Nautical Knots and Lines Illustrated

With simple step-by-step instructions, this book offers 20 of the most useful knots and rope handling techniques that anyone will need aboard. In addition to the bowline, reef knot, sheet bend and clove hitch, the authors also show how to coil halyards, heave lines ashore, coil sheets for stowage, undo winch overrides and handle mooring lines.;Instructions are also given for the use of modern materials from Dacron to Spectra, which are stronger but more slippery.