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The pictures below are 'thumbnails' of photographs which have been uploaded by members to show their boat or details of her junk sail/s or rigging. The idea is to provide a quick way of seeing:

  • the huge range of boats (mono-hulls and multihulls) that can be built for or converted to junk, and
  • the variety of rigs, from single sail to schooner, flat-panelled to cambered

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Where members gave their images captions, extracts appear below; roll over it to see the full text. Click an image to enlarge it, then use the 'Next' and 'Back' buttons to scroll. Images shuffle along as new ones are added.

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Please try to give each image a caption so we know whose boat it is, her name, model, length, type of rig and any further info, eg "... showing her downhaul system".

525 photo(s) Updated on: 25 Jul 2024
  • Components of a small composite beam for use by Gerry O'Brien in "Ivory Gull's" new tender.
  • A new tender for Gerry O'Brien's Ivory Gull. Variable-beam catamaran dinghy. Hulls assembled though still far from finished. I'm maintaining a photographic history of this build in my albums.
  • Launch day has arrived. Mallie sitting in the boat parker waiting to be moved to the launching crane
  • Mallie's stern showing the twin pendulum arrangement for the self steering system
  • Being hoisted out of the boat parker
  • Friends and family gather to watch the launch. Camera shake due to nervous skipper on board.
  • Up and away. Mallie is swung out over the water
  • The obligatory launching speech and pouring of champagne over the bow
  • Touch down. After 11 years and 25 days Malliemac finally enters her natural environment - and she floats the right way up !!
  • In Preston dock heading for her berth in the marina.
  • Safely tied up in her berth. Her home for the for the next few months
  • Mallie's interior looking towards the companionway. The galley is to starboard. The heads and chart table to port
  • The forecabin with double berth to port and Refleks diesel heater in the saloon which keeps the boat lovely and warm
  • The chart table and saloon port side
  • Part of the galley and saloon to starboard. Fridge is in the bottom right hand corner.
  • The galley looking aft showing Taylor's cooker and entrance to lazarette.
  • Sea Elf last fall, East River anchorage.
  • Sea Elf last fall, Mobjack Bay.
  • Sea Elf last fall, Mobjack Bay.
  • Sea Elf last fall with new poly-tarp sails....(note: Ignore the graphics....I'm using this as my wallpaper)
  • Maurice Poissonot's junk Mathilda in Porto Vecchio, Corsica
  • Pete Hill's 'Oryx' - tabernacle design
  • Pete Hill's 'Oryx' - tabernacle #1
  • Pete Hill's 'Oryx' - tabernacle 2
  • Pete Hill's 'Oryx' - starboard double berth
  • Pete Hill's 'Oryx' - self steering (windvane removed) and rudder with blade raised
  • Pete Hill's 'Oryx' - saloon
  • Pete Hill's 'Oryx' - port 'dressing room'
  • Pete Hill's 'Oryx' - port double berth
  • Pete Hill's 'Oryx' - port cabin
  • Pete Hill's 'Oryx' - port aft single bunk
  • Pete Hill's 'Oryx' - Pipsqueak solid fuel stove
  • Pete Hill's 'Oryx' - pantry starboard forward
  • Pete Hill's 'Oryx' - heads starboard aft
  • Pete Hill's 'Oryx' - galley to starboard
  • Pete Hill's 'Oryx' - forward part of the cockpit
  • Pete Hill's 'Oryx' - bubble over the saloon
  • Pete Hill's 'Oryx' - Nymph dinghy, solar panels on cuddy roof, and wind generator
  • Pete Hill's 'Oryx' - sailing #2
  • Pete Hill's 'Oryx' - sailing #3
  • Pete Hill's 'Oryx' - sailing #4
  • 'Amiina' trying a THP (Throat Hauling Parrel)
  • 'Amiina' downhauls adjusted
  • 'Amiina' showing upper downhauls
  • 'Amiina' downhaul detail 1
  • 'Amiina' downhaul detail 2
  • Both Flutterby's sails hoisted for the first time together. (perspective makes the mizzen look taller. It is not)
  • First hoist of the main "topsail." My top two panels are sewn together, and the bottom five are a split rig in two more pieces. Ran out of daylight before I could put up the rest.
  • View showing twist in second hoist of mizzen sail
  • Second hoist of Flutterby's mizzen sail, with some sort of sheet, Slieve's style spanned downhaul-parrels, hong kong parrels, and a temporary tack parrel and downhaul.
  • First hoist of Flutterby's mizzen sail, only the lazy jacks and a couple parrels rigged.
  • The revamped and relaunched 'Footprints'. New solid companionway dodger and mast now raked forward by 3 degrees. Yes, a new sail cover is one of the next jobs on the list.
  • "Underway" thanks to GIMP
  • Solar panel
  • Sunbrella "doors" for my lockers
  • Fore and main
       " ...there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in junk-rigged boats" 
                                                               - the Chinese Water Rat

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