Sailmaker's Apprentice

by Emiliano Marino

Learn how to design, make, repair, improve, and maintain sails

If you want to produce sturdy sails for daysailing and cruising, built of low-tech materials you can repair with a few simple tools, The Sailmaker's Apprentice can show you how. Emphasizing the handwork that distinguishes the highest-quality, most durable sails, sail pro Emiliano Marino tells you how to select a rig, introduces you to sail shape and theory, and then shows you -- step...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0071376429
• ISBN13: 9780071376426
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: International Marine Publishing
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Sailmaker's Apprentice

Extremely complete, well written with many options for your sailplains. Great illustrations and confidence building instructions.

Must have for all sailors!

This is by far the most invaluable book that I think should be a part of every sailors book inventory. Very concise, easy to understand and packed full of information.

Another great book

Just buy it, no mater if you're into making sails or not. I plan to be (for my self), and it's really been a gold mine so far. Goes good with "Rigger's apprentice".

Sail Maker's Apprentice

An exhaustive work on making sails. The author is maticulous and does not cut corners. Makes good reading not only as a handbook, but also as a history of sail making.

Helping you to be self sufficient

This wonderful book isn't intended to teach you about modern, complex, computer designed sails, or how to make them. Marino wants you to be able to repair and maintain your sails yourself. He wants you to understand how to sew a flat tabling, how to stick a cringle, how to sew on a boltrope. If you are adventurous, he will tell you how to completely make a sail for your boat, one that will last many, many years, but frankly very few people will ever make their own sails. But starting with a great beginner's project, the ditty bag, he shows you that traditional sailmaking is just a collection of readily understandable tasks, and then the repetition of those tasks, done with care and patience. Highly welcome and recommended in this age of multiple laminate fabrics and computer designed sails cut out by lasers. If that's what sailing is to you, look elsewhere.