Sailing Rigs

Filled with illustrations, this concise reference work describes the development of European and North American sailing rigs and defines and explains all the different forms for both square rig and fore-and-aft. It is intended as a first stop for anyone needing to understand and identify the various arrangements, concentrating on the classification of rigs and their variations. Arranged by rig type, the book includes specially commissioned scale drawings of the full-rigged ship, barque, barquentine, brig, brigantine, schooner, ketch yawl, and their derivatives. Examples of well-known or significant ships are shown in great detail. The text defines and introduces each type and explains its history and its application. Contemporary photographs and an illustrated glossary define separate parts. The author, an experienced sailing journalist, has a talent for explaining all this diversity to the non-specialist while at the same time offering the modelmaker and sailing-ship devotee a valuable reference source.Bennett, Jenny is the author of 'Sailing Rigs ', published 2005 under ISBN 9781591148135 and ISBN 1591148138.