I have moved on to the rigging portion of the program for my Corel Beagle. I found out after starting the build it was very inaccurate. I purchased Jotika updates to accurize it. I have the Karl Heinz Marquardt book to help me. What was not included in the Corel kit were the lower main studding sail booms, top mast studding sail booms and bumpkins. I'm not rigging this ship with sails. I'm going to rig out most of the kit with the Corel instructions but could use some advice as to any rigging requirements for these items if any. Thanks in advance.
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Pages 8, 115 through 118, and dimensional information on page 184 in The Masting and Rigging of English Ships of War by James Lees goes into a lot of detail with drawings and written explanations of stunsails (studding sails, booms, etc) While your ship was not a warship per se, the rigging should be similar if not exactly the same for the stunsails. One example..... https://www.amazon.com/Masting-Rigging-English-Ships-1625-1860/dp/0870219480 He makes reference to Nares and Lever's works as parr of his sources. I am guessing Marquardt's work should be accurate as well.
Allan
Thanx for that info. It just so happens I received today a book, Rigging Period Ship Models by Lennarth Petersson. It has very good details about these items and also has a good layout plan of where lines are belayed. I feel much more confident about getting into the rats nest of rigging now.