Hello, a short video of my last winter navigation, with light wind. Always very pleased with my rig

https://youtu.be/mg9d0oY5Djs

At least first outing under sail with my Primaat Circé !

All I was expecting from the junk rig was here : ease of hoisting, ease of reefing, ease of tacking, excellent view ahead, rig very silent. Perfect !

And I was very lucky that my sail set up very well with few wrinkles, with minimal tweaking of the luff hauling parrel and the yard hauling parrel. The performance was excellent, hull speed with 10-15 knots of wind from astern, and tacking throught 90° upwind.

I'm a very happy sailor !

Hi, thanks for the interest.

I bought this boat 2 years ago, she was kept dry for 20 years  waiting for her restoration.

You can see the work in progress in this french forum : http://forum.bateaux-bois.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3801 , if you don't understand french at least there's a lot of pictures.

Hi Thomas,

I think you may want to lengthen the 2nd from top batten at the leech to avoid getting sheets and sheetlets caught by the ones below.

I've started reinforcing the partners. It will be 60mm thick, plus the 30 mm  deck ring. I've doubled the thickness of the deck(2x10mm)  between the beams up to the sheer clamp.

The mast step will be glued to the keel, to the hull and to the lower frame.

The new rudder is 10cm deeper than the original, I hope it will be enough for good control.

For the mast (9.5m high), I want to build it in epicea (spruce), hollow birdsmouth. Using Arnes method for calculating the diameter, I've found max diameter of 19,5cm, diameter at masthead  8cm.)

For the battens (3.5m up to 4m), I've a seller near me who propose 35x2mm T6 alloy, 230€ the 7 battens. Do you think it's OK ?

Slowly but surely, it's coming along !