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I still have a copy I was given when I was a kid.

What's kind of amazing is that it's from when there were still a few commercial sailing ships around.

Clifford Ashley was one of the last marlinspike seamen. What an encyclopedic knowledge of knots. I pull my copy out every now and then and just sit and tie knots and/or share useful knots with my kiddo.

And the stories he tells about the origin of knots and people he learned them from are great.

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