Boatowners Mechanical Manual

How to Maintain, Repair, and Improve Your Boats Essential Systems. The boatowners foremost troubleshooting guide, now better than ever. If its on a boat and it has screws, wires, or moving parts, its covered in Boatowners 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: • Battery technologies • 12- and 24-volt DC systems • Corrosion, bonding, and lightning protection • Generators, inverters, and battery chargers • Electric motors and electric lights • Marine electronics, antennas, and RFI • Diesel engines • Transmissions, shaft brakes, and propellers • Refrigeration and air-conditioning • Tanks, plumbing, and through-hulls • Pumps and watermakers • Steering, autopilots, and wind vanes • Stoves and heaters • Winches, windlasses, and bow thrusters • Spars, rigging, and roller reefing
"If you had to choose a single book to help you assess and maintain your boat gear, this would be it."-Practical Sailor
"A major achievement. . . . It would be hard to imagine anything going wrong on a boat that couldnt be figured out with this book."—Sailing World
"The worlds 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 doesnt, 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
Author commentsNigel Calder is widely acknowledged as the worlds foremost writer on boat systems maintenance. He is a frequent contributor to boating magazines in the United States and Britain.
A SEARCH TOOL
featuring search autocomplete to help you find words quickly by displaying predictions similar to the terms youre typing. You also get enhanced search extras including:
 • A quick search of words while you type. • A fuzzy filter for when you are not sure of the correct spelling of a word. • A keyword search for finding key words within compound words. • A wild card search function (* or ?) which can replace a letter or entire parts of a word. • Download dictionary definitions locally for offline word lookup.
A LEARNING TOOL
including a number of features that help you further enhance your vocabulary:
 • A Favorites feature to create custom folders with lists of words from the extensive library, including cross-curriculum words. • History list to help you easily review looked-up words. • Discover more using the included special language notes. • See words in context with example sentences. • Word-of-the-day feature with dedicated homescreen widget.