Knots You Need to Know: Easy-to-Follow Guide to the 30 Most Useful Knots (The Handy Boater) - Softcover

Skills Institute Press

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1565235894 ISBN 13: 9781565235892

Verlag: Fox Chapel Publishing, 2011

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This guidebook with basic seaman knots and fancy rope work is great for Boy Scouts and boaters alike. Rope is an essential tool to boaters, campers, hikers and other outdoor enthusiasts. Knowing the proper way to tie knots is important. With a little practice, anyone can learn how to tie the strongest knot.

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John Kelsey is a journalist, an editor, and a writer specializing in woodworking and furniture making. He is a former editor in chief of Fine Woodworking magazine, the author of Furniture Projects for the Deck and Lawn and Kid Crafts: Woodworking, and the editorial director for Fox Chapel Publishing.

John Kelsey is a journalist and editor specializing in woodworking and furniture making. He has a degree in woodworking and furniture design from the School for American Craft at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is a former editor in chief of Fine Woodworking magazine and a publisher of woodworking and home building books at the Taunton Press. He is the author of Furniture Projects for the Deck and Lawn. He lives in Newtown, Connecticut.

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Learn the Ropes of Knot TyingRope is a boater's most essential tool and knowing the proper way to tie knots with it- whether to keep an anchor in place, provide a skipper with a firm grip on the helm, or secure the tack of a sail- is an important part of spending time on the water.The Handy Boater: Knots You Need to Know, will teach you how to tie a variety of functional knots with easy-to-follow instructions, and detailed illustrations and photos. Nine of the most important utilitarian knots are included, such as the Figure Eight, the Square Knots, a Portuguese Bowline, a Jug Sling, the Monkey's Fist, the Turk's Head, the Matthew Walker, the Wall Knot, the Crown Knot, and the Tack Knot. Also included are instructions for making a rope ladder and a braided rope lanyard. If you are a sailor, you will also learn how to secure lines with easy bends and hitches. With a littler practive, learning how to tie the strongest knot can be mastered by anyone.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Fox Chapel Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1565235894
• ISBN 13: 9781565235892
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 96
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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