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Don Casey's Complete Illustrated Sailboat Maintenance Manual - (Hardcover)

Don Casey's Complete Illustrated Sailboat Maintenance Manual - (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>The definitive guide from the world's best-known sailboat maintenance expert</b> <p><i>Don Casey's Complete Illustrated Sailboat Maintenance Manual</i> combines six core volumes into a single, utterly dependable resource that answers every frequent question, explains every major system, and helps you keep your boat and its components shipshape. <p>More than 2,500 clear and detailed illustrations guide you step by step through every procedure. Casey's technical virtuosity, his user-friendly explanations, and Peter Compton's diesel engine expertise make even the more complicated repairs and improvements easy to understand. This must-have guide saves you time, money, and grief as you learn the fastest, easiest, most effective ways to: <ul> <li>Evaluate the condition of your boat or one you're about to purchase <li>Repair structural damage to your fiberglass sailboat <li>Improve or repair your sailboat's electrical system <li>Troubleshoot, maintain, and repair your boat's diesel engine <li>Put a professional-looking finish on your boat's hull, deck, spars, wood, and trim <li>Make and repair sails, sail covers, dodgers, awnings, sailbags, and bimini tops </ul><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p><b>The definitive guide from the world's best-known sailboat maintenance expert</b> <p><i>Don Casey's Complete Illustrated Sailboat Maintenance Manual</i> combines six core volumes into a single, utterly dependable resource that answers every frequent question, explains every major system, and helps you keep your boat and its components shipshape. <p>More than 2,500 clear and detailed illustrations guide you step by step through every procedure. Casey's technical virtuosity, his user-friendly explanations, and Peter Compton's diesel engine expertise make even the more complicated repairs and improvements easy to understand. This must-have guide saves you time, money, and grief as you learn the fastest, easiest, most effective ways to: <ul> <li>Evaluate the condition of your boat or one you're about to purchase <li>Repair structural damage to your fiberglass sailboat <li>Improve or repair your sailboat's electrical system <li>Troubleshoot, maintain, and repair your boat's diesel engine <li>Put a professional-looking finish on your boat's hull, deck, spars, wood, and trim <li>Make and repair sails, sail covers, dodgers, awnings, sailbags, and bimini tops </ul> <p>"Astoundingly clear text and line drawing illustrations. The reader can almost feel the hand-holding this book provides through each step of a repair."--<i>Dockside</i> <p><b>Don Casey</b> is the author of the universally praised <i>This Old Boat</i>, which has helped tens of thousands of boatowners turn their rundown production boats into first-class yachts. A regular contributor to <i>SAIL</i> and <i>Good Old Boat</i> magazines, he combines more than three decades of sailing, an innate curiosity, a knack for clarity, and an eye for the telling detail to deliver reliable expertise. He and his wife, Olga, cruise the Caribbean aboard their 35-year-old, much-modified Allied Seawind.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Don Casey</b> is the author of the universally praised <i>This Old Boat</i>, which has helped tens of thousands of boatowners turn their rundown production boats into first-class yachts. A regular contributor to <i>SAIL</i> and <i>Good Old Boat</i> magazines, he combines more than three decades of sailing, an innate curiosity, a knack for clarity, and an eye for the telling detail to deliver reliable expertise. He and his wife, Olga, cruise the Caribbean aboard their 35-year-old, much-modified Allied Seawind.

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