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Most boaters spend too much time and money trying to find cleaning and maintenance products that can keep their vessels in top-notch shape. Bill Burr's "Boat Maintenance" ends those costly searches by providing this comprehensive guide to the techniques and products that can preserve and protect your boat year after year. This is the first book to combine practical, how-to instructions with objective product recommendations. Combining Burr's varied experience in boating and chemical engineering with the advice of marine professionals, "Boat Maintenance" shows you how to clean and maintain fiberglass, wood, metal, fabric, and plastics. You'll also learn how to select and apply paints, varnishes, and other coatings, in addition to sealants and adhesives.With "Boat Maintenance", you get: expert advice on more than 150 brand-name products; quick answers to typical boat problems; money-saving tips on using low-cost generic substitutes; weekly, monthly, and seasonal preventive maintenance schedules; data on the chemical components and environmental dangers of products; and, safety tips on proper product handling.
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Boating is essentially a cleaning and maintenance activity. Gelcoats lose their luster and crack. Decks are stained with rust and bird droppings. The cabin is a dank grotto on the driest day. Every boater wants his or her craft to be a thing of beauty and a pleasure to inhabit. But cleaning and maintenance is more than simply cosmetic on the water. Quite a few boats have been lost to grease fires and clogged bilge pumps. Routine maintenance prevents most problems and detects others early on. Every boat owner has also been faced with a bewildering array of products in a marine store, most with uninformative labels and breathtaking price tags. Boat Maintenance is a comprehensive survey of every conceivable cleaning, cosmetic, and routine maintenance project on a boat, and the best products and methods for tackling them. The book does not address maintenance in the sense of rebuilding a winch or a diesel. Rather it covers the general care of a boat, where cleaning and maintenance overlap-removing stains from the deck, inspecting and protecting standing rigging, restoring teak, cleaning the bilge. It is ongoing maintenance of this sort that devours the most of a boater's time and has filled the shelves of marine stores with competing and conflicting products.
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This chapter provides an overview of cleaning and cosmetics: the chemistry behind cleaning agents; the three basic steps of any cleaning and maintenance project; the cleaning supplies and clothing you'll need; the importance of regular housekeeping; and environmental concerns. Read the first page
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This chapter provides an overview of cleaning and cosmetics: the chemistry behind cleaning agents; the three basic steps of any cleaning and maintenance project; the cleaning supplies and clothing you'll need; the importance of regular housekeeping; and environmental concerns. Read the first page
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