2012 Reprint of 1953 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original
edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software.
Illustrated Edition. 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; hand sewing and canvas work; and dozens of other
topics important to safety, economy, and efficiency. Over 100
illustrations. Few twentieth-century writers could equal Hervey
Garrett Smith's works on the traditional arts of the sailor; none
could surpass them. His descriptions of knotting, splicing, fancy
work, canvas work, and the practice of marlinspike seamanship are
clear, concise, and evocative. So, too, are his drawings, which are
technically accurate, easy to follow, and a joy to behold. The
"Arts of the Sailor" is Smith's finest book, a compendium of
information that runs the gamut: the anatomy of rope, sailor's
tools, knots, hitches, splicing, whipping, wire and rope service,
hand sewing, decorative rope work, chafing gear, reefing, towing,
cleats, rope-stropped blocks, and making all sorts of gear,
including rope mats, a heaving line, a bosun's chair, and a ditty
bag.
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