December 2011 - Lesley & Rene Verbrugge's Crib

"Crib", owned by Lesley & Rene Verbrugge, competing in the Round The Island Race, Hong Kong, and spearheading the Hong Kong junk rig revival!














November 2011 - Chief Mungo

Chief Mungo, owned by Godfrey Stephens, sailing in the Juan de Fuca Strait. Photo by Henrik Lindstrom.















October 2011 - Tony and Sally Summers' Ròn Glas


Ròn Glas, owned by Tony and Sally Summers




















September 2011 - Bruno Cariot's Tiguidou

Tiguidou, owned by Bruno Cariot (not a member) is a beautifully executed junk schooner-rigged Tom Thumb 24.

Bruno said "after sailing 2,500 miles in the St.Lawrence Gulf, I can only say that I love this sturdy little boat… Quite fast, roomy, comfortable and beautiful..!

"She is roomy inside and I can walk all along under the roof (5′-11”). In spite of her short hull, heavy displacement and wide beam, she is quite fast. She easily surpass her theoretical maximum hull speed of 6.2 Kn. She points reasonably well, as a full keel sailboat with fine entry can tack through 90 degrees of apparent wind in flat water, 100 when it becomes rough, but thanks to her weight she remains quite comfortable.

However I know that western junk rigged boats have a rather bad reputation against the wind, and it is because almost all of them had quite low aspect ratio and flat sails in the past. But now, a combination of curved pannels on higher aspect ratio sails, as on Tiguidou, give very similar results on the wind than an average marconi rig on a similar hull".

August 2011 - Jeff McFadden's Nor'Sea 27 Seablossom

For Jeff's amazing story of his 'land cruise' across the mountains and deserts of the USA to bring Seablossom home, see this forum post.



 





























July 2011 - Badger

Badger





















June 2011 - Mehitabel

Mehitabel
























February 2011 - Arne Kverneland's Johanna

Johanna























October 2010 - Peregrine

Peregrine























September 2010 - David Tyler's Tystie

Tystie


























Boats that were featured prior to the creation of this archive in August 2012 are included where known. There are, however, gaps since Tystie (the first BOTM). If anyone can recall any others, please let the Webmaster know.


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