The Splicing Handbook
Techniques for Modern and Traditional Ropes
Published on 31. March 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-0-7136-6846-9 (ISBN)
Description
The Splicing Handbook is the only book devoted entirely to splicing today's rope. This edition includes step by step illustrations and explanations for the most useful and popular splices using both traditional twisted and modern braided ropes. Now also covering wire splices, rope to wire splices, core to core splices, end to end splices for semi-hollow braid, splices in Spectra and Kevlar ropes as well as splices in Dacron braid, The Splicing Handbook covers every splicing project a seafarer will ever need. A classic for the bookshelf. 'A practical guide to splicing just about any kind of rope a sailor is ever likely to encounter' The Little Ship 'This covers every splicing project a yachtsman will need' Kelvin Hughes
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
150 b/w, 25 b/w photos
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
200 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7136-6846-9 (9780713668469)
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Other editions
Previous edition
Barbara Merry | John Darwin
The Splicing Handbook
Book
04/2000
2nd Edition
Adlard Coles Nautical
€32.37
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Persons
Barbara Merry is a marine rope specialist with over twenty years' experience in the splicing trade. She has worked on projects for boats of all sizes, from small traditional sailing craft to commercial fishing vessels and US Coast Guard cutters. She has taught at the WoodenBoat School and written on rope and rope technology for WoodenBoat magazine. She lives in the USA. John Darwin is a rope design and engineering consultant for New England Rope.