But then there is Peregrine, see NL 48. She was soon given an electric halyard winch. This is the fine thing with the junkrig. Since it is controlled only by pulling on strings, one can scale up the rig quite a lot, just by adding winches.

Arne

Hi, Annie, thanks for your interest.  No, no, that's not a forestay, that's a glitch in the drawing.  I don't intend ever, ever again to have to deal with headsails!  Sail area will be about 510 square feet, with about 8% camber in the (lower) panels on 4 and a half tons displacement.  If that won't move her around in the light, fine, live with it!  I will keep the bowsprit for now, 'cos keeping it is easier than removing it.  It might be useful for hoisting day marks.  And if I am ever (again) becalmed off a harbour with dusk falling, no engine to call on, and after two or three days without sleep, then I might try a cruising-chute sort of thing, just to get me in.  But not, ever, otherwise.  Cheers.

Photograph of boat and illustration of new junk rig have now been posted in my Profile.  Many thanks for the instructions!

I am converting my boat to junk sloop this summer, camber-panel sail by Chris Scanes.

The work is being done by Dan Johnson of Hestur: the sail-plan has been given the once-

over by Arne Kverneland and Robin Blain.  We have more or less lifted the sail-plan

and the mast-scantlings from the information about Johanna and Edmund Dantes on

Arne's pages on this site: ie, the sail is about 48 square metres.  The boat is 30 feet

LOD, and the displacement is 4 and a half (Canadian) tons.  I would post informative

illustrations here, but I don't know how to. If anybody is interested in seeing these

illustrations, they should e-mail me.  I will then e-mail the illustrations back, and they

can be posted on my computer-illiterate behalf!  The boat, which is centre-cockpit,

could not take a schooner rig, because of her internal arrangements of tanks, etc.

I think the hull displacement is the key figure here.  Arion displaces 5 tonnes (the plans say 3.5 but even if my builder had not left the frames in I doubt that was a realistic figure) and my sail area is 35.7 sq m.  I can hoist it half way hand over hand without stress, and have occasionally grunted it all the way to the top with my 3:1 halyard, but usually put it on the manual winch for the last 2 panels and occasionally, when I am feeling less robust, the last 3.  An electric winch or something like a Winchrite (electric winch handle) would make the task effortless.  With something like this I think you could hoist a 60 sq m sail easily.  Reefing and furling are easy, but perhaps gybing in strong winds would be a bit scary.  I remember one of Ketil's crew (Marie G) saying that he never gybes his sail, always choosing to put the bows through the wind.  This might be a bit of an issue in boisterous sea, though you could always start the engine.  I did just that one dark night a couple of years ago when the wind was blowing 30 knots, the seas were 3m and steep, and the skipper close to exhaustion after a snorting 12 hours running square with 2 panels reefed.  (Because I was coastal cruising, I could not rest in my bunk.  If I had been offshore I would have dropped an extra panel, or even 2, and gone to bed.)  Doing the "chicken-gybe" was completely stress free. 

So I think you could put a single sail rig on an 8 tonne boat, maybe even 10 tonnes.  LOA would depend on the hull type.  On a more traditional style of boat, this would suggest a LOA of about 11m, which is a good size for a singlehander/couple.  Hal and Margaret Roth favoured this size of boat.  The Pardey's Taelisin had a similar displacement at 30 feet, as did the Hiscock's Wanderer 111.  There is a 10m version of the Tom Thumb design that would have plenty of room!  I'd prefer to take advantage of size though and go for something a bit sleeker, though Arion is a wonderful boat downwind at sea, fast, powerful and comfortable.  In flat water it ghosts like a big dinghy, but in a developed sea you need to crack off on a reach.  Digressing here, but all these considerations are important, not just LOA.  Good luck Matt!