Boat Maintenance: The Essential Guide Guide to Cleaning, Painting, and Cosmetics

William Burr (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

176 Seiten

2000
McGraw Hill Higher Education (Verlag)
978-0-07-135703-6 (ISBN)

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Provides guidance to the techniques and products that can preserve and protect your boat year after year. This book shows you how to clean and maintain fiberglass, wood, metal, fabric, and plastics. It teaches you how to select and apply paints, varnishes, and other coatings, in addition to sealants and adhesives.

Most boaters spend too much time and money trying to find cleaning and maintenance products that can keep their vessels in top-notch shape. Bill Burr's "Boat Maintenance" ends those costly searches by providing this comprehensive guide to the techniques and products that can preserve and protect your boat year after year. This is the first book to combine practical, how-to instructions with objective product recommendations. Combining Burr's varied experience in boating and chemical engineering with the advice of marine professionals, "Boat Maintenance" shows you how to clean and maintain fiberglass, wood, metal, fabric, and plastics. You'll also learn how to select and apply paints, varnishes, and other coatings, in addition to sealants and adhesives.With "Boat Maintenance", you get: expert advice on more than 150 brand-name products; quick answers to typical boat problems; money-saving tips on using low-cost generic substitutes; weekly, monthly, and seasonal preventive maintenance schedules; data on the chemical components and environmental dangers of products; and, safety tips on proper product handling.

A lifelong boater, William M. Burr, Jr., is author of two how-to books about boating: Boat Maintenance (IM, 2000) and Sailing Tips: 1,000 New Ways to Solve Old Problems. He lives aboard a 37-foot Jeanneau sailboat and regularly faces the problems that he writes about -- including that of keeping his boat safe during storms.

Introduction1 General Care2 Fiberglass3 Wood4 Metal5 Selection and Application of Coatings6 Sealants and Adhesives7 Fabric8 Plastic, Vinyl, Line, and Rubber9 Interior MaintenanceAppendix 1. Periodic Upkeep SchedulesAppendix 2. Boat ProblemsAppendix 3. Boat Parts to Be CleanedAppendix 4. Chemical IngredientsProduct IndexGeneral IndexAbout the Author

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.5.2000
Zusatzinfo	40 Illustrations
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	193 x 239 mm
Gewicht	525 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Segeln / Tauchen / Wassersport
Themenwelt	Technik ► Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau
ISBN-10	0-07-135703-3 / 0071357033
ISBN-13	978-0-07-135703-6 / 9780071357036
Zustand	Neuware