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Summary: Good selection of usefull and decrotive knots - easy inst.
Review: The book has a large selection of knots for both practical and decorative applications. The instructions and illustrations are excellent showing all the steps to produce each knot.
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Summary: A Sailing Instructor's Choice of a Knot Book
Review: The fastest way for a crewman on a sailboat to demonstrate his or her skills to a new skipper, or to fellow crew members onboard a yacht is to teach them the correct way to tie a knot or to teach them a useful new knot. Nothing builds credibility faster onboard a boat. Long ago I decided to be better at knots than anyone else I knew. It paid big dividends. This was my first choice for a knot book. It is the book I recommend to every one of my sailing students. You will need two 6' pieces of rope, of different thicknesses, a 20' or longer section for practice coiling line. Practice knots in front of your TV set during commercials. It won't take any time out of your life and you will improve. I still carry my original practice line--a 35' piece of 6 mm line, in my life jacket, which is always useful onboard. So, learn how to tie these knots consistently, and quickly--even with your eyes closed. While you do it keep in mind anything you tie should be easy to untie. The only thing I did not like was author's method for coiling and crowning line. It is pretty, but too cumbersome to untie.
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Summary: Very Descriptive
Review: The Morrow Guide to Knots is a wonderfully descriptive instruction manual to tie many useful and also decorative knots. The photographs combined with the text instructions allow nearly everyone to follow the steps needed to tie some of the more complex knots. As one reviewer noted, the taut-line hitch is missing from the book, but one will note that the taut-line hitch is simply the rolling hitch (included in the Morrow Guide) made on its own rope.
This is a wonderful book that anyone interested in both useful and decorative knots should own.
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Summary: Excellent and practical basic knot book
Review: This book makes an excellent selection of knots. Four stopper knots, including ways of making them in series; eight hitches, including very thorough coverage of various ways to tie the clove hitch including under tension; eight loops; four running knots; eight bends; seven knots for eye hooks; five knots for flatted hooks; two bends and a stopper knot for fishing line; two fishing line loops; two swivel hitches, and quite a few decorative knots.So this is not 70 knots for the sailor, since quite a few are for fishing, but it's a really solid core of knots for sailing. I'm not well able to judge its broadness for the fisherman but it certainly seems to cover the bases. The pictures are good, the instructions are good... you really couldn't want anything more except for the book to stay open more easily. But, there's no way they could have accomplished that while giving you so many pages (254) in a compact book you can easily take with you. This book is an excellent buy.
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Summary: The Morrow Guide to Knots
Review: This is the best book on knots I have seen. Convenient in size, 4in. x 6in., it is easily stowed on board. There are several pictures of each knot as you are guided through the intricacies of tying it. Outstanding color photographs, with two colors utilized when the book illustrates the uniting of two different lines. Wonderful for teaching youngsters, and an excellent reference work for the experienced sailor. Makes a special trophy award for the boat race winner. I own a lot of books on knots, but this is absolutely the best.
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Summary: An excellent presentation of very useful knots
Review: This is very instructive book that shows with clear photographs and concise but clear explanations how to tie mostly basic but useful knots. The sections are divided in utility knots, knots for the fisherman and decorative and applied knots. Particularly practical is the section of knots for the fisherman, with knots that will solve any fisherman emergency from knots for eye hooks to knots used to join two pieces of line. Beginning with an explanation of how to take care of the ropes and some interesting behavioral facts about knots like: that a knot uniting two ropes reduces the strength of the unit to about half that of the weaker rope. The authors present each knot with a short description and practical recommendations for their use. The instructive value of this book is shown in the simple fact that when for tying a knot there is more than one rope involved each rope has a different color avoiding in this way any possible confusion. I really enjoyed the book, without any doubt this book would be of invaluable help and necessary reference for any camper, fisherman or sailing enthusiast. So just practice, and become an expert in those four or five knots that will let you overcome any emergency, remembering that a knot must be an element of safety rather than a dangerous complication.
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Summary: Colourful and easy to understand
Review: Well worth buying this book. A practical guide with lots of colour pictures of detail steps and completed kots. The guide is comprehensive and have 70 different knots, from utility knots, fisherman knots and beautiful decorative knots. I would recommend this to anyone, from a knot hobbiest to a serious outdoor adventurer.
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