The art of rigging : containing an explanation of terms and phrases and the progressive method of rigging expressly adapted for sailing ships / by George Biddlecombe ; with an introduction by Ernest H. Pentecost.
By: Biddlecombe, George
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Contributor(s): Steel, David. Elements and practice of rigging and seamanship.
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BookPublisher: New York : Dover Publications, 1990Description: xix, 155 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0486263436 .Subject(s): Masts and riggingDDC classification: 623.862
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"Few, today, can realize how important was the art of rigging a ship and reeving her gear in the days just old when all aloft was wood and hemp; or how great the part it has played in the building of Empire." -- Introduction.
Although mastery of the art of rigging is no longer required on board today's ships, legions of serious model ship builders who wish to rig their ships correctly need to learn the art in miniature. This book is widely considered the best manual ever produced on rigging the sailing ship. It is based on the extensively revised and updated 1848 edition prepared by Captain George Biddlecombe, a Master in the Royal Navy and former merchant seaman. The book is divided into five parts:
The First Part contains an alphabetical explanation of terms and phrases used in rigging. The Second Part consists of directions for the performance of operations incidental to rigging and preparing it on shore, with a table of the comparative strength of chain and rope. The Third Part contains the progressive method of rigging ships. The Fourth Part contains a description of reeving the running rigging and bending the sails in addition to the rigging of brigs, yachts, and small vessels. The Fifth Part comprises tables of the quantities and dimensions of the standing and running rigging of ships, brigs, fore-and-aft schooners, and cutters, with the species, size, and number of blocks, hearts, dead-eyes, etc.
Serious modelists, naval historians, armchair skippers -- any sailing buff -- will want to own a copy of The Art of Rigging. Complete and wonderfully clear, it is now available in its first inexpensive paperback edition. It belongs in every maritime library.
Developed from The elements and practice of rigging and seamanship by David Steel first published in London in 1794.
Reprint. Originally published: Salem, Mass. : Marine Research Society, 1925. (Publication number 8 of the Marine Research Society)
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Part I Alphabetical Explanation Of The Terms And Phrases Used In Rigging
- Abaft or Aft
- Abaft the Beam
- Aboard or Inboard
- Abreast
- Ahead
- Aloft
- Aloof
- Amidships
- Anchor-stock tackle
- An-end
- Athwart
- Avast
- Awning
- Back-stays
- Beckets
- Belaying
- Bending
- Bends
- Bight
- Binding
- Bitts
- Bitt the cable
- Blocks
- Block and block
- Boarding-netting
- Boatskids or Boomskids
- Bobstay
- Bolsters
- Bolt-rope
- Booms
- Boom-irons
- Boom tackle or boom jigger
- Bowgrace
- Bowsing
- Bowlines
- Bowline tackle
- Bowsprit
- Bowsprit-netting
- Brace
- Brails
- Breast-rope
- Breastwork
- Breeching
- Bridles
- Bull's-eye
- Bumpkins or Boomkins
- Bumpkin shrouds
- Buntlines
- Buoy
- Buoy-rope
- Burton tackles
- Button and loop
- Buttons
- Cable
- Cablet
- Cant
- Caps
- To cap a rope
- Capsize
- Capstan or capstern
- To carry away
- Cast-off
- Catharpins
- Catfall
- Catheads
- Chain cables
- Chain plates
- Chain sheets
- Chain slings
- Cheerly
- Chestrees
- Choaking the luff
- Chock-a-block
- Chocks of the rudder
- Clamp
- Clap on
- Cleats
- Clinch
- Clue of a sail
- Clue-lines
- Coat
- Coil
- Coin or quoin
- Collar
- Come home
- Come-up the capstan
- Come-up the tackle-fall
- Contline
- Cordage
- Creeper
- Cringles
- Crotchets
- Crosstrees
- Crow-foot
- Crown of the cable
- Crowning
- Crutch
- Cut-and-run
- Davit
- Dead-eyes
- Dead-lights
- Derrick
- Dismantle
- Driver or spanker-boom
- Dolphin
- Dolphin-striker
- Down-hauler
- Down-haul tackle
- Earings
- "Ease-off, or veer-away"
- Elbow in the hawse
- End-for-end
- Ensign
- Equip
- Eye of a shroud
- Eyelet-holes
- Fag-end of a rope
- Fake
- Fall
- Fancy lines
- Fangs or lee-fangs
- Fenders
- Fathom
- Fid
- Fids
- Fish
- Flag-staff
- Fleeting
- Fly of a flag
- Flying of sails
- Fore-braces
- Foul anchor
- Foul hawse
- Frapping
- Frapping a ship
- Freshen-hawse
- Furling
- Furling-line
- Futtock plate
- Futtock shroud
- Futtock stave
- Gaff
- Gammoning
- Gangway
- Gaskets
- Girtlines
- Goose-neck
- Grapnel
- Gripes
- Grommet
- Ground-tackle
- Gudgeons or braces
- Gun-slings
- Guys
- Hag's-teeth
- Halliards
- Handsomely
- Handspike
- Hanks
- To Haul
- Hawse-bags
- Hawser
- Head-ropes
- Heart
- Heaver or woolder
- Heaving
- Helm
- Hinges
- Hitch
- Hoist of a flag or sail
- Hoisting
- Holding-on
- Hook
- Hoops
- Horns
- Horse
- Horses
- Hounds
- To jamb
- Jaws
- Jeers
- Jewel blocks
- Jib-guys
- Jigger
- Jigger tackle
- Inhauller
- Junk
- Keckling
- Kevels
- Kinking
- Knittles or nettles
- Knot
- To knot
- Lacing
- Laniards
- Lashers
- Lashing
- Lashing of booms
- Lanunch ho!
- Leading-part
- Leech lines
- Leech rope
- Legs
- Life lines
- Lifts
- Lines
- Lizard
- Loop
- Loosing the sails
- Luff tackle
- Main tackle
- Man-ropes
- Marline spike
- Martingale
- Masts
- Mast coats
- Mat
- Maul
- Meshes
- Messenger
- Mousing a hook
- Nave-line
- To nipper or nip
- Nippers
- Norman
- Oakum
- Overhaul
- Outhauler
- Outrigger
- Painter
- Panch
- Parbuckle
- Parcelling
- Parral
- Parral trucks
- Passaree
- To pay out
- Peak-halliards
- Pendants
- Pins
- Pointing
- Points
- Port pendants
- Preventer
- Preventer stays
- Purchase
- Quarter tackles
- Rack
- Racking a tackle
- Ratlines
- To rattle down the shrouds
- Reef
- Reef tackle
- To reeve
- Relieving tackles
- Ribs of a parral
- Ridge tackle to rig
- Rigging
- Rigging-house or loft
- Rolling tackle
- Rope-bands
- Ropes
- Ropeyarn
- Rough-tree rail
- Round-up
- Rounding
- Round-turn
- To rowse
- Rudder-coats
- Rudder tackles
- Runner
- Runner tackles
- Running-rigging
- Saddles for booms
- Sciatic-stay
- Seizing
- Middle-seizing
- Selvagee
- To serve
- Service
- Serving mallet
- Setting the sails
- Setting-up
- Shackles
- Shank-painter
- Sheave
- Sheep-shank
- Sheers
- Sheet
- Shifting backstay tackles
- Ship-shape
- Shrouds
- Slabline
- Slack
- Slack or a rope
- Slack rigging
- Slings
- Slip-knot
- Slip-rope
- To slue
- Snaking
- Snaking the stays
- Snotter
- Spans
- Spanning of booms
- Spanning of runners
- Spanish windlass
- Spars
- Spilling lines
- Splicing
- Spring stays
- Sprit
- Spunyarn
- Square-rigged
- Square-sail boom
- Staff
- Stage
- Standing-part
- Standing-rigging
- Standing part of a rope
- Stanchions of the nettings
- Stays
- Stay-sail stay tackles
- Stay tackles
- Stern-fast
- Stirrups
- Stock-tackle
- Stools
- Stop
- Stoppers
- Strand
- Stranded
- Straps
- To surge
- Swab
- Swagging-off
- To sway
- Swifter
- Swifters
- Swiftering of shrouds
- Swivel
- Swivel-hook
- Tack
- Tack of a flag
- Tack tackle
- Tackle
- Tail
- Tarpauling
- Thimbles
- Throat
- Throat-brails
- Throat-halliards
- Thrumming
- Tiller-rope
- Timenoguy
- Toggle
- Top
- Top-rope
- Top-rope pendants
- "Top-tackle, or top-rope tackles"
- Topping
- Topping-lift
- Towline
- Train tackle
- Traveller
- "Traverse horses, or jackstays"
- Treenails
- Trestle-trees
- Tricing-line
- Trucks
- Truss
- Truss tackles
- Tie
- Vangs
- To veer away
- Viol or voyl
- To underrun a tackle
- Uphroe
- Wall knot
- Warp
- "Warp, or woof"
- Warp of shrouds
- Whip
- Whipt
- Whip upon whip
- Winding-tackle
- Winding-tackle pendant
- Windlass
- Woolding
- Worming
- Yards
- Yard tackles
- Yarn