Marine Diesel Engines

Publisher: Adlard Coles Nautical, 2 nd ed., 2003

If you read this from the library, then you will know, like me, that you’ll have to buy a copy.  Although you can absorb a great deal in one pass, it is such a weighty work that further study is a necessity. It’s rather like those excellent handbooks by Haines which tell you how to look after your car – grading the jobs from those anyone can do to items that should only be tackled in the gravest emergency.  A situation much more likely to appear at sea.

Calder is a diesel engineer with a homebuilt `sailboat` and his style carries one along.  All of us, or very nearly so, have a nodding acquaintance with our engines but how many, in going over to diesel, have really educated ourselves to the phenomenon of “compression ignition”?

His drawings are models of clarity as are the photos.  The text is complete..  A wholly admirable work  - with one small weakness.  Calder is American and the Japanese engine we have coyly resting beneath the cockpit floor has little mention.  The book is such a work of engineer’s art that it is no real trouble however.  So read, mark, learn and inwardly digest.  - JB

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