It will be a few more months before I'm reunited with my boat, but I can at least do some planning. I took Davids generic fantail plan and made a model of it in Rhinoceros, and tried scaling it to my planned 3 masted rig. It sure looks pretty, compared with the parallel batten plan I had before.
Several questions come to mind: is there any reason this planform would not work out on a multimasted rig? Also, my foremast will be canted forward about 15 degrees - would it still work with that much angle? Lastly, if I were to change the aspect ratio by scaling it a bit on the horizontal axis would that be a bad idea?
Having never sailed a junk rig before I expect a rather steep learning curve when I first set sail. I'm thinking I could make my mainsail out of the real stuff, that's the most straightforward. Perhaps I should make my foresail/mizzen out of cheap polytarp, just to be sure the sailplan works before making permanent ones?