!) ... Even...
Perhaps to add my two cents to the discussion regarding historical junk rigs would be that the reason I would assume that a lot of the pics of junk rigs with...
Hi, I made barrel cut sails from acrylic for Ivory Gull. They are going strong - but that is because they are small and lightly loaded. I had an acrylic sail...
Hi De, I meant don't hook the leach. The limit for using acrylic seems to be around 450 sq.ft. and thats about what Annie's Badger's main sail is. How hard a...
Hello De, I would probably not hook the leach with gurney flaps. Sails work with widely varying angles of attack. They will also, possibly significantly shift...
<http://my.opera.com/RootlessAgrarian/albums/showpic.dml?album=4781552&p\ icture=72145712> This is a rough sketch (click for larger image, I hope) of Taz'...
Now that is odd. After considerable head scratching I did have inline images showing correctly in the Preview of my post. But I see that the final version...
I like the new Tri-Color masthead light which costs under $50 on eBay.. and while you are at it get the one with LED bulbs. Andrew' ... From: John Huft...
Hi Normally Kent I would agree on keeping politics out of this forum but US is so far from the greatest country, in fact, is an example of how not to be....
Nice boats, both the little and the big one! The Wee Elf's rig must be the only 2-panel junk I've seen. I wonder if you could add some info text to each photo...
