Boat Maintenance: The Essential Guide to Cleaning, Painting, and Cosmetics

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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.
  
  
• Safety tips on proper product handling.

Table of Contents:

Introduction | General Care | Fiberglass | Wood | Metal | Selection and Application of Coatings | Sealants and Adhesives | Fabric | Plastic, Vinyl, Line, and Rubber | Interior Maintenance | Appendix 1. Periodic Up-Keep Schedules | Appendix 2. Boat Problems | Appendix 3. Boat Parts to Be Cleaned | Appendix 4. Chemical Ingredients | Product Index | General Index.

About the Author:

William M. Burr Jr. is a lifelong boater and the author of Stormproof Your Boat and Sailing Tips: 1,000 New Ways to Solve Old Problems, a popular guide for boaters for over 10 years. He retired after 40 years in the chemical industry and then spent a year selling coatings and compounds in a marine store as part of his research for Boat Maintenance. He lives in Wilmington, North Carolina.

Boat Maintenance: The Essential Guide to Cleaning, Painting, and Cosmetics