Sailmaker's Apprentice: A Guide For The Self-Reliant Sailor - Softcover

Marino, Emiliano

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071376429 ISBN 13: 9780071376426

Verlag: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, 2001

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With The Sailmaker's Apprentice anyone can learn to design, make, repair, improve, and maintain sails. Emphasizing the handwork that distinguishes the highest-quality, most durable sails, Marino tells you how to select a rig, introduces you to sail shape and theory, and then shows you step by step, with the help of 700 detailed illustrations, how to sew patches, hand sew rings, fix tears or frayed edges, and stitch seams, not to mention how to make your own sails, canvas sailcovers, and sailbags from scratch. His bias is toward sturdy sails for daysailing and cruising, built of low-tech materials you can repair with a few simple tools. But this book is more than a comprehensive apprenticeship; it is also an illustrated tour of the world's rig and sail types, both contemporary and historical--a visual feast for the sailor as well as an indispensable guide for the mariner.

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<p><b>Emiliano Marino</b> is a lifelong sailor and has been making sails since 1974. He has written about sailmaking and sail care in <i>Small Boat Journal</i> and <i>WoodenBoat</i>.<p><b>Christine Erikson,</b> also a sailmaker, illustrates for <i>Threads</i>, among other magazines.</p></p>

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<p>"A clearly illustrated, superb step-by-step guide."--<i>Cruising World</i><p>More than a how-to guide to designing, making, repairing, and improving sails, <i>The Sailmaker's Apprentice</i> combines 700 detailed drawings with a witty, wise, and philosophically probing commentary that is as much about living a life of self-reliance and harmony as it is about making sails. Here you will find a visual feast for the sailor as well as an indispensable guide for the mariner.<p>"The basics of traditional sailmaking . . . are artfully, lavishly, even passionately elaborated and enriched. . . . The author has created not just a new standard reference . . . but a virtual epic poem. . . . The best and most comprehensive book on sailmaking and sail repair to be published in a long time."--<i>WoodenBoat</i><p>"Reveals true mastery."--<i>Northern Mariner</i><p>"The accepted standard volume on sailmaking."--<i>Ensign</i></p></p></p></p></p>

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0071376429
• ISBN 13: 9780071376426
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 512
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Buchbär; info@buchbaer.de; ; Weberstr. 67; Osnabrück; 49084; Deutschland