Book Recommendation - Inspecting Aging Sailboats

[LyleRussell]

I would like to make a recommendation to you all. Don Casey's book "Inspecting the Aging Sailboat" is excellent. It's readable by nontekkies, well illustrated and well thought out. The chapter entitled Boat-Buyer's 30 minute survey will be extremely useful to those of us actually buying boats.

Note, it won't make you into a surveyor but it will go a long way to showing us how to "see" our boats.

[LyleRussell]

Those of us without 50 years of experience like JeffH need to read as much as we can.

[kwaltersmi]

That book is one of several in a great series by Don Casey. I don't recall the specific titles, but there's also books about sail repair, hull repair/restoration, a book on "20 easy upgrades", and of course the classic "This Old Boat".

All hail Don Casey!

[sailingdog]

It's definitely one of the recommended books to have if you're looking at buying a boat.

[cardiacpaul]

It is a great book. (and what got me interested in surveying honestly)

Anyway, I'd just like to make one point about us anal rententive twits that call ourselves surveyors.

One of the disctinct advantages of having a survey done is that we try to be as unbiased about a particular brand or model as we can be.

Almost everyone that is considering a boat for purchase has already made the connection to themselves, and is looking at the purchace thru rose tinted glasses to some extent.

We're not there to piss on your parade. We're there to look at things you may have not seen, or downplayed as potential safety, structural or usability issues.

If you tell us that you're going to use your macgregor 26 x in Puget sound, we'll look at you sideways and say something like... "have you ever been on a Mac 26x?" and take you aside... but if you still want to, go nuts buddy, have at it.