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The kedge-anchor

Chapter 1: THE KEDGE-ANCHOR; OR, YOUNG SAILORS’ ASSISTANT.
By William N. Brady
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A practical manual offering step-by-step instructions and numerous engravings on knotting, splicing, rigging, blocks, purchases, running rigging, and other essential seamanship tasks, together with tables of spars, sails, block sizes, cordage, and cable specifications for different classes of vessels. Organized into sections that catalog individual knots, splices, fittings, and small-boat evolutions, it focuses on hands-on technique, materials, and measurements to instruct novice seamen and to serve as a concise reference for more experienced officers and merchant mariners.

THE
KEDGE-ANCHOR;
OR,
YOUNG SAILORS’ ASSISTANT.

APPERTAINING TO THE PRACTICAL EVOLUTIONS OF MODERN SEAMANSHIP,
RIGGING, KNOTTING, SPLICING, BLOCKS, PURCHASES, RUNNING-
RIGGING, AND OTHER MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS, APPLI-
CABLE TO SHIPS OF WAR AND OTHERS.

Illustrated with Seventy Engravings.

ALSO,

TABLES OF RIGGING, SPARS, SAILS, BLOCKS, CANVASS, CORDAGE, CHAIN AND HEMP
CABLES, HAWSERS, &c., &c., RELATIVE TO EVERY CLASS OF VESSELS.

BY WILLIAM BRADY, SAILING MASTER, U. S. N.

SIXTH EDITION.
IMPROVED AND ENLARGED, WITH ADDITIONAL MATTER, PLATES, AND TABLES.

NEW YORK:
PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR.
SOLD AT R. L. SHAW’S NAUTICAL STORE, NO. 222 WATER ST., AND THE PRINCIPAL
NAUTICAL AND STATIONERS’ STORES THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES.

1852.