I worked hard on both David and Steve to get this set up.  Only fair to let David have the scoop.

David keen to follow the progress of the development of the junk rig whenever we have something to show.

Want to add to whatever David comes up with as follows:-

Whisper is a very competitive beautifully maintained racing machine, kept in a shed all winter.  Steve Curtler, the owner, races her hard every summer.  2 weeks before this year's RTI he got caught in the sheets in a gybe, and ended up in hospital with 2 broken ribs and a lacerated arm.  N.B.  This sort of accident would be unimaginable in a split-junk, which has the softest gybe of any rig anywhere!

His entry was taken up by Paul Lees, owner of Crusader Sails, and very much a Splinter expert and a professional sailor.  He entered Whisper in the IRC class, starting 40 minutes earlier than our ISC class ( therefore benefitting from favourable tides), put on his latest Carbon Sails, and still retired.

So Amiina did not do badly, and we got all the publicity!

Thanks Edward, that would be great.

Probably David Harding.. He had a day out with Amiina and Whisper in December.

All at very short notice, so I was not as well prepared as I should have been.  However we had a lot of fun, and I hope Amiina does not come out of it too badly.  We had 80 odd kilos of lead in the bilges, which I should have taken out for the light weather we had.  The two boats are almost identical, but Whisper has a spade rudder, whereas Amiina has a skeg mounted rudder.

Looking forward to seeing what David has come up with.  I had hoped to have a preview.

Interesting.  Who wrote it, do you know?  I can't afford to buy a PBO here, so if anyone knows of a (legal) link to the article, I'd be pleased to see it.  Maybe PBO will permit us to reproduce it in the next magazine.  It might even stimulate discussion and Letters to the Editor!!