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" Reeds knot handbook : "
Jim Whippy.
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BL
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749621
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b569580
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Jim Whippy.
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Reeds knot handbook : : a pocket guide to knots, hitches and bends\ Jim Whippy.
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1st ed
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London : Adlard Coles Nautical, 2011
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(128 pages :) : illustrations
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1408139529
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: 9781408139523
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Includes index.
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| Contents
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Cover"; "Copyright"; "Contents"; "INTRODUCTION"; "Fibres, tools, terms and techniques"; "OVERHAND KNOTS AND HITCHES"; "Albright special"; "Boom hitch"; "Buntline hitch"; "Double overhand knot"; "Fireman�s chair knot"; "Fisherman�s knot"; "Hunter�s bend"; "Overhand shortening"; "Perfection loop"; "Reef knot"; "Round turn and two half hitches"; "Taut-line hitch"; "Zeppelin bend"; "FIGURE-OF-EIGHT KNOTS"; "Figure-of-eight knot"; "Figure-of-eight bend"; "Figure-of-eight hitch"; "Flemish bend"; "Stevedore�s knot"; "BOWLINES AND BENDS" "Bowline""Bowline on a bight"; "Heaving line bend"; "Inuit bowline"; "Lapp knot"; "Round-turn bowline"; "Sheet bend"; "Simple simon"; "Twin bowline bend"; "Water bowline"; "CROSSING KNOTS"; "Clove hitch in the bight"; "Ground-line hitch"; "Rolling hitch"; "Pole lashing"; "Sailor�s gripping hitch"; "Snuggle hitch"; "WRAP AND TUCK KNOTS"; "Angler�s loop"; "Common rope seizing"; "Common whipping"; "Constrictor knot"; "Heaving line knot"; "Jack Ketch�s knot"; "Perfected whipping"; "Scaffold knot"; "Triple fisherman�s knot" "OTHER USEFUL KNOTS""Alpine butterfly knot"; "Carrick bend"; "Catspaw"; "Halyard hitch"; "Jury mast knot"; "Knute knot"; "Lighterman�s hitch"; "Monkey�s fist"; "Mooring hitch"; "Ossel knot"; "Post hitch"; "Index"
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Part of the bestselling Reeds Skipper's Handbook series, this handy pocket guide presents the most useful knots and splices for onboard (and dockside) use. Each knot will have a double page spread with step by step photos plus a tying diagram, accompanied by carefully explained instructions on how to tie the knot plus its most appropriate uses (for example - is it strong enough not to stretch or slip? Will it untie quickly in an emergency? Can it be tied with all thicknesses and types of rope?) All boaters need a repertoire of reliable knots they can use almost without thinking about them - t.
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Knots and splices.
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Ropework.
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VM533.J569 2011
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Jim Whippy
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Knot handbook
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