The Boat Data Book 8th Edition
The Owners' and Professionals' Bible
1st Edition
Published on 15. August 2024
224 pages
978-1-3994-1292-6 (ISBN)
Description
A treasure trove of invaluable information for boatowners, designers, builders, surveyors, chandlers and anyone maintaining their own boat.
Thoroughly updated for this eighth edition, this book is packed with tables of lengths, widths, weights and strengths as well as new data on a vast range of equipment from anchors to masts, propellers to gas cylinders, cleat sizes to winch bases, and hatches to bolts, bearings, cabling and piping.
If you want to know what size winch to fit, the breaking strength of stainless steel rigging wire, the recommended size for seacocks or what length and size an anchor chain should be, then this is the book for you. The Boat Data Book is a must-have reference for owners and professionals.
Thoroughly updated for this eighth edition, this book is packed with tables of lengths, widths, weights and strengths as well as new data on a vast range of equipment from anchors to masts, propellers to gas cylinders, cleat sizes to winch bases, and hatches to bolts, bearings, cabling and piping.
If you want to know what size winch to fit, the breaking strength of stainless steel rigging wire, the recommended size for seacocks or what length and size an anchor chain should be, then this is the book for you. The Boat Data Book is a must-have reference for owners and professionals.
More details
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Over 100 diagrams and graphs, many in colour
ISBN-13
978-1-3994-1292-6 (9781399412926)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
07/2024
8th Edition
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
€41.00
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Persons
Ian Nicolson started collecting data about boats from his father and grandfather when he was still at school. After his apprenticeship as a naval architect he joined A Mylne & Co, where he has been a senior partner since 1979.
Richard Nicolson has raced in the Whitbread Round the World Race, won at Les Voiles de St Tropez and traversed the Arctic's North West Passage. He has rebuilt and repaired many yachts, from classics to modern hi-tech flyers.
Richard Nicolson has raced in the Whitbread Round the World Race, won at Les Voiles de St Tropez and traversed the Arctic's North West Passage. He has rebuilt and repaired many yachts, from classics to modern hi-tech flyers.
Content
Introduction
1. Boat Equipment
2. Materials
3. Fastenings
4. Spars and Rigging
5. Engines, Power and Electrics
6. Design
7. Tables and Formulae
1. Boat Equipment
2. Materials
3. Fastenings
4. Spars and Rigging
5. Engines, Power and Electrics
6. Design
7. Tables and Formulae
