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Powerboat Handling Illustrated
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All About Powerboats: Understanding Design and Performance
What's the difference between a deep-vee hull and a modified vee? A planing hull and a displacement hull? Find the answers to these and scores of other frequently asked questions in All About Powerboats. Writing for any boater seeking a better understanding of modern powerboat design and handling, author Roger Marshall provides a well-illustrated, clear introduction to small powerboats (18 to 30 feet long) from the perspective of use. His practical advice on hull shape, engines, construction methods, steering systems, comfort, and safety gives today's boaters a thorough grounding in powerboat selection, use, and lore..
Price: $9.00
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Stapleton's Powerboat Bible
"Don't even think of buying and outfitting a powerboat for long-term cruising until you've read this book cover to cover." --Milt Baker, trawler yacht live-aboard and founder, Bluewater Books & Charts Written for owners of large powerboats (more than 35 feet long), this book picks up where other references leave off. It is one of the most ambitious and far-ranging references ever offered to powerboaters. .
Price: $7.25
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Boating Magazine's Insider's Guide to Buying a Powerboat: Featuring Tips and Traps for the Smart Boat Buyer
Boating Magazine's Insider's Guide to Buying a Powerboat features tips and traps for the smart boat buyer. If you don't have an uncle in the boat-dealership business, here's the next-best thing: a longtime boat dealer and salesman who lets you in on trade secrets so you can buy a new or used boat without getting burned. J. P. Lamy lays out a step-by-step approach to finding the right small powerboat (under 30 feet) and buying it at a fair price with favorable financing. You will learn: - How salesmen are trained
- What their margins and markups are
- The use of the Internet for boat shopping
- What to look for, good and bad, in a new or used boat
- Checklists
- How to negotiate honestly but toughly
- How to shave thousands of dollars from an asking price
Endorsed by Boating magazine, Lamy's guide helps you take control and win in the bargaining process. When it comes to buying a boat, knowledge is power..
Price: $3.99
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Sorensen's Guide to Powerboats, 2/E
The first book ever to reveal what boat builders pay thousands of dollars to learn: the secrets of owner satisfaction What makes a boat owner happy? Eric Sorensen and J. D. Power & Associates answer that question in detail in this revised edition of Sorensen’s Guide to Powerboats. Now incorporating results from J. D. Powers’ Boat Competitive Information Study, this guide tells you everything you need to know before opening your wallet. From runabouts and pontoons to express cruisers and bassboats, the book covers it all, explaining the implications of different hull designs, construction methods, engine technologies, and more. Includes J. D. Power's "Power Circle" rankings. .
Price: $14.49
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The Instant Handbook of Boat Handling, Navigation, and Seamanship
Instant answers for your boat handling, navigation, and seamanship questions The Instant Handbook uses a dynamic new quick-reference format to cover the critical aspects of piloting, seamanship, and boat handling under sail or power more accessibly and effectively than has ever been done before. It puts at your fingertips all the information you need about: - Boat Handling Under Power--Bob Sweet
- Sail Trim and Rig Tuning--Bill Gladstone
- Using Nautical Charts--Bob Sweet
- Using GPS--Bob Sweet
- Using VHF and SSB Radios--Bob Sweet
- Rules of the Road and Running Light Patterns--Charlie Wing
- Knots, Splices, and Line Handling--Charlie Wing
- Anchoring--Peter Nielsen
- Onboard Weather Forecasting--Bob Sweet
- Heavy Weather Sailing--John Rousmaniere
- Diesel Engine Care and Repair--Nigel Calder
- Emergencies On Board--John Rousmaniere
- Emergency First Aid On Board--Richard Clinchy
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Price: $12.81
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Fast Powerboat Seamanship : The Complete Guide to Boat Handling, Navigation, and Safety
The definitive guide to operating 30- to 100-foot boats at speeds of 25 to more than 100 knots Fast powerboats outsell sailboats 10 to 1, yet there has been no comprehensive guide available for operating them. Now, from one of the world's leading authorities on fast powerboats, comes the book that answers that need. Author Dag Pike provides plenty of tips, anecdotes, and instructive illustrations as he covers crucial topics such as hull design and construction, engines and propulsion systems, coping with extreme conditions, tides and currents, collision avoidance, communications, and much more. He helps fast-boat owners: - Adjust to the faster pace of events at high speed
- Understand the effects of speed on boat handling
- Negotiate waves safely and efficiently
- Master high-speed navigation
- Learn fast-boat docking techniques
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Price: $13.35
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American Powerboats
This look back at the great boatbuilders that sprung up on the shores of the Great Lakes stretches from the first use of internal combustion for marine applications in the late nineteenth century to the early-1960s, when wooden construction was increasingly replaced by fiberglass and aluminum, and on to the early 1980s. More than covering lovely mahogany runabouts, this work also includes chapters on racers and cruisers/commuters. In addition to familiar names like Chris-Craft, Hacker, Century, and Lyman, there are also less frequently covered boats from names like Richards, Matthews, Burger, and Tiara. The final chapters explore the use of non-wood materials.Detroit was the epicenter of early-20th century boat-makers using engines from the nation's nascent automotive industry. Boat-makers, however, did not cluster as tightly around that city as did auto manufacturers; they were found from the Thousand Islands of Lake Ontario to Chicago and Duluth. Despite this regionalism the Great Lakes builders, more than any others, influenced the entire world's powerboating community. .
Price: $7.99
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