Sound woodworking skills are essential when building a boat from scratch or just completing a hull, whether it is made from steel, aluminium, GRP or any form of wooden construction. This highly illustrated book provides help any aspiring boatbuilder decide what materials & tools to use & how to use them. Richard Birmingham`s classic text covers the wide range of techniques & skills needed when constructing a boat, from interpreting the plans to hints on working different timbers. He answers many of those puzzling questions which need to be solved in a refreshingly clear & direct manner. This book will prove an invaluable reference to the home builder or newly trained apprentice in a fitting out yard. ` An authoritative work...really excellent...an essential reference & quite the best on the subject.` Yachts & Yachting `A must for any would-be boatbuilder...a splendid book.` Classic Boat ...

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 ...

The object of the RYA Boat Handling for Sail & Power is to help you gain a fuller understanding of boat handling by dealing with a wide variety of situations in a thoughtful & logical way. Expert advice in easy to follow text combined with in-depth colour illustrations make this book a great tool for anyone who takes a boat out on the water. ...

The Boat In A Bottle Kit by authentic Models in this beautifully illustrated cardboard box, will entertain kids & will show ...

A manual on DIY interior boat-building, designed for boat-owners who are not completely happy with the layout of their production boat or who want to fit out a new or renovated hull. Every detail of each project is explained & illustrated with step-by-step colour photographs, & the techniques & procedures shown are applicable to every type & size of boat. ...

Pocket-sized flip-up notebook with an old London Transport poster on the cover entitled Boat Race, referring to the famous annual Oxbridge face-off. The journal has lined pages, & a material page marker to help you keep your place. The artist, Charles Paine, was a versatile & prolific designer. His time at the Royal College of Art was interrupted by military service. After graduating Paine left London to work for the Applied Art Department of Edinburgh College of Art. He then went on to work in Glasgow designing stained glass for Guthrie & Wells. During the 1920s he designed textiles & poster for a wide range of clients. In the 1930s he lived & worked in Welwyn Garden City, before moving to Jersey. ...

Boatbuilding is a practical handbook & boatshop assistant, designed & written to meet the needs of the builder, covering the complete process of wooden boat construction. The text covers all types of craft from flat-bottom rowboats to ocean cruisers & commercial vessels, & aids the builder in overcoming difficulties & discouraging delays resulting from the lack of easily available information on the practical side of boatbuilding. Boatbuilding gives detailed instructions, with many illustrations, on all phases of boatbuilding written out of actual boatbuilding practice & aids the builder in planning each job in its proper sequence in relation to those that follow. After a chapter discussing the choice of plans suitable for amateur work there are chapters on lofting, the backbone & setting up, flat-bottom hull construction, V-bottom hull construction, round-bottom hull construction, deck framing & building, special construction (plywood, strip planking, lap-strake, diagonal, ribband carvel, canvas), heavy construction, joiner-work, iron-work, & spar making. Each chapter is organized for easy & quick reference, & the book is completely indexed. An added feature is the inclusion of building plans for nineteen boats designed for this book & suitable for amateur building. ...

This manual takes both novice & experienced boatowner through minor to major repairs of electrical systems, engines, electronics, steering systems, generators, pumps, cookers, spars & 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 & has sold in its thousands ever since. There have been significant changes in boat systems since then, particularly electrical systems, & this third edition has been fully updated to reflect these developments & expand its predecessor's worldwide popularity. ' Probably the best technical reference & troubleshooting book in the world' Yachting Monthly ' It deserves to come standard with every boat' Yachting World ...

This book is the most comprehensive, helpful & up to date guide ever written on selecting, equipping & sailing a cruising yacht. Indispensable for prospective boat buyers & cruisers, whether coastal or world-girdling, it covers all the technical & practical aspects of cruising yachts & systems in one unique book. Nigel Calder, one of the most respected nautical how-to authors with extensive cruising experience & a rare ability to reduce complexities to simple explanations, explains not only how to select & equip a yacht for coastal or offshore cruising, but also how to sail & navigate it, addressing the concerns of beginners & experienced owners alike. This is the book the cruising world has welcomed as a must have reference. There is, quite literally, nothing else like it. ' The indispensable crew
- no boat should sail without Calder aboard' Yachting Monthly ' This is the one book you would choose for your desert island shipwreck scenario
- it would solve all your problems!' Kelvin Hughes

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This manual takes both novice & experienced boatowner through minor to major repairs of electrical systems, engines, electronics, steering systems, generators, pumps, cookers, spars & 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 & has sold in its thousands ever since. There have been significant changes in boat systems since then, particularly electrical systems, & this third edition has been fully updated to reflect these developments & expand its predecessor`s worldwide popularity. ` Probably the best technical reference & troubleshooting book in the world` Yachting Monthly ` It deserves to come standard with every boat` Yachting World ...