Sports & Recreation : Boating

SAVE TIME AND MONEY WITH THIS STATE-OF-THE-ART GUIDE TO THE LATEST, MOST ADVANCED DIAGNOSTIC EQUIPMENT AND TECHNIQUES. “Ed Sherman is one of America’s great teachers and communicators of marine technology.”--Tim Murphy, Executive Editor, Cruising World. Whether you are a marine electronics professional or a boatowner, Advanced Marine Electrics and Electronics Troubleshooting helps you understand the new, more powerful methods of troubleshooting marine electrical and electronic systems. A modern boat’s sophisticated installations and networked electronics can stretch the traditional diagnostic methods based on trouble lights and multimeters past their useful limits. This book will show you how to: Use microprocessor-based diagnostic tools and techniques from the automotive and communications sectors, adapted for boats for the first time; Diagnose the most difficult AC and DC problems; Protect communications and navigation electronics from interference and lightning; Seek out and eliminate stray-current sources and galvanic corrosion more...

Price: $34.95

Make your boat shine again. No improvement to a tired-looking boat will have a more dramatic impact than refinishing, and few tasks are easier. Here is everything you need to achieve a fabulous finish on your fiberglass boat’s bottom, topsides, deck, spars, wood trim, and belowdeck surfaces while saving time, money, and grief. What reviewers have said about Don Casey's boat maintenance books:. “Astonishingly clear text and illustrations. The reader can almost feel the hand-holding this book provides through each step.”-- Dockside. “I own many books filled with advice, but I strongly suspect that this is the one I will consult most.”-- Sailing. “Casey makes tricky points clear in hundreds of illustrations and lively prose.”-- SailNet. “If you have an older sailboat, you need this book.”-- The Ensign more...

Price: $14.95

Learn how to become a better navigator and skipper. These seamanship and navigation techniques are designed for maximum usefulness in the cockpits, pilothouses, and navigation stations of sail- and powerboats. Navigation techniques range from traditional to electronic and include highly useful tips for coastal cruise planning under sail or power. Seamanship techniques include docking and maneuvering, diesel engine maintenance, nighttime and heavy-weather passagemaking, weather tracking, collision avoidance, sailing, and sail repair. more...

Price: $18.95

Ostensibly the tale of his 1980 voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic High is William F. Buckley's extended meditation on the pleasures of sailing and good company. Not surprisingly, as much thought seems to have gone into stocking the wine cellar as to charting out the route. Kon-Tiki, this is not, but nor is it meant to be. Instead, it is an essay on appreciation, and a chance for Buckley to share his spirited point of view and exercise his unique sense of humor. more...

Price: $4.99

The ultimate self-learning guide to sailboat racing. In this practical self-coaching guide for the serious racing buff, veteran sailing coach John Emmett explains how anyone can improve his or her sailing technique in manageable stages. By breaking down racing into 20key topics, Emmett shows how aspiring yacht racers can learn to measure their own strengths and weaknesses and improve key skills step by step. The book also includes practical tips and wisdom from Olympic racers. more...

Price: $27.50