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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 623.86209032
EAN num: 9780486279602
ISBN number: 048627960X
Label: Dover Publications
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 320
Printing Date: March 14, 1994
Publishing house: Dover Publications
Sale Popularity Level: 156480
Studio: Dover Publications
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Describes and depicts in detail how 17th-century English, French, Dutch, and other European trading ships and warships were rigged, from the lower masts and bowsprit to the running rigging of the topsails and topgallants. Over 350 fine line drawings illustrate every rigging detail. 25 halftones.
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Ship rigging with the ship modeler in mind.
You need this book if you build square rigged ship models.
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This book was not what I expected. It is rife with great information about the rigging of ships, and is highly descriptive. This book is not for the novice ship builder or new ship modeler not intimately familiar with the structure of a sailing ship. The full ship plates showing all the rigging are very old-school and the size of the images makes it nearly impossible to interpret. Overall, the historical accuracy of the descriptive text is great, but if you are looking for a user-friendly book for illustrations on how to rig a ship or model you may need to look for other titles to compliment this text.
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Maybe more for the ship model builder than for the naval historian, unless you are planning to build a replica of a sailing vessel of the covered age as an experimental archeologist / historian.
Anderson is rather thorough and the illustrations are very helpful as well. A list of related literature would have been welcome.
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The bad: it's assumed you know the terms for all the rigging etc. Such terms as cro'jack, leeches, single whips, tackle pendants, etc are undefined in the text, and there is no glossary. The 24 plates, detailed drawing of models, drawing, rigging guides, etc, some with pages of keys, are all so small to be virtually useless. The book would need to be several times larger, with plates extending over many pages, to be able to differentiate the various lines shown. No guide is given showing a generic sail plan (I'm used to a course, lower top, upper top, top gallant; a different method of naming sails than in this book). I found google a necessary accomniant...
The good: In a dry language, there is a detailed explanation of every line, where it starts, goes, and ends; rough timelines of when various nations felt the need to completely change how that line ran; discussions of various ships, estimates of how accurate various sources are. You will find more than enough material to rig most ships from this time period.
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In another review, I said that one needed 3 books as a foundation for the hobby of model ship building. Oops, I was wrong. This is number 4!
Since I'm building a model of the Mayflower (1620), this is the book that has all the answers for all the questions I have. From mast tapering, angles, and length, to rigging hints and methods. This is the square riggers handbook. There is a ton of information, yes covering 1600-1625 period ships. Although there is more for the later part of the title, not to fear, the early part of the title is very well covered.
Despite the hard to read (and messy) illustrations, and weak reductions of original materials, the content of the book requires it get a 5-star rating. Even the dated language doesn't matter. Move past that, and the knowledge is abundant.
If you're not a modeler, and a fan of square rigged sailing vessels, then this is the book to learn how they operated. Very thorough in it's coverage of all the aspects of the vessel's rigging. You can almost feel the ropes in your hands.
So I'm sorry to say, you'll need this book too in your collection... Don't delay.....
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