Stress-Free Engine Maintenance

Name: Stress-Free Engine Maintenance
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9781472988553
Price: 45.0 NZD
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By Mr Duncan Wells and Jonathan Parker and Duncan Wells

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Summary

Stress-Free Engine Maintenance offers a comprehensive guide for boat owners, focusing on simplifying the complexities of engine upkeep. The book provides practical advice and step-by-step instructions to ensure smooth and reliable engine performance, making it an essential resource for travel and adventure enthusiasts. With clear diagrams and expert tips, it aims to empower both novices and experienced sailors to maintain their engines with confidence.
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You might enjoy this book if you are an adventurer at heart who loves sailing or travelling by boat and wants to ensure smooth journeys through effective engine maintenance. It offers practical advice from experienced authors to keep your vessel in top shape, making it ideal for both seasoned sailors and beginners eager to learn how to stay stress-free on their aquatic adventures.

Stress-Free Engine Maintenance

In this indispensable guide Duncan Wells and Jonathan Parker take the stress out of engine maintenance and repair, with step by step instructions, videos, checklists and clear explanations, helping skippers to avoid breaking down and get the most out of their boat.

Description

Stress-Free Engine Maintenance is an accessible and practical guide to understanding what is going on with your boat’s engine, how to look after it, spot the signs when all is not well, and how to fix it. Learn how to change a filter and impeller, ensure the engine doesn’t overheat, and much more.

This visual and jargon-free book covers all the essentials for looking after your engine, including:

Basic principles of how an engine works
Fuel, cooling and air systems
Engine electrical systems
Gearboxes and drives
Checklists (e.g. before starting and once running)
Most common causes of breakdown
Troubleshooting

Like the other titles in Duncan Wells’ bestselling ‘Stress-Free’ series, the information is presented in an accessible, manageable way, with the use of diagrams, quick reference tables, box features, QR videos, clear explanations, top tips, and checklists. This makes maintenance and basic repair of your engine straightforward, and with minimum stress. There are also plenty of amusing anecdotes and useful lessons learned. If you find the prospect of fixing anything to do with the engine daunting, then this is the book for you.

Stress-Free Engine Maintenance is a key addition to any boat’s bookshelf, ready to remind the skipper how to deal with problems and keep everything running smoothly.

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Stress-Free Engine Maintenance by Duncan Wells is praised for being popular among boat owners, offering a clear, jargon-free guide that covers all aspects of engine maintenance.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781472988553

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 18 August 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Adlard Coles Nautical

Illustration: Colour photographs and diagrams throughout

Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 190.0mm

Height: 244.0mm

Weight: 463g

Pages: 160

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Duncan Wells Education & Reference Engineering, Technology & Agriculture Jonathan Parker Mr Duncan Wells Non-Fiction Sports Travel & Adventure

About the Author

Duncan Wells is an RYA instructor and sailing school principal. He has written for many leading boating magazines in the UK and US. He is the author of the bestselling Stress-Free Sailing, Stress-Free Navigation and Stress-Free Motorboating (all published by Adlard Coles), which have helped countless sailors and motorboaters learn trouble-free boating techniques. He lives in Buckinghamshire.

Jonathan Parker worked as operations manager of Sea Start (the AA of the sea), where he attended more than 3,000 callouts. He runs his own boat servicing and repair company, Parker Marine Services. He is a partner in Parker Adams Boat Sales (who lead the way in walk-through videos and drone spectaculars) and Parker Adams Charters. He is an RYA Powerboat Instructor and teaches the RYA Diesel Engine Course. He lives in Hampshire.