If you own a fiberglass sailboat or powerboat, this is the book to turn to when dealing with questions of maintenance, improvement or repair. Here you will find clear explanations and easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions covering the fiberglass hull,
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For those already in the frying pan of boat ownership, Modern Boat Maintenance by Bo Streiffert is chockablock full of ideas for maintaining and improving your boat. It blends minimal text with good descriptive graphics, beginning with basic fiberglass boatbuilding, which will allow owners to refit or install even major items like bulkheads. The majority of the text, however, covers common major and minor projects from replacing overhead liners and building teak gratings to troubleshooting engines and updating electrical charging equipment. --Cruising World
Modern Boat Maintenance: The Complete Fiberglass Boat Manual… offers detailed information and helpful illustrations on repairs as various as replacing deck planking and windows. It is also filled with tips, from fairing keels and doing your own rigging to building storage boxes. The chapter on engines, the book's longest and most detailed chapter, has excellent labeled illustrations and various auxiliaries and their parts, such as fuel systems, ignitions and turbo chargers. This book will point do-it-yourselfers in the right direction. --Sailing magazine
Modern Boat Maintenance covers a wide range of material in sufficient depth to be of real value. This is particularly true in its treatment of fiberglass construction methods. It's written so you can figure out what originally when into your boat and properly repair relatively minor damage. In addition, the chapters on hill, deck, superstructure and rigging all contain lots of how-to goodies on improvements and better ways to do things. It has been a while since a book of this genre has hit the market, and all in all, this is a pretty good one. So, if you're in the market for a good, basic introductory book on fiberglass maintenance, this one will fill the bill. --The Ensign
Modern Boat Maintenance: The Complete Fiberglass Boat Manual… offers detailed information and helpful illustrations on repairs as various as replacing deck planking and windows. It is also filled with tips, from fairing keels and doing your own rigging to building storage boxes. The chapter on engines, the book's longest and most detailed chapter, has excellent labeled illustrations and various auxiliaries and their parts, such as fuel systems, ignitions and turbo chargers. This book will point do-it-yourselfers in the right direction. --Sailing magazine
Modern Boat Maintenance covers a wide range of material in sufficient depth to be of real value. This is particularly true in its treatment of fiberglass construction methods. It's written so you can figure out what originally when into your boat and properly repair relatively minor damage. In addition, the chapters on hill, deck, superstructure and rigging all contain lots of how-to goodies on improvements and better ways to do things. It has been a while since a book of this genre has hit the market, and all in all, this is a pretty good one. So, if you're in the market for a good, basic introductory book on fiberglass maintenance, this one will fill the bill. --The Ensign
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Bo Streiffert is a writer and boating enthusiast.
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If you own a boat then you understand that B.O.A.T is an acronym for Bring Out Another Thousand (dollars). Anyone who owns a boat, unless that boat is new, and has not yet been used will be forced to deal to boat maintainence issues. This book will help you to do some if this maintainence yourself so you don't have to spend a fortune to keep your boat running.If you have a powerboat, a rowboat, or a sailboat then I recommend this book. This also makes a great gift for any boat owner. One thing that I really like about this book is that there are lots of pictures and diagrams to help you understand what they are talking about. When you are doing work on a boat, sometimes one picture can be worth a thousand words. It is obvious that the people writing this book really know what they are doing. This was not written by amatuers. So if you have major repairs to deal with, or you just want to understand how your boat was built, this is the book for you.
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I was looking for a book on fiber glassing a fishing vessel and ended up with a sail boat repair manual. Very little on fiber glassing period. Very disappointed.
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Molten glass has a very high degree of viscosity, and it is this characteristic that allows it to be drawn into the form of an exceptionally fine fibre (about one-sixth the diametre of a human hair) and which is the basis of all glassfibre woven or mat material. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Molten glass has a very high degree of viscosity, and it is this characteristic that allows it to be drawn into the form of an exceptionally fine fibre (about one-sixth the diametre of a human hair) and which is the basis of all glassfibre woven or mat material. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
glassfibre laminate, racing sailcloth, glassfibre cloth, glassfibre boat, antifouling system, polyester paste, total power load, surfacing tissue, male mould, halving joints, stern gear, skin fitting, gel coat, mast foot, toe rail, rigging screws, iron keel, starter battery, woven roving, epoxy filler, tar epoxy, underwater hull, hose clips, racing craft, rudder stock New!
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