Hi Folks, As a new member first let me say how greatful I am to have found this group. I have been thinking of building a junk rigged boat since I sailed my...
Greetings Junkrig Members: I would like to join your group in hope of soliciting some well reasoned opinions. I am contemplating the purchase of one of three...
Aloha! My partner and I have recently purchased the plans for the Benford 37.5 sailing dory to use as a live-aboard for our family of four, which includes two...
If I was starting from scratch and I wanted a junk rig boat, I would start with one of the McNaughton junk-rig designs rather than adapting somthing that was...
Hello Scott I'd suggest the first port of call - so to speak - would be to discuss this with Gerd, either via justmueller.com or via the OrigamiBoats group...
... One simple indicator of how big a boat your family might need is to look at how big a house you are living in right now. I suspect that if it is the...
Sarah: Thank you for your comments. They were most helpful. Since your family is further ahead in the process, I may reappear in the future to hopefully...
Hiya Colin, Gerd and I have been chatting back and forth for over a year now, you are right, he is very approachable and knowledgeable. I actually just...
... These issues concern me too. On mast placement, I've wondered whether it's possible to retain the existing mast position and either add more sail ahead of...
Hi. Look at the 30'Claymore Motor Sailer in the photo section. Here is shown a tabernacle in steel on a steel boat, with unstayed masts. Victor ... Gerd ... ...
... Fascinating. If the compression were taken partly at the top of the tabernacle and conveyed down through its legs to the deck and thus to bulkheads, that...
I have a couple of junk rig books on ebay. Practical junk rig (of course) Colvin's sailmaking book (all about making his sails and rigging) Colvins cruising...
The Practical Junk Rig is available new from Amazon.co.uk for about $60 US plus freight. I am just ordering one to be shipped to Canada. The have them used...
... Canadians might want to try www.nauticalmind.com, a Toronto bookstore which has the book new for CAD$98.95. Great bookstore for all things nautical. Silver...
... He added it in the design stage as he was uncertain whether the rig would function adequately without it. In 'Cruising Wrinkles', Colvin comments that of...
... Ah. Thanks for the explanation. ... Did you mean "junk rig" here? ... This is more or less what I've done on Silversark -- actually, placed a compression...
... Most of Tom Colvin's designs can be built with tabernacles instead of keel-stepped masts. He designs the cabin ends to butt against the mast positions and...
... I am a quiet watcher of this group and have been building a 40' steel junk rigged yacht in Perth, Western Australia. I too had the dilema of losing my...
... For those interested, I have posted a pic of the inverted U structure that is to support the foremast in the folder named Blue Destiny in junkrig2. Thanks...
... I couldn't find that folder -- but this link in the "Files" section does show a junk-rigged Viksund with a fold-down mast which is essentially in a ...
... Hi Leo, My power system has been down for a couple of weeks and I've been struggling with trying to renovate an old propane generator. Finally got it, just...
... Thanks -- I did find it. That structure to support the mast is an impressive piece of work, and it's exactly the kind of thing I had in mind. Don Silver...
Just joined! Been amazed by junk rigs for a long time, so complex, and yet so simple, or if it is the other way round! Plan to build a proa in the near future...
I have just posted a Junk rig design for a small boat or canoe in the files on Junkrig2. The folder is called "A small Sail" and the file "Chinese 44". It is...
... Thanks for posting this material. Since not all of our members have MS Word I have created a .pdf version of your document (Chinese44.pdf) and uploaded...
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