The words "out of control" in conjunction with the word "Ebola" is not what you want to hear when it's the World Health Organization saying it, Palast has been right before, and Ross Lillistone talks about paint...
It's interesting how, whenever I write about junk rig, I always get a flood of emails. Obviously, there is a lot of interest that is apparently not being served...
Sadly, I expect that the bulk of the interest in junk has more to do with the idea that it is an "I-don't-have-to-learn-to-sail-rig" rather than it being about the real strengths/advantages of the rig. Which are many but sadly, not having to learn to sail is not one of them. That said, sailing is such an easy skill to acquire whether sailing a Bermudan sloop, junk, or lateen that it really shouldn't be a talking point at all.
Where junk (or the even better balanced lug) really come into their own is that they are a cheap/simple rig with no costly hardware and, being simple, there is bugger all to go wrong... Always a good thing in a cruising rig.
Listening to Rod Stewart
So it goes...
