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Canvaswork and Sail Repair (International Marine Sailboat Library) by Don Casey Publisher Comments The skills required for top-notch canvaswork are astonishingly few, and canvas's potential to protect your boat and enhance your enjoyment of it is practically limitless. Here is all you need to tackle virtually any canvaswork project: sails and... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover 
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The Art of Rigging by George Biddlecombe Publisher Comments The best manual ever produced on rigging a sailing ship, based on extensively revised and updated 1848 edition prepared by Biddlecombe, Master in the Royal Navy. Complete definition of terms, on-shore operations, process of rigging ships, reeving the... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Rigging: Everything You Always Wanted to Know about the Ropes and the Rigging, the Winches and the Mast of a Cruising or Racing by Danilo Fabbroni Publisher Comments Rigging covers every aspect of standing and running rigging on a boat. Danilo Fabbroni, an internationally renowned rigger with Harken, explains the various options and materials with clear illustrations and photographs. Rigging is an easy step-by-step... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Working Guide to Traditional Small-Boat Sails: A How-To Handbook for Builders and Owners by David Nichols Publisher Comments The Golden Age of Sail is long past, sadly, and much of its lore is nearly extinct. Sailboats now almost uniformly use the sloop rig-a big, triangular jib and a big, triangular mainsail. But that rig evolved mainly to meet esoteric yacht-racing... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $15.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Complete Rigger's Apprentice: Tools and Techniques for Modern and Traditional Rigging by Brion Toss Publisher Comments Combining and updating the renowned Rigger's Apprentice and Rigger's Locker, meets the changing face of modern materials and technology while remaining true to rigging's best traditional principles and practices. It's much more than a knot book, though... (read more) Your price: $39.95 New - Hardcover
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Sail Trim: Theory and Practice by Peter Hahne Publisher Comments Sail trim is the art of setting sails in response to the varying conditions of wind, waves, boat speed and desired course. Good sail trim can mean the difference between winning and losing a race or reaching harbor before the tide turns. This book... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Art of Rigging by George Biddlecombe Publisher Comments Although mastery of the art of rigging is no longer required on board today's ships, legions of serious model ship builders who wish to rig their ships correctly need to learn the art in miniature. This book is widely considered the best manual ever... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $9.72 Google eBooks - Electronic
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New Book of Sail Trim (00 Edition) by Textor Publisher Comments From the pages of Sail Magazine, comes the first new anthology in nearly 15 years on the popular subject of sail trim. Withh 44 articles that have never before appeared in book form, The New Book of Sail Trim provides concise, easy-to-understand... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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A Sail for All Seasons by Ian Nicolson Publisher Comments Contains over 150 practical tips with easy-to-follow illustrations, covering sail handling, efficient trim, easy reefing, sail modification, problem solving, and gear and rig alterations, with thorough discussions of mainsails, genoas, working jibs and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Full Cup: Sir Thomas Lipton's Extraordinary Life and His Quest for the America's Cup by Michael D'antonio Publisher Comments Today Lipton means tea. However, in his time Sir Thomas Lipton was known for much more. Raised in desperate poverty, he would build a global empire of markets, factories, plantations, and stockyards. But his epic pursuit of the America’s Cup... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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How to Trim Sails by Peter Schweer Publisher Comments This practical introduction to trimming sails is written to help owners and crew sailing on all types of boats, from dingies to offshore cruisers. It encompasses mainsail and headsails, and explains the effect of various controls on the shape and... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Sailmaker's Apprentice by Emiliano Marino Publisher Comments Learn how to design, make, repair, improve, and maintain sails If you want to produce sturdy sails for daysailing and cruising, built of low-tech materials you can repair with a few simple tools, The Sailmaker's Apprentice can show you how. Emphasizing... (read more) Your price: $25.95 New - Trade Paper
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Canoe Rig: The Essence and the Art: Sailpower for Antique and Traditional Canoes by Todd Bradshaw Your price: $34.95 New - Hardcover
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Sailmakers Apprentice a Guide for the Self by Emiliano Marino Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 477-479) and index.... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $27.50 Used - Hardcover
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Cruising Rigs & Rigging by Ross Norgrove List Price $25.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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Looking at Sails by Dick Kenny Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor by Darcy Lever List Price $30.00 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
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Canvas Work by Jeremy Howard Williams List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Looking at Sails by Bruce Banks List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Sails by Jeremy Howard Williams List Price $22.50 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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