MRB Essentials Everything you need to know about old sail boats Volume 3

MRB Essentials Everything you need to know about old sail boats Volume 3

Contents :

Ropes :

• making flat halyards
• how to moor and coil ropes
• making a rope fender
• making "choucanes"

Fishing tackle :

• fishing tackle
• making lobster traps
• manufacture of classic lobster traps
• making Cotentin lobster traps

For more realism :

• wood aging
• imitation rust
• sail staining
• manufacture of sail hooks
• barrels

To finish with hull:

• building a hull on a template
• stapling planking
• strake taper
• strake cutting jig
• rudder: seamless fittings
• mini clamps for planking installation
• cleats and belaying pins

Sailing :

• how to improve jib and staysail handling
• control heel

Construction: a swallow named freedom