The Complete RIB Manual
The Definitive Guide to Design, Handling and Maintenance
1st Edition
Published on 20. June 2013
272 pages
978-1-4081-8014-3 (ISBN)
Description
First built in the 1960s for rescue work, the Rigid Inflatable Boat has revolutionised the marine market. The Complete RIB Manual, published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the first RIB, is the ultimate reference catering all aspects of a RIB's design, handling and maintenance, aimed at all owners and users, both commercial and leisure. The emphasis of the book is entirely practical, and covers:
1. A History of the RIB
. Early development
. Modern design: leisure, commercial and military
2. RIB Handling
. Impact of hull design, tube types, internal layout and engines
. Driving techniques: throttle control and driving position
. Advanced techniques for economy, sport and rough seas
. Cruising: planning, weather, anchoring and communications
. RIBs as tenders - stowing and towing
. Launching and transportation
. Safety and survival
3. Maintenance
. Outboards, diesels, water jets, stern drives, fuel tanks and electrics
. Tube care: cleaning, repair, replacement
. Hull maintenance
. Winter storage, checking for leaks, servicing
The Complete RIB Manual is a comprehensive worldwide reference for all RIB owners and users, covering all the information necessary to handle and maintain a RIB of any size.
1. A History of the RIB
. Early development
. Modern design: leisure, commercial and military
2. RIB Handling
. Impact of hull design, tube types, internal layout and engines
. Driving techniques: throttle control and driving position
. Advanced techniques for economy, sport and rough seas
. Cruising: planning, weather, anchoring and communications
. RIBs as tenders - stowing and towing
. Launching and transportation
. Safety and survival
3. Maintenance
. Outboards, diesels, water jets, stern drives, fuel tanks and electrics
. Tube care: cleaning, repair, replacement
. Hull maintenance
. Winter storage, checking for leaks, servicing
The Complete RIB Manual is a comprehensive worldwide reference for all RIB owners and users, covering all the information necessary to handle and maintain a RIB of any size.
More details
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4081-8014-3 (9781408180143)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
06/2013
Adlard Coles Nautical
€63.40
Article exhausted; check different version
Person
Dag Pike began his career as a merchant captain, went on to test RNLI lifeboats, and took up fast boat navigation, winning a string of trophies for powerboat races around the world, including navigating Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic Challenger on the record-breaking fastest Atlantic crossing by powerboat. He later became a navigation and powerboat journalist in demand all over the world.
Content
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- PART ONE A HISTORY OF THE RIB
- 1 EARLY DEVELOPMENT
- Improving the Inflatable
- The Atlantic 21 Concept
- Other pioneers - Flatacraft and Avon
- RIB development in America and Europe
- 2 RIBS TODAY
- Small RIBs and tenders
- Sports RIBs
- Professional RIBs
- Other design concepts
- PART TWO RIB HANDLING
- 3 WHAT MAKES A RIB WORK?
- The variable geometry hull - tube design
- Fabrics and adhesives
- The rigid hull
- Seating, cockpit and helm
- 4 RIB CONTROLS
- Fast-acting controls: steering and throttle
- Slower-acting controls: the joystick, flaps and interceptors, power trim
- Driving position and controls
- 5 RIB DRIVING
- Sea conditions
- Driving in calm and moderate conditions
- Operating in head seas
- Operating in beam seas
- Operating in following seas
- Night and fog operation
- Tactics to improve the ride
- Running an inlet
- Spin outs
- Engine response
- 6 RIB CRUISING AND LEISURE USE
- Long-distance cruising
- Overnight cruising
- RIB leisure use
- 7 RIBS AS YACHT TENDERS
- Yacht tender types
- Stowing
- Towing
- Boarding
- 8 LAUNCH, RECOVERY AND TRANSPORTATION
- Launch and recovery from a mother ship
- Handling the mother ship
- Transportation
- 9 COMMERCIAL AND MILITARY RIBS
- Commercial RIBs
- Shock mitigation
- Military RIBs
- Codes and standards
- 10 RESCUE RIBS
- Rescues from the shore
- Offshore rescues
- Volunteer rescue crews and responding to distress calls
- The RIB as rescue boat: moving forward
- 11 SAFETY AND SURVIVAL
- Personal safety
- Survival situations
- PART THREE RIB MAINTENANCE
- 12 ENGINES AND PROPULSION
- Outboard engines
- Inboard engines
- 13 ENGINE AND PROPULSION MAINTENANCE
- Maintaining the engine
- Maintaining the propulsion system
- Fuel management and economy
- 14 TUBE AND HULL CARE
- 'Back from sea' maintenance
- End of season/out of service maintenance
- EPILOGUE: THE FUTURE
- INDEX
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- V
- W
- Y
- Z
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
