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The Marlinspike Sailor Soft cover - 1993 - 1st Edition
by Smith, Hervey Garrett
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- Title The Marlinspike Sailor
- Author Smith, Hervey Garrett
- Illustrator Hervey Garrett Smith Artist
- Binding Soft cover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition Reprint Edition
- Condition New
- Pages 144
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher International Marine/McGraw Hill, Camden Maine
- Date 1993
- Bookseller's Inventory # 016333
- ISBN 9780070592186 / 0070592187
- Weight 0.77 lbs (0.35 kg)
- Dimensions 11 x 8.57 x 0.3 in (27.94 x 21.77 x 0.76 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Marline spike seamanship
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 93025448
- Dewey Decimal Code 623.88
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From the rear cover
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.