Photo Gallery

The pictures below are 'thumbnails' of photographs which have been uploaded by members to show their boat or details of her junk sail/s or rigging. The idea is to provide a quick way of seeing:

  • the huge range of boats (mono-hulls and multihulls) that can be built for or converted to junk, and
  • the variety of rigs, from single sail to schooner, flat-panelled to cambered

How to use

Where members gave their images captions, extracts appear below; roll over it to see the full text. Click an image to enlarge it, then use the 'Next' and 'Back' buttons to scroll. Images shuffle along as new ones are added.

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Please try to give each image a caption so we know whose boat it is, her name, model, length, type of rig and any further info, eg "... showing her downhaul system".

511 photo(s) Updated on: 29 Oct 2023
  • MEHITABEL, owned by Kurt Ulmer. 37ft, cold-moulded, designed by Robert Harris. Her flat sails are 'good enough' for this boat, which has electric auxiliary power.
  • The Benford dory Isabella, at the Hobart Wooden Boat Festival, 2017.
  • Junk rig for Joe 17 trailer sailer, draft #1. Downscaled Fröken Sörensen sail.
  • Hafan Pwllheli. Nov 2016
  • Somerled. Nov 2016
  • Somerled. Hafan Pwllheli 25/11/16
  • Somerled. 28.5 ft loa. 8.5ft beam. 7700lbs displ.
  • FULL SAIL!!
  • My first hoist of the sunbirds rig. Gently does it but there was a tangle.
  • Afloat at Hafan Pwllheli. Engine running after long lay up and me servicing it! All good
  • Somerled built 1968. Steel Hull by de Vries Lensche, Holland
  • Somerled. A Parkwood 28. 24/11/16. Pwllheli N. Wales.
  • Coromandel 21 Mai Poy original rig, detail
  • Coromandel 21 Mai Poy original rig, detail
  • Coromandel 21 Mai Poy original rig, detail
  • Coromandel 21 Mai Poy original rig, detail
  • Coromandel 21 Mai Poy original rig
  • 8 Sep 16. Bernd Tilgner's junk-rigged, radio-controlled model christened MIN DSCHU. She is 5ft long, 6ft over spars, with a sailing area of about 10 sq ft. The total weight is 32 lbs.
  • 8 Sep 16. Although Bernd Tilgner's model isn´t to scale, he added details derived from photos and paintings of real junks. Under electric power she can proceed for 4 miles! But she sails well, too.
  • Westerly Konsort for sale in Faro, Portugal. See ad in "Swap, sell or buy".
  • Westerly Konsort for sale in Faro, Portugal. See ad in "Swap, sell or buy".
  • Westerly Konsort for sale in Faro, Portugal. See ad in "Swap, sell or buy".
  • Westerly Konsort for sale in Faro, Portugal. See ad in "Swap, sell or buy".
  • Westerly Konsort for sale in Faro, Portugal. See ad in "Swap, sell or buy".
  • Junk-rigged boats certainly get around! This one was seen in Tennessee, USA. Does anyone know its story?
  • Vanharouva ready for a summers swim....
  • Batten Hinge for Aluminum Tube Battens
  • Badger Feb 2016. Cumbria uk
  • Winch was re-positioned to clear the mast!
  • Ivory Gull as bought March 2015
  • Ivory Gull, as bought in March 2015
  • KILDA, from Halifax, seen in South Carolina, December 2015 (photo: WR Cheney)
  • SATU Fwd mast lkg down
  • SATU as I found her in Seattle Oct 2015
  • SATU on the Hard in South Seattle
  • SATU early years 1975ish
  • SATU 1975ish
  • SATU Deck Shot
  • SATU Launch 1975
  • SATU as seen on the late Tom Colvin's Website
  • A large junk built in Zhou Shan, China. Believe to be Dr. Moran's 30 meter junk. Image received from public forum in WeChat group.
  • With bottom assembled
  • Bulkheads and sides assembled
  • The planned layout of the junk rigged Paradox. Shaded is the originally designed layout with CE marked.
  • Langsyne, Roberts? 38, Junk Rig, Fore mast step
  • Langsyne, Roberts? 38, Junk Rig, Foremast
  • Langsyne, Roberts? 38, Junk Rig, Foremast
  • Zebedee and La Chica, Mahurangi New Zealand 2015
  • Zebedee, Footprints, and La Chica, Mahurangi Regatta New Zealand, January 2015
  • SV Fly on first sailing off Dartmouth UK. Both sails reefed.
  • SV Fly. Mainsail as per Arne's design has just been fitted.
  • SV Fly. Foresail as per Slieve's split design has just been rigged.
  • SV Fly crossing the railway at Kingswear. 36' steel owner built vessel based on a Brent Swain design.
       " ...there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in junk-rigged boats" 
                                                               - the Chinese Water Rat

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