Santisima Trinidad by Occre Rigging help

[Chuck60]

Hello. I'm having a problem understanding what the drawing in the lower right corner is telling me what to do. Nowhere in the plans or instructions do I see anything like this. It looks like a bunch of blocks in a row.I understand the numbering but not all the blocks. I thought the yards tied off at the pins on the deck. This photo is very confusing on what I need to do, and nowhere in the plans does it show where to tie these lines off. Most videos I've been watching don't show this either. I have found this experience with this models intructions to be a little cunfusing, to say the least. I enjoy building these kits but don't understand the rigging fully. If anyone could help,would be appreciated.

 

[kuba91nt]

Hi. You must carefully analyze both the top views and the attached photos.
On these plans, there are often things not marked or blocks are missing, so I recommend some basic book on rigging so that you can prepare this rigging.

You probably have 2 ropes (2 blocks on plan) on the right side:
316,315 and 320,321
And on the left all mast ones.

 

[Jack Sparrow]

Hello. I'm having a problem understanding what the drawing in the lower right corner is telling me what to do. Nowhere in the plans or instructions do I see anything like this. It looks like a bunch of blocks in a row.I understand the numbering but not all the blocks. I thought the yards tied off at the pins on the deck. This photo is very confusing on what I need to do, and nowhere in the plans does it show where to tie these lines off. Most videos I've been watching don't show this either. I have found this experience with this models intructions to be a little cunfusing, to say the least. I enjoy building these kits but don't understand the rigging fully. If anyone could help,would be appreciated.

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are there any eyebolts on the deck near the masts? I think those lines are called halliards, but I am not 100% sure. If they are they should rig to eyebolts on the deck.

 

[AllanKP69]

I thought the yards tied off at the pins on the deck.

Which yards and which lines are you speaking about? There are many lines leading down from the various yards Assuming this ship was rigged similar to English ships as were other Spanish ships of that era, and you are referring to the jeers of the lower yards they belayed to the bitts via sheaves, not belaying pins. Halyards for the topsail yards usually belayed to cavel blocks on the bulwarks on larger ships. Halyards for the topgallant yards belayed to the jeer bitts, again, not to belaying pins. The lifts of the lower yards usually belayed to cavel blocks on the bulkheads or to timberheads.

recommend some basic book on rigging so that you can prepare this rigging

This is an excellent suggestion as it will be useful for many models in the future as well. OcCre rigging plans for their kits are fraught with mistakes. For example, they have belaying pins on ships that never had them like their Golden Hind which was about 175 years before the British adopted the use of belaying pins.

Depending on the year of the model two excellent books that cover various sizes of ships and eras are The Masting and Rigging of English Ships of War and Rigging of Ships in the Days of the Spritsail Topmast. There are others but sometimes more limited in scope.

Allan