Description and condition: Blue cloth hardback, 12mo, pp 318 v, index, b/w illustrations, adverts. Good copy, moderate cover wear, age browned but good clean pages. Lacks dustcover?
Contents: 9th edition, entirely revised and re-illustrated. Boat construction; hull design; practical details of construction; typical motor craft; high-speed motor boats; some notes on sailing and sail plans; propellers; the marine motor and how it works; carburetters and vaporizers for petrol and paraffin engines; electric ignition, starting and lighting; lubrication, cooling-waer system and silencers for motor boat engines; transmission and reversing systems...; care and maintenance of machinery; installation; petrol-paraffin engines; heavy-oil engines; outboard motors; outboard motorboats; motor boat clubs and association of GB; navigation. |
