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Knots & splices / Steve Judkins and Tim Davison.
By: Judkins, Steve
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Contributor(s): Davison, Tim.
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BookPublisher: Arundel, West Sussex : Fernhurst, 1998Description: 64 p. : ill. ; 11 x 17 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 1898660476.Subject(s): Knots and splicesDDC classification: 623.8882
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| General lending | MTU National Maritime College of Ireland Library Lending | 623.8882 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00107640 | |
| General lending | MTU National Maritime College of Ireland Library Lending | 623.8882 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00107639 |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Practical step-by-step guide to tying knots - essential information for all sailors and anyone wanting to tie knots. The book gives clear, step-by-step diagrams showing how to tie knots, splices and whippings. Each knot is shown in stages, the use for the knot is given and the good and bad points are highlighted for each knot.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Terms
- Tools of the trade
- Choosing a rope
- Ten Knots Everyone Should Know
- Round turn and Two half hitches
- Clove hitch
- Figure of eight
- Reef Knot
- Bowline
- Bowline on a bight
- Sheet bend
- Double sheet bend
- Fisherman's bend/Anchor hitch
- Rolling hitch
- Other Useful Knots
- Carrick bend
- Sheepshank
- Constrictor knot
- Buntline hitch
- Surgeon's knot
- Alpine butterfly bend
- Fisherman's knot/Englishman's knot
- Cow hitch
- Cow hitch round turn and Prusik knot
- Timber hitch
- Marlinespike hitch
- Man harness knot/Artillery loop
- Trucker's hitch/Dolly knot
- Marling hitches
- Coiling a rope
- Turk's head
- Splices and Whipping
- Eye Splice
- Short Splice
- Eye in braid-on-braid rope
- Eye in braid-on-3-strand rope
- Common whipping
- Sailmaker's whipping
- Heat sealing the end of a synthetic rope