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Maintain and Improve Your Powerboat

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:58:17 +0000

This wide-ranging projects book covers maintenance, repairs, and upgrades to improve comfort, utility, appearance, value, safety, and enjoyment of powerboats up to 35 feet long. Projects include standard maintenance like changing engine oil and preparing for winter storage; minor repairs like rebedding deck hardware; and upgrades like creating new storage andimproving your boat’s fuel efficiency.

The Propeller Handbook: The Complete Reference for Choosing, Installing, and Understanding Boat Propellers

Fri, 03 May 2024 18:52:41 +0000

On the surface, choosing the correct propeller for a particular boat seems simple. But one factor affects another, which then affects another factor, leading many boaters to believe that propeller selection depends more on black magic than logic. All the questions are answered in this complete reference, the first of its kind. This clear, easy-to-use handbook for all small boats is written not for Ph.D.s seeking the latest wrinkle in high-tech propeller design, but as a practical aid for the average mechanic, engineer, boatbuilder, fleet operator, serious yachtsman, or naval architect.

Complete Canvas Worker s Guide: How to Outfit Your Boat Using Natural or Synthetic Cloth

Fri, 03 May 2024 18:52:05 +0000

Now completely revised and updated, and expanded by more than fifty percent, The Complete Canvasworker’s Guide, Second Edition, brings you Jim Grant’s thorough step-by-step approach to constructing a nearly endless variety of attractive and functional gear for your boat. Grant, with his wife, Connie, has taught sailmaking and canvaswork for more than 20 years, and he brings an often intimidating craft within the grasp and budget of anyone from an all-thumbs beginner to a would-be professional. Forget that canvas always used to be made of cotton. Today it is far more commonly woven of synthetic fibers: acrylic, polyester, or nylon. Here is all the information you’ll need to make use of them all. Grant’s no-frills approach, refined over years of answering the questions of puzzled students, is for any boatowner who wants to take needle to fabric. And as tens of thousands of proud boatowners will happily testify, it really works. Here’s what reviewers have said about The Complete Canvasworker’s Guide: Literally every question is answered in this book.–Yachting Chock full of everything from basic information to a variety of ideas designed to improve, upgrade, and protect a boat.–Small Boat Journal An immensely practical book.–Practical Boat Owner A concise and to-the-point workbook.–Soundings

Marine Diesel Engines: Maintenance, Troubleshooting, and Repair

Fri, 03 May 2024 18:51:59 +0000

If you own a small marine diesel engine that you depend on–at least occasionally–this book was written for you. Nigel Calder, a diesel mechanic of many years’ experience, a good writer, and perceptive teacher, has written a guide that is clear, logical, and acutally interesting. A boatowner born with a monkey wrench in his hand will find Marine Diesel Engines useful and agreeable; a mechanical illiterate will find it a godsend. Here in nine extensively illustrated chapters is everything you need to keep you diesel engine running cleanly and efficiently–saving you a world of frustration, discomfort, and even peril, not to mention time-and-a-half weekend mechanics’ charges. One of the best books on marine diesels to appear in some time.–Ocean Navigator The most up-to-date and readable book we’ve seen on the subject.–Sailing World Even if you never intend to put a spanner near your engine, and know your mechanic’s home phone number by heart, this book deserves a place on any diesel-powered boat.–Motor Boat & Yachting, London Clear, logical, and even interesting to read.–Cruising World