Gordon York Posted October 11, 2019 Report Posted October 11, 2019 As a noob, attempting to make sense of nautical terms is rather daunting. How do I find out what a top gallant mizzen mast sheet is, as opposed to my portside gunwale on the spar deck? I have some knowledge "fore, aft, port, starboard" but some of these terms are esoteric to me. Where could I find a glossary (with pictures hopefully) to get aquainted with such terms? Thank you Gordon 1 Quote
DSiemens Posted October 11, 2019 Report Posted October 11, 2019 I've picked up most of what I know from other modelers in my local club. Honestly their knowledge far surpasses mine in regards to the names of individual parts. Not every one has a club they can go to though. The members of my club got most of their information from books. Here's a list of the common books I see. The Shipmodel Builders Assistant by Charles Davis The Art of Rigging by George Biddlecombe The Rigging of Ships (In the days of the sprit sail top mast 1600-1720) by R. C. Anderson I found this book insightful but extremely technical. It is not an easy read. The Anatomy of the Ship series has a lot of information on specific ships. Modelshipworld.com has a lot of build logs from very technical builders that may have information on parts. I've often read through build logs of similar or the same ships I was building to glean information. There's a lot we can learn from the bigger scale model builders. I will also Google some ship parts. This works for most simple parts. If I can't remember the different deck names I go to Google and put in ship deck names and I go to images and I get stuff like this. 4 Quote
exwafoo Posted October 11, 2019 Report Posted October 11, 2019 (edited) Gordon, 'The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea' by Peter Kemp has just about everything nautical. Lots of second hand copies at a good price on the web. Search the forum for books as there have been some good threads on the subject. The web itself is a good source of information. Anatomy of an Admiralty Model is worth a look as well 'The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor' is another book that can be found as PDF for download free on some sites. http://modelshipworldforum.com/ is a large well known forum with lots of articles that you can read. Should get you started Best Alan Edited October 12, 2019 by exwafoo spelling correction 2 Quote
Gordon York Posted October 17, 2019 Author Report Posted October 17, 2019 Thank you all. It's slowly being adapted to awareness 1 Quote
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