Books published by International Marine Publishing Co

A guide to catching and cooking fish from the decks of a cruising boat. It gives you what you need to know about catching fish in tropical or middle-latitude seas - from a cruising boat underway or at anchor, from a dinghy, in the surf, and while diving reefs.

A sailboat maintenance guide. It provides step-by-step instructions and illustrations for tasks such as painting, varnishing, and repairing cosmetic and structural damage on fiberglass boats, evaluating the condition of a sailboat, making and repairing sails, and repairing and improving electrical systems.

A book on cruising catamarans - illustrated with four-color photography and diagrams. From the technical details to the luxurious lifestyle, it covers various aspects of cruising cats. It reviews basic concepts of design, construction, and performance. It discusses the catamaran developments.

Suitable for a sailor and mariner, this guide combines 700 drawings with philosophically probing commentary.

Presents solutions to a host of boat design, construction, equipment, and seamanship dilemmas. This title tells you what works and what doesn't, and step by step - with the help of detailed illustrations and photographs - fills you in on what you need to know for safe, comfortable passagemaking.

How to turn a run-down fiberglass boat into a firstclassyacht

Suitable for do-it-yourself boatowners, this book is updated with information on fuel injection systems, electronic engine controls, and other new diesel technologies. It explains how to: diagnose and repair engine problems, perform routine and annual maintenance, and, extend the life and improve the efficiency of your engine.

Teaches a few basic knots: the bowline, sheet bend, and rolling hitch, among others - and splices in three-strand and braided rope. This book also covers decorative rope and canvaswork - the traditional arts of the sailor.

Tells you what to expect when sailing the oceans and shows how to sail safely across them. This book includes tales of storm that encounters and other examples of extreme seamanship will help you prepare for your journey and give you confidence to handle any situation - even heavy weather.

The first comprehensive book on stripbuilding almost any type of small boat

Features more than 100 cutaway and drawings to give you a glimpse into the inner workings of powerboats and sailboats, including engines and propulsion gear, steering, rigging, ground tackle, electronic gear, electrical systems, and plumbing.

Helps you select the proper tools for sailboat refinishing, and prepare surfaces for painting and varnishing. This title helps you work with old and new plastic laminates, and lighten aging wood trim, oil, seal, and varnish wood surfaces.

Presents plans and building instructions for three sailing canoes. This title shows you how to build these boats using stitch-and-glue and strip-planking construction. It explains what tools and materials are required, how to rig and equip the boats, and more.

A guide to ship modeling. It leads readers from choosing a kit and setting up a workshop through deciphering instructions and on to painting, decorating, and displaying finished models. It includes shortcuts that help you to: plank a hull 'egg-shell tight', build and rig complicated mast assemblies, and create sails that look like sails.

Long typecast as the hotrods of the sea - fast but dangerous - modern cruising multihulls actually are among the safest and most comfortable cruising sailboats available. This book supplies the reader with information about design, construction, rigs, seamanship, safety, and rebuttal of the 'accepted wisdom' concerning multihull dangers.

Offers a step-by-step approach to constructing a variety of attractive and functional gear for your boat. This title includes information that boatowner who wants to take needle to fabric needs.

Explains a system of scantling rules and rules-of-thumb for calculating the necessary dimensions, or scantlings, of hulls, decks, and other boat parts, whether built of fiberglass, wood, wood-epoxy composite, steel, or aluminum. This book also offers a discussion of boatbuilding materials, methods, and practices of boat construction.

Provides information on how to build ultralight canoes and small boats. This book describes the method using a skiff and canoe as examples. It includes an appendix which contains a gallery of ultralight designs.

Written by the founder of the Yacht Design Institute, this book contains answers to several boat related topics. It contains information on many aspects of boat-design and serves as an introduction for backyard boatbuilders, students of boat design, or someone looking to buy a first boat.

Tells the reader how to select the right boat; establish a work schedule and budget; buy the right tools and equipment; select alternatives to endangered tropical rainforest woods; repair and modify the hull, topsides, deckhouse, masts, and interior. This title also tells when, why, and how to use fiberglass; paint and refinishing.

When we couldn't get foods such as sour cream, English muffins, spaghetti sauce or yogurt, we adapted recipes to make our own. This book recipes made from readily-obtainable ingredients with hand utensils, including numerous choices to suit every taste: not just one cake but 20, 16 ways to prepare fish, 10 regional barbeque sauces, and so on.

Recounts the courageous and exemplary campaign of Arnold Benedict and his cobbled-together fleet of 'ships' against the British in the Battle of Valcour Island (Lake Champlain) in October 1776.