I found this on my desktop and it would be nice to know what ship the measurements are for just to give me a clue as to what I'm looking at. Does anyone know where I got it? It's named "Mastandriggingcalculations.jpg"
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I suddenly realized that I could chase down the name in Google and it looks like I got it from MSW.
https://modelshipworld.com/topic/27642-question-regarding-the-base-of-the-mast/
All it says there is that it's for a schooner with a 20' beam.
So the derived numbers don't apply to anything I'm doing. It is a nice chart though
https://modelshipworld.com/topic/27642-question-regarding-the-base-of-the-mast/
All it says there is that it's for a schooner with a 20' beam.
So the derived numbers don't apply to anything I'm doing. It is a nice chart though
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I have a copy of "Anatomy of the Victory". It looks like something out of that. There are many volumes on independent ships. Anything from Belladona, to the bounty. At the moment, I cannot remember the author. Surely someone here will.
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authors name is John Mckay
This is indeed a compilation of expected dimensions according to various authors on scantlings.
If I remember, all of those are Ratios taken from a particular constant number. It could be that they are using the "Beam" 20 foot as the constant. Therefore, like the main gaff diameter diameter is 20 / 3 then that number is multiplied by 5/8. However, I come up with a different dimension than they do. So, there must be more to this. I come up with 4.19 inches diameter. However, don't take my word for it.
I have a book titled Historic Ship Models by Wolfram zu Mondfeld (Sterling, New York). It contains a huge amount of general data including charts showing mast and spar proportional dimensions for ships of several different navies, and excellent details of rigging. Good source book for those who want everything to be authentic - that is on the basis that the information is accurate.
Spreadsheet (Excel)
Don't have Excel and for one or two uses I can't justify the cost.
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I would suggest you download OpenOffice. It's free and you can open office documents/spreadsheets etc with it. That's what I use.
use open source software LibreOffice, it is free.
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Thank you, done I did a search some time back for something that would open Excel docs. I struck out. As is usual for me I probably put in the wrong search parameters.
I did a search some time back for something that would open Excel docs. I struck out. As is usual for me I probably put in the wrong search parameters.
I think that is possible to obtain Excel file viewer for free, check on Microsoft site. You can download for free the OfficeSuite at officesuite.com.
Not a Microsoft product. Safer to use Open Office as mentioned above. Or LibreOffice as per Jim's post.