Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual, 4th Edition by Nigel Calder

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Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual

The best selling boat maintenance resource of all time.

The seagoing equivalent of a homeowner's fit-it-yourself manual, it covers everything in a power-or-sailboat that has bolts, screws, moving part, wires, or grease and can break.

Hundreds of detailed illustrations, troubleshooting charts and reader prompting tables create an extremely graphic and user-friendly treatment.

There have been significant changes in boat systems - particularly electrical systems - in the past years.

Hard Cover - 960 pages

Includes all of the following and more!

    • 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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