The Sailor's Assistant: Reference Data for Maintenance, Repair, & Cruising (International Marine Sailboat Library) - Hardcover

Vigor, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0070674760 ISBN 13: 9780070674769

Verlag: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

This quick-reference guide is an on-board data bank, compiling in one place all the facts, figures, tables, and graphs to which a cruising sailor must occasionally refer. In 17 chapters ranging from deck gear and electronics to spars, rigging, and navigation, it groups information logically; an extensively cross-referenced index acts as a search engine when needed. The amount of data a cruising sailor needs at fingertip reach can be staggering: recommended anchor sizes and types, cleat sizes for specified lines, winch sizes and power ratios, fender sizes, electrical wire sizes for specified amperages, solar panel outputs, GPS accuracy, VHF radio ranges, strength of fiberglass panels, fastener types and pilot hole sizes for various applications, electrical power consumption calculations, fuel consumption, propeller pitch and diameter, refueling procedures, sources of non-stock hardware, nautical rules of the road, navigation formulas, pressures of various wind speeds, coverage of paint, recommended adhesive-sealants, drinking water requirements, cooking fuels, safety equipment, safe working loads for shackles and rigging, and a thousand others. Most of this arcana is buried in one book or another, but now it's all in one place and easy

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John Vigor (Bellingham, WA), a journalist for 35 years and former managing editor of Sea Magazine, has sailed more than 15,000 ocean miles. He is the author of The Practical Mariners Book of Knowledge (IM, 1994).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0070674760
• ISBN 13: 9780070674769
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176
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