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Re: How do you heave-to a 64-gun ship of the line?
From: Lars Bergman
Date: 2023 Oct 17, 12:36 -0700
From: Lars Bergman
Date: 2023 Oct 17, 12:36 -0700
DaveP, generally it is an advantage to be on the weather side, as you don't get blinded by smoke. The fore topsail yard is probably backed to keep station abeam of the other vessel. Then you would expect the main topsail yard to be braced full, but due to the damage in the main rigging it is impossible to tell what the situation was before the damage. Now the main topsail yard has a very strange position, it looks like the parrel is shot away. Another possibility is that both topsails were aback, in order to get sternway on the Director.
Lars
