How to Choose Your First Powerboat

By Chuck Gould

Chuck Gould has lived his entire life in the Seattle area on Puget Sound where he began boating on a 26-foot sailboat. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1574090569
• ISBN13: 9781574090567
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Sheridan House
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

How to Choose your...

Includes very useful information including basic information about boat and trailer handling. A book to consider if you don't know anything about boats and are considering purchasing one.

Gould's Book Very Helpful to Beginner

I bought "How to Choose Your First Powerboat" before I spent much time shopping for a boat. I was approaching the project with no boating experience at all, and really felt the need for some general information about boats.I thought "How to Choose Your First Powerboat" gave me a thorough overview of boats without getting into minute details. No way did I expect that any one book would make me completely informed, but I wasn't comfortable proceeding in complete ignorance, either. During the (successful) shopping process for a used boat, more than one seller or broker tried to make some fairly far fetched claims about different boats and I had learned enough from "How to Choose....." to avoid at least one carefully laid trap.Gould does an excellent job of communicating important basic concepts. There are moments of humor, and the style is easy to read.I would recommend this book to anybody getting into boating for the first time.