Maintain and Improve Your Powerboat: 100 Ways to Make Your Boat Better (INTERNATIONAL MARINE-RMP) - Softcover

Esterle, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 007154934X ISBN 13: 9780071549349

Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, 2009

Synopsis

Dozens of DIY projects to keep your boat looking good and running well

This wide-ranging projects book covers maintenance, repairs, and upgrades to improve comfort, utility, appearance, value, safety, and enjoyment of powerboats up to 35 feet long. Projects include standard maintenance like changing engine oil and preparing for winter storage; minor repairs like rebedding deck hardware; and upgrades like creating new storage andimproving your boat’s fuel efficiency.

About this title

About the Author:

Paul Esterle has wide experience in the marine industry. He has built boats ranging from canoes to hovercraft, and performed repairs and restorations on boats of all types, working in wood, epoxy, electrical, plumbing, rigging, and engine systems. He has worked as a parts specialist and in sales and marketing for Boat/US and West Marine, and runs his own mail order business, selling books, clothing, videos, CDs, and e-books. The author is technical editor and a regular columnist for Small Craft Advisor and a regular columnist for Nor'easter, a Chesapeake-region boating magazine. He also writes columns for Voyaging, and has published in Living Aboard, SAIL, BoatWorks, Dockside, Santana, Long Island Boating World, Lakeland Boating, Boatbuilder, Good Old Boat, Mid-America Boating and Blue Water Sailing. He self-published a collection of articles from Nor'easter under the title Captn Pauleys Boat Repairs & Upgrades, has a second book in the works, and has produced several CDs and videos. Esterle is a Past Lieutenant Commander (and current member) of the U.S. Power Squadrons, and holds a grade in Advanced Piloting. He is an instructor for the U.S. Power Squadrons Safe Boating Classes, and gives seminars at the Annapolis Sailboat Show, for Boat/US, West Marine, and other boating organizations.

About this edition

• Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 007154934X
• ISBN 13: 9780071549349
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304