The Rigging of Ships: in the Days of the Spritsail Topmast, 1600-1720

For ship model-makers and students and enthusiasts of historic sailing ships, this generously illustrated book is essential reading and a valuable reference. It describes and depicts in detail how seventeenth-century English, French, Dutch, and other European trading ships and warships were rigged from stem to stern throughout this colorful period in maritime history.The book begins in 1600, the earliest date of our detailed knowledge of ships' rigging, and the earliest to which that charac...