I'm still looking for a copy of this book. Not the first part of shipbuilding but about the rigging.
A treatise on rigging, written about 1620-1625. London: Society for Nautical Research.
Salisbury, W.,
& Anderson, R. C. (1958).
Thanks Uwe, I keep this in mind. There seems to be a digital copy (legal) available.A Treatise on Rigging - Written about the Year 1625 by R. C. Anderson: Good Soft cover (1921) | Zulu Books
Soft cover - The Society for Nautical Research - 1921 - Condition: Good - An original 1921 copy of this 20 page booklet. Some frayed edges to the covers, and a little toning, but rather good internally with clean and crisp pages. Please see photos. - A Treatise on Rigging - Written about the...www.abebooks.com
Thanks, I got that one. Difficult to translate and it is not the complete document. Just parts of it.There is what may be a Japanese translation with figures in English annotated in Japanese:
yamada-maritime.com/55englshipbuildrigall16201.pdf
Done!At the admins, maybe you can change the topic name to book review!
No, there is indeed not much to find about that. Also in this document there are no clues.Is there ANY mention of belaying points, of methods of belaying besides the belaying of tack lines to levels in the bulwarks of the waist? The topic of belaying points is the hardest thing to find information on for ships of the 15th through 17th centuries. I’m looking for reliable scraps if information on this topic from contemporary sources of the period.
I have some information provided from Peter Kirsch’s The Galleon.
Thanks, Steef66. As a fellow modeler, you understand that in the quest to make a historically accurate model, you have to gather as much information as you can before interpreting the most likely choice regarding a feature on the model. I understand this too, but will frequently post many questions about ship features on the forum, searching for more and more pieces of information, before deciding what form a feature should take on my current model. There is scant information about ships from periods earlier than 1800. You'll always hear me ask for more information from you guys, because the forum membership has proven to be the best and fastest way to learn about particular ship features and research sources (books, documents, and artwork), not to mention, the least expensive.There is just to little we know about that era, the modern writers like Peter Kirsch, RC Anderson, Or who you can think of. Just don't know an guess how it was done. They use everything they find and study to make their conclusions. But when you look deep, nothing is for sure. That's why everything they say is different to each other. Even David Steel don't give answer to this question about that era. So how you do it or decide it is probably the right way.... or not.
Who cares, nobody can't argue.