The Rigging of Ships by R. C. Anderson

Author:R. C. Anderson
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780486138015
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2012-10-12T16:00:00+00:00

Fig. 139. English Spritsail Topmast Puttocks about 1625

Fig. 140. Possible method of rigging Spritsail Topmast Futtock Shrouds

The spritsail topmast backstay was one of the places where the early 17th century rigger let himself go. Even in the “Treatise on Rigging” it is complicated enough (Fig. 141), but in the print of the Sovereign it is still more so (Fig. 142), though the same in principle.

Fig. 141. English Spritsail Topmast Backstay about 1625

Fig. 142. Spritsail Topmast Backstay of Sovereign of 1637

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