The Best Ship Repair Books of All Time

"The Art of Wooden Boat Repair: A Boatwright's Secret Tricks of the Trade" brings to you the experience and insights gained by Allen Cody Taube through 40 years of boat building, owning and sailing wooden schooners, marine surveying and wooden boat repair.Taube outlines and details wooden boat repairs in a clear and informal style, taking time and care to answer the many legitimate questions a boat carpenter or boat owner might ask.

Beginning with the directive that developing a good positive attitude, organization, and making good templates are most important to your success, the author moves on to discuss such practical details as selecting and using the correct tools and woods, survey a wooden boat; framing; building a steam box; replacing sawn and laminated frames; replacing and repairing carvel planking; caulking; refastening; making templates for floor timbers; battling ship worms, and replacing and repairing stems, keels, keel bolts, through-hulls, masts and rigging, and decks. More than 100 illustrations supplement the excellent text. With this clearly written book that takes the mystery out of wooden boat repair and shares previously horded tricks of the trade, you'll feel confident and have the information you need to work, repair and maintain on your own wooden boat.

Ship Repair Project Manager’s Guide is still the best beginner’s practice guide to shipyard projects management. Many experienced shipyard project manager’s are benefit from it. Became a basic reference to inspire other shipyard authors. The first edition of this book was listed in February 2020 as the third-best book among the top five best ship repair books of all time in the world as featured on CNN, Forbes and Inc. I was lucky to have chosen to write a book that described the fundamentals of shipyard project management, which remain relatively timeless.

This book is an essential useful guide for shipyard project managers, shipowners, shipping management, marine engineers, drydock superintendents and retrofit project site managers as well as those studying shipbuilding & naval architectures, for a better understanding of the drydock projects life cycle, basic factors that delay in the ship repair schedule, why most shipyards fail to deliver the projects on time and how to overcome these problems. Highlighted on highlighting the need for tools of the project management based on the PMBOK® such as Quality Management, HSSE Management, Stakeholders Management, EVM – Earned Value Management, WBS – Work breakdown structure, Project Schedule Management, Risk Management, Change Management, Communication Management, Procurement and Contract Management, in addition to, marine engineering knowledge and the technical principles of shipyard and drydocks uses.

First book published in the field of project management specially for the shipyard professionals, focused on ship repair projects.This book is divided in two main parts:The first part, will provide you with a general overview of the status of project management awareness in the industry and it will explain the most important, useful and recognized project management tools based on the PMBOK® - 5th Edition and how to use it in your projects using a real-world project example called MV QUEEN ANDREA.

In the second part of the book, you will find how to enhance your career by obtaining project management certifications, project management studies and by acquiring soft skills. Project Management tools used in this book: Stakeholders ManagementEVM – Earned Value Management for time and cost controlWBS – Work breakdown structureProject Schedule – Critical PathRisk ManagementChange ManagementLessons Learned.