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The Complete Rigger's Apprentice: Tools and Techniques for Modern and Traditional Rigging

The Complete Rigger's Apprentice: Tools and Techniques for Modern and Traditional Rigging
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The Complete Rigger's Apprentice: Tools and Techniques for Modern and Traditional Rigging

 
 
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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 the knots a sailor needs are all here. It's a book for sailors who want the satisfaction and hard-cash savings of stepping their own masts, inspecting and maintaining their own rigs, and turning their own tailsplices and wire eyesplices. It is for boatowners who want to replace an entire gang of rigging themselves--measuring, choosing appropriate wire, turning soft eyes, leathering, and serving. It is for bluewater voyagers who want to feel secure in the knowledge that, should a shroud carry away far at sea, they will be able to repair it.

The Complete Rigger's Apprentice is also a free-roaming collection of useful ideas and tips on everything from supplementing winches with block and tackle, to rigging snubbers at anchor, to using pantyhose for an emergency fanbelt. In short, it's the definitive book on the art of rigging, written by its most entertaining practitioner.


Product Details
Author:Brion Toss
Hardcover:392 pages
Publisher:International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
Publication Date:August 01, 1997
Language:English
ISBN:0070648409
Package Length:9.2 inches
Package Width:7.6 inches
Package Height:1.4 inches
Package Weight:1.85 pounds
Average Customer Rating: based on 17 reviews

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0 of 1 found the following review helpful:

3The Rigger's Apprentice  Jan 04, 2009
The Complete Rigger's Apprentice: Tools and Techniques for Modern and Traditional Rigging

Though there is much valuable information in this book, I found Toss's explanations of how to tie knots and do splices--especially splices--difficult to follow, at best. Sometimes his explanations (especially of splicing braided ropes), coupled with confusing illustrations, were unfathomable. At the same time, I highly recommend his DVDs on the same subject. He does an excellent job of demonstrating in person and explaining verbally how to splice.

0 of 1 found the following review helpful:

5Brian Toss Rigger's Apprentice  Nov 18, 2008
Awsome book should be on everybody's boat. It is an unbeliveable welth of information.Easy to read and follow. Can't say enough good things about it. The folks at Amazon did what they said they would do book showed up at my door in 2 days very pleasant expierence.

1 of 1 found the following review helpful:

5An excellent reference  Jun 05, 2008
If you want to simply understand how and your boat is rigged the way it is or you are doing your own work this is the book with which you must start,and probably, finish.

1 of 2 found the following review helpful:

5Exellent teacher  Feb 25, 2008
There's no reason not to buy this book, but a lot of them to buy it. Especially if you are into sailing and/or building boats.
Goes good with "Sailmakers's apprentice".
So buy them both. Why not?

1 of 6 found the following review helpful:

2The Complete Rigger's Apprentice: Tools and Techniques for Modern and Traditional Rigging  Nov 10, 2006
to basic ok for sailboats not much for other rigging

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