Regardless of your skill level, Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual makes boat maintenance and repair fast, fun and easy! Hundreds of tips and techniques for maintaining, troubleshooting and fixing every working part and system on your boat--all clearly explained in step-by-step detail. How to make sure your boat's electrical system provides all the power you need; Common and little-known tips for keeping your batteries and charging system safe and trouble-free; Simple test procedures for grounding circuits on boats; Best way to prevent galvanic corrosion on newly installed equipment; Easy, reliable way to make sure your inverter can handle peak AC appliance load; Often overlooked preventive maintenance for diesel engines. What to do right after start-up, while in use and at regular intervals during the season to ensure years of trouble-free boating; 8-point troubleshooting procedure for poor pickup; How to replace a transmission output-shaft oil seal. 5 simple steps to stop loss of transmission oil; Secret trick for keeping deck hardware fastened tight no matter how excessive the loads. Works every time. 7 safety tips for repairing masthead lights and other fixtures on top of the mast; and much, much more.

Boatowner's Mechanical & Electrical Manual: How to Maintain, Repair, and Improve Your Boat's Essential Systems

Sports & Outdoors

Calder, Nigel

Water Sports

International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press

The boatowner's foremost troubleshooting guide, now better than ever 
If it's on a boat and it has screws, wires, or moving parts, it's covered in Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual. When you leave the dock with this book aboard, you have at your fingertips the best and most comprehensive advice on: 
<ul>
<li>Battery technologies </li>
<li>12- and 24-volt DC systems </li>
<li>Corrosion, bonding, and lightning protection </li>
<li>Generators, inverters, and battery chargers </li>
<li>Electric motors and electric lights </li>
<li>Marine electronics, antennas, and RFI </li>
<li>Diesel engines </li>
<li>Transmissions, shaft brakes, and propellers </li>
<li>Refrigeration and air-conditioning </li>
<li>Tanks, plumbing, and through-hulls </li>
<li>Pumps and watermakers </li>
<li>Steering, autopilots, and wind vanes </li>
<li>Stoves and heaters </li>
<li>Winches, windlasses, and bow thrusters </li>
<li>Spars, rigging, and roller reefing </li>
</ul>
"If you had to choose a single book to help you assess and maintain your boat gear, this would be it."―Practical Sailor 
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"A major achievement. . . . It would be hard to imagine anything going wrong on a boat that couldn't be figured out with this book."―Sailing World 
"The world's best technical reference and troubleshooting book."―Sailing Inland and Offshore 
"This manual will be of lasting interest to anyone who wants to know how their boat works, what has gone wrong when it doesn't, and how it could be fixed."―Classic Boat 
"Without becoming too complex, the book covers almost every imaginable mechanical or electrical matter in the marine environment."―Work Boat World 
"Calder lives what he writes, . . . [and] what he offers . . . is practical solutions to problems associated with increasingly complex marine systems. . . . [A] bargain for anyone in the construction and repair side of the boat business."―Professional Boatbuilder

Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual: How to Maintain, Repair, and Improve Your Boat's Essential Systems

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

International Marine Publishing

The maintenance bible for boatowners is fully updated and better than ever! If it’s on a boat and it has screws, wires, or moving parts, it’s covered in Boatowner’s Mechanical and Electrical Manual. When you leave the dock with this indispensable resource aboard, you have at your fingertips the best and most comprehensive advice on:
<ul>
<li> Battery technologies, including recent developments in lead-acid and lithium-ion batteries and fuel cells </li>
<li>12- and 24-volt DC systems </li>
<li>Electric and hybrid propulsion </li>
<li>How to radically improve the energy efficiency of most boats </li>
<li>Corrosion, bonding, and lightning protection </li>
<li>Generators, inverters, battery chargers , wind and water generators, and solar power </li>
<li>Electric motors and electric lights </li>
<li>Marine electronics, including networking systems, antennas, and RFI </li>
<li>Diesel engines </li>
<li>Transmissions, shaft brakes, and propellers </li>
<li>Refrigeration and air-conditioning </li>
<li>Tanks, plumbing, and through-hulls </li>
<li>Pumps and watermakers </li>
<li>Steering, autopilots, and wind vanes </li>
<li> Stoves and heaters </li>
<li>Winches, windlasses, and bow thrusters </li>
<li>Spars, rigging, and roller reefing</li>
</ul>

Boatowners Mechanical and Electrical Manual 4/E

Reference

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

A do-it-yourself manual for boat owners, covering both power and sail boats. It enables the reader to isolate problems and make the necessary repair, and encompasses all parts of the boat. Areas covered include electrical systems, engine, transmission, rigging and generators.

Boat Owner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual: How to Maintain, Repair and Improve Your Boat's Essential Systems

Adlard Coles Nautical

Used, but good condition, sleeve intact

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Boatowner's Mechanical & Electrical Manual: How to Maintain, Repair, and Improve Your Boat's Essential Systems

Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual: How to Maintain, Repair, and Improve Your Boat's Essential Systems

Boatowners Mechanical and Electrical Manual 4/E

Boat Owner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual: How to Maintain, Repair and Improve Your Boat's Essential Systems

Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual: How to Maintain, Repair, and Improve Your Boat's Essential Systems