How to Buy Your First Boat

How to Buy Your First Boat
Author: Captain Rami Geffner MD
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 95
Release: 2024-08-06
Genre: Sports & Recreation
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To buy your first boat, you must ask yourself a number of questions like assessing your needs and budget, determining your boating goals, considering types of boats, and setting a realistic budget. Therefore, in reading this book, you will be guided in exploring different types of boats, understanding boat features and options, assessing whether you want to purchase a new vs. used boat, understanding ownership costs, and finding the right boat for yourself and your family. You will be guided as to how to inspect and sea-trial your potential boat and negotiate the price. You will also need to know what to do with your new or used boat after your purchase. This book will guide and help you through the process.

Your First Sailboat

Your First Sailboat
Author: Daniel Spurr
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2004-07-02
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0071778772

The Comprehensive Sailing Start-Up Resource Can a keelboat tip over? Can I take a centerboard boat onto open water? How can I determine what boat I want? Once I do, what’s a fair price to pay for it? Should I buy it new or used? How can I tell the difference between a used boat and one that’s used up? Now that I have it, how can I start sailing quickly and safely? Your First Sailboat is the first book to answer all your questions about selecting, buying, maintaining, and using your first boat. This user-friendly guide covers issues that other books ignore, including how to choose between a trailer sailer, daysailer, raceboat, cruiser, or multihull; what hull material is best for your first boat; whether to buy new or used; where to shop; how to judge quality and condition; where to keep your new boat; and what to do about gear, loans, insurance, and annual maintenance. Special features of this all-in-one handbook include: A descriptive buying guide to 75 recommended sailboats of all types and sizes, from daysailers to racers, cruisers, and multihulls A decision tree to guide you to your ideal starter boat Complete instructions on how to care for and sail your boat as well as how to acquire it Straightforward and fun, Your First Sailboat gives you just what you need to stop asking questions and start sailing. Everything else is optional. Save time. Save money. This book omits everything you don’t need to know.

Marine Diesel Basics 1

Marine Diesel Basics 1
Author: Dennison Berwick
Publisher: Voyage Press
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2017-05-11
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0981123333

Seeing is Understanding. The first VISUAL guide to marine diesel systems on recreational boats. Step-by-step instructions in clear, simple drawings explain how to maintain, winterize and recommission all parts of the system - fuel deck fill - engine - batteries - transmission - stern gland - propeller. Book one of a new series. Canadian author is a sailor and marine mechanic cruising aboard his 36-foot steel-hulled Chevrier sloop. Illustrations: 300+ drawings Pages: 222 pages Published: 2017 Format: softcover Category: Inboards, Gas & Diesel

The Boat Buyer's Guide to Motor Yachts and Trawlers

The Boat Buyer's Guide to Motor Yachts and Trawlers
Author: Ed McKnew
Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2006-04-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780071473545

Get the best boat for your buck Now you can access the same inside information yacht brokers and boat dealers have relied on for nearly twenty years. The Boat Buyer's Guide to Motor Yachts and Trawlers lets you compare more than 600 new and used models, making it the most authoritative and useful guide available. With photos, floorplans, performance specifications, production updates, and price comparisions, it puts the world of boats at your fingertips. Nothing else in print or online comes close when you want to find the best boat for your buck. Photos and floorplans of each boat Sizes, weights, and tankage and powering options Standard and optional features, hard-to-find performance data, distinctive characteristics, and production updates and changes Price for each model year since 1980

Voyaging on a Small Income

Voyaging on a Small Income
Author: Annie Hill
Publisher: Adlard Coles
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2002-11
Genre: Sailing
ISBN: 9780901281005

Sailing and crusing to distant shores can be as cheap or expensive as the pocket desires. This bestseller is about how to get the right boat, prepare it and organize the financial side of life, so that you can manage the costs.

Boating

Boating
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Total Pages: 1248
Release: 1993-01
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Boating

Boating
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Total Pages: 1032
Release: 1992-06
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Boating

Boating
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Total Pages: 696
Release: 1962-07
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