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Yachting Manuals: Service and Improvement

A book about boat maintenance? Here are handbooks on the maintenance, repair and improvement of sailing and motor yachts.

The Boat Improvement Bible : Practical Projects to Customise and Upgrade Your Boat

The Boat Improvement Bible is the most up to date, user friendly and hands-on practical manual for boatowners who wish to improve their sailboat or motorboat. It will equip any boatowner with average DIY skills to improve all aspects of their boat: safety, comfort, facilities, storage and performance on the water. Many of these projects will also help increase a boat's value.

Projects include: installing a heating system, installing hot water and a shower, increasing water tank size, making the heads electric, installing air conditioning or better ventilation, setting up solar or wind power charging for the batteries, fitting a generator, adding a gas alarm, installing interior lighting, adding a bathing platform or boarding ladder, plus much, much more.

Packed with exploded diagrams, helpful step-by-step photographs and detailed guidance, The Boat Improvement Bible provides a wealth of DIY expertise and advice to enable anyone to improve their yacht or motorboat.

Specs:	304 pages, 25.5 x 20.5 x 2.6 cm / 10 x 8.1 x 1.02 in, hardback
Illustrations:	numerous colour photos and drawings
Publisher:	Adlard Coles (GB, 2015)
ISBN:	9781408154199

The Boat Improvement Bible : Practical Projects to Customise and Upgrade Your Boat

Language: English

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Upgrading Your Boat's Interior

After just a few years, cabins can all too often look tired, outdated and in desperate need of renovation. But it needn't cost the earth or even require the skills of an expert to revamp them.
In this series of highly practical, step-by-step photographic manuals, "Upgrading Your Boat's Interior" shows boat owners how to improve their boat's living space in terms of comfort, functionality and convenience.

This book will help owners to regain a little of that 'new-boat' feeling, including:
- How to improve your basic facilities, from interior lighting to making your own fan
- Simple interior decorating ideas to personalise your onboard space
- Working with soft furnishings to create new bunk cushions and sprung mattresses
- Creating workable storage solutions
- Tackling major woodwork projects, including rebuilding a galley from scratch

Suitable for both motorboats and yachts, this invaluable guide is perfect for any boatowner willing to give it a try themselves. Each project lists equipment and a difficulty rating, and many projects are so simple that the whole family can get involved. With this book to hand, it has never been easier to bring your boat's living space into the 21st century.

Author:	Mike Westin
Specs:	144 pages, 24.5 x 19 x 1.2 cm / 9.7 x 7.5 x 0.47 in, paperback
Illustrations:	numerous colour photos
Publisher:	Adlard Coles (GB, 2012)
Series:	Adlard Coles
ISBN:	9781408132951