A Practical Manual for the Amateur
by Alan Gray
From the Foreword by the author. "In this work the subject has been treated in very comprehensive fashion, with the accent on practice instead of theory, with the object of enabling amateurs to really produce serviceable sails by the simplest acceptable methods. Gaff sails are not treated . . . . Every effort has been made to follow professional practice wherever feasible, for if one is going to all the trouble of making a sail one might as well learn the right way to do all the little jobs, instead of being satisfied with crude short-cuts. The results will justify the labor.. . . The important point is that you can make a usable sail from this book!" The contents include: Sails and Sail Cloth; The Shaping of Sails; How to Make a Mainsail; Sewing Sails by Machine; Hand Sewing; Worked Holes and Grommets; Jibs; Spinnakers; Sail Repairs--Darns and Patches and Care and Handling of Sails. Ninety illustrations. We also publishg Gray's other work, Marconi Rigging and Sailmaking.
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