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ISBN10: 0071463216 | ISBN13: 9780071463218
ISBN10: 0071463216
ISBN13: 9780071463218
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Cobranded with one of the nation’s leading boating educators and richly illustrated with 200 fine drawings, this handy little how-to has something for every mariner. The essentials of the boater’s repertoire are here—the bowline, the sheet bend, the clove hitch, etc.—but so are such lesser-known gems as the hawser bend, the cow hitch, and many more.
Acknowledgments
1.Marlinespike Seamanship: An Introduction
2.Marlinespike Seamanship Terminology
Parts of a Line
Basic Rope Configurations
Bight
Turn
Jam Turn
Round Turn
Overhand Loop
Underhand Loop
Half Hitch
Breaking Strength Versus Working Strength
Knots Weaken Rope
Knots, Bends, Hitches, and Splices
3.Working with Rope
Rope Materials
Rope Construction
Laid Rope
Single-Braid Rope
Double-Braid Rope
Parallel-Core Rope
Common Rope Uses Aboard
Cutting Rope
Cold Cutting
Heat Cutting
Joining Rope
Using Heat
Using Glue
Dyeing Rope
Equipment for Dyeing Rope
Dyeing Method
Line Ends (Whipping Lines)
Seizing Lines
Care of Line
Proper Line Storage
Marlinespike Seamanship Tools
4.Knots
Rope Ends (Stopper Knots)
Overhand Knot
Slipped Overhand Knot (Slip Knot)
Figure-Eight Knot
Stevedore Knot
Blood Knot
Heaving Line Knot
Monkey's Fist
Loop Knots
Bowline
Bowline on a Bight
Slipped Bowline
Angler’s Loop (Perfection Knot)
Painter’s Bowline
Spanish Bowline
Japanese Bowline
Three-Part Crown Knot
True Lover’s Knot (Clover Knot or Cross Knot)
Japanese Success Knot
Jury Mast Knot
5.Bends
Sheet Bend
Double Sheet Bend
Becket Bend (Becket Hitch)
Carrick Bend
Hawser Bend
Reef (Square) Knot
6. Hitches
Attaching Hitches
Round Turn with Two Half Hitches
Clove Hitch (for tall piles)
Clove Hitch (for short piles)Cleat Hitch
Anchor Bend (a Hitch)
Rolling Hitch
Buntline Hitch
Slipped Buntline Hitch
Tugboat Hitch (Bitt Hitch)
Lark’s Head (Cow Hitch)
Inside Cow Hitch
Jar Sling
Gathering Hitches
Binder’s Loop
Sack Knot (Twice-Turned)
Sack Knot (Thrice-Turned)
Strangle Knot
Constrictor Knot
7.Splices
Rope Ends
Back Splice
Wall and Crown Knot
Matthew Walker Knot
Connecting Ropes
Short Splice
Long Splice
Spliced Eyes
Eye Splice (Laid Rope)
Eye Splice (Double-Braid Rope)
Eye Splice in the Middle of Laid Line
8.Decorative Knots
Line Ends
Turk’s Head
Crown Sennit
Tack Knot
Star Knot
Bell Rope Sennit
Cockscombing
Toggle Knots
Toggled Reef Knot
Toggled Lark’s Head
Toggle and Becket
Bibliography
Glossary
Index
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