Here's a brief video of the fully-functional sails of the Black Pearl being set. The jibs have already been hoisted, but doused and furled at sea (rather than hauled in and stowed as they would be when at port). I'll have a seperate video of the jibbs being hoisted.
http://youtu.be/HLPtj8vTR08 (its kinda small for some reason, so click full screen to make it bigger, sorry)
All 12 sails operate on fully functional rigging just like a real tall ship. When at port or in rough weather, the sails are tightly furled against the yard arms. Equal forces on oppossing lines are responsible for either pulling the sails up into their furled position via block and pulley system applied by human (or clicky) hands down below on deck, while setting lines attached at the clews are eased to allow the sails to be pulled back up into their furled positions.
Likewise, when setting the sails, they must be untied at the yard arms and allowed to be dropped "into gear." "Into gear" is the position they are at in the beginning of my video. They are still furled, but no longer held tightly against the yard arms as they are being readied for being set.
The correct order of setting the sails is as follows:
1. hoist the staysails, including the jib and the flying jibb off the bow mast, the stay sails between the fore and main masts, and the lateen off the mizzen.
2. next, set the top sails (tops'ls)
3. then set the top gallants (t'gallants)
4. and finally the course sails on the fore and main masts.
Dousing the sails are in reverse order.
Hope you like my vid! More to come
