Description: The maintenance bible for boatowners is fully updated and 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: Battery technologies, including recent developments in lead-acid and lithium-ion batteries and fuel cells 12- and 24-volt DC systems Electric and hybrid propulsion How to radically improve the energy efficiency of most boats Corrosion, bonding, and lightning protection Generators, inverters, battery chargers , wind and water generators, and solar power Electric motors and electric lights Marine electronics, including networking systems, 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 Niger Calder is the author of Marine Diesel Engines (1987, 1991) and Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual (1989, 1995), the success of which has made him the most sought-after marine how-to writer in the U.S. and U.K. He has published more than 800 magazine articles in SAIL, Cruising World, Ocean Navigator, Yachting World, etc., and lectures on cruising to sell-out crowds. He is also the author of The Cruising Guide to The Northwest Caribbean (IM, 1991) and Cuba: A Cruising Guide (Imray, 1996). He will be testing his newest ideas with his family during a six-month cruise to the Caribbean and South America this winter.
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EAN: 9780071790338
UPC: 9780071790338
ISBN: 9780071790338
MPN: N/A
Edition: 4
Book Title: Boatowners Mechanical and Electrical Manual 4/E
Number of Pages: 960 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Publication Year: 2015
Item Height: 1.5 in
Topic: Boating, Reference, Ships & Shipbuilding / Repair & Maintenance
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Transportation, Sports & Recreation
Item Weight: 75.7 Oz
Author: Nigel Calder
Item Length: 11.2 in
Item Width: 8.7 in
Format: Hardcover