Georg Warnecke wrote:

thank you for your thougts! :-))

maybe i should have been more specific – apologies for my inchoate language skills!

i meant besides robin fröberg's double-ender vanharouva, the havsfidra from fisksätra – are there more junk–rigged double–enders or spitzgatters out there?

(isn't the spækhugger a double-ender, too?)

Well, apart from Badger, Easy Go, Zebedee etc which surely are double-enders, there is the magnificent 37'/11ton, sloop-rigged Loch Fyne Skiff, Peregrine. She lives in your own town, Greifswald!

Cheers, Arne

                                                                  Stavanger, Wednesday

Georg, I haven’t heard about any junk-rigged Spækhuggers (spækhugger = killer whale), but I bet they would do fine with a JR. Around 40sqm should give a SA/disp of around 23. The Spækhugger has a ballast ratio of almost 61% and a big nice rudder so should cope easily. I doubt if she would generally out-sail the originals on a race course. These boats are raced by good crews and with good, tunable sails, but I guess that with good helming one may stay in the middle of the pack.

On the last JR I made, we increased the camber from my usual 8% to 9% which I think was an improvement. Maybe 10 % camber would be the optimal compromise for coastal sailing. If you mainly have offshore cruising in mind, it may be wiser to reduce camber to 6 – 8%; who knows.

Anyway, good luck!

Cheers, Arne