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21-FEB-2006

Maintop

Stockholm, Sweden

You can see the construction of the top, a circular wooden platform laid on top of the trestletrees and crosstrees. Also note the futtock shrouds leading from the futtock stave to the rim of the top, and the way that a mouse has been raised on the stay to keep the eye-splice from riding up.


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Staale Sannerud20-Feb-2014 21:42
You have it right, the shrouds are rigged in the standard way. Unfortunately, unless you happen to be Spiderman it is quite impossible to get a good photo of it without using a crane!
Rick 16-Feb-2014 15:11
Nice pictures, but nobody seems to show above the top where the shrouds actually attach to the main mast. I am presuming each line is a spliced loop wraping around the mast with alternating port and starboard lines running over the trestle tree down to the chains. I have many books on rigging and cannot determine from the pictures that this is how it is accomplished.
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