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Dimitri: “You can build your entire boat in 1,500-2,000 hours for the hull, 1,500 hours for finishings and then you have a boat whose longevity is guaranteed for at least 50 years (if well maintained).”

Business card of a junk on the water: in the first place a rig quite traditional which is also a symbol of simplicity both materially and technically. The bamboos are imported, the deck hardware reduced to its simplest expression, 15 pulleys maximum, 75m2 of sails in total, the helmsman can bring his canvas down with one gesture in case of an incident. A centreboard, a saffron board, safety of navigation for a boat that is not destined for the competition but which made its apprenticeship at the hard school of typhoons a few thousand years ago.

Dimitri: “In the event of a sudden gust of wind, we can drop as many square metres as we want in a few seconds, the tests I have done these past days prove to me that in five seconds we can reduce by half the sail area and in ten seconds we bring everything down, which is a very important security aspect in this type of navigation.

Sailing junks are relatively wide at the waterline, have great stability of form and therefore have very little listing, very very little listing; so it makes for very comfortable boats.”