About the Wooden-SailboatAll About Wooden-Sailboat If you possess a sailing sailing yacht then you also know that they are relatively complex and have a lot of systems that can fail or require maintenance. You may possess one of my marine electrical or marine electronics books or a book in the Understanding Boat series and I hope you found it helpful and enlightening I am a qualified and practising marine electrical and electronics engineer as well as a marine surveyor. I am also a yachtsman just like you and I have fabricated and cruised numerous sailing yachts. I have performed sailing sailboat overhaul work on scores of other yachts lived aboard numerous cruising yachts for a decade or more. You find out a lot about what works and what fails. I offer practical pointers based on experience and reality. Like many I choose to do my own cruising yacht repair work as experts can charge some horrendous hourly rates. It is a fact that the majority of all sailing yacht electrical and electronics faults are directly caused by incorrect wiring and defective wire connections. These same breakdowns are also a leading cause of fires on sailboats. Just because the average sailing yacht has only a 12 volt electrical system, this will not prevent dangerous breakdowns or fires. One improperly rated and installed wire and an equally deficient connection could potentially destroy you yacht. The latest edition of The Marine Electrical and Electronics Bible is out now, fully revised and updated with all the latest technology
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