Post by fredhocker on Feb 8, 2018 8:04:29 GMT
Hi Nicoby,
The publication plan is as follows:
I: The Archaeology of a Swedish Warship (appeared 2006)
II: The wind is fair: rigging and sailing a 17th-century warship (sails, rope, tackle, anchors, navigation)
III: The king's beautiful new ship: building a warship (the hull, pumps, interior furnishings, tools, etc.)
IV: Who are you? The crew as individuals (human remains, clothing, shoes and other personal possessions)
V: A floating community (recruitment, pay, provisioning and feeding, social structure, hygiene, etc.)
VI: The machine of war (armament, tactical and strategic environment, etc.)
We are finalizing the design of Vasa II right now and beginning the layout process with a publisher, hoping to get this out this year, with a little luck. We took a big two-year detour to select the publisher, thanks to the complicated bidding rules which regulate government contracts here, but we seem to be getting to the end of that. The book looks like it will be about 1000 pages (in two volumes in a slipcase) with 510 colour illustrations plus four sheets of fold-out plans, at either 1:50 or 1:75 scale (still working out the printing logistics for the sail plan, which is a very big drawing). Once we have a contract in place, layout and printing should take six to eight months.
We are also hiring more research staff in order to ramp up the speed with which we can get these books out. I have been a one-man band until a year ago, but we should have enough people now to work on more than one volume at a time.
Fred
The publication plan is as follows:
I: The Archaeology of a Swedish Warship (appeared 2006)
II: The wind is fair: rigging and sailing a 17th-century warship (sails, rope, tackle, anchors, navigation)
III: The king's beautiful new ship: building a warship (the hull, pumps, interior furnishings, tools, etc.)
IV: Who are you? The crew as individuals (human remains, clothing, shoes and other personal possessions)
V: A floating community (recruitment, pay, provisioning and feeding, social structure, hygiene, etc.)
VI: The machine of war (armament, tactical and strategic environment, etc.)
We are finalizing the design of Vasa II right now and beginning the layout process with a publisher, hoping to get this out this year, with a little luck. We took a big two-year detour to select the publisher, thanks to the complicated bidding rules which regulate government contracts here, but we seem to be getting to the end of that. The book looks like it will be about 1000 pages (in two volumes in a slipcase) with 510 colour illustrations plus four sheets of fold-out plans, at either 1:50 or 1:75 scale (still working out the printing logistics for the sail plan, which is a very big drawing). Once we have a contract in place, layout and printing should take six to eight months.
We are also hiring more research staff in order to ramp up the speed with which we can get these books out. I have been a one-man band until a year ago, but we should have enough people now to work on more than one volume at a time.
Fred
