Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual
How to Maintain, Repair, and Improve Your Boat's Essential Systems
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3.7 • 6 Ratings
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- $29.99
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- $29.99
Publisher Description
The boatowner's foremost troubleshooting guide, now better than ever
If it's on a boat and it has screws, wires, or moving parts, it's covered in Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual. When you leave the dock with this book aboard, you have at your fingertips the best and most comprehensive advice on:
Battery technologies
12- and 24-volt DC systems
Corrosion, bonding, and lightning protection
Generators, inverters, and battery chargers
Electric motors and electric lights
Marine electronics, antennas, and RFI
Diesel engines
Transmissions, shaft brakes, and propellers
Refrigeration and air-conditioning
Tanks, plumbing, and through-hulls
Pumps and watermakers
Steering, autopilots, and wind vanes
Stoves and heaters
Winches, windlasses, and bow thrusters
Spars, rigging, and roller reefing
"If you had to choose a single book to help you assess and maintain your boat gear, this would be it."—Practical Sailor
"A truly remarkable bible. . . . This book is the best of its kind."—WoodenBoat
"A major achievement. . . . It would be hard to imagine anything going wrong on a boat that couldn't be figured out with this book."—Sailing World
"The world's best technical reference and troubleshooting book."—Sailing Inland and Offshore
"This manual will be of lasting interest to anyone who wants to know how their boat works, what has gone wrong when it doesn't, and how it could be fixed."—Classic Boat
"Without becoming too complex, the book covers almost every imaginable mechanical or electrical matter in the marine environment."—Work Boat World
"Calder lives what he writes, . . . [and] what he offers . . . is practical solutions to problems associated with increasingly complex marine systems. . . . [A] bargain for anyone in the construction and repair side of the boat business."—Professional Boatbuilder
Customer Reviews
This is a six star book but beware...
This book is outstanding and a must own. But beware there are some small inconsistencies and mistaken omissions in the electronic version. It is immensely valuable to have the book on iPad but these things need to be addressed. Reporting them.
William Reed
I have been using this boat in all editions for more than twenty years. For sail and power boats this is THE most useful book. Nigel Calder writes this from immense practical experience. h
He has goo humor, lots of diagrams, and always starts with the most likely cause of the problem. It is so well written and useful, one can enjoy it just as a random winter read.