How Boat Things Work · an Illustrated Guide by Wing, Charlie -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Introduction C HAPTER 1 Propulsion DRIVETRAIN PRINCIPLES OF THE DIESEL ENGINE

Four-Stroke Diesel Cycle

YANMAR 2GM

Cylinder Block Piston Crankshaft Camshaft Cylinder Head Timing Gear Housing Flywheel Housing Valve Cover Air Intake and Breather Fuel System Primary Fuel Filter Fuel Lift Pump Secondary Fuel Filter Fuel Injection Pump Fuel Metering Fuel Injectors Lubrication System Lubricating Oil Pump Seawater Cooling System Freshwater Cooling System Freshwater Thermostat Seawater Pump Freshwater Pump Heat Exchanger Starter Motor

TRANSMISSIONS

Yanmar KM2-A Two-Shaft Reduction and Reverse Gear Planetary-Type Transmission

CUTLESS BEARINGS SHAFT COUPLINGS

Drivesaver

STUFFING BOXES

Rigid Stuffing Box Flexible Stuffing Box Shaft Seals

PROPELLERS

Fixed Propellers Folding Propellers Two-Blade, Feathering Max-Prop Three-Blade, Feathering Max-Prop Automatic, Variable-Pitch Autoprop

C HAPTER 2 Steering and Controls CABLES AND CONTROLS POWERBOAT CONTROLS

Outboard Mechanical Steering Single-Station Hydraulic Dual-Station Hydraulic Outboard Hydraulic Steering

SAILBOAT STEERING

Pedestals Rack-and-Pinion Pedestal Linkage Twin-Rudder Rack-and-Pinion Pedestal Linkage Chain-and-Wire Drives Radial and Quadrant Drives Forward-Mounted Rack-and-Pinion Steering

AUTOPILOTS SERVOPENDULUM WINDVANE MAGNETIC COMPASS C HAPTER 3 Standing Rigging WIRE AND FITTINGS

Wire Rope Swaged Fittings Swageless Fittings

RIGGING TERMINOLOGY

Masthead Rig Fractional Rig

RIG TUNING C HAPTER 4 Line Handling ROPE SPLICES

Long Splice Short Splice End Splice Eye Splice Wire Rope Eyes Eye Splice in Double-Braid

COILING AND CLEATING KNOTS

Reef (Square) Knot Sheet Bend Bowline Bowline on a Bight Clove Hitch Two Half Hitches Tautline Hitch Rolling Hitch Trucker’s Hitch Becket Hitches Stopper Knot and Heaving Line Knot Anchor Bend

BLOCK AND TACKLE SAIL CONTROL SYSTEMS

Cunninghams Self-Tacking Jibs and Staysails Mainsheets Outhauls Mainsail Jiffy Reefing Spinnaker Controls Travelers Boom Vangs

WINCHES ROLLER FURLING C HAPTER 5 Ground Tackle MOORINGS ANCHOR WINDLASS ANCHORS

Lightweight Plow Bruce Kedge Grapnel Snubbers and Shock Absorbers

ANCHORING

Single Anchor Two Anchors off the Bow Bahamian Moor Mediterranean Moor Retrieving the Anchor

C HAPTER 6 Electrical DC CIRCUITS

A Common DC Circuit

DC GROUNDING BATTERIES

Battery Construction Series and Parallel Connections Measurement Units Optimal Fast Charging of Batteries

GALVANIC CORROSION CATHODIC PROTECTION AND BONDING

Stray-Current Corrosion Bonding Bonding or Grounding? To Bond or Not to Bond

AC CIRCUITS

Grounding and Safety Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter (GFCI)

ALTERNATORS

A Rotary-Current Generator Increasing Current Output Three-Phase Output Converting AC to DC Controlling the Alternator The Rotor A Real Rotor Volvo MD31A Alternator

C HAPTER 7 Plumbing PUMPS

Centrifugal Pump Flexible Impeller Pump Vane Pumps Diaphragm Pumps Whale Flipper Pump Mk. 4 Whale V Pump Mk. 6 Whale Babyfoot Pump Mk. 2 Whale Gusher Galley Mk. 3 Jabsco Par-Mate Electric Diaphragm Pump

WATER SYSTEMS

Raritan GMPT Galley Mate Pump Assembly

MARINE TOILETS

The LectraSan MC Raritan PHII Marine Toilet PHII Electric Conversion Kit

VALVES

Tapered-Plug Seacocks Expanding-Plug Seacocks Ball-Valve Seacocks Y-Valves

REFRIGERATION

Condenser Evaporator Controls Adler Barbour Cold Machine

DIESEL STOVE AND HEATER

Dickinson Fuel Metering Valve

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