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Synopsis
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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"The Splicing Handbook is particularly helpful in explaining--and showing with simple, straightforward illustrations--how to manage the bewildering array of new rope materials and weaves."--Down East
"Here's a book you can read for the pleasure of knowing how splicing is accomplished. It is also a reference book that you and your crew can review when tackling a . . . specialty splicing job."--Shoreline
The only reference devoted entirely to splicing today's ropes, this new and expanded edition includes step-by-step illustrations and explanations for the most useful and popular splices in traditional twisted and modern braided ropes. Now covers eery kind of splicing project a boater is likely to encounter, including modern cordage such as Spectra, and wire and rope-to-wire splices.
About the Author
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.
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- PublisherA & C Black
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0713668466
- ISBN 13 9780713668469
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number2
- Number of pages160
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