The Liveaboard Report: A Boat Dweller's Guide to What Works and What Doesn't
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The Liveaboard Report: A Boat Dweller's Guide to What Works and What Doesn't by Charlie Wing
What do you get when an ex-NASA engineer and statistician turned bestselling how-to-writer decides to move aboard a boat? The Liveaboard Report, a statistical analysis filled with bar charts and pie graphs that quantifies what works and what doesn't for a representative sampling of liveaboard boaters. Charlie Wing interviewed 71 liveaboards of all sorts, and asked them 400 questions about what most aspiring liveaboards want to know: What does it cost? What boat should I get? Is refrigeration worth the hassle? What anchor works best? This book is different from other liveaboard guides. This author doesn't say, "Listen up--I am an expert, and this is the way to do it." Instead, he says "I asked this question of 71 crews with 277 collective years' experience living aboard. Three percent said X, 20 percent said Y, and 77 percent said Z. Let that be your guide."
"A useful resource to people new to the sport and recreation of cruising as well as those who anticipate moving to another level in their favorite pursuit" Cruising World "A valuable tool for anyone currently living aboard, as well as for anyone contemplating living aboard." The Ensign
Charlie Wing received his Ph.D. in oceanography from MIT, where he later worked as a research scientist. Since then his career has been explaining how things work--teaching physics at Bowdoin College, founding Americas first two do-it-yourself house-building schools (the Shelter Institute and Cornerstone), hosting a PBS series on energy conservation, and writing a dozen top-selling books on home building, home maintenance, and remodeling. Wing lived aboard a cruising sailboat for six years, during which time he wrote the first edition of this book on a solar-powered Macintosh computer. He is the author of four other IM books.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780070710917 |
| ISBN 10 | 0070710910 |
| Title | The Liveaboard Report: A Boat Dweller's Guide to What Works and What Doesn't |
| Author | Charlie Wing |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding type | Paperback |
| Publisher | McGraw-Hill Education - Europe |
| Year published | 1993-01-16 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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