Category: BOAT BUILDING
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A New Rig for Francis H
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Rig Selection The most difficult part was designing the rig to fit the boat. There are some controversies around how much lead junk rig needs on a monohull. With a multihull it is easy as they don’t heel and therefore a Centre of Effort (CE) of the rig can be placed over the Centre of…
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Oryx
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Oryx is a modified KD860, designed by Bernd Kohler. The main alterations I made to the design were to lengthen her from 8.6 metres to 10.0 metres and, of course, to change the rig to a junk. There were many other modifications, so that the completed boat is very different from the standard design. Oryx’s dimensions…
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China Moon
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China Moon was designed and built as a seaworthy ocean cruising home for short handed sailing. The unusual double junk rig provides for safe and easy handling. Sails can be hoisted and reefed from inside the cuddy without getting wet. Hinged carbon fibre battens give the sail a good shape. As well as her superb…
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China Moon – Sea Trials
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She is very easily driven and slipped along nicely with the articulating battens giving the sail a nice shape. The log was not calibrated but the estimated speed was about 3 knots to windward in a Force 3 and tacking through 100°. There was noticeable leeway, but not excessive. As soon as the wind picked…
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Building China Moon
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China Moon was designed to be a comfortable cruising Catamaran to be used for long voyages to remote cruising grounds. Fitting a junk rig on the boat was a major consideration. Having read about the successful junk rigged catamaran ‘Dragon Wings’, designed and built by Gary Lepak, I felt it feasible to design my own…
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Aboard Badger
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Pete and Annie Hill We have found Badger performs at her best to windwards with a F4-5 and wind over tide – e.g. beating up a river against the ebb, because in a chop the foremast starts to ‘pile drive’ and ruins her progress. We have tacked through 85°, but in the above conditions would…
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Building Badger
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We want to add more about building Badger but that is still work in progress. It was a long time ago. Our next major undertaking was the removal of Badger’s keel and the fitting of a new one. The most difficult bit was getting the old one off, as we had glued it on with…
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