Gary: Your question is not clear to me. The relation you shuld be concerned about is that between the CE of the sail and the CLP of the hull. What am I ...
Bear with me Glen, I am extremely new to this. I think my problem was to do with the position of CE of Junkrigs relative to conventional rigs. I hadn't taken...
Hi Gary, Mast placement with a junk rig isn't always that critical, since the sail can have more or less overlap at the mast. But the Fenix-design has very...
Hi, I've just received some study plans from the states re the yantze and I think she is great. She has a huge volume thanks to her blunt bow and looks quick,...
The usual advice is to sail the boat with the original rig checking for helm balance heeled and unheeled on all points of sail. If there is no untoward weather...
Thanks Matti, my interest in the Fenix rig was it's windward ability but it seems there are plenty of junkrig sailors out there managing quite well with other...
-I'm a Fedora 7 user, Started with Mandrake 9 years ago. I've tried quite a few distros and I think I have finally settled on Fedora...but you never can tell...
I use Ubuntu 7.04 on my laptop and on my thin client servers at work. The web servers are Debian, Win4lin VDS runs on Redhat 5. All my desktops are Ubuntu....
I do volunteer systems admin for a small community support centre and you are way ahead of me Paul. I'm only now getting ready to setup up a Samba file server...
Well there was a purpose to my original post, beyond pure curiousity, but it is taking somewhat longer to sort out than expected so no news on that yet :( ...
Ahh, Linux and nvidia. I still haven't got my nvidia card running properly since I upgraded to Fedora 7. I'm not worrying about it at the moment as I don't...
Hi Robert, I've been having a lot of fun with your software. I used wine to install Sailcut8 but it seems a bit quirky under wine so I actually use Sailcut8ss...
... Thanks for that. I worked hard to be able to see inches and feet. I've worked metric on and off for years but I always have to translate to Feet - inches...
On page 149 of Practical Junk Rigs 1988 ed Fig.9.18 there is a diagram of a tabernacle mount, Has anybody used, built or had any experience with the...
No worries Steve, it's a work around that works for me, it's not ideal and I have yet to get wine to slot it into the program list. At the moment I have it...
Hello All: The reason I was attracted to this group: I am the recent owner of a Rhodes Continental; a beamy 21 ft LOA. pocket cruiser built in the early 70's....
Thanks Nils, unfortubately I'm having trouble actually viewing anything on junkrig2 other than messages.I'm not sure what my problem is but it's not working...
... anything ... it's ... Hi Gary, I don't find your Yahoo ID (hartleysprindrift) when I search on members in Junkrig2. Could it be that you have not joined...
Nils, I've just discovered your junkrig spreadsheet, and it runs quite well in OpenOffice. You have obviously put a lot of work into this. I will have to try...
Bamboo is nature answer to carbonfibre, so we are told, so perfect for masts. I know it grows in nice round mast like shapes, but unfortunately for most of us,...
Sir I am thinking of having a DD45 built in Wood as I am from Ireland and now live in Singapore and there are many yards doing good work here in Timber. Do you...
No I have not tried it but I own a split cane fly rod which I inherited from my father - so at least 50 year old. In their day they were considered the best. ...
... Hello Sir, I saw your post on the list. I have a similar project: 32ft. steel double ender, on which I want to put a single junk sail and mast. I plan on a...
Hello, I have a 32ft. steel double-ender, 14,000Lbs disp. on which I'd like to put a 27 to 30 ft. steel pipe mast. My idea is to have two or three pieces of...
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