Kategoria BISAC: Transportation >> Ships & Shipbuilding - General

." . . the perfect place to begin, or continue, your education."
--Sailing

Whether you are shopping for a used fiberglass boat or prioritizing maintenance tasks on the one you already own, this book saves money--and perhaps even disaster. With clear step-by-step drawings and instructions, Don Casey explains how to recognize problems--both surface and hidden--and how to separate cosmetic flaws from serious faults.

The definitive guide from the world's best-known sailboat maintenance expert

Don Casey's Complete Illustrated Sailboat Maintenance Manual 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.

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...

For the first time ever, a comparative survey of 95 percent of the fiberglass pocketcruising sailboats ever built

Author Steve Henkel has researched hundreds of cruising sailboats less than 26 feet long--pocket cruisers--to create this definitive gallery and handbook of the small cruising sailboats built in the last 45 years.

With detailed plans, specifications, performance indexes, and commentary for every model the author could find (360 in all ), The Sailor's Book of Small Cruising Sailboats is your ideal core reference for the used and new boats you see on...

First book to give an insight into a growing area of interest - stealth warship technology - which is crucial for future developments in warship construction. It demonstrates the importance of materials used in warship construction and how this influences all of a naval platform's design parameters.

Stealth technology is now considered a critical component within warship design, with interest in the concept of stealth increasing around the globe as naval forces adapt to new challenges. Many new developing nations are now implementing their first generation of stealth technology...

Winner for the 2010 SOS Marine Heritage Award

The steamer Wexford, with her flared bow, tall masts, and her open, canvas-sided hurricane deck, charmed spectators as she carried cargo across the Great Lakes. The romance and adventure of her British and French history in the South American trade followed her. Under newly appointed 24-year-old captain Bruce Cameron, her fateful final voyage was punctuated with opportunities to be saved from destruction, but his persistence in trying to make port at Goderich led to tragedy - a victim of the storm of 1913. Over a...

-A lively, true-life adventure saga...The incredible story of how James Cameron willed Titanic into existence.-
--Newark Sunday Star Ledger

-Like the movie, this book's a winner and] the final word on the Hollywood come-from-behind story of the decade.-
--Parade

14 Academy Award nominations, 11 Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director, a $1 billion dollar worldwide box office, James Cameron's Titanic was, and remains, a monumental achievement in film. Titanic and the Making of James Cameron by former Hollywood...

Future Challenges for the Port and Shipping Sector discusses the issues that most influence the future of the maritime and port industries. Important topics covered in this book include:

• Maritime trade, future trade flows, evolutions in international trade, shipping capacity and demand
• Developments in ship construction and their economic consequences
• Future developments in ports: technology and economics
• The future role of port authorities
• The future development in ports
• Financial developments

This book looks at...