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There have been several mentions of available research literature and potentially relevant treatises contemporary to the Renaissance in northwest Europe. With appologies to some, following is a fairly lengthy set of resources (note there may be some duplication between the two lists - they are tagged for topic areas, and some or most fit multiple subjects).  Again, this is a sample. I have not included my Naval Architecture and Shipbuilding collection, though some of these are in either or both of those subject collections.
 
List the First is primarily related to the low countries, although some other regions may have snuck in.
Adams, J., Holk, A.F. van and Maarleveld, T.J. (1990) Dredgers and archaeology: shipfinds from the Slufter. Alphen aan den Rijn (Archeologie onder water : onderzoeksrapport, 2). Available at: https://www.academia.edu/919874/Dredgers_and_Archaeology._Shipfinds_from_the_Slufter (Accessed: 13 May 2015).

Bender, J. (2014) Dutch Warships in the Age of Sail, 1600-1714: Design, Construction, Careers, and Fates. Barnsley, SYorkshire: Naval Institute Press.

Bruijn, J.R. (2017) The Dutch Navy of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Oxford: Liverpool University Press (Research in Maritime History, 45). Available at: http://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/books/isbn/9781786948908.

van Duivenvoorde, W. van (2012) ‘Chapter 34: Use of Pine Sheathing on Dutch East India Company Ships’, in N. Günsenin (ed.) Between Continents: Proceedings of the twelfth International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology, Istanbul 2009, ISBSA 12, pp. 241–251. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/2276273/Chapter_34_Use_of_Pine_Sheathing_on_Dutch_East_India_Company_Ships_in_N._G%C3%BCnsenin_ed._Between_Continents_Proceedings_of_the_twelfth_International_Symposium_on_Boat_and_Ship_Archaeology_Istanbul_2009_ISBSA_12_pp._241_251 (Accessed: 19 March 2015).

van Duivenvoorde, W. van (2015) Dutch East India Company Shipbuilding: The Archaeological Study of Batavia and Other Seventeenth-Century VOC Ships. College Station: Texas A&M University Press.

van Duivenvoorde, W. van (2017) ‘(2009). More Than Just Bits of Hull: Expensive oak, laminate construction, and goat hair: new insights on "Batavia"'s archaeological hull remains. Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis 28.2:59–68 and 72–73.’, Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis 28.2:59–68 and 72–73. [Preprint]. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/2280418/_2009_._More_Than_Just_Bits_of_Hull_Expensive_oak_laminate_construction_and_goat_hair_new_insights_on_Batavia_s_archaeological_hull_remains._Tijdschrift_voor_Zeegeschiedenis_28.2_59_68_and_72_73 (Accessed: 4 January 2017).

Gardiner, R. and Unger, R.W. (eds) (1994) Cogs, caravels, and galleons: the sailing ship, 1000-1650. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press (Conway’s history of the ship).

Guy, R. (2012) First Spaces Of Colonialism: The Architecture Of Dutch East India Company Ships. PhD Dissertation. Cornell. Available at: https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/29468 (Accessed: 15 August 2021).

Hocker, F. (2013) ‘Review - Nicolaes Witsen and Shipbuilding in the Dutch Golden Age’, The Mariner’s Mirror, 99(3), pp. 359–361. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00253359.2013.792595.

Holk, A.F.L. van (2021) ‘Innovation, institutions and migration: transfer of technology in Dutch shipbuilding, 500-1700’, Archaeonautica. L’archéologie maritime et navale de la préhistoire à l’époque contemporaine, (21), pp. 33–40. Available at: https://doi.org/10.4000/archaeonautica.754.

Hoving, A.J. (2012) Nicolaes Witsen and shipbuilding in the Dutch Golden Age. 1st ed. College Station: Texas A&M University Press (Ed Rachal Foundation nautical archaeology series).

Hoving, A.J. (2014) 17th century Dutch merchant ships: text, photos and plans for the ship modeler. Florence, OR: SeaWatch Books. Available at: http://www.seawatchbooks.com/114003.

Jaeger, W. (2001) Die niederländische Jacht im 17. Jahrhundert: eine technisch-historische Dokumentation. Bielefeld: Verlag für Regionalgeschichte.

Jong, J. de (2010) Standvastigheid & verwachting : a historical and philosophical inquiry into standardization and innovation in design and production of the VOC retourschip during the 18th century. info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis. University of Twente. Available at: http://essay.utwente.nl/66547/ (Accessed: 24 April 2015).

Koot, G.M. (2016) the Dutch Republic and Britain: The Making of a European World Economy: Home. Available at: http://www1.umassd.edu/euro/welcome.cfm (Accessed: 3 November 2016).

Maarleveld, T.J. (2013) ‘Early Modern Merchant Ships, Nicolaes Witsen and a Dutch-Flush Index’, International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 42(2), pp. 348–357. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/1095-9270.12022.

Maarleveld, T.J. (2017) ‘The Aanloop Molengat site (Wadden Sea, the Netherlands) and Europe anno 1635.The historical interpretation of a strategic cargo.’, in J. Gawronski, A. van Holk, and J. Schokkenbroek (eds) Ships And Maritime Landscapes. Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology, Amsterdam 2012. Barkhuis, pp. 113–119. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/34251783/The_Aanloop_Molengat_site_Wadden_Sea_the_Netherlands_and_Europe_anno_1635_The_historical_interpretation_of_a_strategic_cargo (Accessed: 2 August 2022).

O’Grada, C. and Kelly, M. (2014) Speed Under Sail, 1750-1850. SSRN Scholarly Paper. Rochester, NY: Social Science Research Network. Available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=2412955 (Accessed: 15 February 2015).

Preston, R.A. (1950) ‘To Outsail the Dutch’, The Mariner’s Mirror, 36(4), pp. 322–336. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00253359.1950.10657617.

Rålamb, Å.C. (1691) Skeps Byggerij eller Adelig Öfnings Tionde Tom Stockholm 1691. Sjöhistoriska museet. Available at: http://www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/Shipbuilding/Ralamb(1691).html. Page images available at https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=Skeps+Byggerij&title=Special:MediaSearch&go=Go&type=image

Reehorst, K.P. ter (1850) The mariner’s and merchant’s polyglot technical dictionary of upwards of five thousand nautical, steam, and ship-building terms, commercial and scientific, in ten different languages, ... with a precise explanatory key to the pronunciation of these languages, and a comparative table of the money, weights and measures of sea ports. London : Williams and Northgate ... Available at: http://archive.org/details/gri_33125012932121 (Accessed: 11 April 2015).

Reinders, R. (1991) Carvel construction technique: skeleton-first, shell-first: fifth International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology, Amsterdam 1988. Edited by P. Kees. Oxford: Oxbow Books (Oxbow monograph, 12). Available at: //catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/002647582.

Roscam, H. (1603) Dutch ships ram galleys (Halve Maene overvaart een galei op 3 oktober 1602. Ook wel gezien als een afbeelding van de Slag bij Sluis van 26 mei 1603). Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Scheepsstrijd_op_de_Zeeuwse_stromen,_slag_bij_Sluis_26_mei_1603.jpg (Accessed: 7 October 2016).

Sewel, W. (1699) A compendious guide to the Low-Dutch language : containing the most necessary and essential grammar-rules ... Korte wegwyzer der nederduytsche taal ... Printed for the widdow of S. Swart. Available at: http://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3558608. May be useful in translating some of the older treatises.

Stevin, S. (1586) De Beghinselen des Waterwichts. Inde druckerye van Christoffel Plantijn, by Françoys van Raphelinghen. Available at: https://books.google.com/books?id=r288AAAAcAAJ.

Unger, R.W. (1973) ‘Dutch Ship Design in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries’, Viator, 4, pp. 387–412. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1484/J.VIATOR.2.301656.

Unger, R.W. (1978) Dutch shipbuilding before 1800: ships and guilds. Assen: Van Gorcum (Aspects of economic history.2). Available at: http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000736872 (Accessed: 13 March 2015).

Unger, R.W. (2011) ‘Dutch nautical sciences in the golden age: the portuguese influence’, E-journal of Portuguese History, 9(2), pp. 68–83.

Verweij, J., Waldus, W. and Holk, A.F.L.V. (2012) ‘Continuity and change in Dutch shipbuilding’, Journal of Archaeology in the Low Countries, 4(1), pp. 65–93.

Witsen, N. (1671a) Aeloude en hedendaegsche scheeps-bouw en bestier. t’ Amsterdam : By Casparus Commelijn, Broer en Jan Appelaer, Boeck-verkoopers. Available at: http://archive.org/details/gri_33125008247716 (Accessed: 9 March 2015).

Witsen, N. (1671b) Nicolaas Witsen, Aaloude en hedendaagsche scheeps-bouw en bestier · dbnl. Available at: http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/wits008arch01_01/ (Accessed: 9 March 2015).

Witsen, N.C. (1690) Architectura navalis et reginem nauticum. [Amsterdam, Graphic]. Available at: http://archive.org/details/bub_gb_XfA3AQAAMAAJ (Accessed: 24 November 2016).

Yk (Ijk), C. van (1697) De nederlandsche scheeps-bouw-konst open gestelt : vertoonende naar wat regel, of evenredenheyd, in Nederland meest alle scheepen werden gebouwd : mitsgaders masten, zeylen, ankers, en touwen, enz. daar aan gepast : soo suit de schriften van ouder, als jonger bouw-meesters, als ook by eygen ondervindinge, tot nut van alle jonge bouw-meesters en knechten, als ook uitreeders en liefhebbers van scheepen. Available at: https://archive.org/details/gri_33125012921124 (Accessed: 11 April 2015).


List the Second is a broader survey of academic research related to the design of vessels or the reconstruction of wrecks.
Adams, J. and Rönnby, J. (eds) (2013a) Interpreting shipwrecks: maritime archaeological approaches. Southampton: Highfield Press (Southampton Archaeology Monographs New Series, 4). Available at: https://www.academia.edu/31175211/Adams_J_and_R%C3%B6nnby_J_ed_Interpreting_Shipwrecks_Maritime_Archaeological_Approaches.

Adams, J. and Rönnby, J. (2013b) ‘One of his Majesty’s “Beste Kraffwells”: the wreck of an early carvel-built ship at Franska Stenarna, Sweden’, International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 42(1), pp. 103–117. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-9270.2012.00355.x.

Adams, J.R. (2013) A Maritime Archaeology of Ships: Innovation and Social Change in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. 2nd Revised ed. edition. Oxford, UK ; Oakville, CT: Oxbow Books.

Alexiou, K. (2011) Two 16th century ships: their hull form and performance. Master’s Thesis. Maritime Archaeology Programme. Maritime Archaeology Programme University of Southern Denmark. Available at: http://www.maritimearchaeology.dk/downloads/MA%20Thesis_Alexiou.pdf (Accessed: 2 April 2015).

Anderson, R.C. (1934) ‘The Bursledon Ship’, The Mariner’s Mirror, 20(2), pp. 158–170. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00253359.1934.10655746.

Barker, R. (1988) ‘“Many May Peruse Us”: Ribbands, Moulds and Models in the Dockyards’, Revista da Universidade de Coimbra, XXXIV, pp. 539–559.

Bass, G.F. (ed.) (1974) A history of seafaring based on underwater archaeology. 1. Omega ed. London: Futura Publ (An Omega book).

Bellabarba, S. (1993) ‘The Ancient Methods of Designing Hulls’, The Mariner’s Mirror, 79(3), pp. 274–292. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00253359.1993.10656457.

Bellabarba, S. (1996) ‘The Origins of the Ancient Methods of Designing Hulls: A Hypothesis’, The Mariner’s Mirror, 82(3), pp. 259–268. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00253359.1996.10656602.

Bellamy, M. (1997) Danish naval administration and shipbuilding in the reign of Christian IV (1596-1648). PhD Thesis. University of Glasgow. Available at: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1383/1/1997bellamyphd.pdf (Accessed: 1 March 2015).

Blue, L.K., Hocker, F.M. and Englert, A. (eds) (2006) Connected by the sea: proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology, Roskilde 2003. International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology, Oxford: Oxbow. Available at: https://books.google.com/books?id=kLzNDQAAQBAJ.

Bondioli, M. (2003a) ‘The Arsenal of Venice and the Art of Building Ships’, in C. Beltrame (ed.) Boats, Ships and Shipyards. Atti del IX International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology. Oxford: Oxbow, pp. 10–13. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/37935615/BONDIOLI_Mauro_The_Arsenal_of_Venice_and_the_Art_of_Building_Ships (Accessed: 14 July 2019).

Bondioli, M. (2003b) ‘The Art of Designing and Building Venetian Galleys from the 15th to the 16th Century’, in Boats, Ships and Shipyards. Atti del IX International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology. Oxford: Oxbow, pp. 222–227. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/37935593/BONDIOLI_Mauro_The_Art_of_Designing_and_Building_Venetian_Galleys_from_the_15th_to_the_16th_Century (Accessed: 14 July 2019).

Breen, C. and Forsythe, W. (eds) (2013) ACUA Underwater Archaeology Proceedings 2013. Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology. Available at: https://www.lulu.com/shop/advisory-council-for-underwater-archaeology/acua-underwater-archaeology-proceedings-2013/paperback/product-1wvq92rw.html (Accessed: 25 October 2022).

Castro, F. (2008) ‘In Search of Unique Iberian Ship Design Concepts’, Historical Archaeology, 42(2), pp. 63–87.

Cook, G.D., Horlings†, R. and Pietruszka, A. (2016) ‘Maritime Archaeology and the Early Atlantic Trade: research at Elmina, Ghana’, International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 45(2), pp. 370–387. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/1095-9270.12180.

Crumlin-Pedersen, O. (1998) ‘A new centre for maritime archaeology in Denmark.’, Archaeonautica, 14(1), pp. 327–332. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3406/nauti.1998.1226.

Damianidis, K. (2018) ‘The Use of Ribbands in the Recent Shipbuilding Tradition’, Archaeonautica. L’archéologie maritime et navale de la préhistoire à l’époque contemporaine, (20), pp. 183–194. Available at: https://doi.org/10.4000/archaeonautica.571.

Davis, J.S. (no date) The Problems Involved in Reconstruction of the Original Hull Shape of a 14 th Century Venetian Galley. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/36020087/The_Problems_Involved_in_Reconstruction_of_the_Original_Hull_Shape_of_a_14_th_Century_Venetian_Galley (Accessed: 20 August 2019).

Duivenvoorde, W. van (2015) ‘The Use of Copper and Lead Sheathing in VOC Shipbuilding’, International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 44(2), pp. 349–361. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/1095-9270.12118.

Eriksson, N. (2010) ‘Between Clinker and Carvel : Aspects of hulls built with mixed planking in Scandinavia between 1550 and 1990’, Archaeologia Baltica, 14(2), pp. 77–84.

Eriksson, N. (2017) ‘Eriksson, N. 2017. Riksäpplet (1676): resurrecting a neglected wreck’, Baltic and beyond Change and continuity in shipbuilding: Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology Gdańsk 2015, National Maritime Museum, pp. 39-48., pp. 39–48.

Gawronski, J., Holk, A. van and Schokkenbroek, J. (2017) Ships and maritime landscapes: Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology, Amsterdam 2012. Barkhuis.

Green, J. (2001) ‘The archaeological contribute to the knowledge of the extra-European shipbuilding at the time of the Medieval and Modern Iberian-Atlantic tradition’, in Proceedings. International Symposium on Archaeology of Medieval and Modern Ships, pp. 63–102. Available at: http://www.patrimoniocultural.pt/media/uploads/trabalhosdearqueologia/18/.

Greenhill, B. (ed.) (1970) Aspects of the history of wooden shipbuilding. Greenwich, London: National Maritime Museum.

Greenhill, B. and Morrison, J.S. (1995) The archaeology of boats & ships: an introduction. Annapolis, Md: Naval Institute Press.

Helfman, N., Nishri, B. and Cvikel, D. (2018) ‘A Comparative Structural Analysis of Shell-first and Frame-based Ship Hulls of the 1st Millennium AD’, Naval Engineering Journal, 130(1), pp. 91–103.

Hocker, F.M. (1991) The Development of a Bottom-based Shipbuilding Tradition in Northwestern Europe and the New World. Texas A & M University. Available at: http://anthropology.tamu.edu/papers/Hocker-PhD1991.pdf.

Hocker, F.M. and Ward, C.A. (eds) (2004) The Philosophy of Shipbuilding: Conceptual Approaches to the Study of Wooden Ships. 1st ed. College Station: Texas A&M University Press (Ed Rachal Foundation nautical archaeology series).

Hornell, J. (1935) ‘CONSTRUCTIONAL PARALLELS in SCANDINAVIAN and OCEANIC BOAT CONSTRUCTION’, The Mariner’s Mirror, 21(4), pp. 411–427. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00253359.1935.10658736. Hornell, J. (1948) ‘The Sources of the Clinker and Carvel Systems in British Boat Construction’, The Mariner’s Mirror, 34(4), pp. 238–254. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00253359.1948.10655783. Loewen, B. (1997a) ‘Bayonne 1419. Lapstraking and moulded frames in the same hull?’, The Mariner’s Mirror, 83(3), pp. 328–331. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00253359.1997.10656652.

Loewen, B. (1997b) ‘The Master-mould-shipbuilding tool of the Renaissance’, International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 26(2), pp. 169–172.

Loewen, B. (1998) ‘Recent Advances in Ship History and Archaeology, 1450-1650: Hull Design, Regional Typologies and Wood Studies’, Material Culture Review / Revue de la culture matérielle, 48(1), pp. 45–55.

Loewen, B. (2001) ‘The structures of Atlantic shipbuilding in the 16th century. An archaeological perspective’, in F. Alves (ed.) Proceedings of the International Symposium on Archaeology of Medieval and Modern Ships of Iberian-Atlantic Tradition. Lisbon: Instituto Português de Arqueologia, pp. 241–258. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/5767340/The_structures_of_Atlantic_shipbuilding_in_the_16th_century._An_archaeological_perspective (Accessed: 2 March 2015).

Logan, M. (2013) A study of a 16th-century wooden vessel from the Netherlands. Master’s Thesis. Maritime Archaeology Programme. Maritime Archaeology Programme University of Southern Denmark. Available at: http://www.maritimearchaeology.dk/downloads/Logan%202013.pdf (Accessed: 2 April 2015).

McCarthy, M. (1983) ‘Ships fastenings (A preliminary study)’, Bulletin of the Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology, The, 7(1), p. 1.

McCarthy, M. (1996) ‘Ships fastenings: a preliminary study revisited’, International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 25(3–4), pp. 177–206. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-9270.1996.tb00770.x.

McGrail, S. (2015) ‘Hornell, Hasslöf and Boatbuilding Sequences’, International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 44(2), pp. 382–387. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/1095-9270.12116.

Mitchell, A.M. (1994) A Comparison of Wood use in Eighteenth-Century Vessels. Thesis. East Carolina Univeristy. Available at: https://thescholarship.ecu.edu/handle/10342/6639 (Accessed: 8 December 2020).

Moser, Jason D. (2011) ‘The Art and Mystery of Shipbuilding’: An Archaeological Study of Shipyards, Shipwrights and Shipbuilding in Somerset County, Maryland 1660-1900. Electronic Theses, Treatises and Dissertations. Florida State University. Available at: http://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/etd/index.64.html#year_2011 (Accessed: 15 February 2015).

Murray, C. and Manders, M. (2007) ‘The interpretation of the Anglo-Dutch East-Indiaman Avondster ship’s construction’, in Excavation Report of the VOC-ship Avondster (1659). Centre for International Heritage Activities, Special Publication No. 1, pp. 131–153. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/21298400/The_interpretation_of_the_Anglo-Dutch_East-Indiaman_Avondster_ship_s_construction (Accessed: 2 December 2019).

Myers, M. (1987) The Evolution of Hull Design in Sixteenth-Century English Ships of War. Thesis: MA. Texas A&M University. Available at: http://nautarch.tamu.edu/Theses/pdf-files/Myers-MA%201987.pdf (Accessed: 18 March 2015).

Nowacki, H. and Valleriani, M. (eds) (2003) Shipbuilding practice and ship design methods from the Renaissance to the 18th century: a workshop report. Preprint 245. [Berlin]: Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Available at: https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/Preprints/P245.PDF.

Oertling, T. (2001) ‘The concept of the Atlantic vessel’, in Proceedings. International Symposium on Archaeology of Medieval and Modern Ships, pp. 233–240. Available at: http://www.patrimoniocultural.pt/media/uploads/trabalhosdearqueologia/18/.

Olaberria, J.P. (2013) Hull-shape design in antiquity: how do archaeological ship remains enhance our understanding of hull-shape design in antiquity? A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the degree of Master of Arts in Maritime Archaeology by taught course. University of Southampton. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/9533850/Hull_Design_in_Antiquity._Masters_Dissertation (Accessed: 28 February 2015).

Olaberria, J.-P. (2014) ‘The Conception of Hull Shape by Shell-builders in the Ancient Mediterranean’, International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 43(2), pp. 351–368. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/1095-9270.12068.

Ossowski, W. (2008) ‘The ship’s construction and equipment’, in The Shipwreck General Carleton, 1785. Gdansk: Badania Archeologiczne Centralnego Muzeum, pp. 131–150. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/2324215/The_ship_s_construction_and_equipment_In_W_Ossowski_Ed_The_Shipwreck_General_Carleton_1785_Badania_Archeologiczne_Centralnego_Muzeum_Morskiego_t_I_p_131_150 (Accessed: 30 September 2022).

Pevny, T. (2011) ‘Historic Naval Architecture Practices as a Guide to Shipwreck Reconstruction: The La Belle Example’, in A. Catsambis, B. Ford, and D.L. Hamilton (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Maritime Archaeology (Chapter 12) edited by Alexis Catsambis, Ben Ford & Donny L. Hamilton, pp. 267–285. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/42997341/Historic_Naval_Architecture_Practices_as_a_Guide_to_Shipwreck_Reconstruction_The_La_Belle_Example (Accessed: 25 July 2020).

Pomey, P. (2004) ‘Principles and Methods of Construction in Ancient Naval Architecture’, in F.M. Hocker and C.A. Ward (eds) The philosophy of shipbuilding: conceptual approaches to the study of wooden ships. 1st ed. College Station: Texas A&M University Press (Ed Rachal Foundation nautical archaeology series), pp. 25-. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/20268228/Principles_and_Methods_of_Construction_in_Ancient_Naval_Architecture_full_version_replacing_and_cancelling_the_previous_one_.

Riess, W. (1987) The Ronson ship:  The study of an eighteenth-century merchantman excavated in Manhattan, New York in 1982. PhD Dissertation. University of New Hampshire. Available at: https://scholars.unh.edu/dissertation/1527.

Rose, S. (2011) ‘Digs and Documents: Gaps in our knowledge of medieval shipping’, The Mariner’s Mirror, 97(1), pp. 63–76. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00253359.2011.10709032.

Steffy, J.R. (1975) ‘Nautical Archeology: Construction Techniques of Ancient Ships’, Naval Engineers Journal, 87(5), pp. 85–91. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-3584.1975.tb03773.x.

Steffy, R. (1995) ‘Ancient Scantlings: The Projection and Control of Ancient Hull Shapes’, in H. Tzalas (ed.) Tropis III (Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Ship Construction in Antiquity). Hellenic Institute for the Preservation of Nautical Tradition, pp. 417–428. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/12867722/1995._Ancient_Scantlings_The_Projection_and_Control_of_Ancient_Hull_Shapes._Tropis_III_Proceedings_of_the_3rd_International_Symposium_on_Ship_Construction_in_Antiquity_H._Tzalas_ed._Athens_417-428 (Accessed: 4 January 2017).

Steffy, R. (2001) ‘The development of Ancient and Medieval Shipbuilding Techniques’, in Proceedings. International Symposium on Archaeology of Medieval and Modern Ships, pp. 49–62. Available at: http://www.patrimoniocultural.pt/media/uploads/trabalhosdearqueologia/18/.

Unger, R.W. (1973) ‘Dutch Ship Design in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries’, Viator, 4, pp. 387–412. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1484/J.VIATOR.2.301656.

Unger, R.W. (2011) ‘Dutch nautical sciences in the golden age: the portuguese influence’, E-journal of Portuguese History, 9(2), pp. 68–83.

Unger, R.W. (2018) ‘Shipbuilding, Knowledge, Technology And Heritage Portuguese Shipbuilding & Low Countries : Practices. Iberian Influences In The Dutch Golden Age’, in A. Polónia and F.C. Domingues (eds) Shipbuilding. Knowledge and Heritage. CITCEM, pp. 159–176. Available at: https://ler.letras.up.pt/site/default.aspx?qry=id024id1648&sum=sim (Accessed: 26 October 2022).

Verweij, J., Waldus, W. and Holk, A.F.L.V. (2012) ‘Continuity and change in Dutch shipbuilding’, Journal of Archaeology in the Low Countries, 4(1), pp. 65–93.

Zwick, D. (2014) ‘Conceptual Evolution in Ancient Shipbuilding: An Attempt to Reinvigorate a Shunned Theoretical Framework’, in J. Adams and J. Rönnby (eds) Interpreting Shipwrecks — Maritime Archaeological Approaches, pp. 46–71. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/6640960/Conceptual_Evolution_in_Ancient_Shipbuilding_An_Attempt_to_Reinvigorate_a_Shunned_Theoretical_Framework (Accessed: 8 March 2015).

 
 

While this specific set of questions is worthy of discussion, your diatribe attacking Ab Hoving is lacking substance. His credentials are strong, with many published academic works in addition to his books. 29 years restoring museum models would involve broad familiarity with archival material. While you may disagree with his conclusions, that does not make them wrong.
 
Could you build a boat based on Witsen? Yes, with some assumptions regarding missing or strange information.  Does his treatise meet modern standards? Heck no - he could use a good editor!

I was envisioning this key first step:  the garboard and first belt of planking that would then be fixed in place using the floor timbers - as having its shape determined by the bending of the boards.  A model can mimic what is thought to be shape of the original.  Using it to predict   what could have been allowed by full size planking pushed to its extreme    is not likely to be a good technique.   I see that assumptions and fudge factors come into play with a model.  I was being somewhat absolute about the input for a true experiment in possible hull conformations allowed by the original methods.  
I see models as being excellent at replication.  I see them as being limited as being predictors of the behavior of full size materials.
 
Shipbuilding in the Age of Sail was entirely a series of one off experiments that had no real controls.  The bad practices were obvious enough.  Getting a hull with maximum efficiency was something that was only chased. 

Teach me to do a quick search on my phone!

Teach me to do a quick search on my phone!

https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-79839

There have been several mentions of available research literature and potentially relevant treatises contemporary to the Renaissance in northwest Europe. With appologies to some, following is a fairly lengthy set of resources (note there may be some duplication between the two lists - they are tagged for topic areas, and some or most fit multiple subjects).  Again, this is a sample. I have not included my Naval Architecture and Shipbuilding collection, though some of these are in either or both of those subject collections.
 
List the First is primarily related to the low countries, although some other regions may have snuck in.
Adams, J., Holk, A.F. van and Maarleveld, T.J. (1990) Dredgers and archaeology: shipfinds from the Slufter. Alphen aan den Rijn (Archeologie onder water : onderzoeksrapport, 2). Available at: https://www.academia.edu/919874/Dredgers_and_Archaeology._Shipfinds_from_the_Slufter (Accessed: 13 May 2015).

Bender, J. (2014) Dutch Warships in the Age of Sail, 1600-1714: Design, Construction, Careers, and Fates. Barnsley, SYorkshire: Naval Institute Press.

Bruijn, J.R. (2017) The Dutch Navy of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Oxford: Liverpool University Press (Research in Maritime History, 45). Available at: http://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/books/isbn/9781786948908.

van Duivenvoorde, W. van (2012) ‘Chapter 34: Use of Pine Sheathing on Dutch East India Company Ships’, in N. Günsenin (ed.) Between Continents: Proceedings of the twelfth International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology, Istanbul 2009, ISBSA 12, pp. 241–251. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/2276273/Chapter_34_Use_of_Pine_Sheathing_on_Dutch_East_India_Company_Ships_in_N._G%C3%BCnsenin_ed._Between_Continents_Proceedings_of_the_twelfth_International_Symposium_on_Boat_and_Ship_Archaeology_Istanbul_2009_ISBSA_12_pp._241_251 (Accessed: 19 March 2015).

van Duivenvoorde, W. van (2015) Dutch East India Company Shipbuilding: The Archaeological Study of Batavia and Other Seventeenth-Century VOC Ships. College Station: Texas A&M University Press.

van Duivenvoorde, W. van (2017) ‘(2009). More Than Just Bits of Hull: Expensive oak, laminate construction, and goat hair: new insights on "Batavia"'s archaeological hull remains. Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis 28.2:59–68 and 72–73.’, Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis 28.2:59–68 and 72–73. [Preprint]. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/2280418/_2009_._More_Than_Just_Bits_of_Hull_Expensive_oak_laminate_construction_and_goat_hair_new_insights_on_Batavia_s_archaeological_hull_remains._Tijdschrift_voor_Zeegeschiedenis_28.2_59_68_and_72_73 (Accessed: 4 January 2017).

Gardiner, R. and Unger, R.W. (eds) (1994) Cogs, caravels, and galleons: the sailing ship, 1000-1650. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press (Conway’s history of the ship).

Guy, R. (2012) First Spaces Of Colonialism: The Architecture Of Dutch East India Company Ships. PhD Dissertation. Cornell. Available at: https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/29468 (Accessed: 15 August 2021).

Hocker, F. (2013) ‘Review - Nicolaes Witsen and Shipbuilding in the Dutch Golden Age’, The Mariner’s Mirror, 99(3), pp. 359–361. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00253359.2013.792595.

Holk, A.F.L. van (2021) ‘Innovation, institutions and migration: transfer of technology in Dutch shipbuilding, 500-1700’, Archaeonautica. L’archéologie maritime et navale de la préhistoire à l’époque contemporaine, (21), pp. 33–40. Available at: https://doi.org/10.4000/archaeonautica.754.

Hoving, A.J. (2012) Nicolaes Witsen and shipbuilding in the Dutch Golden Age. 1st ed. College Station: Texas A&M University Press (Ed Rachal Foundation nautical archaeology series).

Hoving, A.J. (2014) 17th century Dutch merchant ships: text, photos and plans for the ship modeler. Florence, OR: SeaWatch Books. Available at: http://www.seawatchbooks.com/114003.

Jaeger, W. (2001) Die niederländische Jacht im 17. Jahrhundert: eine technisch-historische Dokumentation. Bielefeld: Verlag für Regionalgeschichte.

Jong, J. de (2010) Standvastigheid & verwachting : a historical and philosophical inquiry into standardization and innovation in design and production of the VOC retourschip during the 18th century. info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis. University of Twente. Available at: http://essay.utwente.nl/66547/ (Accessed: 24 April 2015).

Koot, G.M. (2016) the Dutch Republic and Britain: The Making of a European World Economy: Home. Available at: http://www1.umassd.edu/euro/welcome.cfm (Accessed: 3 November 2016).

Maarleveld, T.J. (2013) ‘Early Modern Merchant Ships, Nicolaes Witsen and a Dutch-Flush Index’, International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 42(2), pp. 348–357. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/1095-9270.12022.

Maarleveld, T.J. (2017) ‘The Aanloop Molengat site (Wadden Sea, the Netherlands) and Europe anno 1635.The historical interpretation of a strategic cargo.’, in J. Gawronski, A. van Holk, and J. Schokkenbroek (eds) Ships And Maritime Landscapes. Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology, Amsterdam 2012. Barkhuis, pp. 113–119. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/34251783/The_Aanloop_Molengat_site_Wadden_Sea_the_Netherlands_and_Europe_anno_1635_The_historical_interpretation_of_a_strategic_cargo (Accessed: 2 August 2022).

O’Grada, C. and Kelly, M. (2014) Speed Under Sail, 1750-1850. SSRN Scholarly Paper. Rochester, NY: Social Science Research Network. Available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=2412955 (Accessed: 15 February 2015).

Preston, R.A. (1950) ‘To Outsail the Dutch’, The Mariner’s Mirror, 36(4), pp. 322–336. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00253359.1950.10657617.

Rålamb, Å.C. (1691) Skeps Byggerij eller Adelig Öfnings Tionde Tom Stockholm 1691. Sjöhistoriska museet. Available at: http://www.bruzelius.info/Nautica/Shipbuilding/Ralamb(1691).html. Page images available at https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=Skeps+Byggerij&title=Special:MediaSearch&go=Go&type=image

Reehorst, K.P. ter (1850) The mariner’s and merchant’s polyglot technical dictionary of upwards of five thousand nautical, steam, and ship-building terms, commercial and scientific, in ten different languages, ... with a precise explanatory key to the pronunciation of these languages, and a comparative table of the money, weights and measures of sea ports. London : Williams and Northgate ... Available at: http://archive.org/details/gri_33125012932121 (Accessed: 11 April 2015).

Reinders, R. (1991) Carvel construction technique: skeleton-first, shell-first: fifth International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology, Amsterdam 1988. Edited by P. Kees. Oxford: Oxbow Books (Oxbow monograph, 12). Available at: //catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/002647582.

Roscam, H. (1603) Dutch ships ram galleys (Halve Maene overvaart een galei op 3 oktober 1602. Ook wel gezien als een afbeelding van de Slag bij Sluis van 26 mei 1603). Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Scheepsstrijd_op_de_Zeeuwse_stromen,_slag_bij_Sluis_26_mei_1603.jpg (Accessed: 7 October 2016).

Sewel, W. (1699) A compendious guide to the Low-Dutch language : containing the most necessary and essential grammar-rules ... Korte wegwyzer der nederduytsche taal ... Printed for the widdow of S. Swart. Available at: http://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3558608. May be useful in translating some of the older treatises.

Stevin, S. (1586) De Beghinselen des Waterwichts. Inde druckerye van Christoffel Plantijn, by Françoys van Raphelinghen. Available at: https://books.google.com/books?id=r288AAAAcAAJ.

Unger, R.W. (1973) ‘Dutch Ship Design in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries’, Viator, 4, pp. 387–412. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1484/J.VIATOR.2.301656.

Unger, R.W. (1978) Dutch shipbuilding before 1800: ships and guilds. Assen: Van Gorcum (Aspects of economic history.2). Available at: http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000736872 (Accessed: 13 March 2015).

Unger, R.W. (2011) ‘Dutch nautical sciences in the golden age: the portuguese influence’, E-journal of Portuguese History, 9(2), pp. 68–83.

Verweij, J., Waldus, W. and Holk, A.F.L.V. (2012) ‘Continuity and change in Dutch shipbuilding’, Journal of Archaeology in the Low Countries, 4(1), pp. 65–93.

Witsen, N. (1671a) Aeloude en hedendaegsche scheeps-bouw en bestier. t’ Amsterdam : By Casparus Commelijn, Broer en Jan Appelaer, Boeck-verkoopers. Available at: http://archive.org/details/gri_33125008247716 (Accessed: 9 March 2015).

Witsen, N. (1671b) Nicolaas Witsen, Aaloude en hedendaagsche scheeps-bouw en bestier · dbnl. Available at: http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/wits008arch01_01/ (Accessed: 9 March 2015).

Witsen, N.C. (1690) Architectura navalis et reginem nauticum. [Amsterdam, Graphic]. Available at: http://archive.org/details/bub_gb_XfA3AQAAMAAJ (Accessed: 24 November 2016).

Yk (Ijk), C. van (1697) De nederlandsche scheeps-bouw-konst open gestelt : vertoonende naar wat regel, of evenredenheyd, in Nederland meest alle scheepen werden gebouwd : mitsgaders masten, zeylen, ankers, en touwen, enz. daar aan gepast : soo suit de schriften van ouder, als jonger bouw-meesters, als ook by eygen ondervindinge, tot nut van alle jonge bouw-meesters en knechten, als ook uitreeders en liefhebbers van scheepen. Available at: https://archive.org/details/gri_33125012921124 (Accessed: 11 April 2015).


List the Second is a broader survey of academic research related to the design of vessels or the reconstruction of wrecks.
Adams, J. and Rönnby, J. (eds) (2013a) Interpreting shipwrecks: maritime archaeological approaches. Southampton: Highfield Press (Southampton Archaeology Monographs New Series, 4). Available at: https://www.academia.edu/31175211/Adams_J_and_R%C3%B6nnby_J_ed_Interpreting_Shipwrecks_Maritime_Archaeological_Approaches.

Adams, J. and Rönnby, J. (2013b) ‘One of his Majesty’s “Beste Kraffwells”: the wreck of an early carvel-built ship at Franska Stenarna, Sweden’, International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 42(1), pp. 103–117. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-9270.2012.00355.x.

Adams, J.R. (2013) A Maritime Archaeology of Ships: Innovation and Social Change in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. 2nd Revised ed. edition. Oxford, UK ; Oakville, CT: Oxbow Books.

Alexiou, K. (2011) Two 16th century ships: their hull form and performance. Master’s Thesis. Maritime Archaeology Programme. Maritime Archaeology Programme University of Southern Denmark. Available at: http://www.maritimearchaeology.dk/downloads/MA%20Thesis_Alexiou.pdf (Accessed: 2 April 2015).

Anderson, R.C. (1934) ‘The Bursledon Ship’, The Mariner’s Mirror, 20(2), pp. 158–170. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00253359.1934.10655746.

Barker, R. (1988) ‘“Many May Peruse Us”: Ribbands, Moulds and Models in the Dockyards’, Revista da Universidade de Coimbra, XXXIV, pp. 539–559.

Bass, G.F. (ed.) (1974) A history of seafaring based on underwater archaeology. 1. Omega ed. London: Futura Publ (An Omega book).

Bellabarba, S. (1993) ‘The Ancient Methods of Designing Hulls’, The Mariner’s Mirror, 79(3), pp. 274–292. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00253359.1993.10656457.

Bellabarba, S. (1996) ‘The Origins of the Ancient Methods of Designing Hulls: A Hypothesis’, The Mariner’s Mirror, 82(3), pp. 259–268. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00253359.1996.10656602.

Bellamy, M. (1997) Danish naval administration and shipbuilding in the reign of Christian IV (1596-1648). PhD Thesis. University of Glasgow. Available at: http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1383/1/1997bellamyphd.pdf (Accessed: 1 March 2015).

Blue, L.K., Hocker, F.M. and Englert, A. (eds) (2006) Connected by the sea: proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology, Roskilde 2003. International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology, Oxford: Oxbow. Available at: https://books.google.com/books?id=kLzNDQAAQBAJ.

Bondioli, M. (2003a) ‘The Arsenal of Venice and the Art of Building Ships’, in C. Beltrame (ed.) Boats, Ships and Shipyards. Atti del IX International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology. Oxford: Oxbow, pp. 10–13. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/37935615/BONDIOLI_Mauro_The_Arsenal_of_Venice_and_the_Art_of_Building_Ships (Accessed: 14 July 2019).

Bondioli, M. (2003b) ‘The Art of Designing and Building Venetian Galleys from the 15th to the 16th Century’, in Boats, Ships and Shipyards. Atti del IX International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology. Oxford: Oxbow, pp. 222–227. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/37935593/BONDIOLI_Mauro_The_Art_of_Designing_and_Building_Venetian_Galleys_from_the_15th_to_the_16th_Century (Accessed: 14 July 2019).

Breen, C. and Forsythe, W. (eds) (2013) ACUA Underwater Archaeology Proceedings 2013. Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology. Available at: https://www.lulu.com/shop/advisory-council-for-underwater-archaeology/acua-underwater-archaeology-proceedings-2013/paperback/product-1wvq92rw.html (Accessed: 25 October 2022).

Castro, F. (2008) ‘In Search of Unique Iberian Ship Design Concepts’, Historical Archaeology, 42(2), pp. 63–87.

Cook, G.D., Horlings†, R. and Pietruszka, A. (2016) ‘Maritime Archaeology and the Early Atlantic Trade: research at Elmina, Ghana’, International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 45(2), pp. 370–387. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/1095-9270.12180.

Crumlin-Pedersen, O. (1998) ‘A new centre for maritime archaeology in Denmark.’, Archaeonautica, 14(1), pp. 327–332. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3406/nauti.1998.1226.

Damianidis, K. (2018) ‘The Use of Ribbands in the Recent Shipbuilding Tradition’, Archaeonautica. L’archéologie maritime et navale de la préhistoire à l’époque contemporaine, (20), pp. 183–194. Available at: https://doi.org/10.4000/archaeonautica.571.

Davis, J.S. (no date) The Problems Involved in Reconstruction of the Original Hull Shape of a 14 th Century Venetian Galley. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/36020087/The_Problems_Involved_in_Reconstruction_of_the_Original_Hull_Shape_of_a_14_th_Century_Venetian_Galley (Accessed: 20 August 2019).

Duivenvoorde, W. van (2015) ‘The Use of Copper and Lead Sheathing in VOC Shipbuilding’, International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 44(2), pp. 349–361. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/1095-9270.12118.

Eriksson, N. (2010) ‘Between Clinker and Carvel : Aspects of hulls built with mixed planking in Scandinavia between 1550 and 1990’, Archaeologia Baltica, 14(2), pp. 77–84.

Eriksson, N. (2017) ‘Eriksson, N. 2017. Riksäpplet (1676): resurrecting a neglected wreck’, Baltic and beyond Change and continuity in shipbuilding: Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology Gdańsk 2015, National Maritime Museum, pp. 39-48., pp. 39–48.

Gawronski, J., Holk, A. van and Schokkenbroek, J. (2017) Ships and maritime landscapes: Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology, Amsterdam 2012. Barkhuis.

Green, J. (2001) ‘The archaeological contribute to the knowledge of the extra-European shipbuilding at the time of the Medieval and Modern Iberian-Atlantic tradition’, in Proceedings. International Symposium on Archaeology of Medieval and Modern Ships, pp. 63–102. Available at: http://www.patrimoniocultural.pt/media/uploads/trabalhosdearqueologia/18/.

Greenhill, B. (ed.) (1970) Aspects of the history of wooden shipbuilding. Greenwich, London: National Maritime Museum.

Greenhill, B. and Morrison, J.S. (1995) The archaeology of boats & ships: an introduction. Annapolis, Md: Naval Institute Press.

Helfman, N., Nishri, B. and Cvikel, D. (2018) ‘A Comparative Structural Analysis of Shell-first and Frame-based Ship Hulls of the 1st Millennium AD’, Naval Engineering Journal, 130(1), pp. 91–103.

Hocker, F.M. (1991) The Development of a Bottom-based Shipbuilding Tradition in Northwestern Europe and the New World. Texas A & M University. Available at: http://anthropology.tamu.edu/papers/Hocker-PhD1991.pdf.

Hocker, F.M. and Ward, C.A. (eds) (2004) The Philosophy of Shipbuilding: Conceptual Approaches to the Study of Wooden Ships. 1st ed. College Station: Texas A&M University Press (Ed Rachal Foundation nautical archaeology series).

Hornell, J. (1935) ‘CONSTRUCTIONAL PARALLELS in SCANDINAVIAN and OCEANIC BOAT CONSTRUCTION’, The Mariner’s Mirror, 21(4), pp. 411–427. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00253359.1935.10658736. Hornell, J. (1948) ‘The Sources of the Clinker and Carvel Systems in British Boat Construction’, The Mariner’s Mirror, 34(4), pp. 238–254. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00253359.1948.10655783. Loewen, B. (1997a) ‘Bayonne 1419. Lapstraking and moulded frames in the same hull?’, The Mariner’s Mirror, 83(3), pp. 328–331. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00253359.1997.10656652.

Loewen, B. (1997b) ‘The Master-mould-shipbuilding tool of the Renaissance’, International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 26(2), pp. 169–172.

Loewen, B. (1998) ‘Recent Advances in Ship History and Archaeology, 1450-1650: Hull Design, Regional Typologies and Wood Studies’, Material Culture Review / Revue de la culture matérielle, 48(1), pp. 45–55.

Loewen, B. (2001) ‘The structures of Atlantic shipbuilding in the 16th century. An archaeological perspective’, in F. Alves (ed.) Proceedings of the International Symposium on Archaeology of Medieval and Modern Ships of Iberian-Atlantic Tradition. Lisbon: Instituto Português de Arqueologia, pp. 241–258. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/5767340/The_structures_of_Atlantic_shipbuilding_in_the_16th_century._An_archaeological_perspective (Accessed: 2 March 2015).

Logan, M. (2013) A study of a 16th-century wooden vessel from the Netherlands. Master’s Thesis. Maritime Archaeology Programme. Maritime Archaeology Programme University of Southern Denmark. Available at: http://www.maritimearchaeology.dk/downloads/Logan%202013.pdf (Accessed: 2 April 2015).

McCarthy, M. (1983) ‘Ships fastenings (A preliminary study)’, Bulletin of the Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology, The, 7(1), p. 1.

McCarthy, M. (1996) ‘Ships fastenings: a preliminary study revisited’, International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 25(3–4), pp. 177–206. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-9270.1996.tb00770.x.

McGrail, S. (2015) ‘Hornell, Hasslöf and Boatbuilding Sequences’, International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 44(2), pp. 382–387. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/1095-9270.12116.

Mitchell, A.M. (1994) A Comparison of Wood use in Eighteenth-Century Vessels. Thesis. East Carolina Univeristy. Available at: https://thescholarship.ecu.edu/handle/10342/6639 (Accessed: 8 December 2020).

Moser, Jason D. (2011) ‘The Art and Mystery of Shipbuilding’: An Archaeological Study of Shipyards, Shipwrights and Shipbuilding in Somerset County, Maryland 1660-1900. Electronic Theses, Treatises and Dissertations. Florida State University. Available at: http://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/etd/index.64.html#year_2011 (Accessed: 15 February 2015).

Murray, C. and Manders, M. (2007) ‘The interpretation of the Anglo-Dutch East-Indiaman Avondster ship’s construction’, in Excavation Report of the VOC-ship Avondster (1659). Centre for International Heritage Activities, Special Publication No. 1, pp. 131–153. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/21298400/The_interpretation_of_the_Anglo-Dutch_East-Indiaman_Avondster_ship_s_construction (Accessed: 2 December 2019).

Myers, M. (1987) The Evolution of Hull Design in Sixteenth-Century English Ships of War. Thesis: MA. Texas A&M University. Available at: http://nautarch.tamu.edu/Theses/pdf-files/Myers-MA%201987.pdf (Accessed: 18 March 2015).

Nowacki, H. and Valleriani, M. (eds) (2003) Shipbuilding practice and ship design methods from the Renaissance to the 18th century: a workshop report. Preprint 245. [Berlin]: Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Available at: https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/Preprints/P245.PDF.

Oertling, T. (2001) ‘The concept of the Atlantic vessel’, in Proceedings. International Symposium on Archaeology of Medieval and Modern Ships, pp. 233–240. Available at: http://www.patrimoniocultural.pt/media/uploads/trabalhosdearqueologia/18/.

Olaberria, J.P. (2013) Hull-shape design in antiquity: how do archaeological ship remains enhance our understanding of hull-shape design in antiquity? A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the degree of Master of Arts in Maritime Archaeology by taught course. University of Southampton. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/9533850/Hull_Design_in_Antiquity._Masters_Dissertation (Accessed: 28 February 2015).

Olaberria, J.-P. (2014) ‘The Conception of Hull Shape by Shell-builders in the Ancient Mediterranean’, International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 43(2), pp. 351–368. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/1095-9270.12068.

Ossowski, W. (2008) ‘The ship’s construction and equipment’, in The Shipwreck General Carleton, 1785. Gdansk: Badania Archeologiczne Centralnego Muzeum, pp. 131–150. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/2324215/The_ship_s_construction_and_equipment_In_W_Ossowski_Ed_The_Shipwreck_General_Carleton_1785_Badania_Archeologiczne_Centralnego_Muzeum_Morskiego_t_I_p_131_150 (Accessed: 30 September 2022).

Pevny, T. (2011) ‘Historic Naval Architecture Practices as a Guide to Shipwreck Reconstruction: The La Belle Example’, in A. Catsambis, B. Ford, and D.L. Hamilton (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Maritime Archaeology (Chapter 12) edited by Alexis Catsambis, Ben Ford & Donny L. Hamilton, pp. 267–285. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/42997341/Historic_Naval_Architecture_Practices_as_a_Guide_to_Shipwreck_Reconstruction_The_La_Belle_Example (Accessed: 25 July 2020).

Pomey, P. (2004) ‘Principles and Methods of Construction in Ancient Naval Architecture’, in F.M. Hocker and C.A. Ward (eds) The philosophy of shipbuilding: conceptual approaches to the study of wooden ships. 1st ed. College Station: Texas A&M University Press (Ed Rachal Foundation nautical archaeology series), pp. 25-. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/20268228/Principles_and_Methods_of_Construction_in_Ancient_Naval_Architecture_full_version_replacing_and_cancelling_the_previous_one_.

Riess, W. (1987) The Ronson ship:  The study of an eighteenth-century merchantman excavated in Manhattan, New York in 1982. PhD Dissertation. University of New Hampshire. Available at: https://scholars.unh.edu/dissertation/1527.

Rose, S. (2011) ‘Digs and Documents: Gaps in our knowledge of medieval shipping’, The Mariner’s Mirror, 97(1), pp. 63–76. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00253359.2011.10709032.

Steffy, J.R. (1975) ‘Nautical Archeology: Construction Techniques of Ancient Ships’, Naval Engineers Journal, 87(5), pp. 85–91. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-3584.1975.tb03773.x.

Steffy, R. (1995) ‘Ancient Scantlings: The Projection and Control of Ancient Hull Shapes’, in H. Tzalas (ed.) Tropis III (Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Ship Construction in Antiquity). Hellenic Institute for the Preservation of Nautical Tradition, pp. 417–428. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/12867722/1995._Ancient_Scantlings_The_Projection_and_Control_of_Ancient_Hull_Shapes._Tropis_III_Proceedings_of_the_3rd_International_Symposium_on_Ship_Construction_in_Antiquity_H._Tzalas_ed._Athens_417-428 (Accessed: 4 January 2017).

Steffy, R. (2001) ‘The development of Ancient and Medieval Shipbuilding Techniques’, in Proceedings. International Symposium on Archaeology of Medieval and Modern Ships, pp. 49–62. Available at: http://www.patrimoniocultural.pt/media/uploads/trabalhosdearqueologia/18/.

Unger, R.W. (1973) ‘Dutch Ship Design in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries’, Viator, 4, pp. 387–412. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1484/J.VIATOR.2.301656.

Unger, R.W. (2011) ‘Dutch nautical sciences in the golden age: the portuguese influence’, E-journal of Portuguese History, 9(2), pp. 68–83.

Unger, R.W. (2018) ‘Shipbuilding, Knowledge, Technology And Heritage Portuguese Shipbuilding & Low Countries : Practices. Iberian Influences In The Dutch Golden Age’, in A. Polónia and F.C. Domingues (eds) Shipbuilding. Knowledge and Heritage. CITCEM, pp. 159–176. Available at: https://ler.letras.up.pt/site/default.aspx?qry=id024id1648&sum=sim (Accessed: 26 October 2022).

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While this specific set of questions is worthy of discussion, your diatribe attacking Ab Hoving is lacking substance. His credentials are strong, with many published academic works in addition to his books. 29 years restoring museum models would involve broad familiarity with archival material. While you may disagree with his conclusions, that does not make them wrong.
 
Could you build a boat based on Witsen? Yes, with some assumptions regarding missing or strange information.  Does his treatise meet modern standards? Heck no - he could use a good editor!

If the model was built the same way as the actual ship was built,  a free floating shell  - the result would probably be unreliable at best.  The material - wood - is the same - more or less.  The bending and other physical characteristics would not scale.   Since Nature's math is Calculus, the differences due to scale would be more than a linear proportion.  Trying to use the technique at scale as a predictor of full size behavior  would probably yield a failure.
 
If the full size shape was drawn, and scaled,  and molds or frames made to that shape,  these would be able to provide for a model that Was an accurate representation.
 
England was using plans at this time -  the method used was one of various derivatives of whole molding.  The example with three frames and the stern structure is what was used to get the mathematical data on paper in whole molding.  The batten part that came next was art and finesse for getting the lines.  Those preliminary whole molding plans were probably enough to get the bureaucracy off their backs.  Rather than try to get wood to match some planed shape, they took what the wood allowed them.  Their battens were full sized on the ways, instead of slivers on a drawing board.   It would be constant frustration for the customer that was a bureaucracy wanting cookie cutter predictability.   It is frustration for those who wish to replicate   in miniature   what they built .
 
Whole molding uses very basic geometric tools - straight lines and arcs.  These guild based shipwrights were probably doing basically the same things.  Instead of committing it to paper before they started,  they probably did it either in their heads, or did drawings that were one off for each part and that were discarded after use.   My bet is that the plans version of whole molding came from someone breaking the rules and committing to paper what the guild had been doing for quite a while.   It just took a Royal to get too involved in the actual work for someone to gain profit by revealing guild secrets.
 
For the actual ships at the time and in the place at issue here,  we have no evidence that significantly sophisticated plans were used.  The problem is:  it is necessary to have these sort of plans to build a ship model that is an actual 'model'.   It is a great gift from Ab Hoving and to our advantage that a way has come to us to generate plans for these otherwise lost vessels that way produces a reasonable approximation of their form and shape..  
 
About Ab Hoving's place in this:  To repeat myself, the skills and mental prospective required to be a pathfinder is different from the telephone sanitizers who follow on to tighten things up,  apply the polish, and make a big deal of deficiencies the original path did not include.  Pathfinders deserve honors and respect.  They are rare and cannot be willed into existence.  The education system is geared to produce an endless supply of telephone sanitizers.  Their contributions are obviously useful but are only incremental.

While this specific set of questions is worthy of discussion, your diatribe attacking Ab Hoving is lacking substance. His credentials are strong, with many published academic works in addition to his books. 29 years restoring museum models would involve broad familiarity with archival material. While you may disagree with his conclusions, that does not make them wrong.
 
Could you build a boat based on Witsen? Yes, with some assumptions regarding missing or strange information.  Does his treatise meet modern standards? Heck no - he could use a good editor!

While this specific set of questions is worthy of discussion, your diatribe attacking Ab Hoving is lacking substance. His credentials are strong, with many published academic works in addition to his books. 29 years restoring museum models would involve broad familiarity with archival material. While you may disagree with his conclusions, that does not make them wrong.
 
Could you build a boat based on Witsen? Yes, with some assumptions regarding missing or strange information.  Does his treatise meet modern standards? Heck no - he could use a good editor!

Philemon, I think Ab Hoving deserves much credit and respect. It is easy "behind the keyboard" to take a man down or attack his reputation and I think it is really shamefull reading through your posts how you seem to "dislike" Ab and show him no respect. It doesn't matter to me if you agree or dissagree with his research, just show the proper respect and be professional. He is a very kind and helpfull man with a lot of knowledge on 17th Dutch shipbuilding. I'm not even going there to debate his knowledge nor his many books written on the subject.
 
To answer your initial question, and this is more to the one who are interested on the subject. 
The Dutch didn't make drawings in the 17th century because they had no real need for it! The knowledge was passed down from master to apprentice who worked for years to learn the trade and there were strict rules within the guild. Talk to the master shipwright Willem Vos who build the Batavia replica. He did it the "old school" way and he did it the right way without cutting corners. He researched all the known books and he "listned" to his old collegues in those books. He stated that The Dutch shipwrights of that day used "known proportions" to build a ship. So if you know the length, you know the width, the heigth, the size of the gunports etc etc. Everything was build by these " golden rules". He said, you really need to dig in and think in the way they did then in these old days. The answers were in these books if you understand them. If you know the standards, rules and point of views. It took him a lot of years to understand and learn these rules so to say. If you look at the old "public tenders" of the day, those measurements were always stated so the master shipwright knew how the ship should be build. 

The shell first method called in Dutch "vlakbouw methode" or "schaalbouw methode" was an art and a real craftmanship that sadly has been lost because ships of the late 18th century were build differently, so new knowledge was more necessary above the old. Not all the Dutch shipyards used this method those days, some put some of the mayor frames up first. However, the same calculations, proportions and measurements were used. These were the golden rules everyone followed. There is a known example where these "golden rules" were not followed and the result is known as the Vasa story, we all heard of! Even Willem Vos stated that some of the Vasa's constructions for example the gratings are done different than the Dutch did it those days. That's because the local craftmanship used different methods even when the master shipwright was a Dutch person.
 
So to me it's okay to debate and argue the Dutch building style, how they did it and so on, but respect the ones who did their research and have a solid track record. Don't make it personal, keep it professional please!
 
regards,
Peter

Philemon,
 
Published works in the most major European languages on designing (or shaping) the hull bodies in the early modern era, be it graphical or non-graphical, are already abundant, and it is simply not possible to repeat their content here. It is neither practical to list all or even most of them.
 
However, one of the best quite detailed modern summaries on this theme, which you may try, are provided by Jean Boudriot in the chapter “Méthodes de conception” in his book “Les vaisseaux de 50 et 64 canons” and in the paper “La conception des vaisseaux royaux sous l’Ancien Régime” (Neptunia 169, 1988). There are many, many other available sources, works and evidence, and there is no doubt that ships of all sizes, built to the skeleton method principle, could be created using non-graphical methods, i.e. without scale line plans made before the actual construction.
 
And in the shell method of construction, as described by Witsen, even trying to work to any such prepared line plans would be no-go. In other words, shell method of construction and scale line plans are simply not compatible. Hence the importance of the shape of the rabbet, which governed the run of the planks. To some extent the shape of the rabbet was also important in the frame-led method described by van Yk, as there were too few pre-erected frames to govern the run of the garboard strakes properly.
 
The most enlightening work on the actual building practices in the early modern era is perhaps the manual by Edmund Bushnell, “The Compleat Ship-Wright”, published in 1664. While partly graphical method for defining the hull body is presented in this manual (meaning the author applies only some elements of scale line plans), with some ingenuity and known at the time transformation tools/procedures, the described method of shaping the actual wooden moulds and frame parts can be also implemented to the non-graphical methods, directly on the shipyard ground.
 
Best,
Waldemar

Yes, Philemon, you are being met with hostility because you are leading with hostility.  At best, to dismiss Ab’s work on Witsen’s pinas ship is mis-placed.  At worst, it is self-serving, yet it doesn’t serve you well here.  The question of who you are, I think, is relevant when you are tearing someone down to make your point.
 
Ab Hoving took the opaque work of Witsen and made it coherent and intelligible.  He spent 14 years on the endeavor, and it resulted in a fully coherent ship model, and his work now also exists as a virtual treatise that takes you inside the ship and across every square inch. 
 
 
I think that all counts as quite a significant accomplishment.  Ab Hoving is not a personal friend of mine.  I have had a few exchanges with him on the various forums, where I have found him to be informative and gracious with his time and insight to myself and other model makers.
 
It is not my point that authors of books on any subject are wholly un-assailable.  You are certainly within your rights to ask questions and seek answers.  However, to pretend that one man’s life’s work is a pile of garbage because it does not neatly support your thinking is just unfair.
 
Ask yourself - would you even be studying Witsen and Van Yk, in this manner, if Hoving hadn’t written his book?

While this specific set of questions is worthy of discussion, your diatribe attacking Ab Hoving is lacking substance. His credentials are strong, with many published academic works in addition to his books. 29 years restoring museum models would involve broad familiarity with archival material. While you may disagree with his conclusions, that does not make them wrong.
 
Could you build a boat based on Witsen? Yes, with some assumptions regarding missing or strange information.  Does his treatise meet modern standards? Heck no - he could use a good editor!

One must understand the era during which these treatises were prepared before passing judgement on the source. Witsen was documenting in a written form what was primarily institutional knowledge among the shipwrights of the time. Not so different from the Newton manuscript or, for that matter, the many 18th century works such as Steel or the various encyclopedia entries. Citing of references is a much more modern concept. Is Michael of Rhodes any less credible for not citing the more ancient sources?
 
 

One must understand the era during which these treatises were prepared before passing judgement on the source. Witsen was documenting in a written form what was primarily institutional knowledge among the shipwrights of the time. Not so different from the Newton manuscript or, for that matter, the many 18th century works such as Steel or the various encyclopedia entries. Citing of references is a much more modern concept. Is Michael of Rhodes any less credible for not citing the more ancient sources?
 
 

This thread has dormant gone dormant, but wanted to let you know I have a book coming out on the schooner/brig USS Enterprise, called The First Enterprize.   You can find out more at my publishers site: https://tactical16.com/deborah-spencer-author/
 
 

One must understand the era during which these treatises were prepared before passing judgement on the source. Witsen was documenting in a written form what was primarily institutional knowledge among the shipwrights of the time. Not so different from the Newton manuscript or, for that matter, the many 18th century works such as Steel or the various encyclopedia entries. Citing of references is a much more modern concept. Is Michael of Rhodes any less credible for not citing the more ancient sources?
 
 

One must understand the era during which these treatises were prepared before passing judgement on the source. Witsen was documenting in a written form what was primarily institutional knowledge among the shipwrights of the time. Not so different from the Newton manuscript or, for that matter, the many 18th century works such as Steel or the various encyclopedia entries. Citing of references is a much more modern concept. Is Michael of Rhodes any less credible for not citing the more ancient sources?
 
 

After reading with much interest, this has been very educational.
 
 
Philemon1948
"Is this true? Were drawings not used before they started building a ship in the seventeenth century?"
The Dutch were well known for not putting anything on paper.  The master shipwright had it all in his head and they taught the younger shipwright and he taught it to the next on and so on. Nothing on paper so when you read through books lets say the book "17th Century Dutch Merchant Ships by Ab Hoving and Cor Emke" , drawings/plans are from paintings, edgings, maritime archeological excavations and contracts from Witsen and other authors.  Nothing like "we got plans from this and that.  Unlike other Western European nations that put everything on paper and some of this has survived to this day.
 
This makes it more difficult for the present model ship builder to built a model because it never is exact. Reading through these 2 books I have mastered the art of reading and understanding contracts.  It did take several years and help from Ab Hoving.
 
– A. Hoving, A. Lemmers, In tekening gebracht. De achttiende-eeuwse scheepsbouwers en hun ontwerpmetoden, 2001,
– A. Hoving, Nicolaes Witsen and Shipbuilding in the Dutch Golden Age, 2012.
 
I figured if I master understanding contracts I can built any Dutch Ship.
 
Philemon1948
"The flute and the pinas represent two different ship types although they tend to have many features in common".
On the site of De VOCsite : Scheepstypen van de VOC  it discusses a "Hekboot", which is the best of both worlds. The bottom part of the ship is a Fluit and the top part is a Pinas.  Dutch quote "Het is een soort mengvorm met als onderschip de kenmerken van een fluit en de bovenbouw van een pinas".
 
Just my 2 cents.
Marcus

Having been a Gunners Mate aboard the Ammen DD 527, this Johnston video adds to my respect of the Fletcher Class Destroyers and their crews. Considered it an honor to have served with WW2 and Korean War Veterans getting close to retirement. “Rocks and Shoals Navy”, is no more.  

Fascinating analysis of the perfectly preserved USS Johnston shipwreck, showing multiple Japanese shell hits, and a missing stern section.
 
 
 
 

https://www.bonhams.com/auction/27375/lot/53/duhamel-du-monceau-henri-louis-elemens-de-larchitecture-navale-ou-traite-pratique-de-la-construction-des-vaisseaux-paris-ca-jombert-1758/
 
For anyone interested in this era. A second edition copy.

The two pieces may or may not be related.  The Mary Rose (1509) exhibits some unique components of the frames that seem to not represent the Mediterranean skeleton- first construction. Barker has some interesting, and well documented, analysis concerning design methods, as do Steffy and Unger which acknowledge the similarity between northern shipbuilding and Mediterranean, but also note the important differences.
 
Being able to utilize mathematical and graphic methods to fit curves onto sections derived through other design systems is interesting, but coincidence does not equate to causality.
 
I think there are some intriquing aspects to what you are doing, however discounting the work of previous researchers, some with hands-on experience with vessels such as the Mary Rose, presents challenges. The question becomes one of cart and horse, whether the design methods known to be in use at the time period in question or the building systems were the determinant of shape, since drawings were not known to be used.