Boatowner's Sheet Anchor: a Practical Guide to Fitting Out, Upkeep and Alteration of the Small Wooden Yacht
Year: 1969 Language: english Author: Lane C.D. Genre: Guide Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls Format: PDF Quality: Scanned pages Pages count: 304 Description: For the first time a practical book is prepared for the thousands of owners of sailboats and motorboats who by shortcuts and their own ingenuity do their own boat work, undertake major and minor repairs, alterations, conversions, and even complete building. These men are the real boat enthusiasts, and in the Boatowner's Sheet Anchor: a Practical Guide to Fitting Out, Upkeep, and Alteration of the Small Wooden Yacht they now have before them a handbook that will be a real aid when, with their own skill and with the least expenditure of money, they attack the many problems and tricks involved. Included in the book are many simple formulas, such as those for paint removers and canvas waterproofing, which will save the boatman actual fitting-out dollars. "Gromet splicing" within the ability of every man is thoroughly described and diagramed, as are hundreds of other useful items. The fifteen chapters discuss in shipshape language, with plenty of diagrams and drawings, the ideal boat for each man's purpose, the details of acquiring a boat, how to inspect a boat, conversions, the hull, decks and deck structures, painting, interior accommodations, shipboard upholstery, sails, masts and spars, rigging, dinghies, as well as care, maintenance, storage, and laying up. The author, a veteran yachtsman, bases his discussion on many years' experience in actual building and sailing small boats.
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Boatowner's Sheet Anchor: a Practical Guide to Fitting Out, Upkeep and Alteration of the Small Wooden Yacht
Language: english
Author: Lane C.D.
Genre: Guide
Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls
Format: PDF
Quality: Scanned pages
Pages count: 304
Description: For the first time a practical book is prepared for the thousands of owners of sailboats and motorboats who by shortcuts and their own ingenuity do their own boat work, undertake major and minor repairs, alterations, conversions, and even complete building.
These men are the real boat enthusiasts, and in the Boatowner's Sheet Anchor: a Practical Guide to Fitting Out, Upkeep, and Alteration of the Small Wooden Yacht they now have before them a handbook that will be a real aid when, with their own skill and with the least expenditure of money, they attack the many problems and tricks involved. Included in the book are many simple formulas, such as those for paint removers and
canvas waterproofing, which will save the boatman actual fitting-out dollars. "Gromet splicing" within the ability of every man is thoroughly described and diagramed, as are hundreds of other useful items.
The fifteen chapters discuss in shipshape language, with plenty of diagrams and drawings, the ideal boat for each man's purpose, the details of acquiring a boat, how to inspect a boat, conversions, the hull, decks and deck structures, painting, interior accommodations, shipboard upholstery, sails, masts and spars, rigging, dinghies, as well as care, maintenance, storage, and laying up. The author, a veteran yachtsman, bases his discussion on many years' experience in actual building and sailing small boats.
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