Du Plessis, Hugo,

Fibreglass boats : fitting out, maintenance and repair / Hugo du Plessis. - 324 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Includes index.

How to attach fittings and join mouldings -- Stiffening -- Using tools on fibreglass mouldings -- Designing for low maintenance and protection from chafe -- Odds and ends -- Decks -- Deck fittings -- Shroud plates and rigging -- Cockpit and coamings -- Cabin top -- Hatches -- Stem -- Ballast keels -- Bilge keels and non-ballast keels -- Centreboards, rudders and fittings -- Small boats, dinghies and launches -- Buoyancy -- Runabouts and outboard motors -- Spars -- Accommodation -- Inboard engine installation -- Tanks, plumbing and electrics -- Maintenance of fibreglass boats -- Repairs to fibreglass boats.


Fiberglass boats.

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