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I was once bidding on fleabay for 3 books and it began to go beyond what seemed originally to be a bargain, so I stepped back.
Soon after, a member on this forum was telling us what a bargain he'd got.
He'd been bidding against me!
Happens to me ALL the time. . .
With 25,000 members on here and not a very large ship building community, I would imagine it happens a lot more than we realize. 
Hello everyone,
I just picked this book up at the local Goodwill Book Store for $14. The book is not in very good condition, but the contents are what I found interesting. The United States Navy: From Revolution To Date. The book was published in 1917. There are lots of great pictures of American Navy ships up to early in the twentieth century.
Bill
I just picked this book up at the local Goodwill Book Store for $14. The book is not in very good condition, but the contents are what I found interesting. The United States Navy: From Revolution To Date. The book was published in 1917. There are lots of great pictures of American Navy ships up to early in the twentieth century.
Bill
Great find! I love the photos of the old battlewagons.
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Often those large glass plate negatives are astonishing in detail and quality.
Absolutely great book for my needs. It provides answers and solutions to HMS model rigging issues which I do not find in:
- The mashing and rigging of English ships of war by James Lees
- The anatomy of Nelson's Ships by Nepean Longridge
- Anatomy of ship the 100-gun ship Victory by John McKay
- HMS Victory Her construction Career and Restoration by Alan McGowan
- Rigging period ship models by Peterson
As far as the rigging only is concerned I would trade it for all 5 books above if I knew it existed.
It is my second try with amazon.ca to obtained it. They always delayed shipping and I cancelled. Where do you buy it please I really wanted this book.
Thanks, Michel
Hi Michel, I just checked - it’s in stock on amazon.ca
Yes, you are right. It was in stock when I tried to buy it. I try two times. Firts one, they delayed in term of week... and the I cancelled. The second time, I resist to cancel two delayed message from amazon. So, it is not in stock, may be at the reprint process. Usually, they should tellement us available, j'utilise not in stock now... I tried since the first week of march.
Well. May be I will take this budgeted money for my flight simulator.
If I ever have to build a 19th century first rate, this sounds like a great source of information, Can you give examples of what solutions he gives that cannot be found in Lees' book? I love Lees' book but it can be a chore to use at times as it covers 235 years and all sizes of ships. How does it compare with David Steel's book The Elements and Practice of Rigging and Seamanship written in 1794?
Thanks for the tip guys
Allan
I saw only one page of the book. The one presented on amazon. We can see that rope have her own color, so it is easy to decipher, wich one is implicate and in which manner in a knot, as per exemple. The size of rope are there too. The overall presentation and illustrations in color seem's to be great.
Here is the link to discussion I opened to find a solution to the problem I could not resolve.
Only this book presented a solution. It showed it with PICTURES instead of words. One picture is worth of 1000 words. May be more than 1000? I understand nautical language with difficulty. I value clear instructions supported with minimum language and lots of pictures. Saying "this line ends on forecastle" has not much meaning to me. I want to see exactly to what object it is tied and how tying is done. At this moment I am not interested in 300 years old history. I work only on rigging the Victory. Lees provided me the least help from 5 books I listed above. Longridge concentrates on text. His train of thoughts is very confusing sometimes. At least to my mind. He has not enough pictures to support what he says.
I totally get it YT. Victory is close at 261 years old from when launched so pretty close to 300 years in the scheme of things. Then again, rigging probably changed a good bit between when she was launched in 1765 and then rebuilt in 1803. I hope you can post some pages from the book as you go through the rigging on your model, as this sounds like a good addition to any library.Allan
Hi, Alan. I am very interested though with purpose of standing rigging and how sails were operated. I learn the functionality of every line listed before installing it one the model. I also make my own blocks and ropes and trying to observe the rope sizes (disregarding the handing though). This is why I will need another few decades to finish my model.
Not sure it would be a total help, but there is a lot of information on sail handling and maneuvering starting on page 243 in David Steel's The Elements and Practice of Rigging and Seamanship which you can get at the S.F. Maritime National Park website. Scroll through the table of contents to get to the appropriate pages as it is over 400 pages long. https://maritime.org/doc/steel/ Hope there are things that help or at least are interesting.
Allan