While we're talking about Don Casey Books (the Illustrated Sailboat Maintenance Manual), there's another of his books that I really liked: Sensible Cruising: The Thoreau Approach : A Philosophic and Practical Approach to Cruising This book was a revelation to me to make sailing fun on a very limited grad student budget. I had been hanging out at yacht clubs and the sailnet forums where many sailors spend hundreds of thousands to rig their boats- and I was a bit embarrassed that I had such a small boat with simple 1970s style rigging (i.e. no lines to the cockpit). Some people even told me I shouldn't own a boat until I could finance a new large boat that would be "comfortable and safe." This book made me realize that the simpler I setup my boat, the less hassle and more fun it could be. One example I really liked was their discussion on internal vs external halyards. Rather than discussing the relative merits, Casey says (if I remember correctly) "whichever system your boat came with- that's the one for you." Tyler M15 "Defiant" ----- Original Message ----- From: "stevetrapp" <stevetrapp@q.com> To: "For and about Montgomery Sailboats" <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2013 10:59:50 PM Subject: Re: M_Boats: M_Boats :book Boat fixin' Don't know if it is the same book as Amazon, don't know what is on Amazon, or Barness and Noble, because I prefer to shop at locally owned bookstores. Steve M-15 # 335