Thread: Chinese Junk Boat Plans

Why not try your local library?

When I was a lad living in NZ a bunch of young Kiwis went to Hong Kong and built (or had built) a pretty authentic chinese junk which they then sailed to Auckland. It sat on a mooring in Auckland harbour for years.

They wrote a book called the Voyage of the Golden Lotus. (BRIAN CLIFFORD, NEIL ILLINGWORTH). It was a good yarn, quite well illustrated as I recall.

I vaguely recall that there were outline plans in the back of the book that might get you started. (If you can find a copy of the book)

Here's one http://www.antiqbook.com/boox/dee/23514.shtml

I just googled Voyage of the Golden Lotus NZ

Hope this helps

Cheers

Howdy - I did a search at Amazon.

There are a number of books. Look down through this list - there are three pages to it. A lot of it is recreational reading - but there are some good references.

And the library of congress - search on chinese junk.
http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebr...&CNT=25&HIST=1

Have a further search through their catalogues
http://catalog.loc.gov/
Remember to choose "keyword" in the menu if searching for words.

There is not a huge amount of material on Junks available as far as designs go - I've looked in the past - there are not even many books that are accurate.

These people might be worth emailing.
http://www.chinaseas.org

Remember that you are not looking for a plan for a 30ft traditional junk, but trying to locate someone who might know something or have drawings or something.

List of books on the Cheap Pages
http://www.friend.ly.net/~dadadata/junks.html

There are lines plans taken of a model here
http://www.friend.ly.net/~dadadata/junk/sampan.html
To me the lines look quite authentic - the model was definitely made by someone who knew junks well.

Now you have days of work - but I can almost promise you it is EXTREMELY unlikely there will be a plan of just the boat that you need. Most traditional boatbuilding didn't use plans at all - so you depend on someone coming along to measure a historical boat - usually for academic reasons.

If you want to BUILD a junk and there is no plan then you may have to collect information yourself and then go to a competent designer to fill in the details - that would probably cost in the range of $5000-$8000 (that's about the ball park of what I would charge you - lots of hours designing lots of little bits - plus research to keep it all authentic - and to make sure it floats the right side up).

Best Regards
Michael Storer

MIK

You may want to try asking on this site http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/


Kelvin