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The marlinspike sailor / by Hervey Garrett Smith.

by Smith, Hervey Garrett.

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Camden, Me. : International Marine, 1993.

Marlinspike seamanship.

Knots and splices.

x, 131 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

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 of 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 -- Snythetic fibres and their characteristics -- Basic eye splice -- Standard end for end -- Back splice.

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