San Francisco fore topsail rigging

[Tony Nienaber]

Please help with rigging of this sail

 

[AllanKP69]

Welcome to SoS Tony!!!!

Please help with rigging of this sail

Is this for the AL kit of the San Francisco and what specifically are you looking for? Rope sizes, block sizes and types, belaying points, ????? Are you also looking for the rigging of the fore topsail yard as well as the sail? There are 8 pages describing the rigging for the foretopsail yard in The Rigging of Ships in the Day of the Spritsail Topmast by Anderson that would be helpful. Lees' book on rigging might help but it there may be differences as it is based on rigging of English ships of war. Anderson's book can be found for as little as US$13 so maybe a good small investment for now and the future.


Allan

 

[Tony Nienaber]

Thank you Allan. This is for the AL model. I was confused at to where the ropes passed along the mast down to the belay pins but I found the solution. Wonderful and very helpful members on this forum.

 

[DARIVS ARCHITECTVS]

Running rigging of the clew lines run from the blocks at the lower outboard corners of the sail, up to blocks on the yardarm, then through the top just inside of the top's railing, before going down to the belaying points. They does not pass through the shrouds and ratlines, but rather aft of the shrouds.


The running rigging for the lifts, which support the outboard tips of the yardarm, run closer to the mast through the crosstree of the top and downward, inboard of the shrouds, and to the belaying points.