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

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Автор: Nigel Calder

Название: Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual: How to Maintain, Repair, and Improve Your Boat's Essential Systems (3 edition)

Издательство: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press

Год: 2005

Формат: epub

Размер: 28.3 Mb

Язык: Английский

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:

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