The Arts of the Sailor: Knotting, Splicing and Ropework | 
 enlarge | Author: Hervey Garrett Smith
Publisher: Dover Publications
Category: Book
List Price: $9.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 33564
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 0486264408
Dewey Decimal Number: 623.8882
EAN: 9780486264400
ASIN: 0486264408
Publication Date: September 1, 1990
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Condition: Soft cover, light shelf wear to cover and spine.
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Product Description
Perfect shipboard reference, packed with useful "hands-on" information, covers sailor's tools, basic knots and useful hitches, handsewing and canvas work and dozens of other topics important to safe, economic and efficient boat maintenance. Over 100 illustrations enhance delightful narrative.
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 Missing arrows January 6, 2008
A generally informative book, but.....
some of the directions refer to diagrams with arrows showing the direction of the rope. No such arrows!
Overall fair to good diagrams and interesting history, but I think I would have bought a different book had I known what was missing.
 The Arts of the Sailor August 15, 2007
This book has some of the most clearly articulated and illustrated instructions I have ever encountered.
This book should be owned by every sailor June 12, 2007
A great book chock full of interesting ideas to make your boat more seamanlike. The definative rope working book.
great book May 22, 2007
This is an excellent resource book and we will use it a lot....
 Unique book on knots as applied to sailing March 18, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a unique book on knots. It has a sailing perspective, but I enjoyed it and I don't sail at all. The drawings are about the best I've ever seen for knots. His chapter on splicing is so clear that you will turn in a good eye splice the first time you try! A classic
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