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    Junk rig

    Thank you MisterBaxter and DownWest for your kind comments. The foremast is a tapered wooden pole inserted into an alloy tube (about halfway} and the mainmast is carbon fibre. I sold Ivory Gull befpre I bought Dragonfly in 2008. I bought her back four years ago. So DownWest - I could expect...
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    Junk rig

    Hello Poignard, thanks bringing back memories. I now sail a junk rig schooner with red sails - a Maurice Griffith Lone Gull 2. I often sail around Newtown Creek in her and my offer to flag me down and join me, which I made in 2010, is still open.
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    GJW Direct

    With them for many many years. Two claims made. Excellent.
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    Sailing in F5/6

    You can speak for yourself Geem but not for others. Junk rigged boats have successfully raced in the Round the Island Race for many years - just google it to see the evidence. I have raced junk rigged boats in this race and they have torn through the fleet with a following wind and often...
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    Sailing in F5/6

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    Do you still beat to windward ?

    Modern cambered junk rigs sail to windward very well. See Round the Island Results. The joy of short tacking a 30 foot schooner, singlehanded, up the western arm of Newtown Creek, between every (occupied) mooring, with a cup of tea in hand. That's about twenty tacks all within about five boat...
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    Sailing without an engine

    A two - masted junk rig set on a long keel is the perfect combination for sailing without an engine.
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    Un-stayed junk masts

    Some junk rigs are very close winded
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    Advice needed on a possible purchase of a Hurley 22

    Galvanised pipe around rudder stock rusted through at bottom with nearly catastrophic outcome. Hull / deck joint parted by half an inch by way of shrouds - no mechanical fastenings - just poor bonding.
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    Navik vane self steering

    sold
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    Navik vane self steering

    Looks complete but buyer can inspect fully. Paddle break effectively repaired with stainless plates. £380
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    Fitness & Sailing

    Extend your sailing by ten years - get a junk rig. You will probably wish you had done this much earlier, with a family, singlehanded, no engine etc etc..
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    This Trump on water rally went well, a bit like his re-election campaign.

    Looks like the charge of the victorious to me.
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    The pointy bow... About to be consigned to history?

    Its a junk rig and a junk bow. The Chinese have used this bow design for thousands of years.
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    Boats you've owned?

    Trade up carefully as you have the finest small yacht ever made.
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