Hey Junk-Riggers!
I'm Jake from SV Chineel, a 36' steel hulled, Bruce Roberts Spray, Junk Rigged Schooner. We are a liveaboard cruising couple with a two year old daughter. Although due to the current situation my girlfriend, Justyna, has had to return to Poland so that she can make more money while her mother helps look after our daughter, Helena.
Anyway, I'm currently in Cape Verde and will be making a engineless solo passage to Dominica next month. I've recently begun putting more effort into my YouTube channel , so if you want to see the work I've been doing and footage from the upcoming passages, check out our YouTube channel here -
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0zFSE6r6VbGinkqVOQqnQg
I plan to focus mostly on the sailing and boat work I am doing. Although there might be some “touristy” videos when my girls are with me.
I try upload a video twice a week, and am will be making efforts to improve the quality - I only have a smart phone right now, but we will get a Go Pro when we can, maybe even one day a drone. We eventually plan to circumnavigate, without using the canals, but that is not really our goal. We're just travelling for the sake of travelling and renovating the ship as we go. The channel is about how I am doing that on our extremely limited budget. On that note, one of the reasons I decided to start getting more serious about the YouTube things was that, due to the “situation”, my chartering and AirBnb work is down to nothing, I'm hoping to make some money from the videos, but for that I need to have over 1000 subscribers, so if you want to help us out, subscribing is one of the biggest way you can do that, and I shall try to make it worth your while with good content.
For me, one of the beauties of a Junk-Rig to me is that there is a lot of scope for personal interruption of the junk rig fundamentals, depending on your cruising plans, hull, and personal preference, this is something I enjoy doing on my own, perhaps not everything I am doing might be the best way for everyone, and I will probably not be active on the forum much outside of this thread. The reason I am doing things the way I am doing them is generally due to our need for durability for blue water sailing, limited budget, and long term goals and priorities.
That said, I'm happy to answer questions about why I am doing things the way I am doing them either on this thread or in the YouTube comments, and will be linking to this thread from the video's description – I would love to see more people getting interested in Junk-Rig cruising. :)
Anyway, here's me making a junk-rig boom by hand - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnU5dtnpFRM
I put quite a bit of effort into editing that, and I generally am aiming to upload stuff of that quality of better, but with some videos that are just talking about my plans. I currently have only 4 weeks till I plan to set sail, so I may not have as much time to put into videos now as I will in the future, but there will be some.
Regards,
Capt'n Jaz (SV Chineel, Cape Verde)