Boat Data Book
Boat Data Book by Ian Nicolson is an updated reference designed for boat owners, builders, designers, surveyors, repairers, and chandlers. Published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc in 1999, this 224-page edition offers essential information in English, featuring a comprehensive collection of tables detailing lengths, widths, weights, and strengths. The book covers a wide range of high-tech developments relevant to the boating industry, including specifications for anchors, masts, propellers, and various components critical to boat construction and maintenance.
Readers will find detailed insights into the breaking strength of stainless steel rigging wire, appropriate dimensions for galley tops, and recommended sizes for seacocks. Additionally, the book provides valuable data on typical yacht measurements, such as average length, beam, draft, displacement, ballast, sail area, and horsepower. This resource serves as a practical guide for anyone involved in the engineering and transportation aspects of boating, making it a useful tool for both professionals and enthusiasts in the field.
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An updated reference book for boat owners, builders, designers, surveyors, repairers and chandlers which includes more tables of lengths, widths, weights and strengths as well as new data on the latest high tech developments – from anchors to masts, propellers to gas cylinders, cleat sizes to winch bases, and hatches to bolts, bearings, cabling and piping. This book provides information on the breaking strength of stainless steel rigging wire, the correct height for a galley top, the recommended size for seacocks or what length a mooring rope should be. It will also tell you the average length, beam, draft, displacement, ballast, sail area and horsepower of typical yachts.
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