{"product_id":"9781892216311","title":"Complete Guide To Outboard Engines","description":"    After many years in the boating industry and writing countless articles for your favorite boating magazines, John Fleming has put his wealth of knowledge into his new book, The Complete Guide To Outboard Engines. \u003cbr\u003e      This book starts with the difference in design and power between the two-cycle outboard and its new bother, the four-cycle outboard. \u003cbr\u003e      As with John's, Complete Guide To Gasoline Marine Engines, these pages take the reader deep inside the engine by discussing the design, function and results of the entire engine system and drive unit. The book's design allows the reader to start with the basics and progress through each skill level until a thorough understanding of engines is achieved. \u003cbr\u003e      This book also delves deeply into the technical aspects of outboard engines, but the information remains extremely easy to understand and follow throughout each step. \u003cbr\u003e      You will not find another book that will explain outboard engines as completely or easily as this book.  \u003cbr\u003e      One fact remains; when you have read, The Complete Guide To Outboard Engines, you will be the most popular person on the dock every Saturday morning.\u003cbr\u003e      Illustrated\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  John Fleming has conducted a 60 year love affair with engines and never met one he did not like. There have been a few that were so exciting he remembers them like an old flame but they all serve a purpose and they are all a part of my memories.\u003cbr\u003e  The first engine he built was a 1948 model, 4.2 horsepower, Champion outboard engine. He was 9 years old which made it monumental task. To see and hold the parts his father had described was fascinating.\u003cbr\u003e  He held a United States Coast Guard, 500 ton masters ticket and has a total of more than 3,000 days at sea.\u003cbr\u003e  John has run boats of many types and varieties in 44 States and 3 countries: crossed the Okefenokee in an airboat and canoe, ran the Everglades from Flamingo Park to Chokloskee Island and from Whitewater Bay to the head of the Little Shark River.\u003cbr\u003e  For eight years he held a State of Florida Teachers Certificate to teach engine repair in the State. \u003cbr\u003e  John and his wife have run delivery charters across the Gulf of Mexico from Brownsville, Texas to Key West, Florida and up the Atlantic Seaboard as far as Barnegat Bay. They have owned vessels which they have operated for dive charters, fishing charters and towing services.\u003cbr\u003e  He has written more than 3,500 articles for magazines and newspapers. \u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Bristol Fashion Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47622490718448,"sku":"9781892216311","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781892216311_p0.jpg?v=1763608775","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781892216311","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}