Notable Sailors of The Modern Junk Rig
Annie Hill sailed a junk rigged dory and wrote of its virtues in her book 'Voyaging on a Small Income.' Her ship Badger was designed by Jay Benford.
Bill King sailed the junk schooner (i.e. junk rigged boat with two masts) Galway Blazer II in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race.
Joshua Slocum and his family built and sailed a junk rigged boat from Brazil to Washington, DC after the wreck of his barque Aquidneck. Slocum had high praise for the practicality of the junk rig: "Her rig was the Chinese sampan style, which is, I consider, the most convenient boat rig in the whole world."
Herbert "Blondie" Hasler sailed a junk-rigged modified Nordic Folkboat to second place in the first trans-Atlantic race and was the author of Practical Junk Rig (ISBN 1-888671-38-6).
Kenichi Horie sailed across the Pacific Ocean in 1999 aboard a 32.8-foot (10.0 m) long, 17.4-foot (5.3 m) wide, catamaran constructed from 528 beer kegs. The rigging consisted of two side-by-side masts with junk rig sails made from recycled plastic bottles.
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