The Complete Canvasworker's Guide: How to Outfit Your Boat with Fabric / Edition 2

by Jim Grant

Overview

Now completely revised and updated, and expanded by more than fifty percent, The Complete Canvasworker's Guide, Second Edition, brings you Jim Grant's thorough step-by-step approach to constructing a nearly endless variety of attractive and functional gear for your boat. Grant, with his wife, Connie, has taught sailmaking and canvaswork for more than 20 years, and he brings an often intimidating craft within the grasp and budget of anyone from an all-thumbs beginner to a would-be professional.

Forget that canvas always used to be made of cotton. Today it is far more commonly woven of synthetic fibers: acrylic, polyester, or nylon. Here is all the information you'll need to make use of them all. Grant's no-frills approach, refined over years of answering the questions of puzzled students, is for any boatowner who wants to take needle to fabric. And as tens of thousands of proud boatowners will happily testify, it really works.

Here's what reviewers have said about The Complete Canvasworker's Guide:

"Literally every question is answered in this book."—Yachting

"Chock full of everything from basic information to a variety of ideas designed to improve, upgrade, and protect a boat."—Small Boat Journal

An immensely practical book."—Practical Boat Owner

"A concise and to-the-point workbook."—Soundings

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780070240803
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	05/01/1992
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Jim Grant is the owner of Sailrite Kits, a mail-order company supplying both amateur and professional sailmakers with quality fabrics and tools.

Table of Contents

1. The Principles of Canvaswork

2. Sea Anchors

3. Awnings and Enclosures

4. Sail and Ditty Bags

5. Bimini Boat Tops

6. Boat Covers

7. The Bosun's Chair

8. Cushions and Cushion Covers

9. Companionway Dodgers

10. Flags and Pennants

11. Trapeze and Safety Harnesses

12. Sail Covers

13. Small Covers

14. Spinnaker Socks

15. Tote Bags

16. Weather Cloths and Hatch Covers

17. Windcatchers

Appendix: Supplies

Editorial Reviews

Literally every question is answered in this book.''

Chock full of everything from basic information to a variety of ideas designed to improve, upgrade, and protect a boat.''

From the Publisher

&'grave;Literally every question is answered in this book.''

Yachting

&'grave;Chock full of everything from basic information to a variety of ideas designed to improve, upgrade, and protect a boat.''

Small Boat Journal

&'grave;An immensely practical book.''

Practical Boat Owner