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Read the Aubrey/Maturin Patrick O'Brian novels as well as watching Master and Commander. Plus there's a lot online with diagrams/videos. You can't know too much with this hobby! I enjoy the extensive researching.As I've been working through the rigging and trying to figure out the purpose of each rope, I've found myself saying to myself, "....but if the wind is coming this way, these ropes would be slack and those ropes would be taut...if the wind were coming from another direction then those ropes would be taut and these slack", etc..
Basically, I'm figuring that no matter how I fashion the sails in the end, I'll end up with a lot of slack ropes that should be taut and vice-versa, due to my lack of experience.
OcCre seem to be popular (for some unfathomable reason? Cost??) but never assume any mainstream European kit is accurate. Look at Mamoli's Surprise for example, a hideously unfunny joke! Caldercraft and Vanguard, Nikitin, Maris Stella, Korabel, are all good European offerings. Across the pond you have Drydock, Syren etc