The Boat Data Book is a treasure trove of invaluable information for boatowners, designers, builders, surveyors, chandlers & anyone maintaining their own boat. This sixth edition contains more tables of lengths, widths, weights & strengths as well as new data on a vast range of equipment from anchors to masts, propellers to gas cylinders, cleat sizes to winch bases, & hatches to bolts, bearings, cabling & piping. If you want to know what size winch to fit, the breaking strength of stainless steel rigging wire, the recommended size for seacocks or what length & size an anchor chain should be, then this is the book for you. The Boat Data Book is a must-have reference for owners & professionals. 'A veritable mine of information...superb value for money' Nautical Magazine ' Recommended to every boat owner' Practical Boat Owner 'A most amazing amount of data' The Island ' The essential technical bible' Yachting World