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The Restoration Handbook
Wiley 2012; US$ 53.95An essential guide to yacht restoration and repair with sequential photographs for step-by-step guidance. This book is a beautifully presented guide to how to completely overhaul a fibreglass cruising yacht. It is filled with colour photo-sequences, which detail how to replace the engine, hatches and rigging for example. · ... more...
A Guide to Ship Repair Estimates in Man-hours
Elsevier Science 2012; US$ 64.95Expert ship surveyor Don Butler shares a lifetime?s ship repair costing experience in this unique resource for accurate cost estimation and planning Includes hard to come by information on typical ship repair labor expectations for accurate man-hour forecasting and cost estimation Produced for marine engineers and marine industry professionals... more...
Ship Stability for Masters and Mates
Elsevier Science 2012; US$ 79.95Understanding ship stability - the ability of a ship to return to an initial state after disturbing forces and moments - is critical for all maritime students and professionals studying for a deck or engineering certificate of competency, or seeking promotion to a higher rank within marine or naval companies or institutions. The seventh edition... more...
Cruise to Cape Town: A Journey into a New South Africa
Grosvenor House Publishing 2012; US$ 8.74An expatriate South African?s detailed portrait of life aboard the superliner Queen Mary 2 as she sails from Southampton to Cape Town, followed by impressions of the spectacular Cape, with a tour to little-known upcountry destinations. This Travel/Memoir is spiced with autobiographical reminiscences of apartheid years, an English heritage, gold mining... more...
Paracord Fusion Ties - Volume 1
4th Level Indie 2012; US$ 9.95Paracord Fusion Ties - Volume 1 is the first in a series of books that will forever change the way we look at paracord. Originally used as parachute suspension lines during World War II, paracord, in the hands of author, J.D. Lenzen (of Tying It All Together), has since become a means to create an immeasurable variety of useful items, survival tools,... more...
Misadventures of a Civil War Submarine
Texas A&M University Press 2012; US$ 24.95In 2001, while vacationing on Panama?s Pacific coast, maritime archaeologist James P. Delgado came upon the hulk of a mysterious iron vessel, revealed by the ebbing tides in a small cove at Isla San Telmo. Local inquiries proved inconclusive: the wreck was described as everything from a sunken Japanese "suicide" submarine from World War II to a poison-laden... more...
Nicolaes Witsen and Shipbuilding in the Dutch Golden Age
Texas A&M University Press 2012; US$ 120.00In 1671, Dutch diplomat and scientist Nicolaes Witsen published a book that served, among other things, as an encyclopedia for the ?shell-first? method of ship construction. In the centuries since, Witsen?s rather convoluted text has also become a valuable source for insights into historical shipbuilding methods and philosophies during the ?Golden... more...
Reeds Diesel Engine Troubleshooting Handbook
Bloomsbury Publishing 2012; US$ 15.99Most diesel engines will develop a problem at some point in their lives, but armed with the right knowledge a skipper neednt worry. The Reeds Diesel Engine Troubleshooting Handbook is a compact, pocket-sized guide to finding solutions to all of the most common engine problems, and many of the less common ones too. The perfect format for quick... more...
Reeds Vol 12 Motor Engineering Knowledge for Marine Engineers
Bloomsbury Publishing 2012; US$ 54.99Developed to compliment Volume 8 (General Engineering Knowledge) and work as an examination guide for the requirements of the IMO's Engineering Knowledge under regulation III/2, covering the syllabuses followed by Chief Engineers and 2nd Engineers, this book helps officer cadets working toward the STCW Officer of the Watch qualification or equivalent... more...
Introduction to Naval Architecture
Elsevier Science 2013; US$ 79.95Written by an award-winning naval architecture author and former vice-president of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA), the fifth edition of Introduction to Naval Architecture has been fully updated to take in advances in the field and is ideal both for those approaching the subject for the first time and those looking to update or... more...









