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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.