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Gaff Rig Page - Running Rigging Controversy

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I'm just at the stage of rigging my scale 1:100 Bluenose II from Billing Boats. This will be the 1st rigging I've ever done. I'm trying to understand the "diagrammatic instructions" that came with the kit - the written instructions are effectively silent on this process. I've been reading Frank M...

Spanish galleon drawing: While it refers to galizabra (frigate-like ship), the armament is heavy, boards are high; definitely no galizabra. 2 gun decks plus a fighting deck, 6 stern and bow chasers each, a low-lying beak and a fore and aft-castle exemplify the heaviest Spanish galleons. Note: the number of chasers, indicative of a fighting style far from the later line-ahead, the location of the bowsprit above the castle to provide a firing line, an aft-castle far from the mainmast an a full-rig

Modelling Ships in Blender: A guide I’ve been interested in the age of sail my whole life - pirates, galleons, the East India Company, but the ships

Rigging | Sail Ship Rigging

Rigging is a significant part of building a model ship. Modelers Central guide you through the importance it adds to the beauty of your finished model.

Photo about the rigging and rope details of a tall sailing ship at the scheepvaartmuseum (Maritime Museum) in Amsterdam. Image of details, ropes, scheepvaartmuseum - 2442829

Text-Book of Seamanship - Part 4

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Time to start the ratlines now, I don't want to even know how many clove hitch knots I am going to have to tie !      ...

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Ben Meakins tries out some useful temporary DIY sail repair methods that will tide you over until you can get to a sailmaker

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Read "The Rigging of Ships in the Days of the Spritsail Topmast, 1600-1720" by R. C. Anderson available from Rakuten Kobo. For ship model-makers and students and enthusiasts of historic sailing ships, this generously illustrated book is essent...