A sailor tying a knot looking at knot books

Having knot books onboard or at home is always useful, especially if sailing with beginner crew. We pick a range of new titles for the cruising and racing sailor

Creative Rope book jacket

Yachting Monthly literary contributor Julia Jones reviews the latest edition of Creative Ropecraft, which was first written with the aim of maintaining knot-tying as a living art.

knots

Chris Beeson shows how to tie the nine sailing knots we tested to destruction in the April 2012 issue of Yachting Monthly