Master Traditional Maritime Arts with Harvey Garrett Smith's Classic Guide
Few writers, or perhaps even sailors, can rival Harvey Garrett Smith when it comes to thoroughly understanding and articulating the many traditional arts of maritime culture. Originally published in 1953, this slim but comprehensive volume is the perfect shipboard reference for today's yachters and boaters as well as any landlocked souls who dream of the sea.
Comprehensive Maritime Skills and Techniques
In this one of a kind treatise on maritime skills and practices, Smith offers a master class on how to rig, work, and maintain a ship. With over 100 illustrations accompanying Smith's salt-soaked prose, you'll have no trouble grasping the ins and outs of handling a ship, the various sailor's tools, a wide range of knots and hitches, as well as the art of splicing, hand sewing, and canvas work. Further subjects include proper coiling, stowing, and belaying techniques, proper towing procedure, net making, and decorative knot-tying.
What You'll Learn
This Dover Maritime edition covers essential seamanship techniques including rigging and ship maintenance, sailor's tools and their proper use, knots and hitches for every maritime application, splicing techniques for rope work, hand sewing and canvas work methods, coiling, stowing, and belaying procedures, proper towing techniques, net making fundamentals, and decorative knot-tying applications.
Perfect for Sailors and Maritime Enthusiasts
Whether you're an active yachter, recreational boater, or maritime history enthusiast, this handbook provides practical instruction in traditional rope work and seamanship. The detailed illustrations make each technique accessible, while Smith's authoritative writing reflects decades of maritime experience.
With The Arts of the Sailor in your quarters, you'll be able to handle anything the high seas can throw your way.
