Though the word “junk” traditionally refers to Chinese wooden sailboats dating back to the Han Dynasty – still used in Hong Kong’s natural harbors and islands – these days it’s a catch-all phrase that ...

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Sitting in Eddie Fong’s living room in Palo Alto is a 55-year-old model of a traditional Chinese junk boat. Its presence symbolizes a series of unlikely events that brought Fong, now 81, away from his ...

“Six Spaniards who plan to sail a Hongkong junk back to Barcelona on Christmas Day arrived here by Air France from Paris yesterday. The leader is Jose Maria Tey, 39-year-old Barcelona merchant,” ...

Obvious in the aftermath of Hurricanes Ian and Nicole was that boat owners took it on the chin. In Southwest and Northeast Florida, the two hurricanes wiped out thousands of boats with high winds, ...

You may not know what a junk boat is, but odds are high that you’ve seen one. The junk boat — tall and wooden with its three bright-red sails glowing in the Victoria Harbor sunlight — is one of the ...