Shipbuilding technology, engineering and trades

The first edition of Outboard Engines set the standard for a clear, easy-to-follow primer on engine basics, troubleshooting, care, and repair.

This is the only book linked to a practical surveying course.

Winner of The Navy Leagues 2024 Alfred Thayer Mahan Award for Literary Achievement.

Ship Management: Theory and Practice unpacks the complexity of this crucial maritime activity by spelling out its key elements and the connections and linkages between them.

This bestselling pocket-sized racing rules book is unique in covering the rules by race situation.

The Pilots Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge is an official Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Handbook that provides basic knowledge that is essential for pilots.

This book sheds new light on the design and installation of drag anchors and plate anchors for offshore service.

Dieses Buch vermittelt sowohl Studenten, als auch Planern und Betreibern in Industrie und Wissenschaft das nötige umfangreiche Wissen, um Messungen an Motorenprüfständen durchführen zu können.

This book provides a comprehensive guide to the classification requirements for offshore mooring chains, essential for ensuring the safety and integrity of offshore assets.

Warship Builders is the first scholarly study of the U.

Set against the backdrop of the Atlantic slave trade, this book traces the development, exhibition and final disposition of one of J.

Marine plant life is an abundant source of nutrients that enhance the daily diet.

Maritime-Port Technology and Development contains the latest research results and innovations as presented at the 2014 International Maritime and Port Technology and Development Conference (Trondheim, Norway, 27- 29 October 2014).

Renewable energy resources offshore are a growing contributor to the total energy production in a growing number of countries.

Developed to complement Reeds Vol 8 (General Engineering for Marine Engineers), this indispensable textbook comprehensively covers the motor engineering syllabus for marine engineering officer cadets.

Your quick-reference, on-board guide to the symbology and shorthand notations used on nautical chartsNautical charts contain an incredible amount of information for those who know how to decipher them.

Rod Heikell is the acknowledged expert on Mediterranean sailing, and this is the perfect guide for anyone cruising the area.

This book provides guidance and insight into the development process for safety indicators to comply with general classification rule requirements.

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This book starts from the design requirements of variable geometry turbines for marine gas turbines.

This wonderful collection of Des Pawson's personal ropecraft recipes combines an expanded and now full-colour collection of projects from Des's popular Des Pawson's Knot Craft, together with 20 new and brilliant mat designs.

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The Yachtsman's Tidal Atlas, covering the English Channel, SouthernNorth Sea and Bristol Channel, is a comprehensive aid toaccuratenavigation.

This book describes the life of the enlisted men aboard a Farragut class destroyer during the pre-World War II years; the war preparation period in 1941; and the wartime years.

In the bestselling style of the Reeds Handbook series, Reeds Ocean Handbook follows on from Reeds Skipper's Handbook for skippers or crew planning to venture further afield.

The ideal reference book for anyone following the RYA Day Skipper course.

Working and living onboard vessels imposes a series of generally low-frequency mechanical vibrations as well as single-impulse shock loads on the human body.

This book describes a slamming strength assessment procedure for vessels.

Hughes gives moving details about his life, from his time in England as a child while his father was in action in France during World War I, to time abroad in the army during World War II, to events during his twenty-six-year tenure on the bench.

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In February 2016 the RAF's Search and Rescue Force (SARF) celebrated its 75th anniversary.

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An illustrated study of the design, development and eventual fates of the uncompleted super-battleships intended to be built before and during World War II.

A uniquely detailed study of a Japanese aircraft carrier that took part in the attack on Pearl Harbor, before being sunk at Midway.

The Bismarck is perhaps the most famous and notorious warship ever built.

Unmanned ships and autonomous ships are quickly becoming a reality, making shipping safer and more efficient.

Your ultimate guide to planning a long-distance voyage.

The TransNav 2013 Symposium held at the Gdynia Maritime University, Poland in June 2013 has brought together a wide range of participants from all over the world.

The complete guide to racing in dinghies and yachts, packed with hands-on practical advice, user friendly instructional diagrams, and lively, inspirational photography.

While other methods of drag reduction are well-known in marine R&D and ship design environments worldwide, compliant coating drag reduction remains less well-known and poorly understood.

The Reeds PBO Small Craft Almanac may be more compact and concise than the Reeds Nautical Almanac but it contains a wealth of indispensable navigational data specially tailored for small craft sailors, presented in an easy to find, quick reference manner for on-board use.

Iwan Konstantinowitsch Aiwasowski gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Marinemaler des 19.

The only book that covers fundamental shipboard design and verification concepts from individual devices to the system level Shipboard electrical system design and development requirements are fundamentally different from utility-based power generation and distribution requirements.

Reeds Marine Surveying is aimed at students of marine surveying, professional marine surveyors, boatyard operators and technically-minded boat owners, and covers the latest marine surveying technology, including analysis of the mechanical behaviour of materials, failure analysis, stress concentration, fatigue and fracture, corrosion, wood-damaging organisms, polymer chemistry, and the composition and characteristics of common plastics, metal, alloys and composite materials.

This is the ultimate guide to liferaft survival for all boaters and its purpose is to ensure the survival of skipper and crew in the event of their boat sinking.

Earning a captain's license just got easierWhether you are an avid boater seeking to improve your seamanship and get a discount on boat insurance or aspire to start a business running a charter, sightseeing, or whale-watching boat, this revised and updated Fifth Edition is the only resource you need to obtain the captain s license you want, including the six-passenger Six-Pack, Master and Mate Inland, Master and Mate Near Coastal, and Sail/Auxiliary Sail Endorsement.

Reeds Nautical Almanac is the indispensable trusted annual compendium of navigational data for yachtsmen and motorboaters.

70 per cent of the planet is covered by water, and 90 per cent of global economic trade is transported by sea.

Your quick-reference, on-board guide to the symbology and shorthand notations used on nautical chartsNautical charts contain an incredible amount of information for those who know how to decipher them.

Yachtmaster for Sail and Power is a major reference book that has proved invaluable for the many sailors following the RYA Coastal Skipper/Yachtmaster Offshore course.