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  1.    davyboy reacted to a post in a topic: Question re: Rigging Multiple Blocks at One Location
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    Each pendant or block should have an eye spliced in and fitted over the end of the yard arm. The inside one butts up against the yard arm cleat and the rest snug up close to the preceding one. The fittings usually went over the yardarm in a specific order, usually with the footrope being first over (most inboard) and then proceeding outward with the yard tackle pendant, brace pendant, topsail sheet block, and the lift block being the last (furthest outboard). Regards, Henry
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    Hi Glen, I know it's too late for this build, but you appear to be installing your blocks backwards. The hole for the tackle line should be closer to the top or strop eye end of the block. The hole represents where the line enters to go around a sheave that has its pin or axle in the middle of the block. The line should appear to pass on both sides almost the length of the block and around that imaginary sheave. Info for the next build. Regards, Henry
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    If you are feeling ambitious, The Ashley Book of Knots describes several ways to make up baggywrinkle. Picked apart rope yarns (thrums) are knotted around or through a line and packed together tightly. Winding the line around the article to to be protected completes the baggywrinkle. Regards, Henry
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    Congrats, That photo looks like it's of a real ship. Regards, Henry
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    Glen, The large yard in the first photo is a topmast yard. The lower yards are considerably larger in circumference and length. The gundeck section was built as a display and the crew sometimes conducts gun drills for the public. It stays out in the yard year round. Henry
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    Great question. I've never seen that one before. I have never seen a reference to the origin of rigols. The word itself is from Middle English. Its meaning is a gutter. Regards, Henry
  17. popeye2sea
    Glen, The drawing above is not wrong. The question is what to do with the tackles? Which way do they go? Straight down to the deck or to another block under the top. Constitution has hers rigged with a block under the top so that the tackles lead upwards from the yard. Then the single hauling part of each tackle comes down to the deck to be belayed at the foot of the mast or the fife rail. Regards, Henry
  18. popeye2sea
    For the jib sails, use a pendant with two legs seized to the clew of the sail. Each leg of the pendant takes a sheet. Another way to attach the pendant to the clew; middle the pendant and then pass the bight through the clew and then over the legs of the pendant. Cinch the bight up tight to the clew. The legs were often seized to the bight to prevent loosening. Regards, Henry
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    Glen, There are no rings used in the sling. There are simple eye splices that are seized or lashed together, end to end. Also, on Constitution the truss tackle pendants have a double block seized in and the tackle runs up to another double block seized to an eyebolt under the top before leading down to the deck. Regards, Henry
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    Sheet Bend. Regards, Henry
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    It should not be any great problem to pass the eye of the shrouds up through the lubber hole in the tops and then over the mast head before settling them down in the proper sequence over the bolsters. Regards, Henry
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    With the double block on top and the triple below there is really only one way to reeve the fall. The standing end of the fall is bent to a becket on the bottom of the double block. Reeve the fall through the blocks passing the line from outboard in on the triple block. The hauling part will pass through the third sheeve of the triple from outboard in and then finish by bringing the end of the fall up and hitch the end of the fall around the backstay, similar to a deadeye, expending however much hauling part you wish around the backstay and seizing in place. Regards, Henry
  30. popeye2sea
    Your hooks look fine. Gear up; your going to need hooks, too! Regards, Henry
  31. popeye2sea
    If it is to be taken as a list of actions it doesn't work grammatically. Beat to Quarters, Stow'd our hammocks, ________? in the tops, fill'd our Lockers. There is a verb missing. What happened in the tops? Regards, Henry
  32. popeye2sea
    For vertical ladders, if you mount the ladder so that it is off of the bulkhead with spacers, the rungs and sides become handholds. For inclined ladders, I have never once, in 24 years of naval service, gone down an inclined ladder backwards. That is a sure sign of a landlubber aboard ship. Vertical ladders, can only be traversed facing the ladder. BTW, ships do not have stairs. They have ladders. Regards, Henry

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