Introduction to the Junk Rig, Part 1 

Intrepid people your folks. They followed their own rules, congratulations.

@@junkrigassociation You're very welcome.

Well done, better than being a member of some Snotty club anyway.

Tony, We’ve looked online and at the South China Morning Post archive site for stories about this club with very limited success - could you email us at chair@junkrigassociation.org with a bit more info if you have it?

I am from HK too, back in the days my family bring me to Tsuen wan, eat congee (艇仔粥） on the Chinese junk.

They're looking for volunteers to help with the channel, mate!! ;-)

That's a real easy fix. Leave the music out, it has no place in a tutorial.

You expect too much...

Amazing, Cheers.

@@junkrigassociation Thanks

hope it's the perfect boat for you! there is at least one junk rigged Galion ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9t9K_8GB-H0.html

@@junkrigassociation Aletheia was on the cover of the junk rig magazine. Volume 62? Maybe? According to her present owner.

What polynesians used a junk rig?

The Polynesian crab claw rig is oriented vertically and pivots horizontally. The junk rug is oriented horizontally and moves vertically.

you missed the point of the junk rig , there are no reefing lines , a set of lazy jacke catch the sail as its lowered bundling it to the boom all that is necessary is loose the halyard and set it where it needs to be , the lazy jack holds the battens the sheets are mor complex with each batten getting a sheetlet that is run to a single line on small craft or one for each tack on larger vessels all those keep the foils in shape and meen that the cloth dont need to be stretched as hard

@@rustyholt6619 The junk rig sheeting is not a lazy jack. A lazy jack sits on both sides outside the sail to guide its raising and lowering. It does not otherwise touch the sail. The junk rig sheet is more like a distributed mainsheet with many smaller lines to each batten, brought together in subdivisions. It's a bit like the continuous reefing lines (single line reefing) of western sails, but probably lower friction due to sheaves at each subdivision. This means that reefing is automatic as the halyard is lowered and mainsheet tensioned.

Some boats do have such an arrangement but sailing best to windward is much more about the overall design of boat and sails and the best arrangement of sails is the one designed to work well with the particular boat. Some of the Colvin designs seem to look and sail very elegantly with a jib, for example.

I'm completely speculating here, in fact I'm sure you have more knowledge than i do - but do you think it would be possible to do so with something like the wind maybe 45° off the bow, sail parallel with wind, helm pointed into wind? Any forward motion would steer ship into the wind, thereby back-filling sails, and vice versa. I'm still learning things so forgive me if this is an absurd thought. However i too am interested to get an answer to that question

@@NightSky018 What you describe IS heaving to, if the sails are on opposite tacks. The bow of the boat oscillates back and fourth across the wind due to it acting on each sail differently. Also, the helm must be set opposite the mainsail. That's what starts and maintains the oscillation.

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They are very different. For a start, what you see on a junk rig is not actually a batten at all. "Batten" is a misnomer. They are spars, and leaving aside the special case of articulated battens, they are intended to remain rigid. They perform the same function as a boom, except there is one for each panel, and usually each is sheeted. The batten you see on a fully-battened bermiudan sail is inteded to bend to the shape of the sail, and to allow a large "roach" to the leech of the sail. A completely different function to the s0-called batten on a junk sail. There is no analogy between the batten of a fully battened bermudan sail, and those essential spars of the junk sail.

@@graemekenyon1649 Technically you're right, but both to help shape and extend the sail horizontally. The main difference is that the batten is intended to flex to the curve of an airfoil, as you note.