The Marlinspike Sailor

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Summary: Wonderful resource in this technical age.
Review: As a US Navy First Class Bos'n Mate, this book is a fantastic text for keeping our arts alive and accessible to the novice. This will be my second copy as the first was 'pinched' by a colleague. I have completed at least four of the projects with great results(yeah, yeah, tooting my own horn. I know). H.G. Smith helps define beauty in simplicity, form truly follows function.

Rating:
Summary: Wonderful resource in this technical age.
Review: As a US Navy First Class Bos'n Mate, this book is a fantastic text for keeping our arts alive and accessible to the novice. This will be my second copy as the first was 'pinched' by a colleague. I have completed at least four of the projects with great results(yeah, yeah, tooting my own horn. I know). H.G. Smith helps define beauty in simplicity, form truly follows function.

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Summary: A Time Honoured Classic
Review: As live-aboard cruisers, we have frequent uses for knots, bends and hitches. We have several instructional books on knotting and splicing, and the best remains "The Marlinspike Sailor" by Hervey Garrett Smith, published in 1956. Smith's explanations and illustrations stand the test of time. They are the clearest and easiest to follow of any instructions we've found. Invariably, we always pull out "The Marlinespike Sailor" when we're at loose ends!

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Summary: Excellent reference for traditional sailors
Review: Execllent overview of functional and decorative marlinspike seamanship; and clearly written by a real sailorman! Not very deep in any individual area, but highly useful to the novice. I actually made a few items using the instructions, they worked

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Summary: Excellent reference for traditional sailors
Review: Execllent overview of functional and decorative marlinspike seamanship; and clearly written by a real sailorman! Not very deep in any individual area, but highly useful to the novice. I actually made a few items using the instructions, they worked

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Summary: Worth its weight in Salt
Review: In a category with few other references, The Marlinespike Sailor is the go-to guide when you have time for fancy work projects. The step-by-step illustrations are nicely rendered and the descriptions and lore are amusing. Any REAL Bosun's Mate should have a copy in his possession. Its one of those things you don't pull out too often, but when you or a friend need a good "how-to" for making a coachwhipping or a plaited sennit, its priceless.

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Summary: A necessary resource for the traditional boatowner!
Review: Marlinspike Sailor is a "must" for anyone interested in making all the little extras that finish off a traditional wooden boat (rope ladders, fenders, baggywrinkle, etc.). The directions for each project are clear and well-illustrated; the end result is usually very nice!

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Summary: No doubt a must own!
Review: The cream of the crop. Very usefull information for all mariners. Excelent explainations and drawings, get it.

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Summary: No doubt a must own!
Review: The cream of the crop. Very usefull information for all mariners. Excelent explainations and drawings, get it.

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Summary: A Classic.
Review: This is essential reading for anyone who wants to work with laid line. It's a collection of articles first published in The Rudder in the 1950s, so synthetic and braided line are treated as afterthoughts, if at all.