The Art of Rigging (Dover Maritime)

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		The Art of Rigging (Dover Maritime)
		The Art of Rigging (Dover Maritime)

"Few, today, can realize how important was the art of rigging a ship and reeving her gear in the days just old when all aloft was wood and hemp; or how great the part it has played in the building of Empire." — Introduction.
Although mastery of the art of rigging is no longer required on board today's ships, legions of serious model ship builders who wish to rig their ships correctly need to learn the art in miniature. This book is widely considered the best manual ever produced on rigging the sailing ship. It is based on the extensively revised and updated 1848 edition prepared by Captain George Biddlecombe, a Master in the Royal Navy and former merchant seaman. The book is divided into five parts:
The First Part contains an alphabetical explanation of terms and phrases used in rigging. The Second Part consists of directions for the performance of operations incidental to rigging and preparing it on shore, with a table of the comparative strength of chain and rope. The Third Part contains the progressive method of rigging ships. The Fourth Part contains a description of reeving the running rigging and bending the sails in addition to the rigging of brigs, yachts, and small vessels. The Fifth Part comprises tables of the quantities and dimensions of the standing and running rigging of ships, brigs, fore-and-aft schooners, and cutters, with the species, size, and number of blocks, hearts, dead-eyes, etc.
Serious modelists, naval historians, armchair skippers — any sailing buff — will want to own a copy of The Art of Rigging. Complete and wonderfully clear, it is now available in its first inexpensive paperback edition. It belongs in every maritime library.

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Generally informative; Biddlecombe gave a useful source book with definitions of things nautical in the age of sail. Alphabetical index near the front and chapter contents lists are helpful in searching out nautical terms. Graphics are disappointing. For example, p.64, Plate IX, one can deduce which is the "Main Stay" using the process of elimination and common sense, but even with a strong magnifier it is impossible to find item number 13 among the ratlines in the ship profile illustration. Profiles of other ships to identify categories are okay since the key details are large, e.g., three masts or two. Knots and deck fittings, splices and pulleys are all covered descriptively.

Tis book is a bit small in the diagrams magnification is needed to read the numbers on the diagrams. However this book is a treasure if you want to know or refer to the names of these lines and what they are used for.it is a treasure. If you are a scale model shipwright you will be able to understand what the to lines are. This book is written in ship lore language and is hard understand without using the dictionary. However it is a great reference especially for model ship building.

This book was a big disappointment. The printing quality is so poor that the index numbers on the drawings are unreadable! I purchased this just out of curiosity, not model building need, but it's not even suitable for that. The drawings are obviously reprints and it is simply not possible to read the reference numbers on the drawing.

Money thrown away.

H. Kane

When you haven't been to sea in a few years it brings to mind all that you have forgot and the phrases you used and when i read the phrase crusty old shell back i had to smile. I have been a shell back sense 1957.

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