The Boat Data Book: 7th edition (Adlard Coles Maritime Classics) - Softcover

Ian Nicolson; Richard Nicolson

9781472907974: The Boat Data Book: 7th edition (Adlard Coles Maritime Classics)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1472907973 ISBN 13: 9781472907974

Publisher: Adlard Coles, 2014

The Boat Data Book is a treasure trove of invaluable information for boatowners, designers, builders, surveyors, chandlers and anyone maintaining their own boat.

This seventh edition has been updated throughout and is now in colour for the first time. It contains more 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.

'A veritable mine of information...superb value for money' Nautical Magazine

'Recommended to every boat owner' Practical Boat Owner

'A most amazing amount of data' The Island

'The essential technical bible' Yachting World

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Review:

The Boat Data Book is a treasure trove of invaluable information for boatowners, designers, builders, surveyors, chandlers and anyone maintaining their own boat. - Yachting Life

...a fantastic little reference book... --sailers.co.uk

An impressive read. Recommended. --The Nautical Magazine

...you'll find all the answers... --Watercraft Magazine

An impressive read. Recommended. --The Nautical Magazine

...you'll find all the answers... --Watercraft Magazine

An impressive read. Recommended. --The Nautical Magazine

...you'll find all the answers... --Watercraft Magazine

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. 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.

Richard Nicolson has raced in the Whitbread Round the World Race, won at Les Voiles de St Tropez and transversed the Arctic's North West Passage. He has rebuilt and repaired many yachts; from classics to modern hi-tech flyers. A professional yachting adventurer, he continues to find new challenges.

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