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The Boat Data Book 8th Edition

The Owners' and Professionals' Bible
Brief Description
A treasure trove of invaluable information for boat owners, designers, builders, surveyors, chandlers, and anyone maintaining their own boat. Thoroughly updated for this eighth edition, the book is packed with tables of lengths, widths, weights, and strengths, as well as new data on a vast range... Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
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The Boat Data Book 8th Edition

"... tables of lengths, widths, weights and strengths as well as new data on a vast range of equipment from anchors to masts, propellers to gas cylinders, cleat sizes to winch bases, and hatches to bolts, bearings, cabling and piping."--Provided by publisher.

A treasure trove of invaluable information for designers, surveyors, builders, chandlers and anyone maintaining their own boat.

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A treasure trove of invaluable information for boat owners, designers, builders, surveyors, chandlers, and anyone maintaining their own boat.

Thoroughly updated for this eighth edition, the book is packed with tables of lengths, widths, weights, and strengths, as well as new data on a vast range of equipment from anchors to masts, propellers to gas cylinders, cleat sizes to winch bases, and hatches to bolts, bearings, cabling, and piping.

If you want to know what size winch to fit, the breaking strength of stainless steel rigging wire, the recommended size for seacocks, or what length and size an anchor chain should be, then this is the book for you. The Boat Data Book is a must-have reference for owners and professionals.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781399412933

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 July 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Edition: 8th edition

Illustration: Over 100 diagrams and graphs, many in colour

Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 16.0mm

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 232.0mm

Weight: 433g

Pages: 224

About the Author

Ian Nicolson started collecting data about boats from his father and grandfather when he was still at school. After his apprenticeship as a naval architect he joined A Mylne & Co, where he has been a senior partner since 1979.

Richard Nicolson has raced in the Whitbread Round the World Race, won at Les Voiles de St Tropez and traversed the Arctic’s North West Passage. He has rebuilt and repaired many yachts, from classics to modern hi-tech flyers.

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