The Complete Riggers Apprentice Tools And Techniques For Modern And Traditional Rigging

Author : Brion Toss
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 0071791574
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Rigger's Apprentice: Tools and Techniques for Modern and Traditional Rigging written by Brion Toss and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 1997-08-22 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining and updating the renowned Rigger's Apprentice and Rigger's Locker, meets the changing face of modern materials and technology while remaining true to rigging's best traditional principles and practices. It's much more than a knot book, though the knots a sailor needs are all here. It's a book for sailors who want the satisfaction and hard-cash savings of stepping their own masts, inspecting and maintaining their own rigs, and turning their own tailsplices and wire eyesplices. It is for boatowners who want to replace an entire gang of rigging themselves--measuring, choosing appropriate wire, turning soft eyes, leathering, and serving. It is for bluewater voyagers who want to feel secure in the knowledge that, should a shroud carry away far at sea, they will be able to repair it. The Complete Rigger's Apprentice is also a free-roaming collection of useful ideas and tips on everything from supplementing winches with block and tackle, to rigging snubbers at anchor, to using pantyhose for an emergency fanbelt. In short, it's the definitive book on the art of rigging, written by its most entertaining practitioner.

Author : Brion Toss
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 0071849777
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Rigger's Apprentice: Tools and Techniques for Modern and Traditional Rigging, Second Edition written by Brion Toss and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2016-09-09 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised and updated—the only book you need on sailboat rigging and marlinspike arts The Complete Rigger’s Apprentice, Second Edition offers today’s marine professionals a complete, up-to-date resource on today’s rigging best practices and traditions. This expanded edition features new material on multihull rig design, how to make and use soft-shackles, and the latest information on Sta-Lok (mechanical) terminals. In addition to sharing traditional rigging methods, new techniques are taught here, for the first time, including how to work with today’s high-modulus fibers for both running and standing rigging. Continuing its tradition, this book helps you gain satisfaction and hard-cash savings from stepping your own masts, inspecting and maintaining your own rigs, and turning your own tail splices and wire eye splices. Easy-to-understand explanations demonstrate how to make hundreds of pieces of handmade gear, which saves you hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of dollars.

Author : Jan-Willem Polman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472924916
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Splicing Modern Ropes written by Jan-Willem Polman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The time when every vessel going to sea made use of 3-strand rope has gone. Splicing that type of rope and cord is relatively straightforward. Nowadays the most common type of rope used on board yachts, dinghies, motorboats, working boats and ferries is braided rope. Few people have the knowledge to splice it, or even where to start. Splicing Modern Ropes is the first guide to this essential skill. It explains why splices are better – and stronger – than knots or shackles for joining or shortening rope, and how to go about it. With this skill, yachtsmen can customise their ropes, optimise their deck layout, taper their sheets for ease of handling, and splice an extra cover on their ropes to give better grip, avoid chafe and make them last longer. Using clear, step-by-step photography and detailed instructions, this book will guide readers through all the stages required to make strong, reliable splices.

Author : Emiliano Marino
Publisher : International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
ISBN 13 : 9780071376426
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sailmaker's Apprentice written by Emiliano Marino and published by International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press. This book was released on 2001-03-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to design, make, repair, improve, and maintain sails If you want to produce sturdy sails for daysailing and cruising, built of low-tech materials you can repair with a few simple tools, The Sailmaker's Apprentice can show you how. Emphasizing the handwork that distinguishes the highest-quality, most durable sails, sail pro Emiliano 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 over 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. A visual feast for the sailor as well as an indispensable guide for the mariner comprehensive apprenticeship, this hands-on reference is an illustrated tour of the world's rig and sail types, contemporary and historical.

Author : Brian Toss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780071555609
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rigger's Apprentice written by Brian Toss and published by . This book was released on 1987-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rigger's Apprentice is not just another knot book, even though the knots a sailor needs are all here. Nor is it a survey of rigs, for the subject is rigging itself: its principles and procedures. Seizings, lashings, double sheet bends, grommets, wire splices, handybillies--all these are traditional techniques whose usefulness is valid even on modern, high-tech boats. Toss tells how to replace an entire gang of rigging--measuring, choosing appropriate wire, turning soft eyes, leathering, and serving. And if you are a bluewater voyager, you'll feel secure in the knowledge that, should a shroud carry away far at sea, you'll be able to repair it.

Author : Cruising Club of America. Technical Committee
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393033113
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desirable and Undesirable Characteristics of Offshore Yachts written by Cruising Club of America. Technical Committee and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1987 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys trends in yacht design, discusses safety, modern construction techniques, spars, rigging, sails, and auxiliary equipment, and describes five good boats.

Author : John Leather
Publisher : WoodenBoat Books
ISBN 13 : 9780937822678
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gaff Rig Handbook written by John Leather and published by WoodenBoat Books. This book was released on 2001-01-11 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historical development & practical application of this traditional rig are thoroughly covered.

Author : Danilo Fabbroni
Publisher : Wiley
ISBN 13 : 9780470725689
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rigging written by Danilo Fabbroni and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2008-06-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An easy, step-by-step guide containing everything you need to know about standing and running rigging on a boat.

Author : Roger D. Taylor
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0955803527
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mingming & the Art of Minimal Ocean Sailing written by Roger D. Taylor and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book covers three extraordinary voyages in the tiny yacht Mingming, carrying on from where Voyages of a Simple Sailor left off.

Author : William G. Seifert
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 0071705929
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Offshore Sailing: 200 Essential Passagemaking Tips written by William G. Seifert and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2001-11-26 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a book that is sure to become a classic, internationally respected boatbuilder, yacht manager, and delivery skipper Bill Seifert shares his hard-won solutions to a host of boat design, construction, and equipment issues and seamanship dilemmas. Unlike other books on the subject, Offshore Sailing doesn’t just tell readers what to do for safe and comfortable passage making; it shows them how to do it with clear, step-by-step instructions and nearly 200 detailed drawings and photographs.