Thank you, Mauro and Patrick!
Yesterday, we've been invited to slide in a short presentation in an online seminar. It was the Trans-Ocean e.V. Micro-Seminar series, dealing about 2 h with sails and sail repairs when cruising. We were allowed to present three slides with less than 5 min of talk duration. Though not that much of a talk, however, the audience was huge counting about 350. We presented in short the - for us - major advantages of the junk rig: reefing fast and on any course, easy tacking, noiseless, relaxed downwind courses, ease of maintenance. In addition, we showed the drone shot (appended) of Ilvy going upwind in combination with one of her gps tracks.
One sailor we met in Sweden while sailing was sitting in the audience, and he happily confirmed our great tacking angles, live, during the talk. His third-party description, together with the drone shot and the gps track, didn't let any doubts about the junk rigs upwind capabilities surface :-)
Our impression from our talks at the Düsseldorf boat show was, that mostly only sailors joined that talks which were already kind of interested in the junk rig. But how to reach others, which never heard of the junk rig before? I think, yesterday was such a chance, as the junk rig was implemented into a seminar about bermudan rigs. We hope to have risen at least a bit of interest!
Cheers,
Paul
PS: It was very nice to have another junk rigged crew within the audience: Taiko.