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Subtitled "How to Design, Install, and Recognize Proper Sytems in Boats", it should be an invaluable guide for boat designers, builders, owners, buyers, mechanics, surveyors and insurers. Dave Gerr recommends design guidelines and components for drive trains, engine fuel and exhaust systems, bilge pumps, steering, ventilation, anchor handling systems and more.
320 pp, hardcover
Gerr is the director of the Westlawn Institute of Marine Technology--the only accredited distance-learning school of small-craft design in the United States--and since 1983 the principal of Gerr Marine, Inc., a designer of yachts and commercial vessels. A fellow of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects, he is the author of the Propeller Handbook, The Elements of Boat Strength, and The Nature of Boats.
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