The Complete Rigger's Apprentice - 2nd Ed.

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The Complete Rigger's Apprentice - 2nd Ed.

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Tools and Techniques for Modern and Traditional Rigging Revised and updated—the only book you need on sailboat rigging and marlinspike arts The Complete Rigger’s Apprentice, Second Edition offers today’s marine professionals a complete, up-to-date resource on today’s rigging best practices and traditions. This expanded edition features new material on multihull rig design, how to make and use soft-shackles, and the latest information on Sta-Lok (mechanical) terminals. In addition to sharing traditional rigging methods, new techniques are taught here, for the first time, including how to work with today’s high-modulus fibers for both running and standing rigging. Continuing its tradition, this book helps you gain satisfaction and hard-cash savings from stepping your own masts, inspecting and maintaining your own rigs, and turning your own tail splices and wire eye splices. Easy-to-understand explanations demonstrate how to make hundreds of pieces of handmade gear, which saves you hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of dollars.

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By Brian Toss If you buy only one book on rope and rigging - everything having to do with standing and running rigging, from lanyards and deadeyes to Sta-Set-X - this is the book you should buy. It's wonderfully and humorously written, with consistently great illustrations throughout. Hardbound, 1/2", 9 1/2", 432 pgs.

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Introduction
CHAPTER 1 A Rigging Primer
Rope
Two More Tools
Small Stuff—Spike Knots, Service, Seizings, Constrictors
Lashing
CHAPTER 2 Creating and Managing Tension
Rope Construction and Materials
Block and Tackle
Block Construction
Tackle Applications
Choosing Winch Power
The Come-Along
Sweating Up
Turnbuckles (The Inclined Plane)
A General Admonition to Keep Things Taut (or at Least Not Slack)
Sorting
CHAPTER 3 Friction, Part 1: Knotting
A Turn Around the Cook’s Leg
Six Hitches
Six in the Bight
Seven Bowlines
Eight Bends
A Specialist
The End of Your Rope: Stopper Knots
CHAPTER 4 Friction, Part 2: Splicing
The End of Your Rope Revisited: Multistrand Splices
Not the End of Your Rope: More Splices for Three-Strand Rope
Braided Rope Splices
Braided Rope Repairs
CHAPTER 5 Standing Rigging Design and Materials
Design Principles
Spreader Loads
Shroud Loads
Mast Strength
Wire/Rod Options
Mast Hardware
Staysails
Seaworthiness
CHAPTER 6 Loft Procedures
Measurement
The Liverpool Eyesplice Made Difficult
The 1 × 19 Wire Splice Made Possible
Notes on Crimped Wire Fittings
Grommeting
The Comforts of Service
Into Leather
The Wire Round Seizing
Mysteries of the Tail Splice Revealed
CHAPTER 7 Installation and Maintenance
Installation: Getting Ready
Stepping the Keel-Stepped Mast
Deck-Stepped Masts
Living Aloft
Topmast Installation
Ratlines
Tuning
Survey and Maintenance
CHAPTER 8 A Portfolio of Rigs
Mizzens
Mainmasts
CHAPTER 9 Emergency Procedures
CHAPTER 10 Fancy Work
Hitching
One High-Class Knife Lanyard
The Turk’s Head: Harmonic Sequence and the Sailor
CHAPTER 11 Tricks and Puzzles
The Setup
Threading a Ring
The Jumping Ring
Overhand Knot Without Letting Go
The Cut-and-Restored String
The Professor’s Nightmare
Topological Bondage
The Mobius Bowline
Circling the World
Threading the Needle
The Good Old Actual Indian Rope Trick
The Lovers
CHAPTER 12 Sheer Ingenuity
Tie-Downs
Dinghies and Tenders
Mooring and Anchoring
Halyards
Managing Sails
Chart Stowage
Lifelines and Tethers
Appendix: Additional Tables and Graphs
Appendix: Soft Shackle
Glossary
Bibliography
Sources and Resources
Index