Binnacle - Rigging Compendium

Before engines, a ship was an argument between wind and rope, settled by whoever understood canvas best. Binnacle reopens that argument: square topsails stacked to the sky, fore-and-aft sails cutting close to the breeze, miles of standing rigging holding masts against the Atlantic. Every plate in this compendium comes from the working vocabulary of the age of sail — the parts sailors named, spliced and trusted their lives to. Screens keep a dusk-lit calm, the way a chart table looks by lamplight when the watch changes.

The compendium is built as a quiet hub. A shelf of rigs and sail plans opens into long-form plates; a gallery of famous hulls runs from tea clippers to training barques; a glossary holds the ropes and spars that made them work; a quiz checks what actually stuck. The signature bench is Points of Sail — set a wind bearing, swing your heading, and a rig reports honestly how it draws, luffs or lies dead in irons, with the device compass feeding your real bearing when you want it. Keep private reading notes on any plate, star the ones worth returning to, and read everything offline with slow transitions and gentle layout.