Owners Requirements List - nailing down what you want in a vessel to firmly establish goals and clearly defining your vessel's requirements

Boat Owners, Service or Parts Manuals - generic or custom for pontoons, yachts, sport fishing, cruisers, inboard ski boats, jet boats and much more. For U. S. domestic and international products.

Design Spiral Process - this interesting paper describes the iterative steps involved in designing & engineering a yacht, boat or ship.

Office of Boating Safety - United States Federal requirements and safety tips for recreational boaters.

USCG Marine Safety Center - Federal requirements and guidelines for commercial, certificated, register tonnage, inspected and uninspected vessels.

FM 55-501 Marine Crewman's Handbook, online Army Field Manual, includes towing operations.

 

Wood Handbook - Useful for designing structures with wood.  Comprehensive covers designing beam members, fasteners, glues, material properties and many other features of wood.

 

Free updated and full featured 2D drafting program available from from Solid Edge. Click here to download.

his free Open Office Suite can be downloaded online by clicking here.  It includes Writer a great word processor program that includes converting documents to PDF format!, Calc a spreadsheet, Math a math presentation creator, Base a database, and Impress a presentation software similar to Power Point.  (We don't guarantee that this software will work with our templates, but as far as we know this software has worked with our templates.)

Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack makes it easier to share files The 2007 Microsoft Office system introduces new XML-based file formats that are incompatible with previous Microsoft Office files. With this download, and Office XP or Office 2003 you can open, edit, and save documents, workbooks, and presentations in the file formats of the new the 2007 versions of Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.