Hi,
A search for junk rigs on this messege board, brought up no results.
Ive recently bought a Top Hat 25, with a modified junk rig
, called a "junkette' rig. Theres a little bit of work to be done on her to make her sailable, repair mainsheet attachment...etc.
Has anyone had any experience sailing Junk rigs, in particular 'junkette' rigs?
from what ive read on the internet, (which is fairly limited), they are a fantastic cruising rig, ultra-easy & quick to reef, more upright sailing angle to windward, although (in most cases)they dont sail as fast or point as high to wind as a bermudan rig.
Im also after a copy of "Practical Junk rigs" Hasler & Mcleod.
& Annie Hills: Voyaging on a small income...if anyone has these books & wants to sell them
cheers
NC
I don't know what a junkette rig is though Hasler sailed a modified junk rig in a Transat when developing his self steering gear. For my part I sailed in a Thomas Colvin designed 3 masted junk from Fremantle to Barbados via Cape of Good Hope in the seventies. A great rig but this boat (the Wan Fu built of steel in Melbourne) was very heavily laden and tended to wallow a bit. I loved the versatility of the rig with its euphro and infinitely adjustable sheetlets. Fabulous if you want to tweak the set of the sail.
