A schooner for Port Jackson 1803 rigging question

[leggNZ]

I've just finished an older kit of this model, by Modellers Shipyard. I found it in a junk shop and most of the parts were there. With a bit of scratching and bashing it came up good. It came with a plan by AF Tyler.
My question is to do with the boom. I am curious about how there is a mainsheet, and also a tackle attached at the same point on the boom, going to a chainwale. I'm guessing the tackle is a kind of vang? Does anyone know how sailors would use it? When going about would the sailors unhook it and move it to the other side of the boat? Or should there be one on each side of the boat, and this is just not shown in the drawings?
cheers

 

[alpayed]

Hi LeggNZ.

The Guy and pendent would have been shifted from side to side.
From "Harland)




This is from "Steel"

BOOM.

TOPPING-LIFT is taken upon the starboard-side, and reeved through the upper-block, hooked to an eye-bolt in the mast-head; then lead down and reeved through the block at the boom-end. The standing-part clinches round the mast-head, or hooks to the same eye-bolt; the leading-part comes down, and has a double-block spliced in, or turned, that connects by its fall to a single-block, and hooks to an eye-bolt in the after part of the channel, and belays to a pin in the shroud-rack. Sometimes it has the addition of a runner and sometimes rigged as the driver-boom in ships.

SHEETS reeve through a double-block, strapped round the boom just within the taffarel, and through another double-block, strapped round the horse; and very large cutters have a treble-block at the horse, and belays round a large cleat on the taffarel.

TACK-TACKLE. The double-block is fastened to the tack of the sail, and connects with its fall to a single-block hooked to an eye-bolt in the deck.

GUY-PENDENTS have a hook and thimble, that hook in a thimble of a strap on the boom, just without the main-sheet-block. In the inner end of the pendent, is a thimble or long eye spliced, to which is hooked a luff-tackle. Its single-block is hooked near the windlass, to a timber-head or eye-bolt, and the fall leads in-board.

MAIN-SHEET. One block straps round the boom near the taffarel, and is confined by a comb-cleat. The other block is strapped with a thimble, and traverses upon an iron horse, secured to the inside of the taffarel, and they are connected by the sheet or fall which belays round a large cleat on the taffarel, or the pin of the block in small vessels.

More info.
My plan circa 1985


KH Marquardt circa 1987



Attached also is the rigging list.
Kind regards
Allan Tyler

 

[leggNZ]

Hi Allan
Thanks for your reply. I have your drawing - which does show the tackle could be on the port or starboard. It must have been a bit of drama swapping it from side to side at times! I like the little detail of the khm drawing with the hooks.
The tackle was really a preventer rather than a vang as we know it now. I'm guessing they might only have used it when running or in a big sea.
Great drawing by the way.
cheers
John