http://www.junkrigassociation.org

About the JRA

The JRA (Junk Rig Association), formed in 1980, has the aim of furthering the development of the junk rig and other un-stayed and/or battened cruising rigs and of creating an international community of people interested in such rigs to share experience and ideas.

The JRA publishes newsletters, organises rallies and provides services such as Fact Sheets, book loans and a comprehensive international membership list to enable members to make contact with each other.

The bi-annual newsletter/journal has provided the core of the JRA's existence for 30 years. Through the pages of the journal, total novices to the delights of sailing, seasoned cruising folk, famous pioneers of rig design and lone circumnavigators have exchanged information, ideas and experiences. Now, this website has been built to add another means of contact between members, reflecting the enormous changes in methods of communication that have occurred  since the JRA was founded.

Back issues of the Newsletter are available to members to download, forming an invaluable archive of information and experience for anyone interested in sailing, building or owning these rigs.

Rallies held four to five times each year in a variety of locations in the UK and Europe give members the opportunity to meet, to try out the rig on members' boats, to discuss rig design and construction, to swap information and to recount their experiences.

Membership of the JRA
This page is viewable by members and by the public. There are also pages viewable only by members of the JRA.
The public can read the public pages, and can read contributions to the technical forum and the general forum, but cannot contribute to them.
'Website only' members can read and contribute to a number of specialised forums, can build a photo gallery of any relevant pictures, can read all articles published in the full members area, have full voting rights in the JRA, and will receive invitations to events and rallies that the JRA organises.
'Website + NL' members can, in addition, download the twice-yearly JRA newsletter in PDF format.
'Website + NL' members can also opt to receive twice-yearly, by mail, the printed JRA newsletter containing the best of recent full members' contributions, and also such other items from other sources as the editor chooses to include.

You can join the JRA  in any of these levels of membership by completing the application form.
Thereafter, you may renew your membership in whichever level you choose.

If you are already a member of the JRA, but have not yet gained access to the members' pages, please contact webmaster@junkrigassociation.org for instructions on how to do so.


Ownership
This website is the property of the members of the JRA. Their subscriptions are used to build and maintain it.

Content
The content of the members' area is supplied by members of the JRA, and is monitored to ensure that it is reasonably accurate and authoritative.

Locations of visitors to this page


JRA rallies 2012 - register now

23 Mar 2012 (UTC+13:00) • in Mahurangi Harbour, North Island
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


Boat of the Month - February 2012



Model of an Antung Trader in the Greenwich Maritime Museum.




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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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