- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: New Society Publishers (July 20 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0865715904
- ISBN-13: 978-0865715905
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 386 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,041,508 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Book Description
Recreational boating is a pastime enjoyed by millions. Yet the waters and marine environment that boaters so love are in serious jeopardy from pollution, from resource mismanagement, and from misunderstanding. Boaters can help to change that. Although a relatively small part of the problem of marine environmental degradation, recreational boaters can be a huge part of the solution, writes Clyde W. Ford, an avid boater of over 20 years, whose encounters with polluted waters galvanized him to explore workable solutions.
Boat Green provides a host of environmentally sound boating practices, based on scientific research and practical boating experience.
In this book, boaters will learn ways to:
- Reduce vessel operation and maintenance costs
- Improve vessels performance
- Increase safety and health of vessel operators and crew
- Increase awareness of marine issues and
- Enhance enjoyment of the marine environment
And all of these steps will help to lessen the impact of recreational boating on the marine environment. These are practical solutions that have been field-tested and refined on actual vessels cruising the Pacific Northwest waters.
Boat Green is an essential guide for recreational boaters, and for all those concerned about protecting the marine environment.
About the Author
Clyde W. Ford is the Executive Director of Ecomarine Institute and author of nine books, including the award-winning The Long Mile and the Charlie Noble series of contemporary nautical suspense novels. Clyde enjoys cruising the waters of the Inside Passage aboard his single engine biodiesel trawler.
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Boaters don't have to sacrifice their own enjoyment of the waterways to help the environment, May 5 2008
By Midwest Book Review - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Boat Green (Paperback)
Boaters don't have to sacrifice their own enjoyment of the waterways to help the environment - in fact, helping the environment even helps them. "Boat Green: 50 Steps Boaters Can Take To Save Our Waters" is a list of many, many easy tasks for nautical enthusiasts to perform that will do the following things: reduces the cost of boating, improves your boats performance, and enhances ones enjoyment of the marine environment - and all of them improve the health of the waters in the process. If you're a boat lover and want to keep your roads clean, safe, and clear for yourself and future generations, there's little reason not to pick up "Boat Green: 50 Steps Boaters Can Take to Save Our Waters" - also recommended for community library boating collections with a cross over to the environmental studies shelves.
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