Home Job Opportunities Contact Us Links 中文   We hope to continue building this page so that enthusiasts for the world of the sea, starting here, can set out on any virtual voyage of maritime exploration that takes their fancy. Let us know your favorite sites by e-mailing info@hkmaritimemuseum.org Museums in Hong Kong General Maritime History and Naval Heritage Homepage Maritime Museums General Regional Maritime Museums Research and History The East India Companies Marine Archaeology Chinese boats, ships and rigs Marine Art World Maritime & Naval History Maritime matters in general Charts and Navigation Charts Navigation Lighthouses GPS/Galileo Safety at sea Lifeboats Sea Music Shanties Literature of the Sea Historic ships Dictionaries of maritime terms Local maritime organisations   Chinese boats, ships and rigs General   http://winterthun.net/victor/conversion.phph is a good look at modern junk rigs with some fabulous photographs   http://www.naga-pelangi.de/Naga_2/common/links.htm is a links page from the Naga Pelangi, a Malaysian bedor built by the famous Bugis Pulau Duyong builders in Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia. Excellent links to Malaysian traditional craft history, etc.   http://www.schoonerman.com/junk.htm is brief, has some nice pictures you can click to or two models of junks you can order to build, as well as some other links   http://www.friend.ly.net/~dadadata/junk/platt/platt_chinese_sail.html takes you to a page describing small boat voyaging in a junk rigged vessel in the 1960s by Anthony Platt.   By far and away the best site for beginning to explore this topic on the web is http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~trent/junk.html   The above page leads to http://www.friend.ly.net/~dadadata/junks.html<, which is Craig O'Donnell's marvelous site for looking at the junk rig in theory, in history and at modern approaches to junk rig design (see http://www.friend.ly.net/~dadadata/junk/tutorial.html). There is an excellent bibliography of both books and magazine articles. It is also quite wonderfully illustrated. From it you can click to a quirky, but extraordinarily comprehensive page dealing with bamboo as a boat building material and much else besides, which encourages exploring the net on the topic, see http://www2.friend.ly.net/~dadadata/n_the_other.html   http://www.leow.de/chinese/chinese.html takes you to a fan or possibly a member of the Junk Rig Association. This organization, which brings together present day enthusiasts for this most practical of sailing rigs, doesn't have its own website - you'll find contact details here.   For a modern evaluation of the rig by boat designer Michael Kasten see, http://http://www.kastenmarine.com/junk_rig.htm To Top   Copyright © Hong Kong Maritime Museum . All rights reserved.