"The book's clear, sequential photographs include all the basics, including bends, splices, and line-handling tips." - Ocean Navigator "Teaches the 20 most useful knots and splices with wonderful step-by-step photographs. Almost every knot is pictured on two facing pages, so the entire sequence is right before you." - The Ensign "Its illustrations on how the knots are tied are among the best I have seen." - Mariner's Log "More than knots, [this book] is about rope and its uses on boats." - Dockside "This is a book for beginners - and a fine one at that." - Cruising Club News

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Acknowledgments Introduction Synthetic Fabrics Used in Rope Rope Care and Safety Rope Construction Explanation of Procedure and Terms Used Knots Used on Board Figure-of-Eight Overhand Knot Making Fast to a Cleat Half Hitch Two Half Hitches Reef Knot Clove Hitch (Crossing) Clove Hitch (Temporary) Rolling Hitch Becket Hitch Starting Technique Sheet Bend Bowline (Fixed Loop) Bowline (Around Fixed Object) Carrick Bend Bowline in a Bight Draw Hitch Constrictor Trucker's Hitch Towboat Hitch Eye Splice (Three-Stranded) All About Coils How to Make Coils Safe Common Coil Cleat Coil Gasket Coil Stowage Coil Utility Line Stowage Modern Deck Hardware Winches Overriding Turns Sheet Winches, Hauling In Halyard Drum Winches, Hoisting Sheet Winch--Paying Out Halyard Drum Winches--Lowering Picking Up a Mooring Bending Flag Halyard to Flagstaff Heaving a Line Whipping Cutting Rope Docking Lines The Yacht Tender Hoisting Aboard Chain Hitch Glossary of Nautical Terms Line-Handling Commands