Author: Ian NicolsonPublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 144565332X
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Ian Nicolson provides handy tips for improving your boat.
The Complete Guide to Trailering Your Boat
Author: Bruce W. SmithPublisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 0071509550
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Master the most difficult part of boating before hitting the water This comprehensive guide will help you gain confidence, develop skills, and avoid boat-ramp and highway mishaps when trailering your boat. The book includes easy-to-follow, heavily illustrated instructions on driving, backing, launching, retrieving, and tying down your boat; trailer maintenance; and selecting tow vehicles, hitches, trailers, and towing accessories.
Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual
Author: Nigel CalderPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472947738
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 2454
Book Description
This manual takes both novice and experienced boatowner through minor to major repairs of electrical systems, engines, electronics, steering systems, generators, pumps, cookers, spars and rigging. When it was first published in 1990, the Boatowner's Mechanical & Electrical Manual broke new ground. It was hailed as the first truly DIY manual for boatowners and has sold in its thousands ever since. There have been significant changes in boat systems since then, particularly electrical systems, and this fourth edition has been fully updated to reflect these developments and expand its predecessor's worldwide popularity. 'Probably the best technical reference and troubleshooting book in the world' Yachting Monthly 'It deserves to come standard with every boat' Yachting World
Motor Boat Manual
Author: Dennis WattsPublisher: Haynes Publishing UK
ISBN: 9781844255139
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The dream of owning, maintaining and using your own boat without great expense can be achieved with the help of the Motor Boat Manual. Written in down-to-earth language, it gives anyone new to boating the confidence and knowledge to buy and enjoy a motor boat. Packed with well-illustrated practical information and handy tips for both new and existing boat owners, this manual covers the routine maintenance, repairs and improvement of a motor boat for those with good basic DIY skills and has further information for the jobs best left to the experts. There are also useful sections on buying, moorings and safe boating and handling.
How Boat Things Work
Author: Charlie WingPublisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 0071511083
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
“Anyone who contemplates any onboard do-it-yourself work should have this book at his or her elbow.”--Cruising World “This book reduces a boat to its most rudimentary parts in simple drawings and clear explanations. Fascinating to read, it’s a perfect teaching tool.”--Ocean Navigator Whether you’re a new mariner or a lifetime veteran, How Boat Things Work is a resource you can’t afford to be without. With intricate two-color cutaway drawings of eighty different systems and devices, as well as detailed explanations of how they’re assembled, how they work, and how they can go wrong, this book covers every primary component of your boat's inner workings. This guided tour “under the hood” of your sailboat or powerboat includes: Engines, transmissions, bearings, stuffing boxes, propellers Steering systems, autopilots, windvanes, compasses Rigging, splicing, line handling, block and tackle, sail controls Anchors and windlasses DC and AC electrical systems Pumps, toilets, seacocks, freshwater systems
Author: Ian NicolsonBoatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual
Author: Nigel CalderPublisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
ISBN: 9780070096189
Category : Boats and boating
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In his latest book, Calder walks the reader through the repair, maintenance, and setting up of the boat's primary systems, including the electrical system, electronics equipment, generator sets, solar panels, wind and water generators, the engine, transmission, pumps, steering, waste disposal systems, and more. Destined to become a highly trusted companion aboard all types of boats for years to come.
Metal boat maintenance-A do it yourself guide
Author: Scott FratcherPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0958294135
Category : Steel boats
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
A do-it-yourself guide to metal boat repair and maintenance. Topic covered include metal boat corrosion, metal preparation, interior rust, painting, extending the life of a steel boat, ultra-sonic metal thickness gauge use, changing hull plate and alternative methods of repairing metal boats. ..."--Back cover.
The Boat Improvement Bible
Author: Bloomsbury PublishingPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408155907
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The Boat Improvement Bible is the most up to date, user friendly and hands-on practical manual for boatowners who wish to improve their sailboat or motorboat. It will equip any boatowner with average DIY skills to improve all aspects of their boat: safety, comfort, facilities, storage and performance on the water. Many of these projects will also help increase a boat's value. Projects include: installing a heating system, installing hot water and a shower, increasing water tank size, making the heads electric, installing air conditioning or better ventilation, setting up solar or wind power charging for the batteries, fitting a generator, adding a gas alarm, installing interior lighting, adding a bathing platform or boarding ladder, plus much, much more. Packed with exploded diagrams, helpful step-by-step photographs and detailed guidance, The Boat Improvement Bible provides a wealth of DIY expertise and advice to enable anyone to improve their yacht or motorboat. With this book to hand, you'll never need to call in the experts!
Upgrading Your Boat's Interior
Author: Mike WestinPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408159090
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
The second in a series of highly practical, hands-on, step-by-step photographic manuals, Upgrading Your Boat's Interior fills a gap in the market for the DIY boat builder and repairer. It is a subject covered only in piecemeal fashion by the yachting press, which, like general boat maintenance and repair manuals, can't go into the level of detail Mike Westin does. This is a visual, hand-holding guide, dwelling on the practical details of upgrading every aspect of a tired boat's interior and related systems as it explains each procedure rather than focussing on the theory (which is relegated to an appendix, for those who wish to go further). It's surprising how a few simple renovations and upgrades can transform the look and comfort of a cabin. Anyone planning to attempt these projects will find this photographic step-by-step book a hand-holding godsend.
