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Boatowners Mechanical and Electrical Manual 4/E

Nigel Calder

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English
McGraw-Hill Professional
11 June 2015
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:

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

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Imprint:   McGraw-Hill Professional
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   4th edition
Dimensions:   Height: 285mm,  Width: 221mm,  Spine: 38mm
Weight:   2.139kg
ISBN:   9780071790338
ISBN 10:   0071790330
Pages:   960
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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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