What do you get when an ex-NASA engineer and statistician turned bestselling how-to-writer decides to move aboard a boat? The Liveaboard Report, a statistical analysis filled with bar charts and pie graphs that quantifies what works and what doesn't for a representative sampling of liveaboard boaters. Charlie Wing interviewed 71 liveaboards of all sorts, and asked them 400 questions about what most aspiring liveaboards want to know: What does it cost? What boat should I get? Is refrigeration worth the hassle? What anchor works best? This book is different from other liveaboard guides. This author doesn't say, "Listen up--I am an expert, and this is the way to do it." Instead, he says "I asked this question of 71 crews with 277 collective years' experience living aboard. Three percent said X, 20 percent said Y, and 77 percent said Z. Let that be your guide."

The Liveaboard Report: A Boat Dweller's Guide to What Works and What Doesn't

Sports & Outdoors

WING, Charlie

Water Sports

International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press

Taking the baton from International Marine's best-selling 12-Volt Bible for Boats and Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual, Boatowner's Illustrated Handbook of Wiring delves deeper into the how-to-wire, how-to-solder approach of the former and the electrical system design, troubleshooting, and improvement aspects of the latter. DC and AC wiring materials and techniques are all covered, as are batteries, alternators, inverters, generators, corrosion control, and alternate energy installations (solar, wind, and water). There are detailed instructions for wiring radios, loran, and other radio navigation devices. The dozens of weekend projects include installing cabin lights, navigation lights, burglar alarms, battery charge indicators, bilge alarms, and much more. Extensive tables summarize the most important information and specifications in a quick-reference format. Boatowner's Illustrated Handbook of Wiring is a user-friendly, roll-up-your-sleeves manual for onboard electrical projects, from fixing loose connections to rewiring the boat. Simple, clear, and abundantly illustrated, here is the key to understanding and customizing you boat's DC and AC systems.

Boatowner's Illustrated Handbook of Wiring

Know you'll pass before you take the exam. 
Here's the quickest, easiest and cheapest way to prepare for the U.S. Coast Guard captain's ratings exams required for anyone who takes paying passengers on a boat, and useful for serious boaters who want to save money on insurance. Included are the six-passenger "Six-Pack," Master and Mate Inland, Master and Mate Near Coastal, and Sail/Auxiliary Sail Endorsement. Every question and answer on the Coast Guard exams--all 6,215 of them--is provided. The interactive CD-ROM allows you to take an unlimited number of practice exams, randomly selects questions from the database, simulating a real exam, grades you, tells you which questions you got wrong, and keeps a log of your test results. This new edition brings the book up-to-date with the Coast Guard's expanded and revised database of questions and answers.

Get Your Captain's License: The Complete Study Guide, Second Edition

McGraw=Hill

A look inside the mysterious machines that power, steer, and control sailboats and powerboats A fully illustrated tour of a boat's mysterious machines and gizmos, this beautifully detailed guide features more than 100 cutaway and exploded drawings to give readers a glimpse into the inner workings of both powerboats and sailboats, including engines and propulsion gear, steering, rigging, ground tackle, electronic gear, electrical systems, and plumbing. Eighty principal devices and systems are covered, each in a two-page spread complete with simple explanations of parts, tips for disassembly and assembly, and instructions for troubleshooting, maintenance, and repair. Ideal for do-it-yourselfers, this is an essential onboard resource that even the mechanically impaired can appreciate.

How Boat Things Work : An Illustrated Guide

Get Your Captain's License offers the best test-prep resource available for the U.S. Coast Guard captain's exams. This fully updated and greatly expanded new edition covers the exams for the most popular captain's ratings, including the "Six-Pack" charter boat license and the 100-ton Masters license. Includes an interactive CD-ROM for unlimited, random practice testing; written text coving all 9,000 questions/answers that could appear on the Six-Pack and 100-ton exams; and 200 additional pages of tutorials on seamanship and navigation.

Get Your Captain's License, Third Edition

Business & Money

Job Hunting & Careers

Provides 14 colour panels information on a critical topic. This reference book is suitable for boaters who need a convenient, and accessible information resource.

Rules of the Road and Running Light Patterns: A Captain's Quick Guide (Captain's Quick Guides)

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

The essential information every boater needs--onboard and at your fingertips On the water, when questions arise, there is no time to spend searching through an exhaustive manual. The Captain's QuickGuides provide all the answers--fast. Drawn from the world's largest boating library, each laminated QuickGuide presents 14 color panels of authoritative, concise information on a critical topic. This on-the-spot reference is ideal for boaters who need a convenient, accessible, and utterly streamlined information resource. Designed for onboard quick reference each QuickGuide includes: <ul>
<li>14 panels of concise information yet has a folded size of just 4" x 9" </li>
<li>Hinged, laminated construction makes them durable and waterproof </li>
<li>Carefully organized and richly illustrated in color for instant, easy answers </li>
<li>At-your-fingertips format ideal for emergency situations </li>
</ul>
Just right for tight quarters, where space is an issue

Captain's QuickGuides: Knots, Splices, and Line Handling

Keep your boat's electrical systems running and reliable 
“Boatowner’s Illustrated Electrical Handbook is perfect for learning how your boat’s electrical system and much of its equipment works, and it will be an invaluable guide when adding equipment as well. This book needs to be in every boater’s library as a ready reference on how to make effective repairs and modifications that comply with ABYC standards.”―Ed Sherman, Senior Instructor and Curriculum Designer, American Boat and Yacht Council 
“A definitive technical book that is easy to read. Buy this book and throw out the rest.”―Motorboat &amp; Yachting 
Whether you take to the sea under power or sail, bounce around the bay in your runabout, or cross oceans in your cruiser, you’ll find everything you need to maintain, repair, and upgrade your boat’s DC and AC electrical systems with this comprehensive and fully illustrated guide. 
Tackle onboard electrical projects and learn how to: 
<ul>
<li>Meet ABYC standards for both DC and AC wiring </li>
<li>Install solar- and wind-power systems </li>
<li>Add electrical components </li>
<li>Prevent corrosion of your electrical system . . . and more </li>
</ul>

Boatowner's Illustrated Electrical Handbook

Your quick-access guide to international and U.S. boating rules The U.S. Coast Guard requires every boat more than 39-feet long to carry a copy of the nautical rules of the road onboard. Here’s one that is convenient and handy enough for quick reference on the water. This bestselling guide includes the full text of the original rules, and Charlie Wing’s clear, rule-by-rule translations make them easy to follow. It also includes a "One-Minute Guide Decision Tree" and a brief overview of the rules’ intent to give you a good idea of what to do in any common situation.

The One-Minute Guide to the Nautical Rules of the Road (United States Power Squadrons Guides)

“Anyone who contemplates any onboard do-it-yourself work should have this book at his or her elbow.”--Cruising World 
“This book reduces a boat to its most rudimentary parts in simple drawings and clear explanations. Fascinating to read, it’s a perfect teaching tool.”--Ocean Navigator 
Whether you’re a new mariner or a lifetime veteran, How Boat Things Work is a resource you can’t afford to be without. With intricate two-color cutaway drawings of eighty different systems and devices, as well as detailed explanations of how they’re assembled, how they work, and how they can go wrong, this book covers every primary component of your boat's inner workings. 
This guided tour “under the hood” of your sailboat or powerboat includes: 
<ul>
<li>Engines, transmissions, bearings, stuffing boxes, propellers </li>
<li>Steering systems, autopilots, windvanes, compasses </li>
<li>Rigging, splicing, line handling, block and tackle, sail controls </li>
<li>Anchors and windlasses </li>
<li>DC and AC electrical systems </li>
<li>Pumps, toilets, seacocks, freshwater systems </li>
</ul>

How Boat Things Work: An Illustrated Guide

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