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    The Marlinspike Sailor

    The Marlinspike Sailor by Smith, Hervey;

    Series: INTERNATIONAL MARINE-RMP;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher International Marine
    • Date of Publication 16 August 1993

    • ISBN 9780070592186
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages144 pages
    • Size 276x218x7 mm
    • Weight 340 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    Hervey Garrett Smith was the foremost marine illustrator of the 1950s and 1960s, and his wonderful drawings of traditional ropework quickly propelled The Marlinspike Sailor to cult classic status when it was published in 1956. With the addition of a section on modern, synthetic rope in the 1970s, its popularity has continued undiminished to this day. It teaches a few basic knots--the bowline, sheet bend, and rolling hitch, among others--and splices in three-strand and braided rope. But its real business is decorative rope and canvaswork--the traditional arts of the sailor--and here it has no equal. For a rope mat, a rope ladder, a sea chest, a ditty bag, a canvas bucket, a mast boot, and the best-looking rope fenders or heaving line in the marina, this is the book of choice.

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    Long description:

    Hervey Garrett Smith was the foremost marine illustrator of the 1950s and 1960s, and his wonderful drawings of traditional ropework quickly propelled The Marlinspike Sailor to cult classic status when it was published in 1956. With the addition of a section on modern, synthetic rope in the 1970s, its popularity has continued undiminished to this day. It teaches a few basic knots--the bowline, sheet bend, and rolling hitch, among others--and splices in three-strand and braided rope. But its real business is decorative rope and canvaswork--the traditional arts of the sailor--and here it has no equal. For a rope mat, a rope ladder, a sea chest, a ditty bag, a canvas bucket, a mast boot, and the best-looking rope fenders or heaving line in the marina, this is the book of choice.

    Hervey Garrett Smith was the foremost marine illustrator of the 1950s and 1960s, and his wonderful drawings of traditional ropework quickly propelled The Marlinspike Sailor to cult classic status when it was published in 1956. With the addition of a section on modern, synthetic rope in the 1970s, its popularity has continued undiminished to this day. It teaches a few basic knots--the bowline, sheet bend, and rolling hitch, among others--and splices in three-strand and braided rope. But its real business is decorative rope and canvaswork--the traditional arts of the sailor--and here it has no equal. For a rope mat, a rope ladder, a sea chest, a ditty bag, a canvas bucket, a mast boot, and the best-looking rope fenders or heaving line in the marina, this is the book of choice.

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    Table of Contents:

    Foreword

    Introduction

    Making Rope Behave

    Knot, Bend, or Hitch?

    Anyone Can Splice

    The Short Splice

    The Long Splice

    The Stowage of Rope

    How to Lay Up a Grommet

    Whippings

    The Heaving Line

    Some Notes on Seizing

    Worming, Parcelling, and Serving

    The Running Turk's Head

    The Star Knot

    The Tack Knot

    The Lanyard Knot

    Matthew Walker's Knot

    A Simple Rope Mat

    Ladder Mat and Block Mat

    A Russian or Walled Mat

    A Sword Mat

    A Rope Ladder with a New Twist and Some Remarks on the Making of Baggywrinkle

    Plaited Sennits

    Crown Sennits

    Rope Handles

    Coachwhipping

    Grafting, Pointing and Hitching

    Cockscombing

    The Sea Chest

    Deadeyes and Lanyards

    Decorative Wall Bag

    Tom Crosby's Ditty Box

    The Rigger's Little Helper

    Wooden Bilge Pumps

    Palm and Needle Practice

    The Ditty Bag

    The Sea Bag

    The Bell Rope

    Wooden Cleats

    Rope Fenders

    Stropped Blocks

    Canvas Deck Bucket

    Rigging a Jackline

    Sail Stop Bag

    Some Notes on the Use of "Taykles"

    A Lanyard for a Cannon

    The Catboat Race

    Making a Mast Boot

    The Water Jug

    Registration Numbers, They Too Can Be Beautiful

    Art and Yacht Design

    Synthetic Fibres and Their Characteristics

    Basic Eye Splice

    Standard End for End

    Back Splice

    Index

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