Recently ordered Don Casey's book, "Sailboat Maintenance Manual". The order sent to Practical Sailor Magazine was drop shipped to some gentleman in Washington state. Took about a month to straighten that out but now I do have the book here in Texas and it was worth the hassle. I am on the "wrong" end of a long list of things to do for my M 17 but by starting with the purchase of this tome I took the best first step. It is well written, well illustrated and after just twenty minutes of browsing through it I picked up an enormous amount of information about how to do what I have to do here. I am one of those "lets use what we have on hand" and that will NOT work on fiberglass boat repair. It looks like the procurement of the proper materials will take some time on the front end of any of the projects but all efforts expended will be in the right direction. I highly recommend this book to anybody who is starting to lavish TLC on a fiberglass boat. Don't let the price dissuade you (about $60). It will pay for itself many times over by the time you are finished with your masterpiece. Fair winds, Tom B, M17 #258