Secondhand Boat Workshop

Having structural problems with your boat? Then Jeff Webster’s Secondhand Boat Workshop magazine could be just what you’ve been looking for. Revised and updated, the latest magazine is a 100 page, full colour guide to buying and repairing a used trailerboat.

Secondhand Boat Workshop contains chapters on a full range of boat maintenance and repair topics (see left) - including how to keep alloy corrosion at bay, repairing a soft, rotted transom or cockpit floor, and replacing underfloor stringers. There’s also a chapter on restoring an old, run down fibreglass cruiser - the kind of project that hundreds of people now embark on every year.

The repair and restoration chapters in Secondhand Boat Workshop are particularly informative because they are illustrated with two dozen or more photographs showing (step by step) exactly how each repair process should be undertaken. For the DIY enthusiast, keen to tackle a repair job at home, these “how to” type articles are invaluable.

A range of other topics are also covered in the magazine, including how to maintain and care for your boat, engine and trailer, whether to repower with a new or reconditioned engine, and what’s involved in fitting an outboard pod and changing your boat over from sterndrive to outboard power.

For those people who have yet to buy a boat, Secondhand Boat Workshop has chapters on what to look for when buying a used boat package - or more particularly, how to avoid buying a lemon!

Complimenting the technical articles are reviews on 50 "Golden Oldies" - detailed reports on some of the most popular trailerboats ever made. In keeping with the refurbishment theme, the author has concentrated on reviewing older classics from the late 1960s through to the early 1980s - models which most people can afford to buy and then restore.

Among this group of boats are some genuine classics - such as the Bertram 25, Savage Marlin and Bluefin, Caribbean Commodore and Crestcutter, Cruise Craft Reef Ranger and Raider, plus most popular early model Haines Hunters.

Secondhand Boat Workshop is the only publication available which is targeted exclusively at used boat buyers and existing boat owners. It has been written to help people through the maze of buying a secondhand boat, but also to show how to care for, maintain, and if necessary, rebuild a used boat. As a technical guide and reference source, this publication warrants a permanent place on every power boat owner's book shelf.

Secondhand Boat Workshop (2nd Edition) is no longer available in new or unmarked "mint" condition. The only copies left are newsagent returns or "seconds". These magazines are complete, but they may have price stickers, scuff marks, creases, and texta marks on the covers, etc. Inside, the mags are whole and in good condition. To order one of these magazines, please send a cheque or money order for AUD $9.95 (includes $1.00 for postage) payable to Jeff Webster, PO Box 344, Labrador QLD 4215.

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