by Hervey Garrett Smith · Courier Corporation · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780486264400
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«The Arts of the Sailor» is Hervey Garrett Smith's seamanship manual, published by Courier Corporation in paperback (256 pages, in English).
A sailor's manual on basic skills aboard: rigging, maintenance and tools. It explains basic knots, hitches, splices, hand sewing and canvas work, as well as mooring, coiling and stowing lines or towing. With more than 100 illustrations, it includes instructions for decorative knots, ornamental covers and nets.
Reprint of the work originally published in 1953; includes an index and is illustrated by the author himself.
Intended for sailors, owners of recreational boats and those curious about maritime tradition.
