The Liveaboard Report: A Boat Dweller's Guide to What Works and What Doesn't
McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. (Verlag)
978-0-07-071091-7 (ISBN)
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What do you get when an ex-NASA engineer and statistician turned bestselling how-to-writer decides to move aboard a boat? The Liveaboard Report, a statistical analysis filled with bar charts and pie graphs that quantifies what works and what doesn't for a representative sampling of liveaboard boaters. Charlie Wing interviewed 71 liveaboards of all sorts, and asked them 400 questions about what most aspiring liveaboards want to know: What does it cost? What boat should I get? Is refrigeration worth the hassle? What anchor works best? This book is different from other liveaboard guides. This author doesn't say, "Listen up--I am an expert, and this is the way to do it." Instead, he says "I asked this question of 71 crews with 277 collective years' experience living aboard. Three percent said X, 20 percent said Y, and 77 percent said Z. Let that be your guide."
Charlie Wing received his Ph.D. in oceanography from MIT, where he later worked as a research scientist. Since then his career has been explaining how things work--teaching physics at Bowdoin College, founding Americas first two do-it-yourself house-building schools (the Shelter Institute and Cornerstone), hosting a PBS series on energy conservation, and writing a dozen top-selling books on home building, home maintenance, and remodeling. Wing lived aboard a cruising sailboat for six years, during which time he wrote the first edition of this book on a solar-powered Macintosh computer. He is the author of four other IM books.
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 The Hull2 Rigging & Sails3 Mechanical4 Electrical5 Electronics6 The Dinghy7 The Galley8 The Head9 Anchoring10 Underway11 Skills12 Safety13 Social/Personal14 FinancialAppendix A: The Ideal BoatAppendix B: Four Budgets/LifestylesAppendix C: Saving WaterAppendix D: Radio CommunicationsAppendix E: Spring and Fall MigrationsGlossaryIndex
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 16.1.1993 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 10 Illustrations, unspecified |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 185 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 326 g |
| Themenwelt | Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Schiffe |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Segeln / Tauchen / Wassersport | |
| Technik | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-07-071091-0 / 0070710910 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-07-071091-7 / 9780070710917 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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