Santa Sofia by Ferrus Manus - Heller - 1/75 - PLASTIC - Another theoretical reconstruction.

[Louie da fly]

Good observation, mate. Here's a somewhat better resolution copy of the same picture.

 

And some others from the same series that might be of help.

 

   

 

Steven

[Ferrus Manus]

The bent sail and yard, and how they will be displayed on-ship:

I did something a little differently than usual. Usually, what I do is take a small piece of line, thread it through the hole in the sail, and tie it together at the top of the yard. This time, I put a knot between the sail and yard, and another one on top of the yard. The idea of this was to prevent the top of the sail from bunching up at the yard, and it worked about as well as I expected. 

I dunked all of the ropes needed for this sail in a brown paint/water mixture, and you can see some of them behind the stern castle. 

[Ferrus Manus]

Regarding gaskets: 

I have never seen permanent gaskets affixed to any yard on any Medieval ship in any of the artworks I have seen. However, from evidence, I could probably give you a good idea of how sails were taken in on a Medieval lateener. Realistically, lateeners and square-riggers were probably pretty similar when it came to taking in sail. 

I know of a couple of good pictures of men tying up sail, here is one of them:

Taking in sail on deck: 

 

Another good shot of a furled sail: 

My guess is that a sail was lowered to the deck and men would take short lengths of rope, climb on top of the yard, gather the sail by hand, and tie it up with the ropes. This would probably have been gradually replaced by permanently affixed gaskets. 

Edited 5 hours ago by Ferrus Manus

[Ferrus Manus]

I got the halyard and parrel lines rigged today. 

I based the parrel off of this image, which I'm assuming is from some Italian research paper: 

Yes Steven, I've been stealing your sources. 

Here's the parrel: 

And on deck, the halyard and parrel lanyards, blocks and knights: 

 

The sail provides excellent shade for the crew, protecting the men aboard from the blazing Mediterranean sun. 

The ship so far: