... Thanks for the kind remark. Yep, I have an exhaustive bibliography of the major stuff available. For construction per se, the Viet Blue Book has a lot of...
A very old recipe for an anti rot coating was boiled linseed oil plus pulverized charcoal "to the consistency of thick paint". The contention was that once a...
It might not rot, but would be very gummy, which would make it hard to hoist the sail, and would make the sail messy. I am referring to boiled linseed oil, I...
Tim, boiled linseed oil hardens after a while and then is no longer gummy. I have used it with excellent results on the wooden cheeks of traditional blocks and...
Paul, I never tried thinning it. Maybe that makes it less gummy. Tim Dunn If you mix it 50/50 with kerosene it penetrates better. [Non-text portions of this...
... Another recipe includes boiled oil, turpentine and -- jeez, that stuff that comes from Scandinavian pine trees. I'm drawing a blank on the word. Not pitch....
I think it would be great if members would put a bit more info in their profiles and perhaps add a picture.We "talk" to each other but we know nothing of one...
... Ahoy Maties, yer' talkin' about Stockholm tar. Here's a little shanty that outlines why you don't really want to use this stuff... But, if you really want...
Here is an excerpt I found from references to INVINCIBLE: JUNK Due to the nature of the running rigging, it wore out fairly quickly and was of no further use...
... gummy. <snipped> I also found a recipe which used boiled linseed oil to protect fence posts. It called to add 'pulverized charcoal' to boiled linseed oil...
NO this is not the origin of Junk rig. There are several ideas put forth NONE of which has any reference to the non-quality aspect of the usage of the word...
... put forth ... usage of ... Javanise ... similar ... I am inclined to agree. The word is imported into several languages with a close pronounciation...
Excuse my all-caps... I am a bit sensitive on this matter. Everywhere I take my poor little Bobber she get ridiculed by the uninitiated. I'm afraid I get my...
Strange, Dana's "Two Years Before the Mast" says quite the opposite about the utility of old rigging, although he too uses the word junk: 'The next point to be...
who cares about linseed oil on sails anyways.not me.But that's not to say that paint my sails with it but I could(it'll waterproof paper by the way)....a hot...
From Chambers 20th Century dictionary: Junk: a Chinese vessel, with high forecastle and poop, sometimes large and three masted. From the Portugese Junco...
me too. You don't make a damn bit of sense. Did you make your own, or did you buy it? I made my own. ... __________________________________________________ Do...
Who the f**k cares what the dumbsh*t's out there think? Bobber is beatiful, she meets your needs, she gets you where you are going, flip the a??es a bird. ...
Hi, I can't figure out how the topping lifts works. Can anybody explain to me? Or Worcester made a mistake? I'm trying to learn how junk rig works. ...
I haven't seen Worscester's text, but my topping lifts run up both sides of the sail and are joined above the top yard, with a single line running through a...
Hi, everyone. I am new to junk rigs, and want to learn more.I am inpressed by the simplicity of rigging and sailing of this setup.I live in the midwest and...
Hi All, Shouldn't we be referring to "lazy jacks" rather than "topping lifts"? Someone who may not be fully acquainted with how junk rigging works may...
I didn't know the terminology. Now on, maybe I should stop calling topping lifts. Dose anybody know if there is any E-group for junks? Although I am...
Hi group, I have an aluminium mast on my 27-footer. When we were out on our debut sailing with the JR last fall, we took some video shots from the shore....
Nils: Tom Colvin says that "mast whip" is the main reason that he (lightly) stays his junk rig schooner designs. He specifies sidestays on each mast, a...
Hi Nils. Aluminium is not a very stiff material. If you want a alu. mast to be as stiff as a steel mast, it would have almost the same weight. You have a...
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