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. ...

This unique cushion by We Love Cushions, featuring a 12-color reproduction of a vintage London Transport poster designed for the Oxford-Cambridge boat race of 1923, would be an elegant addition to your sofa or arm chair. This cushion is made with a super soft faux & machine washable suede & comes complete with the cushion pad. The print had been created using archival inks to get the brightest, saturated finish possible, which will bring life & style to any room setting. Fully machine washable at 30c ...

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 ...

A first book of boats for the youngest enthusiasts, featuring 15 different boats & a bonus nautical flag per vessel From sailboats to ferry boats, tankers to clippers, young readers will learn to identify & define a range of floating crafts. Each of 15 boats & ships are presented by name, illustration, & simple description, written as engaging, read-aloud text. In addition, each is adorned with a different nautical flag whose message is decoded as secondary text for the extra curious. Printed in four stunning Pantone colors, this refreshingly stylish & informative introduction to boats will pop off the shelf in the ”things that go” section! ...