The Sailor's Assistant: Reference Data for Maintenance, Repair, and Cruising
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Book Overview
This quick-reference guide is an on-board data bank, compiling in one place all the facts, figures, tables, and graphs to which a cruising sailor must occasionally refer. In 17 chapters ranging from... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0070674760
ISBN13:9780070674769
Release Date:October 1996
Publisher:International Marine Publishing
Length:176 Pages
Weight:0.85 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 7.6" x 9.5"
Customer Reviews
3 ratings
Keep it on the boat!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
As other reviewers have stated, this book isn't much of a read, but it's incredibly useful as a reference. Keep it our your boat and you will find yourself reaching for it all the time.
Outstandingly useful sail boat owner's reference book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
I have a reasonable library of sailing/boating books and this is one of the few to which I refer, year after year. This book has provided me with many straight forward answers to practical questions as I converted my sailboat from a weekender to a coastal cruiser; for example, the thickness of foam matresses, the size of a storm jib, sizing my battery bank and cabling when I re-wired the vessel. Recommended.
An amazing book--full of stuff every sailor NEEDS to know.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
This book is a sleeper. The first time I thumbed through it, I failed to appreciate how much really useful information it contained. Only later while looking for guidance in sizing new winches did its scope register. Vigor has packed an astounding amount of useful information into this slender volume--how to size props, prop shafts, anchors and chains, electrical wiring, even sails. It has weather information, data on radio propagation, the facts on bottom paint coverage and compatability, hull-evaluation formulas, cruising tips, hard-to-find conversion factors, the shelf life of galley stores--the list goes on and on. Most of the information is in easy to read tables, charts, or drawings. I have used this book often since I discovered it. A good reference to have at hand.
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