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I am drawing San Nicolo from the Antoine Roux painting. A similar but not exactly the same ship is Bella Aurora, which is pretty much a flat-on side view painting. The San Nicolo painting is on an angle, so I used GIMP and the perspective view to get a flat on side view (not perfect). My...

I understand from the book A. Sorolla, F. Urtizberea, LA MAHONESA The Spanish 34-gun frigates 1789 page 108 that Spain had regulations specifying the boats to be carried in said frigate. Although I can only read Spanish via machine translation, nothing in my collection, including the Reglamento...

My textbooks, as a general matter, state leach lines run from the side up the front of the sail to a block stropped to the yard then (on the primary courses) to one or more blocks at the top and down the back. For a topsail, the line could run in front directly to blocks stropped to the tye...

"—Rastreras, caballero, que son las de prolongación en la vela principal de cada palo. En este jabeque solo se utilizan rastreras en el trinquete. Sin embargo, las alas se incorporan en la gavia, velacho, juanete de proa y juanete mayor." I am reading El Jabeque Murciano, a fictional novel, by...

I see no preventer sling to buttress the main yard tye/jeers on the Mystique original plan and 22 Gun Chebec in Souvenir de Marine though I could easily miss it since the view is of the wrong side. I am wondering if this is a general rule for polacres (and if so the precise reason). The topsail...

Does anyone have any historical information, or contemporaneous ship model pics, of a Jacob's ladder used on a polacre-style square-rig pole mast (the yards go up and down) where you have no trees or platforms? Normally one would use "sister hooks" and "eye bolts" but I figure in this case you...

Does anyone know a source for plans for 18th century Ottomon ship plans or information on said ships?

Does anyone know the precise conversion rate of a Spanish Burgos Foot to either a meter or an English/Imperial foot? I have searched the web diligently and cannot find mention of what Burgos Feet are (presumably a measure developed in Burgos, Spain)? If it is another name for Spanish Pie, then...

Work in Progress -- comments/advice welcome.

I am looking for a good book on the details of 18th century Swedish ships (beyond Chapman's two books and the photos in the digital museum). I am hoping for advice equivalent to Zu Mondfeld including: Walings, anchor planking, nail patterns, rudder styles per time period, deck planking...

I have been looking for any kind of formula or resource that provides numerical advice as to how far the overlap between two masts (e.g., lower mast, topmast) of a given length, diameter, and perhaps wood type, should be. This area of overlap is called the doubling. My time period is 1750 to...

I am looking at Brig and Frigate sized Spanish warships of the Napoleonic era and having trouble finding constructions details. 1) Any suggestions on books other than Navios de la Real Armada 1700-1860 by Perez, which I have, and Spanish essays on the internet on the main Spanish engineers...

Several flush deck 1780-1800 British brig-sloops had fairly tall bulwarks and, in addition to their cannon, swivel guns. We are not talking Sultana here, we are talking serious protection. HMS Speedy had a flush deck and five foot plus walls surrounding the brig; no decks flush with the side...

I am looking for the contract for HMS Speedy, Ord. 23.3.1781 according to Rif Winfield, which should be here...