Böcker utgivna av International Marine Publishing Co

A practical step-by-step manual to help prepare you for the cruising lifestyle. It provides tips, practical suggestions, and life lessons on how to: choose and prepare the right boat; provision for long-term cruising; raise - and educate - kids; get along in close quarters; and, know what to expect in the cruising life.

Chronicles the odyssey of making a major lifestyle change from land to sea. This book explores what women stand to gain when they set forth on such a journey - and what they stand to lose if they do not.

Covers what you need to know to keep your boat running. This text features do-it-yourself troubleshooting and maintenance prescriptions. It offers guidance on: troubleshooting electrical wire and gear; electrolysis and how to protect your boat's underwater hardware; and, troubleshooting your engine, whether inboard, sterndrive, or outboard.

Explains how thick a hull should be, why one sailboat tips less than another, choosing an engine, designing a rig for your trawler yacht, building a dinghy, simple rules of thumb for dozens of design quandaries.

Intended for sailors and language enthusiasts, this is a collection of nautical metaphors and colloquialisms. It also includes examples of words drawn from literature, movies, and song, and contains sections of legends of the sea and weather lore.

Features 75 novel and wonderful boats - a planing microtrawler; a glass-galleried, beachable birdwatching boat; a fully enclosed ocean-cruising rowboat; cruising sailboats that take the ground at low tide; and, power, sail, and rowing boats from 6 to 95 feet.

A sharpie is a long, narrow, flat-bottom craft that evolved in the 19th century along the Connecticut shore as an oyster fisherman's boat. This book traces the development of the sharpie from its earliest days to the plywood-and-epoxy designs. It gives instructions that can be used to build sharpies of various types and sizes.