IDAuthorArticleLinkSourceDatePage
17 Graham Cox Blondie Hasler and Jester
Hall of Fame - Hasler
link
20 Gary Pick How to build an 8 staved birdsmouth mast from wood
wood, birdsmouth mast, doublas fir,
link
23 Joddy Chapman Sail Shape and Sailing Performance Measurement - the Chinese Lug Sail - PHD Thesis
A Thesis to establish the merits of features peculiar to the Chinese fully battened lug or junk sail using wind tunnels and measurement equipment
link
122 Eric W. Sponberg Freedom Yacht Mast Cracking - Causes and the Cure
Freedom mast repairs
link
1188 David Omick Junk Rig Masts
Making them asked for a four masted catamaran
link Page: 33
1229 Derek Pilgrim Before GPS, part 2, The Measurers
Early compasses, logs, sounding lines, and equipment for measuring celestial elevation
link Page: 21
1347 Derek Pilgrim Seven Bad Days on the British Coast
Historical discussion of bad storms and other coastal events
link Page: 44
1364 Annie Hill Book review: Last Days of the Slocum Era by Graham Cox
One man's memoirs of chasing the dream
link Page: 47
504 Jonathan Snodgrass Last Man to the Azores and back
link Magazine Issue 57 September 2011 Page: 10
505 Gary Pick How to build an eight staved mast
link Magazine Issue 57 September 2011 Page: 14
510 Peter Manning The JRA East Coast Rally 2011
link Magazine Issue 57 September 2011 Page: 32
511 Jonathan Snodgrass Last Man to AZAB
link Magazine Issue 58 January 2012 Page: 5
519 Bertrand Fercot Building two wood masts in two stages
link Magazine Issue 58 January 2012 Page: 33
522 Annie Hill The Passage Perilous
link Magazine Issue 59 April 2012 Page: 4
523 Bertrand Fercot Bi-conical Wood Masts with 12 Staves
link Magazine Issue 59 April 2012 Page: 8
531 John Dinnin With Two Masts, Who Needs Parrels?
link Magazine Issue 59 April 2012 Page: 26
538 Robin Blain Ashlett Creek Rally, 23/24 June 2012
link Magazine Issue 60 October 2012 Page: 6
539 Robin Blain E Coast Rally (Bradwell, UK) 21/22 July 2012
link Magazine Issue 60 October 2012 Page: 9
553 Steve Peake Our HonSec. Has Really Done It This Time
link Magazine Issue 61 February 2013 Page: 4
556 Shirley Carter Back to the Basic Junk Sail
link Magazine Issue 61 February 2013 Page: 20
574 Graham Cox JRA Hall of Fame - Blondie Hasler
link Magazine Issue 62 June 2013 Page: 15
403 Sally Peake Warsash Rally Report
link Magazine Issue 63 October 2013 Page: 27
406 Tom Wallace East Coast Rally
link Magazine Issue 63 October 2013 Page: 37
408 Roy Denton Dismasted
link Magazine Issue 63 October 2013 Page: 41
418 Robert Groves The Loss of Easy Go
link Magazine Issue 64 February 2014 Page: 4
426 Alan Martienssen A Passage to Madagascar
link Magazine Issue 64 February 2014 Page: 40
432 Annie Hill Delivering Passepatu
link Magazine Issue 65 June 2014 Page: 4
438 Gary Pick Ashiki's Little Secret
link Magazine Issue 65 June 2014 Page: 24
444 David Tyler Summer in South Alaska
link Magazine Issue 65 June 2014 Page: 44
450 Werner Schulz Building a Staved Mast
link Magazine Issue 66 October 2014 Page: 10
452 Gary Pick Mast Partner Construction
link Magazine Issue 66 October 2014 Page: 18
453 Pete Hill A Short Passage To Uruguay
link Magazine Issue 66 October 2014 Page: 20
484 Tom Wallace UK Rallies - East Coast 2014
link Magazine Issue 67 February 2015 Page: 51
492 Annie Hill & David Webb NZ Easter Junket 2015
link Magazine Issue 68 June 2015 Page: 24
498 Marcus Raimon Pudgy to Pugwash
link Magazine Issue 68 June 2015 Page: 43
375 Eric W Sponberg Freedom Mast Repairs
link Magazine Issue 69 October 2015 Page: 4
378 Robin Blain Warsash Rally
link Magazine Issue 69 October 2015 Page: 21
384 Robin Blain East Coast Rally
link Magazine Issue 69 October 2015 Page: 36
358 Paul Fay A Simple Mast Boot
link Magazine Issue 70 February 2016 Page: 13
365 Robert Groves The Loss of Easy Go
link Magazine Issue 70 February 2016 Page: 34
344 Pol Bergius Unstayed wooden masts
link Magazine Issue 71 June 2016 Page: 11
350 Roy Denton Casting a Lead Keel
link Magazine Issue 71 June 2016 Page: 34
353 Paul Fay Fastening Battens
link Magazine Issue 71 June 2016 Page: 46
340 Geoff Turton East Coast Rally report
link Magazine Issue 72 October 2016 Page: 58
307 Annie Hill Must Read - book review: Phoenix from the Ashes
link Magazine Issue 74 June 2017 Page: 51
279 Pete Hill Further East
link Magazine Issue 75 October 2017 Page: 4
290 Editor Hasler McLeod Award
link Magazine Issue 75 October 2017 Page: 54
263 Arne Kverneland Ingeborg's new mast step
link Magazine Issue 76 February 2018 Page: 7
272 Graham Cox Teleport in the Northwest Passage
link Magazine Issue 76 February 2018 Page: 41
273 Gary Pick Washington's Axe - Redwing
link Magazine Issue 76 February 2018 Page: 50
256 Arne Kverneland Designing a cone shaped mast coat
link Magazine Issue 77 June 2018 Page: 33
237 Alan Boswell Performance Measurement
link Magazine Issue 78 October 2018 Page: 36
215 Roger Scott Split Junk Laser
link Magazine Issue 79 February 2019 Page: 23
222 Jonathon Bryant A Hinged Mast for Bluebelle
link Magazine Issue 79 February 2019 Page: 36
228 Alan Boswell Performance Measurement
link Magazine Issue 79 February 2019 Page: 53
206 Roger Scott A First Ocean Passage
link Magazine Issue 80 June 2019 Page: 32
153 Editor The Hasler McLeod Award
link Magazine Issue 83 June 2020 Page: 3
148 Shemaya Laurel Great Auk , The Mast
link Magazine Issue 84 October 2020 Page: 44
150 Graeme Kenyon Book Review, East Sails West
link Magazine Issue 84 October 2020 Page: 50
127 Alan Boswell Performance measurement -
link Magazine Issue 85 February 2021 Page: 6
689 Hasler's sailing instructions for the KINGFISHER 20+.
link Newsletter Issue 13 May 1986
701 Obituary of Lt. Co. H.G. "Blondie" Hasler DSO, OBE, 1914-1987
link Newsletter Issue 15 May 1987
705 Improving the case of handling the junk rig by Sunbird Yachts.
link Newsletter Issue 15 May 1987
731 Wilf Turnbull Method of raising & lowering a hinged mast on QUEST a COROMANDEL, fully illustrated
link Newsletter Issue 18 November 1988
737 Annie & Pete Hill WESTCOASTER 20 MISSEE LEE converts to junk and cruises the West Country and crosses the Channel
link Newsletter Issue 19 May 1989
741 The Marco Polo Voyage - A progress report and masts from the New Forest.
link Newsletter Issue 19 May 1989
742 FORTUNATE CLOUD - based on a FOOCHOW POLE JUNK being built in Bristol.
link Newsletter Issue 19 May 1989
747 A Trailer Sailer with hinged mast and water ballast.
link Newsletter Issue 20 December 1989
749 Increasing the windward performance of the junk rig by Gp. Capt. "Bunny" Smith, a talk given at the Spring 1989 Rally
link Newsletter Issue 20 December 1989
770 Vincent Reddish Researching, Designing and Installing a traditionally based junk rig in a VERTUE 26 (illustrated)
link Newsletter Issue 22 December 1990
771 Pete & Annie Hill Cruising the Brittany Canals in a 20' junk rigged WESTCOASTER (illustrated)
link Newsletter Issue 22 December 1990
774 Royal Cruising Club Annual Awards for Jock McLeod, Pete & Annie Hill, and the Hasler Family.
link Newsletter Issue 23 Summer 1991
780 Crossing the Atlantic (West to East) in a SUNBIRD 32 junk schooner.
link Newsletter Issue 24 Winter 1991
801 Arne Kverneland reports on his junk rigged ALBIN VIGGEN 23, developments of hinged battens and a low aspect junk sail.
link Newsletter Issue 26 Winter 1992
804 UPIK, a CHALLENGER 35 junk schooner cruise from the Canary Islands to Cape Town, including the loss of the foremast.
link Newsletter Issue 26 Winter 1992
805 SABRA, a SUNBIRD 32 junk schooner sails with the trans Atlantic "Columbus Voyage Fleet" and also loses a foremast
link Newsletter Issue 26 Winter 1992
811 TIN HAU - 3-masted 40' LWL stccl Junk undefined Performance Chart.
link Newsletter Issue 27 Summer 1993
812 The Aerorig by Carbospars. A Bermudan rig on a 360' revolving unstayed mast.
link Newsletter Issue 27 Summer 1993
822 A letter from Annie & Pete Hill and BADGER'S Log of cruise from UK to Falklands via East coast of South America.
link Newsletter Issue 28 Winter 1993
825 Robin Blain The life of a mast in alloy
link Newsletter Issue 28 Winter 1993
828 Mast failure in Alloy tube.
link Newsletter Issue 29 Summer 1994
834 CHALLENGER 35 UPIK loses a mast in the South Atlantic, Skipper and UPIK'S stay in S. Africa and eventual arrival in Spain.
link Newsletter Issue 29 Summer 1994
625 Eric Lerouge AEGIR - Two masted Junk
link Newsletter Issue 3 April 1981
838 Development of instruments to measure junk rigged boat's performance.
link Newsletter Issue 30 Summer 1995
842 Brian Young's 38' steel MARIE he built, sails at last and the junk rig does a good job.
link Newsletter Issue 30 Summer 1995
845 Bernard Holland Bernard Holland and his SPRAY 38 cruise in the Far East.
link Newsletter Issue 30 Summer 1995
853 Brian Young Making Solid Masts from trees
link Newsletter Issue 31 April 1996
885 Book Review - "Cutting the Dragons Tail" by David & Lynda Chidell. Building a COLVIN 50' steel 3 masted junk and sailing away
link Newsletter Issue 35 October 1999
908 Glassfibre Sampan
link Newsletter Issue 37 November 2000
910 Pete Goss's Round the World Racing Cat with unstayed masts.
link Newsletter Issue 37 November 2000
929 The Hong Kong Adventure Ship, a 3-masted Sail Training Junk.
link Newsletter Issue 39 March 2002
931 The voyages of Chempaka & High Tea, a 3-masted junk in the 50's & 60's with valuable comments on junk rig sailing reproduced.
link Newsletter Issue 39 March 2002
630 Admiral Fisher Junk Rigging a KINGFISHER 30 by Admiral Fisher. Stayed masts versus Unstayed masts.
link Newsletter Issue 4 January 1982
631 John Walker Advantages of the Hinged Unstayed mast
link Newsletter Issue 4 January 1982
946 Lifting aboard Mast Climber.
link Newsletter Issue 41 August 2003
962 SAMSON C-BIRD 38 - Installing & Sailing a junk rig. Building a classic Malay Junk Schooner.
link Newsletter Issue 42 January 2004
967 36' CHINA BLUE'S West Coast and Irish/Scottish Cruise.
link Newsletter Issue 43 August 2004
973 28' Junk Rig SPRAY in S.E. Asia.
link Newsletter Issue 43 August 2004
974 Rally reports - Holy Loch and E. Coast.
link Newsletter Issue 43 August 2004
989 Fitting a junk rig for free in Sweden. Summer and East Coast Rally reports and pictures.
link Newsletter Issue 45 August 2005
1001 The tour of PRECIOUS DRAGON - Chinese 3 masted Junk.
link Newsletter Issue 46 January 2006
1003 The 3 Winged Falcon - Prototype 3 masted super clipper of 87m.
link Newsletter Issue 46 January 2006
1008 David Tyler Passage report from David Tyler on TYSTIE.
link Newsletter Issue 47 August 2006
1010 2006 East Coast Rally Report and pictures
link Newsletter Issue 47 August 2006
1012 JESTER's Ultimate Storm and mast loss in 1986 Atlantic crossing.
link Newsletter Issue 47 August 2006
1013 Passage Report from Mathilda, a steel Dutch Grundel.
link Newsletter Issue 47 August 2006
1014 Converting PREVEDA, a Gouwzec 33' stccl Dutch yacht to junk rig in Switzerland with a single mast in a tabernacle, hoisted by husband and wife crew.
link Newsletter Issue 47 August 2006
1022 TYSTIE'S log with two knockdowns on passage UK to S. Africa
link Newsletter Issue 48 January 2007
1023 Timber mast scantlings for a Norwegian junk rig.
link Newsletter Issue 48 January 2007
1032 Holy Loch Rally, Summer Rally and East Coast Rally Reports & pictures.
link Newsletter Issue 49 August 2007
1060 East Coast Rally report
link Newsletter Issue 51 August 2008
1067 How to protect your un-anodized alloy mast.
link Newsletter Issue 52 December 2008
1077 Junk rig on an 18' Oslo dinghy Broremann,as a test bed.
link Newsletter Issue 53 August 2009
1088 East Coast Rally report
link Newsletter Issue 53 August 2009
609 Peter Crowther Dismasted
link Newsletter Issue 54 January 2010
1093 Peter Crowther Dismasted
link Newsletter Issue 54 January 2010
600 Bob Groves Easygo blown ashore by hurricane Earl
link Newsletter Issue 55 September 2010
602 Peter Manning Easst coast rally 2010
link Newsletter Issue 55 September 2010
591 Arne Kverneland Mast Climbing Unaided
link Newsletter Issue 56 April 2011
638 A Boat of Waste paper.
link Newsletter Issue 6 December 1982
643 David Zimmerly Unstayed deck stepped masts on a 33' SHARPIE
link Newsletter Issue 6 December 1982
655 "The Venerable Chinese Junk", an article describing various uses of junks and their various designs relative to their function as trading ships
link Newsletter Issue 8 December 1983
660 Sailing a 33' junk rigged SHARPIE to the Bahamas via the inland waterways from Ottawa to Florida.
link Newsletter Issue 9 May 1984
2 JRA What classes of production boat have been successfully fitted with junk rigs?
Types and designs of junk rig boats
link
4 Bob Groves Easy Go Yuloh
Making a yuloh
link
11 Arne Kverneland The (wooden) mast - ch 6 of The Cambered Panel Junk Rig
link
12 Arne Kverneland The hybrid mast - ch6b of the Cambered Panel Junk Rig
link
15 Arne Kverneland Ten Master Sails, Johanna Style
Sail plan options laid out for reference with different ARs
link
16 Bob Groves Blown Ashore by Hurricane Earl
Shipwreck of a JR boat
link
18 HG Hasler Kingfisher Original Sailing Instructions
How to sail a junk rig, specifically a Hasler Kingfisher yacht
link
31 JRA Sailing Performance Trials
A set of notes documenting trials aimed to measure performance of Junk Rig set ups.
link
32 Arne Kverneland Junk Rig for Beginners
Explanation of the basics of the junk rig
link
37 Bertrand Fercot Building of two 16m wood masts V1-0
link
38 Bertrand Fercot Building of two bi-conical wood free-masts made with 12 staves
link
44 Arne Kverneland "The Cambered Panel Junk Rig (""The book"") - Chapter 6 - The Wooden Mast"
link
45 Arne Kverneland "The Cambered Panel Junk Rig (""The book"") - Chapter 6b - The Hybrid Mast"
link
53 Arne Kverneland 20140701 X99 w. 54.8sqm JR, 5 sheets
"Sailplans - the sail for Ketil Greve's ""Marie G"", based on master sail with AR=2.00"
link
57 Arne Kverneland Mast climbing in Johanna, ver 20080608
How-To notes
link
60 Arne Kverneland How to make a cone-shaped mast coat
How-To notes
link
61 Arne Kverneland 20160701 An easy to make tiller brake
How-To notes
link
62 Arne Kverneland 20170216 an idea for a tube-style mast tabernacle:
How-To notes
link
65 Arne Kverneland 20200323 An easy to make facemask
How-To notes
link
66 Arne Kverneland 20200815 Facemask version 3 (in Norwegian)
How-To notes
link
83 Nils Myklebust Experiments with sail types, mast placement & lead
link
84 Gary Pick Birdsmouth Mast
link
88 JRA JRA-Fitting the unstayed mast rig to your boat
Junk Knowledge Archive
link
109 Annie Hill (Alan Martienssen) Brief Notes from Zebedee in Madagascar
Cruising
link
110 Bob Groves The Loss of EasyGo
Cruising
link
114 Jock McLeod Jock McLeod Newsletter Christmas 2005
Jock swallows the anchor
link
123 Bob Groves "The Loss of ""EasyGo"""
Forum Post: Article published in the Nov 2015 of Cruising World. Made available by Indigo Magazines, download here.
link
124 Editor So what got you into sailing?
is a compilation of forum postings for which there was no room in issue 64 of the JRA magazine.
link
1118 Kevin Cardiff East Coast of Ireland Cruises
link Magazine Issue 87 October 2021 Page: 33
1169 Derek Pilgrim Before GPS part 1 – the Wayfinders
Historical perspective on how navigation was done before electronic navigation
link Page: 19
1178 Arne Kverneland Talk About Being Rusty (or all’s well that ends well)
Early season ceiling in Norwegian fjords
link Page: 26
1181 Kevin Cardiff Sailing can be a Love/Hate Relationship
A members snippet, musing on the ups and downs of sailing and a passage on the Irish East coast
link Page: 27
1184 Kevin Cardiff Start of the Season
members snippet – daysailing near Dublin, Ireland
link Page: 28
1191 Shirley Carter Speedwell Arrives in Fiji
Pacific cruising from 3G to Lombok past Vanuatu and other exotic places
link Page: 37
1209 Jonathan Snodgrass Junkets at the Brixham Heritage Regatta – an overview from 2019 to 2022
The Brixham regatta format, organisation and the associated junkets
link Page: 49
1230 Patrick Leblanc China Blue
Sailing from Glasgow via Troon, Bangor, Howth, to Caernafon
link Page: 30
1244 JRA Introduction to the Junk Rig, Part 1
Youtube video - introduces the development of the Junk rig sailing system, imported from East Asia for use on pleasure boats around the world. It is part one of a three part series, and features vide
link
1245 JRA Introduction to the Junk Rig - part 2
Youtube video - discusses the characteristics of the Junk Rig, its sheeting, mast, reefing, rigging etc Sailing; rigging: wing sails; cambered sails; yards; battens; Chinese lugsail
link
1246 JRA Junk Rig Association YouTube channel
YouTube channel devoted to junk rig including introduction, historical and entertainment videos
link
1251 Graham Cox Jester, Blondie Hasler and Mike Richie - a junk rig boat and its sailors
The history of jester a junk rigged folkboat , its sailors and transatlantic journeys
link
1258 Graeme Kenyon Launch of FanShi
YouTube video of the launch of Annie Hill’s David Tyler Siblim design schooner and the junket that was held to mark the event in New Zealand
link
1259 JRA Junks that sailed the Pacific - interview with Hans Van Tilburg
YouTube video interview with author who profiled 10 junks that sailed from the Far East to the USA
link
1263 Leszek Wolnik JRA member creates art during lockdown
YouTube video of Leszek Wolnik’s wooden junk rig tableau artwork based on his voyage to Svalbard during his enforced Covid lockdown in New Zealand
link
1264 JRA Junk rigged Kingfisher 26 on East Coast of Ireland
Sailing YouTube video of a Kingfisher 26, experimenting with use of a 360 camera
link
1267 John Muir One Old Junk is Everyone’s Treasure - the Excavation, Amalysis and Interpretation of a Chinese Shrimp Junk at China Camp State Park
A thesis on the archaeology of a junk in California, with detail of traditional Chinese ship building techniques and historical context for the junk.
link
1275 Graeme Kenyon The Ill Fated Voyage of the Princess Taiping
Story of a double pacific crossing by a modern replica of a traditional southeast China junk and shipwreck
link Page: 17
1283 Par Leijonhufoud Marine and Coastal Survival
Survival techniques for land and sea
link Page: 49
1285 Valentin Hecq-Cauquil Gung Ho
Cruise around the Iberian Coastline in a Junk Rigged Schooner
link Page: 58
1299 JRA; Galway Bay Sailing Club Marking 50 years since Bill King's Circumnavigation
Joint press release as issued by the Junk Rig Association and the Galway Bay Sailing Club
link Page: 16
1300 The Quanzhou Ship
Article about an archaeologically rediscovered Song Dynasty ship
link Page: 37
1309 Treasurer's Report for Year Ended 31 March 2023
link Page: 60
1322 Kevin Cardiff YouTube and the Junk Rig
YouTube channels for junk rig enthusiasts
link Page: 15
1329 Monika Massey Glacier Gem
Continued cruise of self-built steel yacht; Florida; Okeechobee; Bahamas
link Page: 39
1336 Arne Kverneland Friction in halyard and sheet
3-part or 5-part purchase; choice of line size and blocks; winch positioning; sheeting systems
link
1337 Indigenous Boats Blogspot Boats of China and Southeast Asia
Bibliography page and download links with books on Chinese and Vietnamese junks and other craft
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1344 Pete Hill and Linda Crew-Gee Power Fin Sculling
A new type of scull based on work of Atsushi Doi - alternative means of propulsion of dinghy
link Page: 36
1352 Arne Kverneland 10 Johanna 70 Master Sailplans
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1353 Arne Kverneland 10 Johanna 65 Master Sailplans
link
1354 Arne Kverneland 10 Johanna 60 Master Sailplans
link
1356 Arne Kverneland Two more strings of master sailplans
DEscription and links to modified Johanna sailplans that allow for greater sail balance
link Page: 8
1362 Alan Shapcott North Island Cruise
Sailing La Chica 600 miles up the West coast of New Zealand to get to the Bay of Islands junket
link Page: 35
1366 Kevin Cardiff The earliest known junks in the UK and Ireland
Discounting Qiying (Keying) as an exhibition boat, accounts of Ottilia, two boats called The Junk, and two called Chinese Junk
link Page: 54
1367 K Cardiff, J Gray, R DeGennaro, I Blair Reports for 2024 AGM
Reports from Chair, Secretary and Webmaster, and JRA Accounts
link Page: 58