Rigging. Period Ship Models: A Step-by-step Guide to the Intricacies of Square-rig

I SET OUT TO CREATE this series of detailed drawings because, as a modelmaker, I needed the answers to a number of questions relating to the intricacies of square rig. I could find no publication which allowed me to study a ship's rigging in the way that one can, for example, in front of a model in a museum. And even then, of course, the sheer complexity is confusing and difficult to grasp. Most modelling books, while dealing extensively with hull construction, often approach rigging in a rather cursory fashion. The genesis of this book was, therefore, the desire to fill that gap. I decided to study and depict each item of a ship's rigging on its own, isolated on a page, so that the reader might understand where a particular sheet or halliard, for example, leads and how it functions. One of the pleasures of researching and putting together all these drawings was the realisation of how logical and functional the rigging of a square-rigged ship is. This really should not have come as a surprise. Sailors are nothing if not practical, and the apparently complicated confection of ropes and tackles is, in fact, a wonderfully simple and ordered creation with no unnecessary or redundant parts. My intention in the book is to show this simplicity and, at the same time, draw to the reader's attention the basic principles by which square-rig functions; throughout the centuries, square-rigged ships have followed the same principles when it has come to catching the wind.

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