Junk rig proa sailing
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- Duration: 3:15
- Published: 26 Feb 2009
- Uploaded: 23 Sep 2010
- Author: Proadude
My 5 metre pacific proa sailing with its new chinese junk rig. The initial tests of the rig are very promising, with the ability to keep pace with most sailboats upwind and outperform them downwind. The proa is my own design, I built it two years ago and originally had a mast-aft jib rig, which had excellent performance upwind but very poor offwind. The mast-aft was also difficult to erect, diffcult to shunt and impossible to reef, not to mention that it was more than ten times the cost of the junk rig. The video is filmed at lake Pupuke, Auckland, New Zealand. To find out more about my designs, go to: jbyachtdesigns.co.nz
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![Large gaff mainsail on the sloop Clearwater Gaff rig[1] is a sailing rig (configuration of sails) in which the sail is four-cornered, fore-and-aft rigged, controlled at its peak and, usually, its entire head by a spar (pole) called the gaff.](http://web.archive.org./web/20110326142822im_/http://cdn.wn.com/pd/ba/d7/6302462bd74a4a9136ed4e40835e_thumb.jpg "Large gaff mainsail on the sloop Clearwater Gaff rig[1] is a sailing rig (configuration of sails) in which the sail is four-cornered, fore-and-aft rigged, controlled at its peak and, usually, its entire head by a spar (pole) called the gaff.")
