Solar and Wind powered Goblin floats to mark her waterline.

But also,  we first drop in the unstayed mast.   Sorry, my hands were full and couldn't get photos of the launch.   It was wonderful to slide her through the water with a line attached to the bow and stern.  The engine has arrived...  an electric 3 horse with solar panel.   Motor sits in a new motor well in the starboard cockpit locker.  Will upload photos this weekend.

First coat!

The kids got coat one down.  Tomorrow we float her to get a water line.

Fairing completed on all decks and cockpit..

Cockpit fairing completed, and new companionway doors and cover started.  Rob is an artist.  Cover will be hinged on the port side and can be slid off the hinges and stowed below.

Boat Shop Upgrade and Masthead Complete

Things have been a little quiet on the boat, but not really.  Rob Parrish's Boat Works has moved into a bigger work shop with high ceilings, high enough to work inside on the larger boats.  Sharing the shop with other highly skilled crafts people is a great benefit.  Dave made the above masthead this week.  I've brought it home so I can figure out sizes of the rig pieces to attach to it.    Looks like this masthead will outlast the mast and boat by a several hundred years... anyone want to wager on that?

Cheers,

Jeff

Sail design that Goblin likes today.

Here the sail is at rest and reaches to the  bow.

 A great site on junk rig terminology can be found here: 'How does it work',  but there is no substitute for looking at photo's and drawings of the real rigs. Each customized over generations for specific purposes.  With my rig, here in Puget sound, I need a substantial amount of sail area for light airs, but the ability to drop all sails or reef quickly at the first sign of shifting to squal. This design was done partly with an old junk rig cad program 'SailCut8', running under 'wine' on a mac.  But it's a bit too limited, so I printed and modified it to what looks right to my eyes.  It may require a bit of a boomkin,  but that's easy. It's about 218 square feet, which is not too different than the sq feet from the Alacrity's standard main combined with the genoa.  If it's too much, I'll cut the bottom panel off, or if I need more, I'll add another panel at the bottom.

Goblin, actually prefers these curves, today.

Here the tack line is pulled about as far as you'd ever want.

Inspiration came from this one and

And especially, this one too.

And this one for the amount of sail ahead of the mast.

My Current favorite resource for detailed, photos of junks from the 1970's

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Karsten Petersen is the photographer and maintainer of this site.  I'm very grateful to him for making these images available to the world. 

Sails that Goblin and I admire.

These are the inspiration for Goblin's new junk rig sail.  Hope you enjoy them as much as we do. These are from Rob Parish's vast collection.