Product Description: This guide by Power and Motor Yacht editor Richard Thiel offers a basic survival manual for owners of outboard powered watercraft of all shapes and sizes. Using the premise that the reader knows (and cares) little about engines of any kind-as long as they provide reliable service-Keep Your Outboard Motor Running provides a brief and painless overview of how outboards work and outlines easily followed operating and preventive maintenance procedures that will dramatically extend their lives...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Describes how the four-cycle gasoline engine used in small boats works, and provides advice on using and maintaining one

Product Description: Operators of commercial vessels have known and favored diesel engines for years. Now more and more pleasureboaters are choosing diesel power. Despite their apparent complexity, diesels are elegantly simple machines that can be given an almost-indefinite life span by painless preventive maintenance techniques and proper operation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Thiel, Richard