Ship Classification, Ship Terminology, Sail orientation, Rigging Expla

[Admiral Starwind]

Check out this link i tried some cut and pasting goodness but it was exhausting. so look here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sail-plan

[ghoulrealm]

This is a good find, easy to follow and specific definitions.

We should eventually move it to "Pirate and Colonial History"

[Mister Phes]

Yes we should Mr Ghoulrealm, but I'm wondering does this one link merit its own thread or should we merge it with the threads that contain the links you've provided?

What's everyone else think?

[Captain Ironhook]

Surely we do not have requirement to create a threads for every single link that leads to a source of pirate factual knowledge. Maybe if we made a directory of references and grouped similiar webpages under headings. We could stll keep a thread such as this for our dicussions but i do not belief we need a dsicussion for all links.

[ghoulrealm]

I'ld group it within the "Wikipeda's Glossary of nautical terms" thread

[Mister Phes]

Yes, that's probably the way to go Mr Ghoulrealm. We could have an entire thread for Wikipedia articles. The first post would be like an index and the subsequent posts could be a discussion primarily to enable other users to contribute new links.

[Captain Ironhook]

May we could so some more Wikipeedia searching first and find some similiar threads to post upon this thread and then more threads can be added at once when the time.

[Bonaparte]

Yes, that's probably the way to go Mr Ghoulrealm. We could have an entire thread for Wikipedia articles. The first post would be like an index and the subsequent posts could be a discussion primarily to enable other users to contribute new links.

That's a good idea. There are lots of interesting links on wikipedia that relate to ships, shipbuilding, naval history and tactics. To share each others finds would be handy.

[Berry Syedow]

Ah, excellent find Admiral. I've been looking out for such a link. Just from glancing over it I can see there's a lot of juicy stuff. When I have more free time and a spare hull I shall read it.

[El Bucanero]

This could be very useful for ship mocs, it is useful for me, now I know where to put sails and ropes on my ships, great find, thanks for putting this to my attention!

[Mister Phes]

I'ld group it within the "Wikipeda's Glossary of nautical terms" thread

This is probably the way to go, but maybe we could turn this into a discussion thread so we can dicuss exactly what should go into the "Wikipeda's Glossary of nautical terms" thread, outside of that thread so as to not take it off topic.

[El Bucanero]

I think a ''Wikipedia's glossary of nautical reference'' thread or something like that, would be the right place for this....

[Mister Phes]

Yeah, I suppose since I'm the one with the editing powers I better add the link. But I'm way too tired to do it now so I'll do it another time. If I remember.

[Captain Ironhook]

Maybe you could add these links

Tall Ships http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_Ships

Sailing ships http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing_ships

[Mister Phes]

Should this thread be moved to the Great Library? It doesn't seem to be getting any new responses these days.

[El Bucanero]

Yes, you should...