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Default Masting & Rigging vintage manual Tallships FA

Heikki wrote in
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peter wrote:

JaneyP wrote:
Masting and Rigging The Clipper Ship and Ocean Carrier by Alfred A
Underhill VGC ,large format,300 pages.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/...


Also available at half the price he

http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/Se...0&tn=Masting+a
nd+Rigging+The+Clipper+Ship+and+Ocean+Carrier&x=76 &sortby=3

And for free from your local library - most of them can get books from
far away if they don't have them in their own collection.

It is not a bad book, as such, although its focus is on building
models, not rigging real ships.

- Heikki


The principles are there. You could interpret the tensions deemed
necessary for the real thing. How many masts do you have to rig before
leaving dock?

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