Technical library

The Marine Watch Technical Library is for information of a technical, practical or general marine nature considered useful or interesting to the boat owner. Items are extracted from marine and trade journals, marine authorities, companies and organisations and from individuals. Marine Watch cannot be held responsible for the accuracy or validity of any item. However, inaccurate or misleading information will be corrected if it is brought to the attention of the webmaster. Where possible contact details of the sources of technical items will be shown and, for further information, these sources should be contacted.
There are four broad categories of information - Definitions & Terms, Handy Hints, General Items and Special Topics. Where a general item has a large content it will be made a special topic and further subdivided - e.g. Fibreglass, Safety & Survival and Weather .

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ITEM CATALOGUE

DEFINITIONS & TERMS - The list contains some definitions and terms sometimes confused or misunderstood. It does NOT cover the common ones nor is it a comprehensive list.

HANDY HINTS - Antifouling, Batteries, Bird Nuisance, Boat Horn, Boat Towing, Candle Uses, Canvas Bucket, Cleaning Agents, Cleaning Hints, Cleat Uses, Cockroach Bait, Cordless Drill, Course / Heading, Power, Distance to Shore, Fire Extinguishers, Fish Template, Flat Sandpaper, Fuel Tanks, Grab Bag, Hatch Closer, Head Sense, Horizon Distance, Mildew, Scrapers, Screwdriver Guide, Seasickness, Signalling Mirror (Heliograph), Spray Containment, Stains, Storing Tins, Stubborn Screws, Tarnished Brass, Teak Oil, Useful Phone Numbers, Using Wind, Vertical Angles, Winch Care, Whiteboard, Wooden Jam, Writing Material

GENERAL ITEMS   Adhesives, Fillers & Sealants,    Apparent Wind, Australian Trivia, Batteries,
Bilge Cleaning, Bleeding a Fuel System,   Cable Capacity, Catamaran V Monohull,   CircadianRhythms,
Compass Points,    Corrosion, Crossing a Bar, Digital Selective Calling (DSC), Dinghy Control, Distance on Earth,   Engines - Diesel V Petrol Engine Smoke, EPIRBs, Fender Board, Finding Longitude, Finding Souh, Finger Alphabet, Galvanic Corrosion,     Galvanic Series, GPS, Hoisting Cleat,   Hull Types, Hydrometer, Irunkanji Jellyfish, Keels, Light Patterns, MOB Recovery Line,    Morse Nostalgia,   Oil,   Outboard Maintenance, Phonetic Alphabet,   Propeller Effects,   Radio Procedures,     Rod Holder, Ronstan Rigging Age, SAR Forms, Sail Care, Sail Forces,   Search Pattern,   Semaphore,   Signal Flags, Sikaflex Properties, Sleep, Square Rigger Sails, Stainless Steel, Tools & Spares, Towing, Trolling, Vessel Signals,   Vision, Watchkeeping,  Wind Chill, Winch Maintenance,   Whales,    Whale Approach Distances, Yacht Rating

ANCHORING Anchor Buoy, Anchor Mooring, Cable, Hints, Parts, Scope, Types

CREW FITNESS Decision Making, Dehydration, Fatigue, Hypoglycaemia, Seasickness, Stress, Vision

ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS Pollution Prevention, Rights & Obligations, What is Pollution.

FIBREGLASS Finishing Materials, Frequent Questions, How to do a Small Job, Laminating Tips, Maintenance-Polyurethane Coating, Maintenance-Preventative, Osmosis, Polishing Techniques, Safety

FISH Anatomy, Diet, Definition, Economic Value, Fishing Rigs, Habitats, Images (Common & Unusual),
Internal Organs, Muscles, Nervous System, Reproduction, Respiration, Scales, Size & Bag Limits (NSW), Skeleton, Tackle Guide

HISTORICAL MARITIME DATA "Cobaki", "Itata", NSW Water Police, Sydney Heritage Fleet Museum

LIGHTHOUSES NSW, NT, QLD, SA, TAS, VIC, WA,

MAPS & CHARTS Definitions, Early Map Images, Map Projections (Azimuthal, Cylindrical, Conic, Mathematical), Weather Maps & Charts

MOORING & BERTHING Berth Choices, Berthing Lines, Berthing Technique, Etiquette, Mooring Technique. Unberthing Technique

MARINE DISASTERS Dunbar, Exxon Valdez, Quetta, Tasman Bridge, Titanic, Voyager, Wahine,

NAVIGATION Cardinal Marks, Channel Marks, Chronometer, Cyclonic Navigation, Danger Mark, Early Navigation, Leeway, Navigation Advice, Navigation Lights, Position Reporting, Safe Water Mark, Sextants

PLYWOOD - Assembly Glues, Further Information, Maintenance, Marine Ply, Preservation, Properties, Quality Control, Type Definitions

PROBLEMS & SOLUTIONS Radio Transmission, Low Peak RPM, High Engine Temperature

ROPES - Care, Eye Splice, Fibres, Knots, Monkey's Fist, Rope Mat, Rope Strengths, Splice,
Strength Reduction, Terms

SAFETY & SURVIVAL - Attitude to Safety, Abandoning Ship, Being Towed, Carbon Monoxide Poisoning, Crossing a Bar, Deck Sense, Digital Selective Calling (DSC), EPIRBs, Fire, Fire Extinguishers, Footwear, Heaving To, Hypothermia, Lifejackets, Lightning, Lookout, Marine Radio Safety Service (MRSS), Medical Kit, Mobile Phones, Rescue, Safe Clearance, Safety Watch, Sailing Safety, Search & Rescue Details, Stay with the Boat, Survival Gear, Survival Overview, Survival Times

SEA CREATURES Albatross, Coral, Cuttlefish, Dolphin, Giant Clam,
Hermit Crab, Humpback Whale, Manta Ray, Octopus, Penguin, Rock Lobster, Seal, Sea Snake, Starfish, Turtle, Whale Shark

SEAMAN EXPLORERS Matthew Flinders, Captain James Cook, Ferdinand Magellan, Willem Janszoon, "Pup" Story

SEAMANSHIP Crossing Bars, Drogues & Sea Anchors, Low Speed Manoeuvring (Prop Effects), Man Overboard, Springing Off

TALES FOR LEARNING Lesson at a Bar, Encounter at the Spit Bridge, A Dinghy Affair,
A Fright at Wide Bay Bar ? Lucky Escape X 3.

THE OCEAN Basins, Big Waves (Image), Currents, Facts, The East Australian Current, Trenches, Tsunamis, Waves

TIDES Meteorological Effects, Spring & Neap Tides, Tidal Forces, Tide Height, Tide Terms

WEATHER - Bureau Link, Causes, Charts, Clouds, Forecasts, Sea State Images, Wind Speed Description, Wind Velocity

YACHT RIGS Cat / Una, Cutter (Bermudan, Gaff), Chinese Junk, Ketch (Bermudan, Gaff), Lug,
Schooner ( Bermudan, Gaff, Staysail, Topsail), Sloop (Bermudan, Gunter), Sprit Sail, Yawl (Bermudan, Gaff)

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