Chapter 12. Sailing the Split Junk Rig, and points （第十二章。）.pdf

Junk Rig Design. Thoughts on Cambered Panels and the Split Junk Rig. Chapter 12. Sailing the Split Junk Rig, and points to watch. This is where the payback comes, and the fun starts. This rig is easy to sail, but there are a couple of things to be aware of simply because the rig is so powerful. As the rig is designed to be as stress free as possible, to make sail is simply a case of lifting all jambers and hauling on the halyard until the required amount of sail is raised. This is followed with a tug on each downhaul/ batten parrel and finally a light pull on the yard hauling parrel but only if less than full sail is being used. This may change as the yard peaking halyard is developed, but that will only be a one line pull. There are no other adjustments to make, apart from the sheet and you’re sailing. To hand the sail we simply release the halyard and let it run, though I tend to let the halyard run over my gloved hand, probably just out of habit, or in case the tail of the halyard snarls up. Tell tales are fitted near the luff of each jib and consist of a length of about 35 cm of dark synthetic knitting ‘wool’ threaded through the sail material and knotted on either side. A single tell tale is also fitted in the centre of the leech of all the ‘main’ panels, but is not really used since the initial sailing trips. The ones on the jibs are important and do make a huge difference to the performance if kept streaming, but that is true with all head sails. Close hauled, the rig is brought in much further than with flat junk rigs as the jib is effectively sheeted wider than the battens, and it is possible to sail as close as 30° to the apparent wind even with the fairly blunt Westerly Longbow, though generally we sail at about 35° to the apparent wind. Once the rig angle is found then it is simply a case of sailing to the tell tales. Tacking is easy and can be slow or fast and we have never seen a hint of