The Marlinspike Sailor by Hervey Garrett Smith. This book teaches a few basic knots and splices, but its real business is decorative rope and canvas work- the traditional arts of the sailor-and here it has no equal. For making a rope mat, rope ladder, sea chest, ditty bag, canvas bucket, mast boot, heaving line, and the best looking rope fenders in the marina, this is the book to have! 131 pages, 142 illustrations.