How to Choose Your First Powerboat

How to Choose Your First Powerboat

Author: Chuck Gould

Publisher: Sheridan House, Inc.

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9781574090567

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Chuck Gould has lived his entire life in the Seattle area on Puget Sound where he began boating on a 26-foot sailboat.


Powerboat Handling Illustrated

Powerboat Handling Illustrated

Author: Robert J. Sweet

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 2011-07-29

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 0071788492

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From docking to surviving storm waves, everything you need to know before you hit the water Using hundreds of illustrations and photos, Powerboat Handling Illustrated shows you step-by-step how to do tasks such as docking, trimming, wave handling, and close-quarters maneuvering. These maneuvers are adapted to different types of boats under various conditions.


Marine Diesel Basics 1

Marine Diesel Basics 1

Author: Dennison Berwick

Publisher: Voyage Press

Published: 2017-05-11

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 0981123333

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Seeing is Understanding. The first VISUAL guide to marine diesel systems on recreational boats. Step-by-step instructions in clear, simple drawings explain how to maintain, winterize and recommission all parts of the system - fuel deck fill - engine - batteries - transmission - stern gland - propeller. Book one of a new series. Canadian author is a sailor and marine mechanic cruising aboard his 36-foot steel-hulled Chevrier sloop. Illustrations: 300+ drawings Pages: 222 pages Published: 2017 Format: softcover Category: Inboards, Gas & Diesel


The Boat Buyer's Guide to Motor Yachts and Trawlers

The Boat Buyer's Guide to Motor Yachts and Trawlers

Author: Ed McKnew

Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press

Published: 2006-04-01

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9780071473545

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Get the best boat for your buck Now you can access the same inside information yacht brokers and boat dealers have relied on for nearly twenty years. The Boat Buyer's Guide to Motor Yachts and Trawlers lets you compare more than 600 new and used models, making it the most authoritative and useful guide available. With photos, floorplans, performance specifications, production updates, and price comparisions, it puts the world of boats at your fingertips. Nothing else in print or online comes close when you want to find the best boat for your buck. Photos and floorplans of each boat Sizes, weights, and tankage and powering options Standard and optional features, hard-to-find performance data, distinctive characteristics, and production updates and changes Price for each model year since 1980


All About Powerboats: Understanding Design and Performance

All About Powerboats: Understanding Design and Performance

Author: Roger Marshall

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 2002-03-26

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9780071362047

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Providing practical advice on hull shape, engines, construction methods, steering systems, comfort and safety, this text is an ideal introduction to small powerboats, 18 to 30 feet long, from the perspective of use.


Don Casey's Complete Illustrated Sailboat Maintenance Manual : Including Inspecting the Aging Sailboat, Sailboat Hull and Deck Repair, Sailboat Refinishing, Sailbo

Don Casey's Complete Illustrated Sailboat Maintenance Manual : Including Inspecting the Aging Sailboat, Sailboat Hull and Deck Repair, Sailboat Refinishing, Sailbo

Author: Don Casey

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 2005-09-15

Total Pages: 898

ISBN-13: 0071462848

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The definitive guide from the world's best-known sailboat maintenance expert Don Casey’s Complete Illustrated Sailboat Maintenance Manual combines six core volumes into a single, utterly dependable resource that answers every frequent question, explains every major system, and helps you keep your boat and its components shipshape. More than 2,500 clear and detailed illustrations guide you step by step through every procedure. Casey’s technical virtuosity, his user-friendly explanations, and Peter Compton's diesel engine expertise make even the more complicated repairs and improvements easy to understand. This must-have guide saves you time, money, and grief as you learn the fastest, easiest, most effective ways to: Evaluate the condition of your boat or one you’re about to purchase Repair structural damage to your fiberglass sailboat Improve or repair your sailboat’s electrical system Troubleshoot, maintain, and repair your boat’s diesel engine Put a professional-looking finish on your boat’s hull, deck, spars, wood, and trim Make and repair sails, sail covers, dodgers, awnings, sailbags, and bimini tops


Voyaging on a Small Income

Voyaging on a Small Income

Author: Annie Hill

Publisher: Adlard Coles

Published: 2002-11

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9780901281005

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Sailing and crusing to distant shores can be as cheap or expensive as the pocket desires. This bestseller is about how to get the right boat, prepare it and organize the financial side of life, so that you can manage the costs.


Your First Powerboat

Your First Powerboat

Author: Robert J. Armstrong

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 2008-07-13

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 007164346X

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Navigate the hazards of boat ownership with absolute confidence Next to your house, your boat may well be the biggest investment you ever make. Buying and owning a boat involves one baffling decision after another. Yet informed, impartial guidance is almost impossible to find--until now, that is. This essential manual provides a method to the madness of boat buying and ownership, plotting a straight course through an ocean of confusion while it answers such questions as: Why fractional ownership often makes sense How to avoid buying a boat you'll never use How to identify the Goldilocks boat--not too big, not too small How to choose a powering option How to negotiate the best deal on any boat-new or used How to be your own surveyor, and why even a new boat may need a professional survey Why you should finance your boat even if you have the cash, and where to find the best loans How to calculate the total cost of ownership before you buy!