Product Description

A treasure chest of proven labor-savers that can help you get those pesky maintenance chores done faster--so you can get out on the water and play. Here are 1,001 tested tips from Boating Magazine's maintenance expert, giving super-effective yet environmentally friendly ways to clean and maintain all your boat's systems: deck, hull, cabin, engine, bilge, electrical systems, tanks, and gear. Stop working on your boat and go boating!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #128290 in Books
• Published on: 1999-03-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

Synopsis
A treasure chest of proven labor-savers that can help you get those pesky maintenance chores done faster - so you can get out on the water and play. Here are 1,001 tested tips from "Boating Magazine's" maintenance expert, giving super-effective yet environmentally friendly ways to clean and maintain all your boat's systems: deck, hull, cabin, engine, bilge, electrical systems, tanks, and gear. Stop working on your boat and go boating!

From the Back Cover

Stop working on your boat and get out on the water!

1,001 tested tips from the world's largest boating magazine: Sandy Lindsey, a boat-maintenance contributor for Boating Magazine for many years, has culled the best of her years of advice and the top suggestions from her readers. These handy, natural solutions work amazingly well--and are environmentally friendly.

Boats last longer and look more beautiful with proper care. But that care takes a lot less time when you work smart. See how you can make your winterizing and spring commissioning chores go much faster. Learn Lindsey's labor-saving secrets for tackling

• Teak, canvas, and carpet care
• Painting, metal cleaning, and polishing
• Fiberglass and gelcoat cleaning and repair
• Engine care and winterizing
• Mildew--how to get rid of it, how to prevent it

Boating Magazine's Quick & Easy Boat Maintenance covers all your boat's systems: deck, hull, cabin, engine, bilge, electrical systems, tanks, and gear.

And it's all in a concise, easy-to-read format that makes finding answers to your questions a snap.

Putting these helpful hints to work can change your boating life. Less time working means more time boating!

About the Author
Sandy Lindsey, contributing editor for Boating Magazine, has also written for SAIL, Good Housekeeping, Sports Afield, Midwest Outdoors, and Sailing, among other magazines. Over the years, she has protected a succession of boats from the fierce Florida sun and salt air.

Customer Reviews

Maintain your boat - if you are a biochemist!
What a dissapointment this book was. I run an inland cruiser and wanted a book on easy maintenance - every solution to cleaning and stain removal involves getting hold of various chemicals that the majority of us simply don't have access to. It is American written and based and proved to be a complete waste of money, telling me nothing that anyone with an ounce of mechanical knowldge would be interested in

Great, low cost, effective ways to keep most boats in shape.
There are all sorts of excellent tips in this book covering cleaning, protection and prevention against detioration of almost any part of a vessel you care to name, from the engine to the upholstery.
The best part is that the various products used are all freely-available, low-cost natural products such as baking soda - I had no idea you could do so much with it!
This is a great book to have, it's well organised and presented and great value, a worthwhile addition to any boaters library.

Best of Boating's Tips
This book is the best of Sandy's how-to tips for that ran in Boating for the past 5 years, and about 500 more tips that I hadn't read before. A handy compilation that's a must for every boater's workshop bookshelf.