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sailing junk
"Bruce in Bangkok" wrote in message ... Junks are slow, mostly due to the large wetted area of most of them and they don't go to windward much better then a square rigger because of the sails. The Europeans, in the late 17 and 1800's rigged some junk hulls with Western sail plans ( called Lorchas I believe) to get better windward ability. Bruce (bruceinbangkokatgmaildotcom) Actually, I believe that "lorchas" are western hulls that have eastern lug (junk) rigs. |
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