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This is a scaled down version of the coastal trading scow, which was developed to suit the waters, and the trade, of the North East Coast of New Zealand in the mid to late 19th century and early 20th. They were cargo carriers which could take the ground in the shallow estuaries, creeks and estuarine harbours of that area, while at the same time able to manage the short, choppy seas which are prevalent along that coast. Large versions (35m or more) did make commercial voyages across the Tasman Sea and occasionally into the South Pacific Islands. They don't pound too much. They don't heel much and are very stable - but, like a catamaran, even more stable when upside down - for this reason alone I would not consider it a suitable model for "blue water cruising". This small scow was conceived as a coastal cuising live-aboard, not an ocean-going vessel. I hope this answers your question, and thank you for your interest, and feel free to contact me by email if you want to discuss further,

Could you give me your source of that information?

Thanks. It was a good little trip.

There is context, of course. Its a 50-year story.

Thanks. I passed your comment on to Annie.

Thanks for your comment encouragement is always appreciated.

Thanks for comment. I prefer the music myself, but I did this version mainly for Annie because I believe she prefers no music. Yes, it is a very nice looking boat.

I trail the boat and launch it anywhere. In West Auckland, where I live, I would probably launch at Taipari Strand. In this video I launched in the Uretara River in Katikati, at the bottom of town town there is a ramp.

The boat is in Auckland, New Zealand. The video was made while sailing in the Tauranga Harbour. The sail was designed in the UK.

Yes, Annie's boat is indeed lovely. You could direct your comment to Annie via her website anniehill.blogspot.com

Thanks for watching the video and for your comments. Freebie:Marcus who built it describes it as a "bits and pieces" boat. I think it was based on a Stuart Reid design called Scud ll. Most of Stuart's designs, as far as I know, are part of John Welsford's portfolio. I have no idea if this one is available through John. I think I do know how to contact Stuart if necessary, but in the build Marcus would have modified it to suit his own requirements, so if you want to know more you would be best to contact Marcus through the Junk Rig Association. Paul Thompson designed and built the sails for it. There is a heap of information on the JRA website, including on-line back copies of magazines which in the past have featured Freebie, and the "chase boat" (Serendipity) which is an Allan Wright-designed Monarch trailer boat with a free-standing mast and home-made split junk sail. All the modern cambered junk planforms perform better than the earier flat cut sails, though there are still a few people who continue to prefer the flat-cut type of sail - they are simpler to make and do still have some unique advantages (windward performance is not one of them). For the windward performance most of us expect, cambered sails are the way to go. As for the split junk variant, non-members of the junk rig association can still go to the JRA website (junkrigassociation.org/) and click "junk rig information" - quite a lot of it is propaganda promoting junk rig, but in the public domain section there is some technical information. If you really are interested in junk rig then I suggest joining the association and having access to an archive of technical information, magazine, back copies, technical forum, technical advice etc etc. Would I use the rig again? Definitley. I currently have two projects under way: a John Welsford "Golden Bay" skiff which I am currently converting to split junk rig - and a 26' scow live-aboard cruiser (retirement home) which I am currently building, which will have a split junk rig. The split junk rig is my favourite of the modern junk variants, but I would also seriously consider a "Weaverbird" plan form (as designed by David Tyler), or the well-proven Arne Knverneland "Johanna rig" for which there is a mass of excellent information in the JRA public domain, made available by Arne. They are all modern cambered junk planforms. David Tyler has also documented a rather advanced junk wingsail which proved to be a success on his boat Weaverbird. The loveliest to look at is the slightly fanned "Hong Kong" style which Marcus likes and which Paul designed for Freebie - sails built by Paul Thompson - in this type, each panel is different and has to be lofted separately, so a little more work is involved in making one. As I say, my favourite is the fairly simple Amiina Mk ll Split Junk sail designed by Slieve McGalliard. I wouldn't change a thing. By the way if you join the JRA you can make direct contact with all of these people mentioned above, via a lively technical forum, and you will find them helpful and willing to provide their technical knowledge and experience. The membership list is open and available to members all around the world. (I should also add, if you want more information on Serendipity's split junk sail then you can go to my website kenyonz.com/ (Sorry, its an unfinished mess) and click on "My Boats". Third button down will send you to a number of PDFs on Serendipity, making the sail, cruising etc which you can downoad and read if you want to.)

Thanks for your comment Karl. Unfortunately it s difficult to make a video of sailing one's own boat! I can tell you that in actual sailing conditions the split junk rig has worked out very well. I believe that this home-made sail performs about the same as the average bermudan rig up wind - down wind vastly superior (unless the bermudan rig adds a spinnaker). Setting sail, reefing, lowering sail are much easier than with a bermudan rig - all of which mean that the modern cambered junk rig is unequivocally the better of the two as cruising rig, especially single-handed. The split junk is one of the modern variants, I would hesitate to say that it is better than the others, but it is the one I like best. My split junk rig is a copy of the Mk ll sail on a boat called Amiina, and there is a video of three junk rigged boats sailing, one of them is Amiina, one of them is another junk called Emmelene, with Amiina's original split junk sail, and the third is rigged with an earlier type of flat-cut junk sail. Here is the link if you want to have a look: ua-cam.com/video/wFQZAxJpfS8/v-deo.html Also, by the way, the same split junk boat (Emmelene) is featured this month on the home page of the JRA website, you can see some photos and read a bit about it by going to the site: junkrigassociation.org/ Finally, if you want to read up a little on the original split junk rig, which was designed by Slieve McGalliard for his boat Poppy, you can go to the JRA website and click on "Junk Information" then click on "Public Domain Files by..." select "Slieve McGalliard" and you will have access to all of Slieve's work and I suggest you go straight to the last file in that folder, entitled "AYRS Catalyst 37.pdf". That tells something of the design of the rig and how it has worked out and has been compared wit other rigs.

Further to Karl's question - if you go to my website, this page: kenyonz.com/page-15 you can get the information about the junk rig boat in the video, making the sail, sailing etc.

Marcus who built it describes it as a "bits and pieces" boat. I think it was based on a Stuart Reid design called Scud ll. Most of Stuart's designs, as far as I know, are part of John Welsford's portfolio. I have no idea if this one is available through John. I think I do know how to contact Stuart if necessary, but in the build Marcus would have modified it to suit his own requirements, so if you want to know more you would be best to contact Marcus through the Junk Rig Association. Paul Thompson designed and built the junk rig for it.

Its a junk. Technically, it is SJR (split junk rig). The other one (the paradox)is a sprit rig.

@@graemekenyon1649 - Ya gotta love people who can't tell the difference between a gaff and a sprit!

Yes I did the conversion myself - with he help of the Junk Rig Association, in particular the designer of the rig. I don't have any videos of making the sail or mast but I did write an article about it for the Junk Rig Association Magazine. Copies of the articles may be found here kenyonz.com/page-15 and a brief video of the sail here ua-cam.com/video/RiwpE7DarE8/v-deo.html I looked at your videos too - fantastic, well done!

Thanks Jeffrey. The main purpose of building the models was to see what the dinghes would look like, and the experiments were mainly just to have a little fun. The bigger, heavier, beamier dinghies were the most capable of carrying a load and remaining stable, while the smaller lighter dinghies were a bit easier to move trough the water. Which is probably what we might expect. The more unusual designs performed pretty much the same as the others. For load carrying vessels under 8', beam and weight seem to be more important than any other consideraton. The conclusion of the "oaf" experiment is: "it is not a good idea to jump down onto the gunnel". Lots of built-in buoyancy improves not only ultimate stability in some cases, but also makes it possible to recover from a mishap, unaided. There is a price to be paid for that, however. Evidently dinghy design is very much a trade-off, a compromise. Personally, I thought they were all good - each in its own way - its a matter of "suitability for purpose".

There not too much wrong with that delightful little boat. Just don't be an oaf.

I don't know Simon, I am not one of the judges. Its not meant to be a dinghy race, though, this is just a bystanders look at just one aspect - I actually think they are all very good, each in its own way.

Yes, I think so too. For more information you can read about it on Annie's blog, from near the beginning (eg anniehill.blogspot.com/2016/04/every-week-i-try-to-post-new.html ) through to the present day ( anniehill.blogspot.com/ )

Assunto: REF: Novo comentario sobre o “Lancamento do Fanshi com a sua primeira vela. Versao sem musica” “O barco tem 8 metros de comprido e e’ construido em plywood e resina de epoxy.” Para mais detalhes sobre o metodo de construc,ao deste barco Voce pode seguir o blog da Annie Hill, que comec,ou nos principios de 2016.” anniehill.blogspot.com/2016/04/every-week-i-try-to-post-new.html ate’ ao presente dia anniehill.blogspot.com/ “

If you go to Annie's blog ( anniehill.blogspot.com/ ) and look for year 2019 you will see some images showing the building of the inside. As you can imagine it is well thought out and beautifuly finished.

@@graemekenyon1649 thanks, i have (their) original books here somewhere, i think they were building Badger at Glasson dock back when i lived just down the road in Preston.

Thanks for your kind comment

Astute observation there - that cover does in fact do the job of lazy jacks as well as being a sail cover. The split junk rig (which this boat has) does not work so well with conventional lazy jacks. When the SJR sail is reefed or furled, those little jibs always seem to slip out somehow. It soon became obvious to me why Slieve McGalliard (who developed the split junk rig) furnished his boat Poppy and (later his colleague's boat Amiina) with this sail catcher which goes under the boom and is open at the top. This sail catcher muzzles the sail effectively, including those pesky jibs. Actually, Amiina's sail catcher is supported by a kind of lazy jack arrangement but I have found they are unnecessary. A pair of lifts from the masthead running down the mast - and another pair of lifts from the masthead which run to a point near the end of the boom - these two pairs of lifts are sufficient to support the sail catcher (and the bundle, when furled) and probably interfere less with the camber of the sail than lazy jacks. Not everyone likes this arrangement but it is pretty much necessary for a split junk - and I like it very much. As well as effectively muzzling the junk sail it also provides an instant sail cover for the furled sail bundle. One small detail which may not be obvious. The sail catcher is held rigid along the top by a pair of light alloy tubes. On a junk or lug rig the sail is slung entirely on one side of the mast. However, the sail catcher is not. The support tubes go one each side of the mast - or you might say, the mast comes up through the bottom of the sail catcher, which is offset with a bias towards the side of the mast where the sail and battens are. A slightly untidy detail, but I don't think the sail catcher would work properly otherwise, ie the battens may hang up on one of the support tubes and not fall easily into the catcher, if both support tubes were slung on the same side of the mast.

Its a hybrid mast. The bottom part is 6" tube of T6 aluminium, the longest length we can get here in NZ is 6m. The top section is tapered, hollow timber fabricated. Its a common method and well proven.

@@graemekenyon1649 Tank's Graeme, I have many clients in NZ, Is a good tip> Special for one of my designs. I sell a lot to NZ

Glad you liked it. Annie wanted no fuss, but deep down I am sure she must be feeling very proud.

You bet!