Complete Book of Yacht Care
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| Rating | : | 4.16 (991 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1574090410 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-26 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
This single, highly illustrated volume contains everything that the owner of a new or traditional boat will need to maintain her in a safe and seaworthy condition at minimum cost. Its detailed tables provide a unique survey of the real cost of every aspect of yacht upkeep.
It covers sail and power, every basic boat system and component, and fiberglass, wood, aluminum and ferrocement hull materials. If you are looking for a concise, up-to-date book encompassing modern as well as traditional boat maintenance and nautical skills, you could not do better than this. By keeping to the point and dealing only with getting immediate results from the task at hand, author Michael Verney manages to reasonably cover complete yacht care in just 261 pages.So broad is the scope of the book it could qualify as an encyclopedia of yacht care. In it's third edition, the book's title is not an exaggeration. The book is probably one of the few modern references (it was revised in 1997) to cover caulking and paying planked hulls and decks, making mast hoops for a gaff rigged sail boat, and careening a hull for bottom maintenance. -- Dockside, June 1998
. Michael Verney is one of the world's best informed and most experienced writers on practical boatwork
A good collection of obsolete technology I'm afraid the Dockside review above is too optimistic about the scope of this book's coverage--little of what is here is useful to the owner of even a very old fiberglass production boat of any size. What this is, however, is a treasury of obsolete technologi. "Tips and Ideas" according to A Customer. If you are a new boat owner, this book will give you some good tips to keep your boat in a good working order and it will also give you a good but shallow explanation/instruction to many of the jobs required onboard. However if you are an experienced yachtsman