The Art of Rigging: Containing an Explanation of Terms and Phrases and the Progressive Method of Rigging Expressly Adapted for Sailing ShipsAlthough 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. |
Contents
ALPHABETICAL EXPLANATION OF THE TERMS AND PHRASES USED IN RIGGING | 1 |
DIRECTIONS FOR THE PERFORMANCE OF OPERATIONS INCIDENTAL TO RIGGING AND FOR PREPARING IT ON SHORE | 39 |
PROGRESSIVE METHOD OF RIGGING SHIPS | 75 |
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Common terms and phrases
abaft anchor Backstays belays bight bitts Bobstay bolt-rope boom bowlines bowsprit Braces BRIG Bunt-Lines Buoy cable capstan Catharpins chain cleats clinches clue clue-lines collar cringle dead-eye deck double block downhauler eye spliced eye-bolt fall fast fastened Foot-ropes fore fore-mast fore-sail fore-stay fore-top-sail forecastle frapped futtock shrouds gaff GEAR AND BENDING girtlines half-hitch haul hawser head hitch hoist hole hook and thimble hove illustrations Inches inIn iron jib-boom Laniards lashed leading-part leads Length in Fathoms lower end lower yards main-mast Marline mast mast-head middle mizen Number outer end Outhauler Parral passed pendants Plate quarter-blocks Ratlines reef REEVING THE GEAR rope round Round Seizing rove runners RUNNING RIGGING sail secured served with spunyarn sheave sheave-hole Sheets ship single block slings Species Square-sail standing-part stay stay-sails Stoppers strands Sz.inIn tack Tackle is composed thimble spliced tight TONS top-mast top-sail trestle-trees turns upper vessel wormed yard-arm