The Reliable Boat: Find and Eliminate Hidden Problems that Can Disable or Destroy Your Boat Contributor(s): Low, Douglas a. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0978802314 ISBN-13: 9780978802318 Publisher: Reliability Outfitters Inc OUR PRICE: $18.95 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2015 |
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BISAC Categories: - Sports & Recreation | Boating - Transportation | Ships & Shipbuilding - Repair & Maintenance |
Physical Information: 0.33" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.50 lbs) 156 pages |
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Publisher Description: You cannot buy a reliable boat. Rather you create a reliable boat based on your knowledge and skill. This book shows you how to apply methods based on sound principles gleaned from a lifetime of boating, boat repair and 25+ years of designing ship systems for the U.S. Navy. You can make your boat as reliable as a Navy Destroyer if you have the knowledge, resources and the skill. There is no end to this journey. According to the author, " A reliable boat is as much a mindset as it is analysis, planning and configuration". In it you'll learn:
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Contributor Bio(s): Low, Douglas a.: - After Boating for 50 years with all types of boats, old and new, mostly power boats, you end up with lots of experiences good and bad. You learn that if you leave anything up to chance eventually anything will happen. You have to design out the problems you can with redundancy, protection and quality. Then plan for the worst, when the worst happens you are prepared and the consequences will not that bad because you have a plan. For almost 30 years I designed military systems at General Electric and Lockheed Martin. Most of those were US Navy projects. Radar, SONAR, automated ship systems, automated collision avoidance systems, ship's bridge configuration. I worked on the the Navy's most advanced ships created to reduce manpower by increasing automation. One thing I know about Navy ships, they are designed to run and keep running under all but the worst wartime conditions. Every known potential issue is dealt with in the design and operating plan. There is little chance for a Navy ship to be stranded; except of course the occasional "Act of God." That is beyond my scope. |