The Boat Repair Bible

Содержание
Welcome to Boat Repair
Essential repair skills
Safety
Surveying your boat
Essential tools
Essential spares & materials
Setting up a portable workshop
Hull & deck repairs
Fibreglass skills
Impact & surface damage
Cracks, voids & crazing
Treating osmosis & delamination
Core damage
Resealing the hull to deck joint
Moulding from a sister ship
Cutting & polishing after repairs
Rudder damage
Replacing rudder bearings
Weeping keel
Lifting keel problems
Damaged bulkhead
Re-bedding loose fittings
Repairing teak-finished decks
Leaking windows or hatches
Replacing a hatch
Sheered or bent guardrails
Upgrading aluminium fittings
Refurbishing old fittings
Replacing anodes
Wooden boat repairs
Woodworking skills
Dealing with minor hull leaks
Repairing a damaged deck
Doubling up fastenings
Replacing damaged or rotten planks
Replacing a sawn frame
Making a laminated deck beam
Making & fitting a graving piece
Caulking & paying methods
Refurbishing solid teak decks
Resurfacing a leaking coachroof
Dropping keel bolts
Repainting after a repair
Steel & ferro-cement repairs
Metalworking skills
Welding new panels
Shot blasting & painting
Replacing deck fittings
Repairing ferro-cement hulls
Working with ferro-cement
Domestic repairs
Repairing upholstery
Relaminating interior surfaces
Repairing interior linings
Fixing domestic water pumps
Tracing & fixing water leaks
Tracing & fixing gas leaks
Replacing gas piping & fittings
Troubleshooting diesel heaters
Troubleshooting for manual heads
Troubleshooting for electric heads
General mechanics
Mechanical skills
Freeing seized fittings
Freeing seized seacocks
Replacing through-hull fittings
Split fuel & water tanks
Stripping a seized manual windlass
Leaking hydraulics
Repairing wind vane self-steering
Electrical repairs
Electrical skills
Replacing damaged wiring
Soldering & replacing connectors
Tracing connection problems
Earth leaks
Navigation instruments
Autopilot repairs
Windscreen wiper repair
Engine repairs
Engineering skills
Starter problems
Blocked fuel pipe & water in fuel
Bleeding an engine
Adjusting the belt drive
Water pump repair
Heat exchanger problems
Beating the diesel bug
Water & oil contamination
Broken or loose engine mounts
Damaged engine controls
Replacing cutlass bearings
Dripless shaft seals
Propeller evaluation
Prop & bracket damage
Replacing the prop & shaft
Clearing a fouled propeller
Fitting a new engine
Troubleshooting engines
Troubleshooting diesel engines
Troubleshooting petrol engines
Motorboat repairs
Fitting trim tabs
RIB & centre-console boats
Repairing an outdrive
Repairing duo props
Sailboat repairs
Rigging & sailmaking skills
Aluminium mast repairs
Glue failure in a wooden mas
Repairing rot in a wooden mas
Repairing seized blocks
Repairing seized winches
Repairing seized roller furling
Installing or relocating winches
Sail repairs
Halyard repairs
Rigging terminal repairs
Damaged hardware
Pop riveting
Replacing standing rigging
Making a new mast boot
Making a solid wooden spar
Making a hollow wooden spar
Dinghy repairs
GRP dinghy repairs
GRP hull repairs
Buoyancy tank leaks
Refastening loose fittings
Wooden dinghy repairs
Inflatable dinghy repairs
Trailer mechanical repairs
Trailer body & other fittings
Outboard repairs
Diagnosing starting problems
Replacing gearbox oil seals
Faulty outboard controls
Fuel blockage & contamination
Descaling waterways
Glossary
Index
Acknowledgements