The Boat Data Book 8th Edition - The Owners' and Professionals' Bible

A treasure trove of invaluable information for boatowners, designers, builders, surveyors, chandlers and anyone maintaining their own boat. Thoroughly updated for this eighth edition, this 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.>

Info autore

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. Ian Nicolson has built a large number of boats himself and owns a race winning Sigma 33. He has written over 20 books on nautical subjects, many of them published by Adlard Coles Nautical.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Ian Nicolson, Richard Nicolson, Nicolson Ian, Nicolson Richard
• Editore: Adlard Coles
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 04.07.2024
• EAN: 9781399412933
• ISBN: 978-1-399-41293-3
• Pagine: 224
• Dimensioni: 156 mm x 232 mm x 16 mm
• Categorie: Saggistica > Enciclopedie, opere di consultazione; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Tecnica > Altro; Boating, SPORTS & RECREATION / Reference, Reference works, Boating: Sport and leisure, SPORTS & RECREATION / Water Sports / Boating, SPORTS & RECREATION / Water Sports / Sailing, Boatbuilding and maintenance