This all starts to make sense to me. Strange, the picture I presented in my first post clearly shows a stirrup at 6 o'clock to yard. This apparently is wrong.And I don't think they were at 6 o'clock. I think they were wrapped and hung down on the aft side of the yard. That way when the men were standing on them they could stand up straighter than if the stirrups hung from the 6 o'clock position.
Sorry. "Plaited" would mean braided as with long human's hair?plaited
correctGo here, @archjofo explains it a little. These stirrups are nailed. I didn't know this before but learned from him.
Maybe his log is a help for you to
La Créole 1827 by archjofo - Scale 1/48 - French corvette
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We're going to have to disagree on this but after sleeping on it I can definitely see how you arrived at that way. I won't be using either method on the Discovery. Too fiddley for my old hands. Unwrapping and braiding a .016" line? Not likelyThat is my interpretation of Steel's description. Each of the 3 strands separated and the yarns of each strand plaited and 1 full turn of the yard gives the 3 full turns nailed to the yard.
I also just noticed that you said four stirrups on either side. All the Swan series and some others of the same era that I have been using as examples show three. But I default to Steel so four it is. I'll have to cut off and redo the horses but they were a bit short anyway. Thanks for bringing that to my attentionFrom Steel.
HORSES go over the yard-arms with an eye in their outer ends, and stop against the cleats, and hang about three feet below the yard. To keep the horse more parallel to the yard, it is suspended, at proper distances, by ropes, called stirrups, that have thimbles or eyes spliced in their lower ends, through which the horses pass; they are four on each side, and hang three feet below the yard, and the upper ends are opened, plaited, and fastened to the yard with three round turns and nails. The inner ends of the horses have a thimble turned in, with a throat and round seizing; they lash to the yard, on the opposite side of the cleats, with a laniard that passes round the yard and through the thimble.
careful with that one Don. The quote from Steel is for the lower yards. There are fewer stirrips on smaller yards. On Discovery's lower yards 3 is probably correct.I also just noticed that you said four stirrups on either side. All the Swan series and some others of the same era that I have been using as examples show three. But I default to Steel so four it is. I'll have to cut off and redo the horses but they were a bit short anyway. Thanks for bringing that to my attention