Good Boatkeeping: 2,700 Ways to Improve Life Afloat

Zora Aiken

McGraw Hill Professional, Sep 9, 2005 - Sports & Recreation - 304 pages

For weekenders, world cruisers, and liveaboard boaters — a wide-ranging compendium of tips and projects to improve boats

Good Boatkeeping is the perfect place to turn for innovative ideas and clear instructions on how to make a good boat even better and the sweet life even sweeter. Now this updated and expanded Second Edition offers you even more inventive approaches and easy-to-implement solutions to everything from anchoring and docking to getting rid of pests.

This stand-out collection of tips and projects is carefully organized by space and activity. Each of its 27 chapters offers 100 suggestions, ideas, and how-to tips for making life onboard an absolute joy. Topics include organizing the galley, engine maintenance, optimizing storage, easier cleaning, greater comfort, and much more.

“Practical, uncomplicated, based on experience.” —WoodenBoat

Contents

• what: 7
• Locker Stocking: 22
• Cooking Stuff: 39

About the author

Zora Aiken has been a contributing editor to several boating magazines and a marine book editor. David Aiken is an artist member of the American Society of Marine Artists, whose original watercolors and art prints are shown in galleries along the East Coast and in the Bahamas. They have lived aboard for 25 years, collaborating on many boating articles and several books.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Good Boatkeeping: 2,700 Ways to Improve Life Afloat
• Author: Zora Aiken
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional, 2005
• ISBN: 0071457739, 9780071457736
• Length: 304 pages
• Subjects: Sports & Recreation / Water Sports / Boating; Sports & Recreation / Water Sports / Sailing; Transportation / Ships & Shipbuilding / Repair & Maintenance