Junk rig

[Wansworth]

Going well…

 

[DownWest]

Have you followed Annie Hill's build ans sailing of her boat?

 

[Wansworth]

Have you followed Annie Hill's build ans sailing of her boat?

Is that her boat,looks great

 

[Wansworth]

Is that her boat,looks great

That’s a bill bleacher vane gear to boot

 

[MisterBaxter]

What a great looking boat! Really practical and roomy-looking.

 

[DownWest]

Sorry guys, Annie's is much smaller (as she is) and designed to suit her needs.

Local cafe in Ars en Re (Il de Ré) has a nice junk rigged boat that they charter. Built in India IIRR, bout 30 odd feet.
Will dig for inks..

Here's one: An outing on a Jonque by the Café du Commerce - Ars-en-Ré | Destination Ile de Ré | Official Website of the Tourist Office (holidays-iledere.co.uk)

 

[Poignard]

Here's the junk-rigged 'Dragonfly' manouvering in Newtown Creek on a breezy day in 2010. Her owner posts here, or used to.

What impressed me was how easily handled she seemed to be by her single-handed skipper. He came into the Creek, reefed down, sailed around until he found a suitable berth, then dropped both sails in an instant, strolled forward and let go her anchor.




I was living in Hong Kong in 1962 and had an apartment on the Peak with a clear view of the main harbour and the Wanchai typhoon shelter.

One day I was looking down at the harbour when 21 mainland Chinese junks sailed into the typhoon shelter together, and anchored side by side (no engines, no oars). This was an extremely unusual thing to see. In those days you would occasionally see the odd one or two mainland junks taking a short cut through the harbour but to see that number together, and going into a typhoon shelter was an incredible event.

It wasn't until next day that the arrival of a very severe typhoon, 'Wanda', was forecast by the Hong Kong Observatory

So the skippers of these 21 junks had known a typhoon was coming before the meteorologists did.

 

[Wansworth]

Breezy

 

[Poignard]

 

[chrisedwards]

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.

 

[MisterBaxter]

Your Lone Gull is gorgeous, Chris - a bit of a dream boat for me,!

 

[DownWest]

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.View attachment 154271

Lovely.
What are your masts made of?
DW

 

[Wansworth]

Interesting different takes on sameidea

 

[Poignard]

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.View attachment 154271

Well, my sailing nowadays is Brittany based but if I find myself Solent way with a few hours to spare I might yet take up your kind offer.

 

[DownWest]

Well, my sailing nowadays is Brittany based but if I find myself Solent way with a few hours to spare I might yet take up your kind offer.

Bit like Spartacus..
I can see assorted people turning up on chrisedward's pontoon saying 'I am Poignard'

 

[chrisedwards]

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 six thousand requests? I hope the experience would be better than crucifiction.