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Sailors need this one!

Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2019

I've never read anything from Nigel Calder and have obviously missed this timely author on a subject most all of us sailors need more assistance. Hardbound by McGraw-Hill it is an enduring and sharp looking production. Replete with fine line drawings and sharp photographs, it is attractive to thumb through and simple to find data with a well stepped-out and rational Contents section and a helpful Index to balance the book's intent of helping the Sailor do his or her maintenance correctly. His attention to marshaling detail in an accessible manual simplifies the complexities and gives the reader confidence to attend to the things needed for sustaining our old diesel engines aboard.

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Matt

Some useful info but not easy to follow.

Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2019

I procured this book for Kindle. It has a good amount of useful information in it, though I found some parts hard to follow. The pictures/images are not particularly useful. I've found the manuals that come with my diesel engine to be more useful, and generally sufficient. There are some good tips and troubleshooting/maintenance items in here. It was helpful, having not worked on a diesel engine before, but if you have some experience, this may not be the right book for you. It broadly covers multiple types of diesel engines, so I found myself asking on a few occasions... dose this apply to me?

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Matt

Some useful info but not easy to follow.

Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2019

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Skeep

Sailors need this one!

Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2019

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J. Eaton

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Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2020

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I have an Alberg 35 sailboat with a Yanmar 3gm30F diesel. I've been sailing since I was 12 (I'm 68) but this is my first experience with diesel engines. Like everyone, I use Youtube but you never know if you are getting someone there who is doing things right. Nigel Calder is the definition of Doing Things Right. Many of the diagrams in the book are from Yanmar but I believe this is a must have manual for everyone with a small diesel engine.

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Jaime Torres

If you have diesel on your boat you should have this book on your shelf.

Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2018

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The definitive layman's guide to marine diesels.

The book explains how the engine work so that the details on how to diagnose and fix them makes sense. If you own, run or operate a sailboat with a diesel engine, this will be some the best money you ever spent and may save you hundreds of time the investment made on this book.

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Mr BigEars

Good coverage of the subject

Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2014

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This is a good intro to small diesels, especially outdated ones you find on old boats. The writing is readable and easy-to-follow. The pictures could be much better. A mechanic friend who uses it to teach seminars said it contains several pieces of inaccurate info in the troubleshooting tables. Overall, his other books (Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual) is a better deal since it contains most of the same material and then some.

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LFR

Paid for itself!

Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2015

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Buy this book, read it from cover to cover, then keep it onboard for reference. That way, when something goes wrong and you are far from any help or assistance, you will be able to handle the problem and get home. That has happened to me already and this book has paid for itself many times over. The investment is invaluable. I highly recommend this book and I would go so far as to say your marine diesel engine is incomplete without this book to go with it.

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Bill Black

A great resource.

Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2017

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If you are a marine diesel owner, but not yet a marine diesel mechanic, this book is great to have on board. The farther you travel from shore, the more invaluable this book can be.

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Aaron Gladish

Another great book from Nigel Calder

Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2016

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If you have a boat with a diesel engine and you aren't an expert diesel mechanic, you should probably get this book. I find that the explanations in the book along with the manual and parts catalog for my particular engine, I was able to figure out most things, e.g. starter and solenoid issues, bleeding air, changing the raw water pump impeller, thermostats, air filter. I still pay professionals to do the hard stuff.

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Saved my baccon

Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2013

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Just got this book and a week later, while stuck in a windless bay, my engine suddenly died. Of course this only happens when you are anchorless, motoring through islands and shoals with a nice hunk of shore that is covered in rocks, and half a dozen icons on the navigation chart of sunken boats. (Somehow the fates know when you are trying to sneak by unnoticed.)

Luckily we happened to start drifting through a cargo channel that was blessedly void of any cargo ships, or anyone at all except a small pod of porpoise. We had a good thirty minutes to break open this book and trouble shoot the engine. This book gave us the guide lines we needed to quickly and successfully diagnose our problem and get the engine back to limping. Not only that but this book has guided us through the month of repairing all sorts of things, fixing the starter, along with recognizing a few things that previous owners have jerry-rigged. In a month this book has already paid for itself many times over and now our old crusty engine sounds better and runs better. This book is a must, without it, my first mate and I would have never been able to turn a potentially deadly trip into just a few minutes of stress.

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Anticipation

A Bible for Maintaining Your Marine Diesels

Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2019

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As an experienced (amature) gas engine man, found this very informative re operation , service and even overhaul of Diesel engines. Illustrations happened to be of my marine Cummings turbo diesels.

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