Books published by International Marine Publishing Co

Helps you understand and prevent diving accidents, based on 20 true-life reports. This guide reveals how scuba diving accidents leading to severe injury or death usually result from a chain of events that can and should be prevented before a tragedy occurs. It features an introduction to diver safety and includes safety sidebars throughout.

Helps you explores the coastal waters of North America. This illustrated guide provides tips on anchoring, piloting and weather, along with step-by-step instructions on numerous specific skills and techniques.

All sailors want to believe their boats can go anywhere and stand up to anything. Who knows when you might get caught by bad weather? This book explains how you can refit your boat for worry-free bluewater voyaging. It covers what from structural modifications and reinforcements to rigging, engines, systems, and gear.

Contains 18 projects that fall into three categories: decorative, useful, and somewhere in between. The projects in this book have been designed with an emphasis on simplicity and cost.

Building a model from a kit is an excellent way to develop your modeling skills. This title tells how to interpret existing drawings or create your own, what materials to choose, what tools to buy, and what techniques to use to build from plank-on-frame, plank-on-bulkhead, to creating sharp and properly scaled details - paint to portholes.

Offers plans and instructions for building 47 functional wooden boats for oar, motor, and sail, including dories, peapods, Sea Bright skiffs, wherries, and Rangeley boats.

A practical step-by-step manual to help prepare you for the cruising lifestyle. It provides tips, practical suggestions, and life lessons on how to: choose and prepare the right boat; provision for long-term cruising; raise - and educate - kids; get along in close quarters; and, know what to expect in the cruising life.

Chronicles the odyssey of making a major lifestyle change from land to sea. This book explores what women stand to gain when they set forth on such a journey - and what they stand to lose if they do not.

Covers what you need to know to keep your boat running. This text features do-it-yourself troubleshooting and maintenance prescriptions. It offers guidance on: troubleshooting electrical wire and gear; electrolysis and how to protect your boat's underwater hardware; and, troubleshooting your engine, whether inboard, sterndrive, or outboard.

Explains how thick a hull should be, why one sailboat tips less than another, choosing an engine, designing a rig for your trawler yacht, building a dinghy, simple rules of thumb for dozens of design quandaries.

Intended for sailors and language enthusiasts, this is a collection of nautical metaphors and colloquialisms. It also includes examples of words drawn from literature, movies, and song, and contains sections of legends of the sea and weather lore.

Features 75 novel and wonderful boats - a planing microtrawler; a glass-galleried, beachable birdwatching boat; a fully enclosed ocean-cruising rowboat; cruising sailboats that take the ground at low tide; and, power, sail, and rowing boats from 6 to 95 feet.

A sharpie is a long, narrow, flat-bottom craft that evolved in the 19th century along the Connecticut shore as an oyster fisherman's boat. This book traces the development of the sharpie from its earliest days to the plywood-and-epoxy designs. It gives instructions that can be used to build sharpies of various types and sizes.

A guide to buying, adjusting, using, and repairing sextants. It includes a list of distributors, manufacturers, and dealers worldwide, a discussion of various trends, and hints, including sighting with eyeglasses and using a Rude starfinder.