Hello Roger. It's delightful that you are making UA-cam videos on board. I have been enthralled by your books, so it's great to hear your voice and get a sense of being on passage in the ocean on board MingMing 2. Had to laugh at the comments about the video making someone seasick, and, oh, haven't you got a cloth to wipe the windows with? Haha! Thanks so much. Nick
I want to convert my Galion 22 to a dipping lug sail and i also gave ideas of buying my sons westerly renown and doing the same to that. I know that you use a lamp post and i wonder why you chose that. I wonder if I could just use the existing masts and just insert a wooden mast inside to give strength and stiffness.
mingming2 is very quiet even in that heavy weather, noise in the boat was the thing wife and I hated the most during our Atlantic crossing in 08(especially when seas were calm, swells made the noise unbearable)
I very much like your attitude on sails, boats, navigating, weather and safety. I read your article on the Jordon Series Drogue, and wonder if you would mind addressing a couple of questions to help me decide between a parachute sea anchor and the JSD (1) Do you Heave-to with the Junk rig? Do you rig some type of backing foresail? (2) Any fear of rudder damage from taking seas from astern? (3) have you experimented with a single port-quarter line vs the bridle? (4) Have you anchored from the stern? Thanks BTW, your chapter “Whales!” gave me goosebumps!!
Thanks for your kind words. To answer what are complex questions very briefly: 1. You heave to with the mainsail slightly feathering and the helm slightly to leeward. 2. I don't have a transom hung rudder, which helps. In any case, the JSD tends to defuse the waves from astern. 3.No. The forces are terrific and two attachments points are safer. A bridle discourages yawing and keeps the boat absolutely stern on. 4. No. I have never anchored MMII in fact.
Doesn’t look that bad because the camera is fixed to the boat, just take a look at the horizon! Shame Roger doesn’t have a gimbal mount. Probably a clever piece of video editing that could put it right.
Love your explanations of how the boat and winds are reacting to one another, but the camera work needs to slow down or be mounted on a steady mount as the jerkiness almost made me seasick watching. Love the way you laid out the boat both externally and internally, although I could see where I would change a few things internally. Keep the videos coming but slow that camera scanning down a bit for those of us who tend to get seasick because of prior injuries to our ears or just a tendency to seasickness.
Apparently there is no issue with asphyxiation. Oxygen depletion, carbon dioxide buildup? Or is that vented enough when you open the hatches? Did you take that into consideration when building her?
The density of oil platforms in the gulf of mexico makes that place look empty...many places you can count over 100 before lokking 360° around the horizon, a few places its more close to 200.
I'm fairly new to your sailing videos. I have a question: you said in this video that these are homemade sails. Were they difficult to make? Did you build much shape into them? What are they made of? Thank. Great videos, by the way...
Roger, I read some years ago that the type of radar reflector you have is worse than useless. It was a PDF document by the US Navy, that much I do recall, where they had tested a number of radar reflectors. The performance was worse than bad because as they reasoned, anyone who had one fitted to a sailing boat would place some trust "That it would do something and therefore was better nothing...leading to some reliance on having something" Their tests showed that unless it was bolt upright, a situation never attained for more than a split second, it was undiscovered by modern radar sets. 1 degree off vertical and the performance fell off to nothing and never got any better. Not only is it a life threatening design for this, but the lack of height you've presented yours at to other shipping is going to be another nail in the performance its not got. Please consider changing to something better otherwise we might loose you in the night...
The National Coastwatch lookout station at St Alban's Head has a radar and they cannot see any yachts on it, but fishing boats show up fine! This is probably due to the choice of radar reflectors. What a great video by Roger.
@O R Y X Not sure of what you have I took a trip to Wikipedia.org and read this page - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_and_rescue_transponder which, if it describes what you've got, does put out the wrong kind of response. Rather than announcing your position as "hello I'm over here, keep a distance..." such a unit gives off a return signal unambiguous by nature, that its a distress beacon and you'd like to be rescued, so home in on my signal. A trouble with the Junk rig on an un-stayed mast is it just doesn't offer any ready solution to securing a "man sized" radar reflector. I'd like to see Roger safe in his travels. Perhaps an active transponder would be his best bet, abit requiring its constant power requirements to be met. The Octahedral you've described mounted as well, as best can be, for costing next to nothing would of course add a fall back. The report that we both seem to have read, just goes to show that modern stuff, and price, has no relationship to performance. Its all buyer beware and do your own due diligent research.
Hi, how nice to see this youtube. I am transforming my traditional boat in Thailand (rice barge) into a junk rig. Please do give me more info. See my facebook Thai wooden boat solar Thanks. Frank.
I like the way you spoke of a knockdown just after missing a large breaker which missed your bow.
Hello Roger. It's delightful that you are making UA-cam videos on board. I have been enthralled by your books, so it's great to hear your voice and get a sense of being on passage in the ocean on board MingMing 2.
Had to laugh at the comments about the video making someone seasick, and, oh, haven't you got a cloth to wipe the windows with? Haha!
Thanks so much.
Nick
Thanks for the comments. Much appreciated.
I want to convert my Galion 22 to a dipping lug sail and i also gave ideas of buying my sons westerly renown and doing the same to that. I know that you use a lamp post and i wonder why you chose that. I wonder if I could just use the existing masts and just insert a wooden mast inside to give strength and stiffness.
Great home made sail, we share something in common 😉 gaff’s and the mighty oceans !!
Well that's a few ruff old days and nights you've had there I'm really looking forward to you making it into port now.
Again, thank you Roger.
Might I venture to suggest, that some double glazing would help prevent misting, and thus improve the view?
Just a thought.
Yea, I've thought about making some. You can get argon gas in small cylinders to fill the void with.
mingming2 is very quiet even in that heavy weather, noise in the boat was the thing wife and I hated the most during our Atlantic crossing in 08(especially when seas were calm, swells made the noise unbearable)
I very much like your attitude on sails, boats, navigating, weather and safety. I read your article on the Jordon Series Drogue, and wonder if you would mind addressing a couple of questions to help me decide between a parachute sea anchor and the JSD
(1) Do you Heave-to with the Junk rig? Do you rig some type of backing foresail?
(2) Any fear of rudder damage from taking seas from astern?
(3) have you experimented with a single port-quarter line vs the bridle?
(4) Have you anchored from the stern?
Thanks
BTW, your chapter “Whales!” gave me goosebumps!!
Thanks for your kind words. To answer what are complex questions very briefly:
1. You heave to with the mainsail slightly feathering and the helm slightly to leeward.
2. I don't have a transom hung rudder, which helps. In any case, the JSD tends to defuse the waves from astern.
3.No. The forces are terrific and two attachments points are safer. A bridle discourages yawing and keeps the boat absolutely stern on.
4. No. I have never anchored MMII in fact.
¿ No tenías un trapo para limpiar los cristales?
What makes you choose lamp posts for masts. I am looking at either that or a western red cedar one skinned with fiberglass
Doesn’t look that bad because the camera is fixed to the boat, just take a look at the horizon!
Shame Roger doesn’t have a gimbal mount.
Probably a clever piece of video editing that could put it right.
Super
Heavy whether give us an amazing video
I want to consider converting my Coronado 35 from Sloop to Junk rig. How would I go about it?
Best thing to do is go to the Junk Rig Association website. Fabuous resource for junk rig conversion.
Love your explanations of how the boat and winds are reacting to one another, but the camera work needs to slow down or be mounted on a steady mount as the jerkiness almost made me seasick watching. Love the way you laid out the boat both externally and internally, although I could see where I would change a few things internally. Keep the videos coming but slow that camera scanning down a bit for those of us who tend to get seasick because of prior injuries to our ears or just a tendency to seasickness.
HA! My daughter's cat is named Mingming.... Great video!
Is there a website/way to review the weather Mingming II experienced in August of this year?
Oh they need to add color changing lights for Dark Voyager
Do you have any ventilation with the hatches closed? Does this type of enclosed cabin only work in cold weather?
Watertightness and breathability are always contrary aren’t they. Gortex maybe? 😉
Apparently there is no issue with asphyxiation. Oxygen depletion, carbon dioxide buildup? Or is that vented enough when you open the hatches? Did you take that into consideration when building her?
Sorry for the late comment - do you have a video on your self steering? is it home built or off the shelf?
It's a Windpilot Pacific Light.
@@junkming thank you. All the best.
How do you tack a rig like that?
All you do is turn the rudder, the junk rig does the rest.
The density of oil platforms in the gulf of mexico makes that place look empty...many places you can count over 100 before lokking 360° around the horizon, a few places its more close to 200.
I'm fairly new to your sailing videos. I have a question: you said in this video that these are homemade sails. Were they difficult to make? Did you build much shape into them? What are they made of? Thank. Great videos, by the way...
There are a bunch of videos on Roger's channel about the making of Mingming II - fascinating stuff.
Hi , I am also interested in this type of sail , can we have more details please , still follow you in admiration , Bonza .
Google Donald Riddler and his vessel Erik the Red
John, take a look here ua-cam.com/video/E-IbUt-CTRQ/v-deo.html
Check out the Junk Rig Association.
Ahhhh... no irrelevant music and a skipper explaining the situation in an interesting and factual manner
Thanks for the kind words. Much appreciated.
Roger, I read some years ago that the type of radar reflector you have is worse than useless. It was a PDF document by the US Navy, that much I do recall, where they had tested a number of radar reflectors. The performance was worse than bad because as they reasoned, anyone who had one fitted to a sailing boat would place some trust "That it would do something and therefore was better nothing...leading to some reliance on having something" Their tests showed that unless it was bolt upright, a situation never attained for more than a split second, it was undiscovered by modern radar sets. 1 degree off vertical and the performance fell off to nothing and never got any better. Not only is it a life threatening design for this, but the lack of height you've presented yours at to other shipping is going to be another nail in the performance its not got. Please consider changing to something better otherwise we might loose you in the night...
The National Coastwatch lookout station at St Alban's Head has a radar and they cannot see any yachts on it, but fishing boats show up fine! This is probably due to the choice of radar reflectors.
What a great video by Roger.
@O R Y X Not sure of what you have I took a trip to Wikipedia.org and read this page - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_and_rescue_transponder which, if it describes what you've got, does put out the wrong kind of response. Rather than announcing your position as "hello I'm over here, keep a distance..." such a unit gives off a return signal unambiguous by nature, that its a distress beacon and you'd like to be rescued, so home in on my signal. A trouble with the Junk rig on an un-stayed mast is it just doesn't offer any ready solution to securing a "man sized" radar reflector. I'd like to see Roger safe in his travels. Perhaps an active transponder would be his best bet, abit requiring its constant power requirements to be met. The Octahedral you've described mounted as well, as best can be, for costing next to nothing would of course add a fall back. The report that we both seem to have read, just goes to show that modern stuff, and price, has no relationship to performance. Its all buyer beware and do your own due diligent research.
Hi, how nice to see this youtube. I am transforming my traditional boat in Thailand (rice barge) into a junk rig. Please do give me more info. See my facebook Thai wooden boat solar Thanks. Frank.
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