Thanks, Frederik!

We just recently decided to take the Göta-Kanal from the swedish east coast to the west coast. In the prevailing westerly winds in the baltic sea in autumn, this allows us to head straight south from Göteborg to Kiel. We prefer beam reaching to beating, when sailing home ;-)

Unfortunately that means that probably we are not traveling by the Smålandsfarvandet on our way back. However, I'll keep you updated when we are close by, it would be great to meet you in person!

Cheers,

Paul

The following might be helpful for any windward discussion with pointy sailors :-)

https://junkrigassociation.org/resources/photo/uTljNHN_T9II2VPclRSi4XKx4of26UA0eoP-T6EXxA15jkzjdZ2ddFo7pDeCsaR2bkG56cajDKSGtLXgZnNA3Q2

Finally!

Ilvy met a sparring partner underway: the exact same boat (Maxi 77) with its original rig.

We had a little race, broad reaching to running in F2-3. Nothing official, just for the fun of it, and lasting for about 30 min. Of course, this was candy conditions for a junk rig.

However, we were not only winning this little race. We were so jaw-droppingly fast compared to them, that they had to motor full throttle for another 30 minutes to catch up with us after the race.

I repeat myself:

I am not a racer, but this is pure joy!

Paul wrote:

Made a quick & dirty tiller brake. Arne, I hope you don't mind me abusing your clever and beautiful tiller break design :-D

Brilliant!

A.

(..brake, break, brake break...)

What would be Ilvy's junk rig without a JRA flag!? Therefore, I learned some basic embroidery skills, combined Ilvy's silhouette with the JRA logo and this little thing happened. Ready to be hoisted.