Recent content by JRCO26

One sailed to NZ... 'Songeur' "In 1976 a boat called Songeur, completed from a basic kit by a Kiwi (Rodney Kendall) for the trip, was the smallest entrant permitted that year in the Observer Single-handed Transatlantic Race. It turned out to be one of the roughest races ever, with headwinds...

In this video, I raise the camera to near the top of the mast, and it gives a reasonable birds eye view of the sail panels, the battens etc - not a usual angle of view one gets of a properly built cambered junk rig sail. Cheers

Proper polar diagrams? Really? No offense, but that is a little over the top. It's just a rig - in my opinion the best rig for cruising - but others will have different opinions on that, which is fine - but there is a much chance of me providing 'polar diagrams of measured speeds' as me...

The battens are fully lashed to the sail. That's the only difference to them being in pockets - the sail would behave exactly the same if they were in batten pockets,

Have a read of this: https://www.junkrigassociation.org/Resources/Documents/Arne%20Kverneland's%20files/The%20Myth%20of%20the%20Bad%20Tack.pdf

Plenty of good windward work here in the junk rigged Contessa 26 I recently sold (for a bigger boat along the same lines - a Twister that will also be converted to junk rig). Something to call out is that my sail is built with plenty of camber, i.e a 'barrel' shape. It's a powerful rig to...

Racing is the reason. In any other sense, a well set up junk rig is superior for cruising - in my opinion. Other's will have different opinions - and that is absolutely fine - though I have at least sailed my previous boat (a Contessa 26) under both bermudan and the converted junk rig version...

You make some very good points Sir. My bad for 'assuming' he was a naval architect - thank you for putting me right. I think in the extreme conditions he talks about, a boat of any design is going to be up against it. I note the Contessa32 was sailed non-stop round the world recently by a...

Eric from Nordkyn Design on the Contessa 32 and the weakness of that pinched stern in following seas: Heavy weather dynamics: the behaviour of yachts in following seas | Nordkyn Design These are his opinions, not mime, I'm just providing the link. Mind you, he is a naval architect, and I am not.

I have come from a Contessa 26 to a Twister, and let me tell yuh for me the Twister is absolutely enormous below in comparison, so much so I need a road map to find my way around. Guess it is what you are used to....

The popular sailing channels are popular in the same way Reality TV became a popular... hot young women and inane 'drama'. This is your Delos and La Vagabonde type channels at the top of the food chain. There is a subgroup of less popular channels that have more sailing, much less T&A if any...

I agree and disagree ha ha I have flicked a token few quid over the years to Dylan KTL, and Kevin from 'How to Sail Oceans'. I look at it like this: Book authors that write about sailing would find it very tough if the books they write were given away free.. And all the Youtube quality...

It all went well, thanks all :cool:

-------------- You mean if the aft sling moves as you wiggle the tiller...? That video is great - going to take a screen shot and show the haul out guys tomorrow! Thanks Buck

Beautiful, thanks so much Rich