Recommend ships blogs for Rigging

[DaveBaxt]

I know this maybe a big ask but can anyone recommend any good ships blogs with step by step photos of rigging? Even better would be some instruction on how they approached the task? Best regards Dave

[allanyed]

Dave,

Yes a big ask, but an interesting idea.    Don't know of any blogs, but there are books that show  all the details one could ask for on rigging, from rope making to sail making with drawings and photos   Drawings are actually sometimes are better in explaining than photos, and  both can be found in some books.   One example is Lees Masting and Rigging which starts with masts, then yards, then standing rigging, then running rigging with a hundreds of drawings and dozens of photos.   It is period specific though, (1625-1860)  Chapelle gives a lot of detail on schooners, Anderson on  17th century ships ares two more examples.  Antscherl gives a ton of details on rigging and sail making but again is a bit period specific although the techniques  can be applied to many ships and other years.    

 

If there is a blog out there, this would be interesting to follow.  

  

Allan  

 

 

 

[DaveBaxt]

40 minutes ago, allanyed said:

Dave,

Yes a big ask, but an interesting idea.    Don't know of any blogs, but there are books that show  all the details one could ask for on rigging, from rope making to sail making with drawings and photos   Drawings are actually sometimes are better in explaining than photos, and  both can be found in some books.   One example is Lees Masting and Rigging which starts with masts, then yards, then standing rigging, then running rigging with a hundreds of drawings and dozens of photos.   It is period specific though, (1625-1860)  Chapelle gives a lot of detail on schooners, Anderson on  17th century ships ares two more examples.  Antscherl gives a ton of details on rigging and sail making but again is a bit period specific although the techniques  can be applied to many ships and other years.    

 

If there is a blog out there, this would be interesting to follow.  

  

Allan  

 

 

 

Thanks for the quick update Allan. I have bought a few books already but only one on rigging which is written by Lennarth Petersson. Although very good it is drawings only without any text and of one specific ship. I will take a look at the books you have mentioned and hopefully should be available in the UK. Best regards Dave

[amateur]

Depending on the period of your ship:

there is on MSW a quite extensive buildlog (not blog) on hms Vulture by Danny Vadas, showing quite detailed how he did the rigging, and there is Young America by Ed Tosti, giving a detailed desciption of a clipper-rigging.

There are also a number of youtubes available showing 'how to's' not of a complete rigging but of details: how to attach a block to yard, howto strop blocks, etc. Will look for the link.

 

Jan

Edited December 26, 2020 by amateur

[amateur]

Tom Lauria shows nice stuff (small boats, large scale) 

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC7JA3n2QuMoR2b68BzfxSoA/videos

 

And apart from a bunch of family video's that are not so interesting, this guy has some nice tutorials:

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC1Cio5JqAxvQ92-vlyJgsJQ/videos

 

Not on rigging, but 'wood only':

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCPfLMf2BV5PsI9m72Kqd8IQ/videos

 

And once you have seen all these, youtube will understand what you are looking for

 

Jan

Edited December 26, 2020 by amateur

[DaveBaxt]

22 hours ago, amateur said:

Tom Lauria shows nice stuff (small boats, large scale) 

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC7JA3n2QuMoR2b68BzfxSoA/videos

 

And apart from a bunch of family video's that are not so interesting, this guy has some nice tutorials:

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC1Cio5JqAxvQ92-vlyJgsJQ/videos

 

Not on rigging, but 'wood only':

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCPfLMf2BV5PsI9m72Kqd8IQ/videos

 

And once you have seen all these, youtube will understand what you are looking for

 

Jan

Thanks for some great suggestions and some good links. I will also have a look at the blogs you have suggested.