The Ultimate Guide to Nautical Knots

by Skyhorse Publishing, Michel Diament (Illustrator), Andy Jones Berasaluce (Translator)

Overview

A Practical and Visual Guide to the Essentials of Marine Knots! Every good sailor must know the basic knots, indispensable for his safety and life on board in general.

This handy little manual offers you the opportunity to master the essentials of knot-tying, with clearly illustrated step-by-step instructions. The Ultimate Guide to Nautical Knots focuses on 22 vital knots, including: 

• Bowline
• Figure Eight Knot
• Cleat Hitch 
• Thief Knot

This is a great introduction to the art of seamanship. Its simple and concrete step-by-step instructions will enable you to have a good time and have you tying knots in no time.

The Ultimate Guide to Nautical Knots is a great introduction to ropework and a seaman's essential companion; make it yours, too!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781510759282
Publisher:	Skyhorse
Publication date:	05/18/2020
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	66
Sales rank:	311,340
File size:	14 MB
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About the Author

Skyhorse Publishing is a prominent independent book publisher. We publish a wide variety of outdoor books for sailors, boaters, fishermen, hikers, and anyone else who loves the outdoors. 
When Diament became interested in signs and symbols, in these forms of language, obscure to the uninitiated and limpid to those belonging to the ethnic group, the profession, the corporation concerned, that he began to tell us stories by assembling them in successive layers on his compositions of bright and strong colors, he had not yet realized the unconscious motive of his research. This exhaustive search for the symbol brought him inexorably closer to his innermost truth. Carried away by a series of strange coincidences, improbable encounters, his originally graphic project only entered another dimension ...

Table of Contents

Vocabulary 5

Knots 9

Bowline Knot 10

Bowline Bend Knot 12

Running Bowline 14

Figure Eight Knot 16

Clove Hitch 18

Round Turn and Two Half Hitches 20

Cleat Hitch 22

Rolling Hitch 24

Overhand Loop 26

Thief Knot 28

Heaving Line Knot 32

Whipping Knot 35

Square Knot 38

Reef Knot 40

Sheet Bend 42

Double Sheet Bend 44

Carrick Bend 46

Fisherman's Knot 48

Anchor Bend 50

Angler's Loop 53

Coil 57

Monkey's Fist 60