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  • 17 Apr 2015 08:10
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    Annie,

    The bright finish is mainly some sort of oil, mostly linseed oil or Deks Olje, these days. Inside they are often painted to protect them from the sun (The south-east coast of Norway sits in the lee from all the lows from west, so the summers are generally quite sunny). A boat with bright finish is easier to sell here as they show better the conditions of the wood.

    Actually, several of these motor-snekker have a mast hole fitted far forward, probably meant for a sprit-sail with a little jib. Many of these boats have a wind screen running 2/3 aft on the sides. The brilliant thing with a junk rig is that it will work perfectly well with this layout. The windscreen even adds freeboard and safety.

    And yes, small dinghies can have junk rigs. I bet my 5.5m/200kg Oslo-dinghy with JR, Broremann, was by far the most well-sailing of them all, and the safest as well. Just search for Broremann on Youtube.

    Arne

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  • 17 Apr 2015 01:13
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    As utes go, that's pretty classy, Arne.  I suspect the one that you modify might have a little less varnish? :-)  I'd have thought a wee junk rig on one of those lovely boats would be very successful.  I'm completely sold on junk rig for small boats since sailing in Pugwash.  It's nowhere near as complicated as people have told me it would be and it's such a delight to have the sail drop neatly in its lazyjacks instead of all over the occupants.
  • 16 Apr 2015 17:03
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    Brian,

    that photo of the junk actually is one of several in the article about Nikos Daroukakis. Fine article, but more about boat types than about rigs.

     

    Also note the photo of that Norwegian double-ender in the top left corner, here . There is a very good article about these boats. These boats are/were the pick-ups (utes?) of the south coast. On my to-do-before-I-die list is fitting a junk rig to one of those  -  an auxiliary rig (15-20sqm) to save fuel and add safety.

    Arne

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  • 16 Apr 2015 14:32
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    There's a picture of a junk here on Wooden Boat's website in the March/April issue. Could be the boat Graham wrote about? Or maybe in the article about The Boats of Nikos Daroukakis.

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  • 16 Apr 2015 07:49
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    There was an article in "Le Chasse Marée" about the same architect a few month ago. I havn't check if this is just a translation or a new article, but it was interesting.

    It proves that mixing styles and ideas can lead to quite nice boats.


    Antoine (WaterBear)
  • 14 Apr 2015 09:34
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    There is an interesting article in the April 2015 edition of Woodenboat magazine, about a Greek ocean voyager, designer and boatbuilder who often puts junk rigs in his boats.  Some nice photos too.  He uses Hasler/Mcleod style flat junk sails with the addition of a small jib set from the masthead.  His scantlings are very stout, which is why he can get away with the jib on unstayed masts, though it startled me.  The article is more about traditional timber boatbuilding than junk rig but still very interesting.
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