New England, USA Junket, being planned for September 8 – 10, 2017. All are invited!

The gathering will take place in the cove at Holbrook Island, outside of Castine, Maine, in Penobscot Bay. This is a well protected anchorage with good holding, a few first-come/first-served moorings, and peaceful wooded shoreline with public-access trails and well-maintained dinghy docks/floats. Just around the corner is the town of Castine and its harbor, with rental slips, moorings, restaurants, and the various other benefits of town.

We can get together for a day, or a weekend, for visiting, and for sailing on the gorgeous waters of upper Penobscot Bay. All are welcome!

If you might be interested, please contact me – your JRA "Committee Member without Portfolio" –  by replying here, or via e-mail at mwp1@junkrigassociation.org, and I will keep you updated with developments. Please feel free to pass this invitation along to whomever you think might be interested. This is not an "official" JRA event, but a gathering of like-minded friends, from within and outside of our organization here. There are no fees, and we are each, of course, responsible for our own well-being on and off the water.

Hoping to see a good crowd!

Shemaya

PS For those who are on Facebook, some of the organizing for this junket is going on in the relatively new junk rig Facebook group, International Junk Rig: Sailing Old and New, found here.

Thank you, Jonathan. Yes indeed!

Shemaya

The junket has been rescheduled to the weekend of the Sept 15th-17th. Shemaya has been contacting with folks who have expressed interest about this change of dates. Same beautiful and interesting location. The harbor is mostly surrounded by a 1300 acre sanctuary on both the island and mainland.  There's only one house and a fish shack visible down at on one end. Castine, strategically located south of the mouth of the Penobscot River has a storied history. It changed hand numerous times, occupied by the French, Dutch, British, and Colonists. There are the remains of two or three forts. It is also the home to Maine Maritime academy with their training ship State of Maine and their schooner and arctic voyager, the Bowdoin. Fog is even lees likely.

I, and I'm sure others attending, wish you could as well.

Shemaya, you and Phil are both very kind.  Good to hear that you've been off sailing - that's what we like to hear!  Your junket sounds as though it's going to be well-attended - I hope this will be the start of regular get-togethers in New England.  It's wonderful to hear that there's a group of junkies in touch with each other there.  It really does add an extra dimension of pleasure in one's own junk, to sail in company with others.