I just found a must have book series. it is called The Seventy-Four Gun Ship Vol.1-3 by Jean Bouroit english translation by David H Roberts published 1986
They cover basically frigate type construction on up and it is brought down to more laymen type terms making even an idiot like me to understand it a lot easier than other more technical manuals.
Vol 1 covers Hull construction with billions of pictures to make it super easy to understand. each item he covers he provides several illustrations showing what he is talking about
Vol 2 Covers Hull Fittings and is just like vol 1 with illustrations
and Vol 3 Covers rigging etc and is the same tons of pictures. I highly reccommend this series of books
They cover basically frigate type construction on up and it is brought down to more laymen type terms making even an idiot like me to understand it a lot easier than other more technical manuals.
Vol 1 covers Hull construction with billions of pictures to make it super easy to understand. each item he covers he provides several illustrations showing what he is talking about
Vol 2 Covers Hull Fittings and is just like vol 1 with illustrations
and Vol 3 Covers rigging etc and is the same tons of pictures. I highly reccommend this series of books