If you own a small marine diesel engine that you depend on--at least occasionally--this book was written for you. Nigel Calder, a diesel mechanic of many years' experience, a good writer, and perceptive teacher, has written a guide that is clear, logical, and acutally interesting. A boatowner born with a monkey wrench in his hand will find Marine Diesel Engines useful and agreeable; a mechanical illiterate will find it a godsend. 
Here in nine extensively illustrated chapters is everything you need to keep you diesel engine running cleanly and efficiently--saving you a world of frustration, discomfort, and even peril, not to mention time-and-a-half weekend mechanics' charges. 
"One of the best books on marine diesels to appear in some time."--Ocean Navigator 
"The most up-to-date and readable book we've seen on the subject."--Sailing World 
"Even if you never intend to put a spanner near your engine, and know your mechanic's home phone number by heart, this book deserves a place on any diesel-powered boat."--Motor Boat &amp; Yachting, London 
"Clear, logical, and even interesting to read."--Cruising World

Marine Diesel Engines: Maintenance, Troubleshooting, and Repair

Engineering & Transportation

CALDER, Nigel

Automotive

International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press

Regardless of your skill level, Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual makes boat maintenance and repair fast, fun and easy! Hundreds of tips and techniques for maintaining, troubleshooting and fixing every working part and system on your boat--all clearly explained in step-by-step detail. How to make sure your boat's electrical system provides all the power you need; Common and little-known tips for keeping your batteries and charging system safe and trouble-free; Simple test procedures for grounding circuits on boats; Best way to prevent galvanic corrosion on newly installed equipment; Easy, reliable way to make sure your inverter can handle peak AC appliance load; Often overlooked preventive maintenance for diesel engines. What to do right after start-up, while in use and at regular intervals during the season to ensure years of trouble-free boating; 8-point troubleshooting procedure for poor pickup; How to replace a transmission output-shaft oil seal. 5 simple steps to stop loss of transmission oil; Secret trick for keeping deck hardware fastened tight no matter how excessive the loads. Works every time. 7 safety tips for repairing masthead lights and other fixtures on top of the mast; and much, much more.

Boatowner's Mechanical & Electrical Manual: How to Maintain, Repair, and Improve Your Boat's Essential Systems

Sports & Outdoors

Water Sports

The most comprehensive and helpful guide ever written for selecting and equipping a cruising sailboat 
 Whether you’re a coastal or offshore cruiser, you’ll find your most pressing concerns treated with the know-how that makes for skillful, confident cruising in Nigel Calder’s Cruising Handbook. The author -- one of the most respected marine how-to authors on either side of the Atlantic, and author of the universally admired Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual, -- walks you through all key technical and practical aspects of modern cruising systems and equipment, providing you with a summary of the skills necessary for safe, enjoyable sailing. 
 The first half of the book includes an easy-to-use tabular method for evaluating a boat's suitability for cruising; ideas for workable deck and interior lay-outs and organization; how to choose and configure suitable boat systems for cruising; and how to install gear for trouble free operation. 
 The book's second half teaches you boat handling skills; core navigational expertise; anchoring techniques; weather understanding; heavy weather expertise; and specific skills for long-term and long-distance cruising.

Nigel Calder's Cruising Handbook: A Compendium for Coastal and Offshore Sailors

Transportation

The best handbook on chart usage, from one of the most trusted names in boating In 2000, the U.S. government ceased publication of Chart No. 1, the invaluable little book that generations of mariners have consulted to make sense of the complex system of signs, symbols, and graphic elements used in nautical charts. Now Chart No. 1 is not just reborn but expanded and improved in How to Read a Nautical Chart. The demand for a book like this has never been greater. Arranged and edited by Nigel Calder, one of today's most respected boating authors, --and containing four-color illustrations throughout,-- How to Read a Nautical Chart presents a number of original features that help readers make optimum use of the data found in Chart No. 1, including a more intuitive format, crucial background information, international chart symbol equivalents, electronic chart symbology, and thorough explanations of the practical aspects of nautical chart reading.

How to Read a Nautical Chart : A Complete Guide to the Symbols, Abbreviations, and Data Displayed on Nautical Charts

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: 
<ul>
<li>Battery technologies </li>
<li>12- and 24-volt DC systems </li>
<li>Corrosion, bonding, and lightning protection </li>
<li>Generators, inverters, and battery chargers </li>
<li>Electric motors and electric lights </li>
<li>Marine electronics, antennas, and RFI </li>
<li>Diesel engines </li>
<li>Transmissions, shaft brakes, and propellers </li>
<li>Refrigeration and air-conditioning </li>
<li>Tanks, plumbing, and through-hulls </li>
<li>Pumps and watermakers </li>
<li>Steering, autopilots, and wind vanes </li>
<li>Stoves and heaters </li>
<li>Winches, windlasses, and bow thrusters </li>
<li>Spars, rigging, and roller reefing </li>
</ul>
"If you had to choose a single book to help you assess and maintain your boat gear, this would be it."―Practical Sailor 
"A truly remarkable bible. . . . This book is the best of its kind."―WoodenBoat 
"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

Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual: How to Maintain, Repair, and Improve Your Boat's Essential Systems

International Marine Publishing

When it's sink or swim, this Quick Guide will keep you afloat! On the water, when an engine problem surfaces, there is no time to spend searching through an exhaustive manual. Diesel Engine Care and Repair provides all the answers--fast. Drawn from the world's largest boating library, it presents 14 color panels of authoritative, concise information on diesel engines. This on-the-spot reference is a convenient, accessible, and utterly streamlined information resource.

Diesel Engine Care and Repair: A Captain's Quick Guide (Captain's Quick Guides)

Praise for this boating classic: 
“The most up-to-date and readable book we've seen on the subject.”―Sailing World 
“Deserves a place on any diesel-powered boat.”―Motor Boat &amp; Yachting 
“Clear, logical, and even interesting to read.”―Cruising World 
Keep your diesel engine going with help from a master mechanic 
Marine Diesel Engines has been the bible for do-it-yourself boatowners for more than 15 years. Now updated with information on fuel injection systems, electronic engine controls, and other new diesel technologies, Nigel Calder's bestseller has everything you need to keep your diesel engine running cleanly and efficiently. Marine Diesel Engines explains how to: 
<ul>
<li>Diagnose and repair engine problems </li>
<li>Perform routine and annual maintenance </li>
<li>Extend the life and improve the efficiency of your engine </li>
</ul>

Reference

Instant answers for your boat handling, navigation, and seamanship questions 
The Instant Handbook uses a dynamic new quick-reference format to cover the critical aspects of piloting, seamanship, and boat handling under sail or power more accessibly and effectively than has ever been done before. It puts at your fingertips all the information you need about: 
<ul>
<li>Boat Handling Under Power--Bob Sweet </li>
<li>Sail Trim and Rig Tuning--Bill Gladstone </li>
<li>Using Nautical Charts--Bob Sweet </li>
<li>Using GPS--Bob Sweet </li>
<li>Using VHF and SSB Radios--Bob Sweet </li>
<li>Rules of the Road and Running Light Patterns--Charlie Wing </li>
<li>Knots, Splices, and Line Handling--Charlie Wing </li>
<li>Anchoring--Peter Nielsen </li>
<li>Onboard Weather Forecasting--Bob Sweet </li>
<li>Heavy Weather Sailing--John Rousmaniere </li>
<li>Diesel Engine Care and Repair--Nigel Calder </li>
<li>Emergencies On Board--John Rousmaniere </li>
<li>Emergency First Aid On Board--Richard Clinchy </li>
</ul>

The Instant Handbook of Boat Handling, Navigation, and Seamanship: A Quick-Reference Guide for Sail and Power

Business & Money

Rousmaniere, John

Wing, Charlie

Gladstone, Bill

Clinchy, Richard A.

Nielsen., Peter

Sweet, Robert J.

Management & Leadership

You've just spent a day on the water under a sweltering sun. You sit back, enjoying the seclusion of a remote anchorage, lulled by the rattle of ice in your cold drink. A pretty picture, but a rare one aboard cruising boats. 
A house is never without its utility umbrella, but when you pull your boat's shore-power plug you're on your own. Even good refrigeration systems use a lot of energy. And bad ones? Erase those ice cubes from your tropical fantasy. 
Refrigeration for Pleasureboats explains how the cruising sailor can acquire the amenities--even the necessities--of an efficient onboard refrigeration system. Whether you're off for two days or two years, you must balance the highest possible cooling capacity with the lowest possible energy consumption. Calder explains clearly and logically how and why refrigeration components work, how to keep them working efficiently and economically, and what to look for when something goes wrong. 
Boat refrigeration systems are phenomenally expensive. A modest refrigerator/freezer system, professionally built and installed, can cost more than $4,000. Yet these units can still have unpleasant side effects--such as killing the boat's batteries. Refrigeration for Pleasureboats provides all the step-by-step information an amateur needs to design and build a custom refrigeration unit that will cost far less than half the price of an off-the-shelf unit and will likely run better with far less drain on the batteries. With Calder's maintenance and troubleshooting tips, you'll be able to keep it running for years to come and keep those ice cubes tinkling in that frosted glass.

Refrigeration for Pleasureboats: Installation, Maintenance and Repair

Here is a guide to the most beautiful and interesting corner of the Caribbean. Included are 100 sketch charts, plus artist's sketches and photographs of difficult anchorage entrances and coral reef passages. Early chapters explore the region's history and culture. A chapter-by-chapter breakdown of the cruising grounds supplements detailed passage-making and pilotage instructions with descriptions of local facilities, accommodations, and places of interest.

The Cruising Guide to the Northwest Caribbean: The Yucatan Coast of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and the Bay Islands

Travel

Central America

McGraw=Hill

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Books by CALDER, Nigel

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Marine Diesel Engines: Maintenance, Troubleshooting, and Repair

Boatowner's Mechanical & Electrical Manual: How to Maintain, Repair, and Improve Your Boat's Essential Systems

Nigel Calder's Cruising Handbook: A Compendium for Coastal and Offshore Sailors

How to Read a Nautical Chart : A Complete Guide to the Symbols, Abbreviations, and Data Displayed on Nautical Charts

Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual: How to Maintain, Repair, and Improve Your Boat's Essential Systems

Diesel Engine Care and Repair: A Captain's Quick Guide (Captain's Quick Guides)

Marine Diesel Engines: Maintenance, Troubleshooting, and Repair

The Instant Handbook of Boat Handling, Navigation, and Seamanship: A Quick-Reference Guide for Sail and Power

Refrigeration for Pleasureboats: Installation, Maintenance and Repair

The Cruising Guide to the Northwest Caribbean: The Yucatan Coast of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and the Bay Islands