The Boat Data Book (PDF)

The Boat Data Book is a treasure trove of invaluable information for boatowners, designers, builders, surveyors, chandlers and anyone maintaining their own boat. This sixth edition contains more tables of lengths, widths, weights and strengths as well as new data on a vast range of equipment from anchors to masts, propellers to gas cylinders, cleat sizes to winch bases, and hatches to bolts, bearings, cabling and piping.If you want to know what size winch to fit, the breaking strength of stainless steel rigging wire, the recommended size for seacocks or what length and size an anchor chain should be, then this is the book for you. The Boat Data Book is a must-have reference for owners and professionals.'A veritable mine of information...superb value for money' Nautical Magazine'Recommended to every boat owner' Practical Boat Owner'A most amazing amount of data' The Island'The essential technical bible' Yachting World A treasure trove of valuable information for designers, surveyors, builders, chandlers and anyone maintaining their own boat. This sixth edition contains a vast range of data on lengths, widths, strengths, anchors, cleat sizes and much more. Ian Nicolson started collecting data about boats from his father and grandfather when he was still at school. After his apprenticeship as a naval architect he joined A Mylne & Co, where he has been a senior partner since 1979. Ian Nicolson has built a large number of boats himself and owns a race winning Sigma 33. He has written over 20 books on nautical subjects, many of them published by Adlard Coles Nautical. Updated and expanded for the sixth editionPacked with data on lengths, widths, weights and strengths for all boat gearNo spec is left untouched - from anchors to masts, propellers to gas cylinders, cleat sizes to winch bases and hatches to bolts, bearings, cabling and pipingThe professionals' and owners' bible