Know Your Boat: The Guide To Everything That Makes Your Boat Work

Know Your Boat: The Guide To Everything That Makes Your Boat Work by David Kroenke

Subtitled "The Guide to Everything that Makes Your Boat Work," Know Your Boat gives boat owners the courage to tackle the maintenance and repair of their boats instead of relying on time consuming and costly shops and professionals.

Looking at the standard sail and power boat, this care guide is filled with easy to follow introductions and instructions for understanding and maintaining your engine, electronic and electrical systems, refrigeration, plumbing, pumps, windlasses, steering systems and more. Going through these pages, you'll learn how to tackle even complex issues or at the very least be prepared to have intelligent conversations about what needs to be done and an idea of what it should cost.

Starting with the very first chapter (the amusingly titled "What Were You Thinking?") right down to the last, you're going to get all the scoops you need to confidently tackle sailboat rigging (standing and running), stoves, sinks and refrigeration, managing a boat's delicate sewage as well as its freshwater systems, the concepts behind what makes your engine work and going over your through-hull inventory.

Knowing Your Boat takes a humorous approach to its subject but trust executing its ideas will make you a DIY-er that knows the elaborate workings behind generators and inverters. The book questions your sanity even as it gets you through every project, right up to the point where all your hard work is done and its time to hit the water. All that's left is going through the book's included checklist and scheduling tips to make sure there's nothing left except the adventure.