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• From Novice to Pilot: How to Run a Motor Boat (New York: Motor Boating, c1909), by George S. Goldie
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• My Holidays on Inland Waterways: 2000 Miles Cruising by Motor Boat and Pleasure Skiff on the Canals and Rivers of Great Britain (first published 1916), by Peter Bonthron (illustrated HTML with commentary at jim-shead.com)
• The Motor, Marine and Aircraft Red Book, 1920 (London: Technical Pub. Co., ca. 1920), ed. by W. C. Bersey and A. Dorey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Power boat hand book, (New York, The Rudder publishing co., c1920), by Paul C. Warde (page images at HathiTrust)
• The power cruiser's pilot, (Cleveland, Ohio, The Penton publishing co., 1916), by Bradford Burnham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Practical motor boat handling, seamanship and piloting; a handbook containing information which every motor boatman should know. (New York, Motor boating, [c1917]), by Charles Frederic Chapman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The motor boys after a fortune; or, The hut on Snake Island, (New York, Cupples & Leon company, [c1912]), by Clarence Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• Motor boating. Ideal series. v.1- (New York, [c1920]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Joint Legislative Committee on Motor Boats. ([Albany : The Committee], 1960), by New York (State). Legislature. Joint Legislative Committee on Motor Boats (page images at HathiTrust)
• The boat book. ([Monroe, Mich., Van Blerck motor co.], 1916), by Van Blerck Motor Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Environment assessment for the use of motorized watercraft in the Sylvania Wilderness : Ottawa National Forest, Gogebic County, Michigan. ([Milwaukee, Wis.?] : Forest Service, Eastern Region, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, [1994]), by United States. Forest Service. Eastern Region (page images at HathiTrust)
• Power boat news. (New York, N.Y. : Rudder Pub. Co., 1905-) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Canadian motor boat. (Toronto, Canadian Motor Boat, Ltd.) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pacific motor boat. (Seattle [etc.]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Motorboat handbook. (New York, Motor Boat Pub. Co., [c1909-c12]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tax features of Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1963 : hearing before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, Eighty-eighth Congress, first session, on sections 2(c) and 7 (revenue provisions) of H.R. 3846 ... July 10, 1963. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 1963), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les moteurs à explosions dans la marine de pêche. (Orleans, 1914), by Louis Hirschauer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Regulation of motor boats / (Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation, 1936), by United States. Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Regulation of motor boats. (Washington, D.C. : Dept. of Commerce, 1939), by United States. Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Excise taxes to fund recreational boating safety and fish restoration and management programs, and establishment of a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Foundation : hearing before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, first session, on H.R. 2163 and H.R. 2809, June 2, 1983. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., Congressional Sales Office], 1983), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means (page images at HathiTrust)
• Land and water conservation fund : hearings before the Subcommittee on National Parks of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, Eighty-eighth Congress, first session, on H.R. 3846, H.R. 3864, H.R. 3871, H.R. 3882, H.R. 3883, H.R. 4035, H.R. 4047, H.R. 4248, H.R. 4267, H.R. 4402, and H.R.4440, bills to establish a land and water conservation fund to assist the States and Federal agencies in meeting present and future outdoor recreation demands and needs of the American people, and for other purposes. May 27 and 28, 1963. (Washington, U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1963), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on National Parks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Practical motor boat handling, seamanship and piloting; a handbook containing information which every motor boatman should know. Especially prepared for the man who takes pride in handling his own boat and getting the greatest enjoyment out of cruising. Adapted for the yachtsman interested in fitting himself to be of service to his government in time of war, (New York, Motor Boating, [c1917]), by Charles F. Chapman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Practical motor boat handling, seamanship & piloting ... (New York, Motor boating, 1917), by Charles F. Chapman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Motor boats : construction and operation : an illustrated manual for motor boat, launch and yacht owners, operators of marine gasolene engines, and amateur boatbuilders / (Chicago : Charles C. Thompson Co., c1910), by Thomas Herbert Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Motor machines. (Washington : U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1907-08), by United States. Bureau of Manufactures (page images at HathiTrust)
• Automobile topics. (New York [E.E. Schwarzkopf, etc.]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Boats. (Concord [etc.] N.H., Motor Boat publications.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The marine motor, (New York, Outing publishing company, 1915), by Frank Ward Sterling (page images at HathiTrust)
• Car illustrated ; a journal of travel by land, sea, & air. (London.), by Royal Automobile Club (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The book of the motor boat; how to operate and care for motor boats and motors, (New York [etc] D. Appleton and company, 1916), by A. Hyatt Verrill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marine gasoline engines and equipment; being a treatise on marine engines in general and the ferro marine engine in particular (Cleveland, Ferro Mach. & Found. Co, 1907), by Ferro Machine and Foundry Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to design and construct a power boat. (New York : Rudder Publishing Company, c1917), by Rudder (page images at HathiTrust)
• My holidays on inland waterways, 2000 miles cruising by motor boat and pleasure skiff on the canals and rivers of Great Britain (London : T. Murby, [1917]), by P. Bonthron (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Analysis of New York State motorboat registrations. (Albany, New York State Parks and Recreation.), by New York (State). Office of Parks and Recreation (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Piloting, seamanship and small boat handling. (New York, Motor Boating and Sailing Book Division.), by Charles F. Chapman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Argentina. Secretaría de Guerra. Dirección de Estudios Históricos. (New York, The Motor Boat Publishing Co., 1909-) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Power boat handbook. ([Los Angeles : Trend Books, 1957]), by Jim Potter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Land and Water Conservation Fund Act : report (to accompany H.R. 3846). ([Washington, D.C.? : U.S. G.P.O., 1964]), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on a national marina survey of motor boat harbors, 1930 / ([New York, Printed under supervision of Motor boating by C. J. O'Brien, inc., 1930?]), by National Association of Engine and Boat Manufacturers, Richard R. Blythe, and Harry A. Bruno (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Motor craft encyclopedia, (Cleveland,O., Motor craft encyclopedia publishing co., c1910), by Berton E. Elliot and P. R. Ward (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The outboard boys at mystery island; or, solving the secret of hidden cove / (New York : A. L. Burt, 1933), by Roger Garis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Land and water conservation fund. Hearing before the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States Senate, Eighty-eighth Congress, second session, on H.R. 3846, an act to establish a land and water conservation fund to assist the States and Federal agencies in meeting present and future outdoor recreation demands and needs of the American people, and for other purposes. July 28, 1964. (Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1964), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Definition and classification of natural and induced environments of some recreational boats / (Washington : U.S. Coast Guard, Office of Research and Development ; Springfield, Va. : National Technical Information Service [distributor], 1978), by United States. Coast Guard. Office of Research and Development and Wyle Laboratories (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Motor boat; devoted to all types of power craft. (New York, The Motor boat publishing co., 1904-) (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to build a Viper; (New York, Rudder pub. co., 1911), by Albert Hickman and W. H. Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• My demon motor boat / (New York : A.L. Burt, c1912), by George Fitch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nautical terms ; Motor boats ; Marine gasoline engines ; Management of marine gasoline engines ; Motor-boat navigation ; Motor-boat rules and signals. (Scranton : International Textbook Co., c1914), by International Correspondence Schools (page images at HathiTrust)
• Regulation of motorboats / ([Springfield, Ill.? : Department of Public Works and Buildings, Division of Waterways, 1947?]), by Illinois. Division of Waterways, Illinois. Act regulating the operation of motorboats, and Illinois. Act regulating motorboats (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Piloting, seamanship and small boat handling: a complete illustrated course prepared especially to develop skill, pleasure and safety in the navigation of small boats on coastal and inland waters. (N.Y., Motor Boating, 1922), by Charles F. Chapman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Markets for motor boats, marine engines and accessories : based on reports of consular officers of the Department of State and representatives of the Department of Commerce / (Washington : Government Printing Office, 1927), by Etteline Flehr and United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Markets for motor boats, marine engines, and equipment in Europe and Africa / (Washington : U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1930), by United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Markets for motor boats, marine engines, and equipment in Canada, Latin America, Oceania, and Asia / (Washington : U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1930), by United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wallop-Breaux Trust Fund : statement of Victor S. Rezendes, Associate Director, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division, before the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Navigation, House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. ([Washington, D.C.?] : U.S. General Accounting Office, [1988]), by Victor S. Rezendes and United States General Accounting Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les bateaux automobiles. (Paris, H. Dunod et E. Pinat, 1906), by Fernand Forest (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Open exhaust. (Peoria, Ill., [etc.], A. T. Griffith, [etc.].), by Mississippi River Valley Power Boat Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nine motorboats and how to build them : A book of complete building plans and instruction, which contains all necessary information for the amateur who wants to build his own boat. (New York : The Motorboat publishing co., 1913), by New York Motor boat publishing company (page images at HathiTrust)
• The design and construction of power workboats, ([Cleveland, Penton press co., c1920]), by Arthur Frederick Johnson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Development of alternatives to the current safe powering standard. (Washington, D.C. : U.S. Department of Transportation, U.S. Coast Guard, Office of Research and Development ; Springfield, Va. : National Technical Information Service [distributor, 1982]), by United States. Coast Guard. Office of Research and Development and inc Ideamatics (page images at HathiTrust)
• The motor boat, its selection, care and use, (New York, Outing publishing company, 1911), by Harold Whiting Slauson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Outboard motor boats and engines; water thrills and sport for everyone, (New York, Frederick A. Stokes company, 1930), by Bradford Burnham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Small boat owners guide. (New York, Lantern Press, [1955]), by Frank C. True (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Motor boat and yachting manual, a practical handbook devoted to yachts: motor boats, also commercial & naval motor craft. (London : Temple Press, Ltd.) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Electrical boats and navigation, (New York, C. C. Shelley, 1894), by Thomas Commerford Martin and Joseph Sachs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Motor boats and boat motors, design, construction, operation and repair ... (New York, The Norman W. Henley publishing company, 1920), by Victor Wilfred Pagé and A. Clark Leitch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Navigation wrinkles for combat motor boats, ([New Orleans, Higgins industries, inc., 1944]), by Geo. W. Rappleyea and Higgins Industries (page images at HathiTrust)
• Model boat building / (Brooklyn, N. Y. : Chemical publishing company, inc., [1942]), by F. J. Camm (page images at HathiTrust)
• Small craft design guide / (Fairfax, Va. : ASSET Inc., 1977), by Joseph G. Koelbel, David W. Taylor Naval Ship Research and Development Center, and Asset Incorporated (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rules and regulations for uninspected vessels. (Washington : U.S. Govt. Print. Off.), by United States Coast Guard (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to build a motor launch, (New York London, The Rudder publishing company, 1901), by Charles Drown Mower (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Frank Allen and his motor boat, or, Racing to save a life / (Garden City, N.Y. : Garden City Pub. Co., 1926), by Graham B. Forbes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Motor boats ; a review of the development and construction of marine motors and motor boats, their advantages and their future scope / (London ; New York [etc.] : Sir I. Pitman & Sons, ltd., [1923]), by Frederic Strickland (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Motor boats; a thoroughly scientific discussion of their design, construction and operation, (London, New York : International marine engineering, 1907), by William Frederick Durand (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Jahrbuch der Automobil- und Motorboot-Industrie. (Berlin, Boll & Pickardt [etc.], 1904-11), ed. by Ernst Neuberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Standards analysis, powering/performance evaluation, using test course methods : final report / (Washington : U. S. Coast Guard, Office of Research and Development; Springfield, Va. : National Technical Information Service, 1974), by R. W. White, S. L. Patrick, J. O. Bowman, Wyle Laboratories, and United States. Coast Guard. Office of Research and Development (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Motor boat; devoted to all types of power craft. (New York, The Motor boat publishing co., 1904-), ed. by Francis P. Prial (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Automobile topics. (New York [E.E. Schwarzkopf etc.]) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Piloting, seamanship and small boat handling; a practical treatise dealing with those branches of motor boating with which every yachtsman should be familiar. A complete illustrated course on small boat work with many suggested questions and problems to be solved. (New York, Motor boating, [1956]), by Charles Frederic Chapman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Motorboats and certain vessels propelled by machinery other than by steam, more than 65 feet in length : April, 1941. (Washington : U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1941), by United States. Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Power boating. (Cleveland, Ohio : Penton Pub. Co., 1907-1938) (page images at HathiTrust)
• 1972 Marine fuel study / ([Olympia] : The Dept., 1973), by Washington (State). Department of Motor Vehicles. Research and Technology (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Power boating. (Cleveland The Penton Publishing Company.) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Motor boats, hydroplanes, hydroaeroplanes, construction and operation, with practical notes on propeller calculation and design; an illustrated manual of self instruction for owners and operators of marine gasoline engines and amateur boat-builders, (Chicago, Charles C. Thompson Co., 1917), by Thomas Herbert Russell and John B. Rathbun (page images at HathiTrust)
• Personal watercraft (PWC) identification : a law enforcement guide to hull, engine and serial number placement in the personal watercraft / (Washington, DC : U.S. Dept. of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2000), by Sally A. Seckers and United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (page images at HathiTrust)

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