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541 Steve Rankin
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Mar 2, 2001
6:18 am
Actually it is a Brent Swain 36' with a modified stern and 8 ft added after cutting the hull in two. Jack Carson, an occasional reader of this list is the...
542 Hannes
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Mar 2, 2001
10:40 am
hello andy, i have seen this idea before: in 1995, Dennis Davis, an English stitch and glue ply canoe designer has buildt a rig of this type for a 10'...
543 Anthony Platt
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Mar 2, 2001
1:01 pm
A general message to all e-group members. Those who have responded to my previous messages will be aware that I have been asking for payment for Brian's book...
544 Anthony Platt
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Mar 2, 2001
1:54 pm
A general message to all e-group members. This is a repeat of my message to junkrig@egroups.com . My apologies if you now receive it for the second time but...
545 Harry James
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Mar 4, 2001
1:14 am
I intend order the book when I get back home however the process is. It would certainly be easier to send US HJ A general message to all e-group members....
546 ravencoast@... Send Email Mar 4, 2001
10:06 pm
Fellow JR groupmembers, I just spotted an ad for an economically priced 38'LOA/33'LOD junk- rigged sailboat, located in the harbour at Nanaimo, BC, and had a ...
547 kateandned@... Send Email Mar 7, 2001
8:36 pm
Has anyone tried building different camber into the different panels of their sails? I'm wondering if more camber in the lower panels, less in the upper, is a...
548 Victor Winterthun
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Mar 7, 2001
9:49 pm
Hi. I am now making a new sail for my boat. To keep things simple, I will make all rectangular panels alike, but the triangular part will have less fullness. ...
549 Richard Gubbins
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Mar 9, 2001
3:17 pm
Hi there, In between rigging my junk-rigged yact for the first time and picking your brains on this forum, I have been slowly building a web-site giving...
550 Jerry Limber
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Mar 12, 2001
4:55 am
Hi, This is being sent to a wide variety of folks, acquantenances, friends and family who know of my boat project and who have no doubt questioned it's ...
551 Richard Gay
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Mar 12, 2001
6:33 pm
Jerry, This is so exciting! You are doing what I've been contemplating for the last year or so, and now I get to see details of nearly all of it. Thanks for...
552 Alan MacBride and/or ...
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Mar 13, 2001
3:50 pm
... Hiya Jerry, I was delighted to have this announcement arrive in my inbox since my "Building Buddies" and I are planning on building Benfords for the next ...
553 Garryck@... Send Email Mar 14, 2001
1:56 am
Hi everyone, Just a short note to announce the forming of a new group, the "Badger Owner/Builders" group for anyone who owns, is building or wants to build, or...
554 Jerry Limber
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Mar 14, 2001
4:27 am
Thanks to the many of you who replied to me re the problems I've experienced with my site -- www.atomic.net/~gklimber It seems that everybody has mentioned the...
555 Richard Gay
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Mar 14, 2001
3:50 pm
Badger builders, I'm curious what sort of variations you all are taking in keel implementation. Are you going the concrete route, or something different? ...
556 Jim Rosbe
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Mar 17, 2001
6:22 pm
Rich: What a great website! Have been interested in both junk rigs and Dutch steel boats, and it's great to see your combination. Best of luck to you. I'll ...
557 Alex & Kim Christie
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Mar 18, 2001
12:03 am
Hello junk-riggers, For your interest, I just spotted an ad on www.buysell.com for a junk-rigged sailboat in Vancouver, BC area. The ad reads, 39' MODIFIED...
558 kateandned@... Send Email Mar 21, 2001
8:43 pm
I just finished reading all the posts to this group. It took me several weeks to get through the 550 or so posts. Thanks to everyone who has ever written. I...
559 Victor Winterthun
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Mar 21, 2001
9:21 pm
Hi. Interesting to hear your opinion about double sheeting. I read somewere, maybe in the newsletter for the Junk Rig Association, that a flexible rubberrope...
560 Alex & Kim Christie
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Mar 21, 2001
10:35 pm
All, I have uploaded a photo of the Junk Schooner Ron Glas to the files section. Cheers, Alex Christie...
561 Don Taylor & Sue Welsh
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Mar 22, 2001
2:57 am
We have double sheets on both the foresail and the mainsail on our Colvin Gazelle. They are rigged in the standard Colvin fashion with euphroes and friction...
562 Don Taylor & Sue Welsh
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Mar 22, 2001
3:23 am
I think that Victor is referring to a letter from Don Cook to the JRA in the December, 1990 newsletter: "I read in the the Association Newsletter about the...
563 junkrig@yahoogroups.com Send Email Mar 22, 2001
3:33 am
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the junkrig group. File : /Tin Hau's...
564 John@... Send Email Mar 22, 2001
1:59 pm
I was interested to read the discussion on single/double sheets, having recently joined this forum. I am currently fitting out Tom Colvin's old K'UNG FU-TSE,...
565 kateandned@... Send Email Mar 22, 2001
8:37 pm
Thanks for your response. I'm growing more and more encouraged to go with double sheets. I wonder if anyone has switched from doubles to singles and could tell...
566 kateandned@... Send Email Mar 22, 2001
8:43 pm
This is just a little encouragement to people to add their names and info to the database for the junk rig group. It's great to be able to look people up and...
567 MANACC
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Mar 22, 2001
9:04 pm
Greetings from NZ... I have experienced the 'excessive acute syndrome' with the result that in the following gibe the mast followed the sail over the side. I...
568 Don Taylor & Sue Welsh
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Mar 23, 2001
1:51 am
I was kind of lazy in my last post in that I did not explain why I am unhappy with the euphroe and friction block sheeting system on our Gazelle. The problem...
569 John@... Send Email Mar 23, 2001
6:50 pm
I am shortly going to redesign the foresail on K'UNG FU-TSE and am inclined to follow the reasoning of Vincent Reddish as regards its shape, believing, as he...
570 kateandned@... Send Email Mar 23, 2001
8:28 pm
It's amazing how the search for a simpler rig can lead to a nuclear sub designer. It makes sense, of course, but it's a bit surprising. I'd love to hear what...
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