Boat Maintenance: The Essential Guide Guide to Cleaning, Painting, and Cosmetics (INTERNATIONAL MARINE-RMP) - Hardcover

Burr, William M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0071357033 ISBN 13: 9780071357036

Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, 2000

Synopsis

Most boaters spend too much time and money trying to find cleaning and maintenance products that can keep their vessels in top-notch shape. Bill Burr's "Boat Maintenance" ends those costly searches by providing this comprehensive guide to the techniques and products that can preserve and protect your boat year after year. This is the first book to combine practical, how-to instructions with objective product recommendations. Combining Burr's varied experience in boating and chemical engineering with the advice of marine professionals, "Boat Maintenance" shows you how to clean and maintain fiberglass, wood, metal, fabric, and plastics. You'll also learn how to select and apply paints, varnishes, and other coatings, in addition to sealants and adhesives.With "Boat Maintenance", you get: expert advice on more than 150 brand-name products; quick answers to typical boat problems; money-saving tips on using low-cost generic substitutes; weekly, monthly, and seasonal preventive maintenance schedules; data on the chemical components and environmental dangers of products; and, safety tips on proper product handling.

About this title

About the Author

A lifelong boater, William M. Burr, Jr., is author of two how-to books about boating: Boat Maintenance (IM, 2000) and Sailing Tips: 1,000 New Ways to Solve Old Problems. He lives aboard a 37-foot Jeanneau sailboat and regularly faces the problems that he writes about -- including that of keeping his boat safe during storms.

From the Back Cover

Boat Maintenance

Most boaters spend too much time and money trying to find cleaning and maintenance products that can keep their vessels in top-notch shape.

Bill Burr's Boat Maintenance ends those costly searches by providing this comprehensive guide to the techniques and products that can preserve and protect your boat year after year. This is the first book to combine practical, how-to instructions with objective product recommendations.

Combining Burr's varied experience in boating and chemical engineering with the advice of marine professionals, Boat Maintenance shows you how to clean and maintain fiberglass, wood, metal, fabric, and plastics. You'll also learn how to select and apply paints, varnishes, and other coatings, in addition to sealants and adhesives. With Boat Maintenance, you get

• Expert advice on more than 150 brand-name products
• Quick answers to typical boat problems
• Money-saving tips on using low-cost generic substitutes
• Weekly, monthly, and seasonal preventive maintenance schedules
• Data on the chemical components and environmental dangers of products
• Safety tips on proper product handling

Edition details

• Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0071357033
• ISBN 13: 9780071357036
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 176