BOOK COVER: The Marlinspike Sailor
Softcover, 8½"x11"
144 pgs., illus.
Price: $15.95 plus s&h.

The classic reference for the sailor's arts in natural or synthetic rope, with material added on synthetic ropes. It teaches basic knots and splices in three-strand and braided rope. But its real business is decorative ropework and canvaswork - a rope mat, rope ladder, sea chest, ditty bag, canvas bucket, mast boot, heaving line or the best-looking rope fenders in the marina.