Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #531763 in Books
• Published on: 2007-04-13
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 246 pages

Cruising World's Good Books column:
"Boating professionals, boat owners and boat buyers who are technically minded will find this handbook extremely useful."

William F. Buckley Jr.
"Now it all makes sense!"

The Journal of the International Institute of Marine Surveyors
“Our small craft surveyor members would benefit from having this book in their reference libraries so to would the professional boatowner."

Customer Reviews

Textbook for professional surveyors
As reviewed by Sailing-Inland and Offshore

"This is a textbook for students of marine surveying, boating professionals and technically-minded boat owners. It is structured into sections for easier reading. Essential information is provided in the first primer section, where subjects range from composite materials to failure mechanisms. There then follows a survey checklist which is fully annotated to provide practical techniques and hints for conducting a survey. Design guides provide a concise collection of practical, theoretical and regulatory information."

Good reference book
I found this book a little disappointing. There is no doubt the author knows his subject, but I feel the book is neither a pure technical reference, nor a practical guide to surveying. For example, the section on Material Mechanics covers 12 pages and includes subjects such as the modulus of elasticity, thermal expansion coefficients and Coefficients for scantlings.
The section on rigging and masts consists of just 20 lines and one small picture.
I feel the explanations in the more technical sections presume you know the subject (So why buy the book?) and the more practical aspects are thin on the ground.
Having said all that, there is still a good deal of useful information contained within and it will make a good reference source. Worth £30? Maybe if it was twice the size!