"Shipshape is the best general maintenance book we've seen, certainly the first one we've enjoyed. Get this book. It will save you time and money. And you'll enjoy it too." - International Marine

From deck to hull, from paint to the electrical systems, and from winterizing to preparing for opening day, Lindsey offers up advice to help you maintain your boat in less time and with less expense. Many of these tips are also happily environmentally friendly.

Comprehensive guide to the techniques and products that can preserve and protect your boat year after year. This is the first book to combine practical, how-to instructions with objective, brand-specific product recommendations.

Modern Boat Maintenance by Bo Streiffert is chockablock full of ideas for maintaining and improving your boat.

For more than twenty-five years boat owners have relied on Motor Boating & Sailing's "Boatkeeper" for practical advice on how to maintain, repair, and improve all types of pleasure boats - both power and sail.

"The definitive book on cosmetic repairs, as well as major structural repairs to hulls and decks, delamination, refinishing, blistering, etc." - Boatbuilding

Great for the handy person who has just acquired a boat that needs TLC

Among the repairs covered: rebedding deck hardware, replacing portlights, fixing leaky hull-deck joints, and repairing cracks, holes, blisters, gouges, and other ailments.

Of all the improvements to a tired looking boat, none will have a more dramatic impact than refinishing. Casey focuses on the hulls, decks, cabins, spars, and wood trim of fiberglass boats, and covers painting, varnishing, repairing gelcoat, and applying hull graphics.

Written in a simple, accessible style, the Manual is aimed at helping the non-expert solve problems in marine systems - think of it as a friendly mechanic. Author Nigel Calder explains how the systems work, helps you troubleshoot and identify problems, and presents clear and concise instructions on how to repair them. Best of all, Calder also offers helpful advice on how to prevent future system failure.

Details the various repair and maintenance jobs that crop up with every boat after every summer season, and then describes how these jobs must be tackled - so the boat is as sound and seaworthy as the day she was built.

Day-to-Day Care. Developing a Maintenance Plan. Interior Design Varnish and Paint Application. Mechanical System Maintenance. Electrical Systems. Masts, Sails, and Riggings. The Shipboard Tool Kit. Hull and Deck Maintenance.

Allen Berrien, Boating magazine's famous "Boat Doctor," tells all: he gleans the very best advice from his column about maintaining your pride and joy in gleaming showroom condition, and repairing those annoying glitches that can bedevil any powerboat owner.

This quick-reference guide is an on-board data bank, compiling in one place all the facts, figures, tables, and graphs to which a cruising sailor must occasionally refer. In 17 chapters ranging from deck gear and electronics to spars, rigging, and navigation, it groups information logically.

Here is the ultimate refrigeration resource for power and sailboats. Calder covers in detail everything a boatowner needs to know for refrigeration self-sufficiency. A solid introduction to refrigeration cycles and variables is followed by an excellent chapter on building, modifying, and insulating the icebox. All system types are introduced and examined: engine-driven, 12-volt, AC-powered, etc.

Naval architect Warren offers owners and builders of boats information on the various metals used in boats and the corrosion they are subject to; the different types of corrosion and their effects; and advice on control and prevention.

Everett Collier comes to the rescue with this comprehensive, very readable handbook, telling the boatowner how to: find corrosion problems before they're obvious; take simple steps to prevent corrosion; protect all kinds of metal in every part of the boat and rigging; guard against the dangers of electrolysis.

Author Jim Trefethen offers clear, detailed advice - in terms a layperson can understand - on how to select, renovate, and maintain a wooden boat.

For anyone contemplating buying an old (or newer) wooden boat, this book should be required reading. It provides the basic understanding of how wooden boats are constructed and details repair and restoration of the heart of the wooden boat.

A rarity among boating and boat maintenance books: a beautiful how-to-book, with 59 lush, full-color photographs that celebrate the incomparable look and texture of oiled, varnished, and bare wood surfaces on boats. A first class and highly readable text that should be mandatory reading for anyone who owns or is contemplating owning a wood-trimmed vessel.