 | Eagle Seamanship: A Manual for Square-Rigger Sailing by Edwin H. Daniels
Buy new: $21.95 / Used from: $10.98 The manual for the USCG training ship Eagle.
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 | Seamanship in the Age of Sail: An Account of the Shiphandling of the Sailing Man-Of-War 1600-1860, Based on Contemporary Sources by John H. Harland
Buy used from: $124.99 Expensive, but highly readable and detailed.
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 | The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor : Or a Key to the Leading of Rigging and to Practical Seamanship by Darcy Lever
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $11.18 The standard manual in the era of the Napoleonic Wars.
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 | Master and Commander (Reprint) (Vol. Book 1) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) by Patrick O'Brian
Buy new: $16.32 / Used from: $7.96 The well-known series is meticulously accurate in its portrayal of ship-handling.
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 | The Way of a Ship (Hudson River Edition) by Alan Villiers
Buy used from: $25.00 Recommended by Philip Bolger, eclectic yacht designer, as a guide for his design "Brigantine".
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 | The Seamans Friend: A Treatise on Practical Seamanship by Richard Henry Dana Jr.
Buy new: $9.31 / Used from: $3.40 The author of Two Years Before the Mast outlines practical aspects of seamanship. The England edition is the "Seaman's Manual".
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 | The Marlinspike Sailor by Hervey Garrett Smith
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $9.50 It teaches a few basic knots--the bowline, sheet bend, and rolling hitch, among others--and splices in three-strand and braided rope. But its real business is decorative rope and canvaswork.
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 | The Complete Rigger's Apprentice: Tools and Techniques for Modern and Traditional Rigging by Brion Toss
Buy new: $26.37 / Used from: $21.34 The definitive book on the art of rigging, written by its most entertaining practitioner.
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 | Sailmaker's Apprentice by Emiliano Marino
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $13.79 An illustrated tour of the world's rig and sail types, contemporary and historical.
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| Practical Junk Rig by H. G. Hasler
Buy used from: $55.45 The definitive work on the fore-and-aft Chinese junk rig.
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