Yachting manuals: service, repair and restoration

Boat Maintenance - The Complete Guide to Keeping Your Boat Ship-shape

Every boat, be it sail or power, wood or fiberglass, stored in the water or on dry land, needs regular maintenance to keep it sea-worthy. Proper maintenance can help save money by catching trouble before it starts. This guide will help new and experienced boat owners keep their boat in tip-top shape.
From repairing scratched and worn hulls and decks, to fixing engines and tightening fittings, every inch of the boat is covered including the below deck quarters. Learning to care for this valuable possession is part of the thrill of owning one.

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Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual - Repair and Improve Your Boat's Essential Systems

This manual takes both novice and experienced boatowner through minor to major repairs of electrical systems, engines, electronics, steering systems, generators, pumps, cookers, spars and 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 and has sold in its thousands ever since.

There have been significant changes in boat systems since then, particularly electrical systems, and this fourth edition has been fully updated to reflect these developments and expand its predecessor's worldwide popularity.

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Powerboat Maintenance Manual | Clymer Outboard Shop Manual

This manual covers serves as a general reference for boat maintenance. Step-by-step procedures, along with hundreds of illustrations and photographs help boating enthusiasts maintain their boats and on-board equipment, lowering repair costs while increasing operating satisfaction.

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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.

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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.

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Motorboote - Kauf, Wartung und Reparatur - Alles was Eigner wissen müssen | Jetzt helfe ich mir selbst

Owning your own motorboat is the dream of many skippers. But many are put off by the high costs of buying, maintaining and servicing it, as well as the variety of tasks and the amount of work involved.

This book proves that all of this can be kept within reasonable limits. It shows how to minimize costs, organize your work on and around the boat, and tells you everything you need to know about buying, maintaining and enjoying a motor cruiser, an open barge, a sports or speed boat, a boat for deep-sea fishing, an inflatable boat or a rigid inflatable boat with an outboard motor.

German edition of the Haynes book "Motor Boat Manual".

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Segel- und Motorboote - Bordprobleme einfach gelöst - Praktische Tipps für den Bordalltag | Jetzt helfe ich mir selbst

Water sports enthusiasts have it tough, but life as a sailor or motorboat driver could be so relaxing if everything always went as it should.
But problems lurk everywhere and if you want to keep calm on board in every situation, you have to be familiar with many sciences: for example, aerodynamics and mechanics. You have to be your own electrician and plumber, boat builder and carpenter.

But not everyone is a Gyro Gearloose and knows a solution for everything. That's why the experienced long-distance sailor and charter operator Hans Mühlbauer has collected many practical tips for everyday life on board for this book - for more safety, functionality and comfort.

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