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Available
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Publication
Dover Publications (2012), Edition: Reprint, Paperback, 256 pages
Description
A maritime expert offers boating and yachting enthusiasts a complete course in rigging, working, and maintaining a ship. The perfect shipboard reference, this volume is packed with useful "hands-on" information: sailor's tools, basic knots, and useful hitches; handsewing and canvas work; and dozens of other topics important to safety, economy, and efficiency. Over 100 illustrations.
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LibraryThing member Whiskey3pa
Heavily overlaps "The Marlinspike Sailor". Most readers could probably do with either book. The writing is good and the content useful. It is a trove of nautical knowledge and skills.
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Original publication date
1953
Physical description
256 p.; 5.51 x 0.51 inches
ISBN
0486264408 / 9780486264400
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