The Splicing Handbook: Techniques for Modern and Traditional Ropes, Second Edition

Merry, Barbara; Dugard, Martin

ISBN 10: 0071354387 / ISBN 13: 9780071354387

Published by International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press (edition 2), 2000

About this Item

The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Splicing Handbook: Techniques for Modern and Traditional Ropes, Second Edition
• Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press (edition 2)
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0071354387
• ISBN 13: 9780071354387
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 2.
• Condition: Fair

About this title

Synopsis

The only book devoted completely to slicing today's ropes, this fully illustrated, step-by-step guide has been expanded and enhanced in this new edition and now covers wire splices, and splices in Spectra and Kevlar ropes as well as Dacron braid and traditional three-strand. The Splicing Handbook includes every splice project a boater will ever need.

About the Author

Barbara Merry is a marine rope worker with twenty years of experience in the splicing trade. Founder and owner of the Marlinspike Artist in Wakefield, Rhode Island, she has worked on projects for boats of all sizes, from small traditional sailing craft and working schooners to commercial fishing vessels and U.S. Coast Guard cutters. She has taught at the WoodenBoat School and the Northeast Maritime Institute, and has written on rope and rope technology for WoodenBoat and Invention and Technology. John Darwin, a master of rope technology, sailed in many capacities from deckhand to captain before working shoreside for a large rope manufacturer. A former rope designer, John still tests and fabricates rope.