An illustrated guide to the methods and materials involved in knotting and splicing rope, includes historical and scientific background information.

A practical pocket sized guide that provides comprehensive and easy-to-follow instructions for tying hundreds of knots. Knots have hundreds of practical applica

The perfect shipboard reference, this volume is packed with useful "hands-on" information: sailor's tools, basic knots, and useful hitches; handsewing and canva

More than one hundred precise, step-by-step drawings augment instructions in tying all the basic nautical knots, in splicing, hitching, and rigging, and in all