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The Boatyard Book

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Overview

A boatowner's guide to yacht maintenance, repair and refitting

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Product Details

Part Number: BOA0556

Edition: 2021

Printed and corrected to: No

ISBN: 9781472977106

Publisher: Bloomsbury

Imprint: Adlard Coles

Language: English

Author(s): Simon Jollands

Author: No

Format: Flexiback

The Boatyard Book is a practical, comprehensive reference manual that provides sensible, accessible advice for boatowners on planning and carrying out annual maintenance, repairs, upgrades and refits of sailing yachts and motorboats, up to 20 metres in length.

Beginning with all the information owners will need to care for their boat, including how to budget and plan tasks to be done through the year, The Boatyard Book goes on to help them choose the best boatyard for their needs, then provides essential how-to reference material and ideas for a comprehensive range of projects large and small to be carried out ashore.

There's advice and tips from highly respected boatyard owners, specialists and surveyors, as well as from the author's own 25 years' experience of boat ownership, all fully illustrated with step-by-step photos and illustrations. Topics covered include:

  • laying up
  • hull and deck care
  • mast and rigging
  • sail care
  • engines
  • electrics
  • maintenance of plumbing and gas systems
  • more complex projects, including re-wiring a boat, overhauling an engine, how to treat osmosis and how to go about a complete refit.

This is a book to be kept at the yard, or on the boat, and used time and time again by those who are either happy to keep things ticking along with the minimum of effort or by those who want to get stuck into bigger projects.

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
    Who is this book for?
    Part One
  2. Boat care
    Boat ownership
    Boat care fundamentals
    Your boat's history
    Keeping records
    Doing regular checks
    Research and advice
    Calling in the professionals
    Owners' associations
    What does maintenance work involve?
    Repairing and refurbishing
    Refit
    The rewards of boat ownership
  3. Planning, costs and budgeting
    Choosing a boatyard
    Boat survey
    Maintenance log
    Costs and budgeting
  4. Laying up
    Lift out
    After lift out
  5. Tools and spares
    Tools
    Spares
    Sealants, adhesives and adhesive sealants
  6. Health and safety
    Protective clothing
    Dust creation
    Antifouling
    Shot/sandblasting
    Engine work and servicing
    Part Two
  7. Hull
    Composite hulls
    Osmosis
    Steel and aluminium hulls
    Wooden hulls
    Antifouling
    Keel maintenance and repair
    Rudders and steering systems
  8. Deck and superstructure
    Inspection
    Teak decks
    Winches
    Leaking decks
  9. Mast and rigging
    Rig care
    Owner rig check
    Wooden masts and booms
    Running rigging
  10. Sails
    Materials and construction
    Ultraviolet exposure
    Inspection
    Cleaning
    Storage
    Repairs
  11. Engine and propulsion
    Know your engine
    How diesel engines work
    Electric motors and hybrid systems
    Outboard motors
    Diesel engine winterisation
    Other engine maintenance ashore
    Stern gear
    Overhauling an engine
  12. Electrics
    Basic electrics
    Electrics inspection checklist
    Batteries
    Avoiding and identifying electrical problems
    Common electrical problems
    Rewiring a small yacht
  13. Interior
    Cleaning
    Interior inspection and checks
    Plumbing
    Gas system
    Varnishing
    Interior painting
  14. Fitting out and launching
    Essentials
    Other jobs
    Launch day
    Glossary
    Further reading
    Photo credits and Acknowledgements
    Index
    Specifications and Inventory