http://www.junkrigassociation.org

Welcome to the home of the Junk Rig Association (JRA). You've landed on a 'public' page which can be seen by anyone. Guests can read selected pages including the Technical and General fora, though they cannot contribute to them. To learn more about what we do and what we offer, click on 'Guests & Members Pages' in the menu, left. Members please log-in top right. (If you are already a member but have not yet gained access, please contact webmaster@junkrigassociation.org for help.)


About the JRA

Formed in 1980, the JRA aims to promote and encourage discussion of the junk rig, including its traditional use, its design, developments, and the building and use of vessels with such rigs and their derivatives. It also aims to create an international community of like-minded people.

Our activities and services include Forums, Fact Sheets, a worldwide Membership List so Members can contact each other, Book Loans, and Rallies. Held four to five times each year in a variety of locations in the UK, Europe and New Zealand, rallies give members the opportunity to meet, explore the rig, discuss rig design and construction, swap information and recount their experiences. Our Magazine continues to provide the core of our existence. Through its pages novices, seasoned cruising folk, pioneers of rig design, builders, lone circumnavigators and cruising couples can make friends and exchange information, ideas and hard-won junk and voyaging knowledge. Back issues can be downloaded - a gold mine of tried-and-tested ideas, information and advice for anyone interested in sailing, building or owning one of these unique rigs.

This Website reflects the enormous changes in communications that have occurred since the JRA's foundation. It is the property of the Members, whose subscriptions and energies build and maintain it. All content is supplied by them and is monitored to ensure that it is reasonably accurate, authoritative, and well-mannered.

Locations of visitors to this page  Click this map to see if there's a like-minded Guest or Member near you.

Boat of the month - May 2012


Pacific Spray (foreground), mehitabel (background) at the NZ rally.

JRA rallies 2012 - Register Now

26 May 2012 10:00 • Mayflower Sailing Club, Plymouth, UK
23 Jun 2012 10:00 • Ashlett Sailing Club, Ashlett Creek, off Southampton Water
21 Jul 2012 • Bradwell Quay Yacht Club, Bradwell-on-Sea, Essex, UK
08 Sep 2012 • Royal Welsh Yacht Club, Caernarvon, Menai Straits, North Wales, UK

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" ...there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in junk rigged boats"

         - the Chinese Water Rat

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