Author's Notes

Project Name: Sailing Ships

Project Description

Pages currently in progress (proposed):

New Project and Notes

• RevisedProject Title Page
  This will be presented to the University, not part of the final Project.
  
• RevisedIntroduction to Sailing Ships
  Anchor page for Project.
  
  Added Comparison of Square vs Fore and Aft rigging.
  
  
• RevisedA Condensed History of Sailing Ships
  I just don't like the word 'potted' in this sense, it reminds me of caned meat.
  
  need to check a few claims - Chinese voyages - outrigger vs double canoe ect
  
• RevisedSailing Ship Terminology
  more on hull - Standing vs Running rigging.
  
• NewSailing Ship Designations
  List of various rigs
  
• RevisedHow Tall Ships are Sailed
  order of raising sail - fore stay sail and main topmast stay sail can not both be first!
  
• NewTall Ships in Books and Literature
  Notes
  
• NewTall Ships that can be Visited Today
  Notes
  

Original Project with notes

• OriginalProject Title Page
• OriginalSailing Ships
• OriginalA potted history of Sailing Ships
• Not StartedA typical tall ship - The Star of India - tbc
• OriginalSailing Ship Terminology
• OriginalAdvanced Sailing Ship Terminology
• RevisedAn introduction to how tall ships are sailed
• Not StartedFirst hand account of a voyage aboard a 19th century tall ship

Reference Links

Florida Sailor's Background

I have spent about half a century studying this subject, so I will have a few things to add.

I will add more as thing progress. I have started by re-reading Joseph Conrad's Youth as my first research.