Harold A. UnderhillMasting and Rigging the Clipper Ship and Ocean Carrier. With Authentic plans, working drawings and details of the nineteenth and twentieth century sailing ship.
Publisher information: Brown, Son and Ferguson, Nautical Publishers, Glasgow, 1946, first edition
Description and condition: Blue cloth hardback with dustcover, 7 1/4 by 9 3/4 inch (8vo), 300 pp., with 50 full page working drawings and 200 detail sketches by the author.
Dustcover is badly torn and has sections missing, now protected. Light edgewear and bumped bottom corner. Uneven browning to the endpaper and slight spotting to the page edges. Overall a well used but good or better copy with nice clean pages.
Contents: "Drawings are provided of every spar for both iron and wooden craft, together with chapters on Standing Rigging, Running Rigging and Sails, while the working and rig of various types of self-reefing Topsail, lead of gear and function of brace and halliard winches, etc., are fully explained. All running rigging is followed from sail to pin, describing in detail the type and position of every block and rigging fairlead through which it reeves. Full belaying pin and fairlead diagrams are given for each mast, together with a large folding plate showing the position and use of every pin in the ship. Separate chapters cover the Sailing Coaster and Unusual Rigs, while the final chapter is devoted to tables of spar proportions and rigging sizes for various size of craft, together with the basic formulae from which they have been compiled." The book comes with an original advertising leaflet and personal correspondence with the Holborn Drawing & Tracing company, which sold the book.
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