How to Maintain, Repair, and Improve Your Boat's Essential Systems. The boatowner's foremost troubleshooting guide, now better than ever. If it's on a boat and it has screws, wires, or moving parts, it's covered in Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual.When you leave the dock with this book aboard, you have at your fingertips the best and most comprehensive advice on:
* Battery technologies* 12- and 24-volt DC systems* Corrosion, bonding, and lightning protection* Generators, inverters, and battery chargers* Electric motors and electric lights* Marine electronics, antennas, and RFI* Diesel engines* Transmissions, shaft brakes, and propellers* Refrigeration and air-conditioning* Tanks, plumbing, and through-hulls* Pumps and watermakers* Steering, autopilots, and wind vanes* Stoves and heaters* Winches, windlasses, and bow thrusters* Spars, rigging, and roller reefing
"If you had to choose a single book to help you assess and maintain your boat gear, this would be it."-Practical Sailor
"A major achievement. . . . It would be hard to imagine anything going wrong on a boat that couldn't be figured out with this book."—Sailing World
"The world's best technical reference and troubleshooting book."—Sailing Inland and Offshore
"This manual will be of lasting interest to anyone who wants to know how their boat works, what has gone wrong when it doesn't, and how it could be fixed."—Classic Boat
"Without becoming too complex, the book covers almost every imaginable mechanical or electrical matter in the marine environment."—Work Boat World
"Calder lives what he writes, . . . [and] what he offers . . . is practical solutions to problems associated with increasingly complex marine systems. . . . [A] bargain for anyone in the construction and repair side of the boat business."—Professional Boatbuilder
Author commentsNigel Calder is widely acknowledged as the world's foremost writer on boat systems maintenance. He is a frequent contributor to boating magazines in the United States and Britain.
A search tool
Featuring various search options to help you find the words you need more easily, including:
* A quick search of words while you type * A 'fuzzy filter' for when you are not sure of the correct spelling of a word * A 'keyword' search for finding key words within phrasal verbs * A wild card search facility which can replace a letter or a group of letters
A learning tool
The dictionary app includes a number of features which help you to expand your vocabulary further:
* A 'Favourites' feature allows you to create your own categories and lists of words * Your last visited words are all saved in your 'History', so that you can quickly look back at recently checked words * Discover a new word every day with the 'Daily' feature * Ability to have dictionary Word of the Day as a widget on the device home screen * See words in context with example sentences * Online and offline modes supported, the offline mode allows you to download the whole dictionary and work independently from data connections
VERSION HISTORY
- Version 4.3.103 posted on 2014-06-10
- Version 4.3.059 posted on 2013-06-28
Several fixes and updates
Program Details
- Category: Education > Other
- Publisher: Mobile Systems
- License: Free Trial
- Price: N/A
- Version: 4.3.103
- Platform: android