Boatbuilding with Aluminum

A Complete Guide for the Amateur and Small Shop

Stephen F. Pollard - Collection Boating

320 pages, parution le 29/11/2006 (2^eme édition)

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Résumé

Aluminum may be the best possible boatbuilding material: it's economical, lightweight, maintenance-free, nearly impervious to corrosion, less easily damaged, and more easily repaired than any other material used for building boats. It can be cut and worked with conventional woodworking tools, and, using the author's special techniques, can be welded with readily available equipment using standard household current. Only a lack of information has kept aluminum from becoming the backyard boatbuilder's material of choice.

In Boatbuilding with Aluminum, readers learn aluminum fabrication, welding, and lofting through the construction of a 20-foot McKenzie River drift boat. More advanced aluminum-forming techniques and large-yacht construction are covered in detail, using specific examples, to enable readers to build aluminum boats of any size. And they will learn from a master of the craft. Stephen Pollard has built hundreds of aluminum boats-from large ocean racers to water-jet river boats-and has pioneered many of the techniques used in modern welded aluminum boat manufacturing.

L'auteur - Stephen F. Pollard

Stephen F. Pollard has constructed 12 large sailing yachts, some well-known ocean racers, large powerboats, and hundreds of small, welded-aluminum workboats and pleasure boats.

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Evolution of the Aluminum Hull Form
Advantages of Aluminum Boat Construction
Characteristics of Marine Aluminum
Designing for Aluminum
Fabricating Techniques
Welding Aluminum
Aluminum Boat Lofting
Aluminum Boat Construction Sequence
Sailboats
Propulsion Systems and Controls
Fuel Systems
The Electrical System
Woodwork and Insulation
Aluminum Painting Systems

Appendix I Laying Out a Camber Curve
Appendix II Calculating Material Stretch-out for Brake Bending
Appendix III Modifying the Lines for a Developable Surface
Appendix IV Line Fairing with a Flexible Batten
Appendix V Conventional Drive-train Installation
Appendix VI Leveling a Structure Using a Water Level

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Mc Graw Hill
Auteur(s)	Stephen F. Pollard
Collection	Boating
Parution	29/11/2006
Édition	2^eme édition
Nb. de pages	320
Format	19 x 24
Couverture	Relié
Poids	845g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780071443180
ISBN13	978-0-07-144318-0