Boat Manuals and Old Radio Manuals

A Motley Mixture of Hard to find items.

On this web site you will find a few vintage boat and vintage radio items that might interest you - things that you have been looking for, but have not been able to buy.  The selection will be very specialized and very limited in quantities.  You may contact us with questions at  doak@doak.biz.

Ordering Information

Payment information:  You may buy here by sending us an email listing the  items you want by item number.  We will send you a PayPal invoice which you can pay if you want the item, or just ignore if you decide you do not want the item. We review our email several times a day and will respond immediately.  You may make payment in two ways:  1.  Send  payment by mail to: John Doak, 18806 Fairway Green Dr., Hudson, Fl. 34667.  Money Orders are preferred, but Checks are OK.  We may hold checks until they clear.  2.  You can pay the PayPal invoice we will send you - The PayPal ID is  doak@doak.ws.   Please specify item number and name of item wanted and be sure your shipping address is indicated.  We try to ship same day payment received.  PayPal is very fast and convenient for both of us.

Here are the categories that we will be selling from:

       Vintage Boat Manuals - All prior to 1989 and as old as possible.  These will be mostly reprints done by us.

       Vintage Shortwave and Broadcast Radio Publications prior to 1950. These will be mostly reprints done by us.  No hardware will be offered.

       Vintage Radio and Transmitting Vacuum Tubes.  These old tubes will all be fully tested so you will know what you are buying.

       Very Old Books of all kinds.  We are not book collectors or Book Dealers so these books will be offered on an "as is" basis with a best effort description.

       Doak Memorabilia.  We will offer here anything that we can find with the name "Doak" associated with it.  Mostly vintage items.

       Miscellaneous Items - Here you will find all the other stuff that we can't fit into the above categories - Vacuum Cleaners to Slide Projectors.

Some of the Brand names for Boat Manuals are:  Chris Craft, Owens, Kermath, Thompson, Larson, Johnson, Evinrude, Scott-McCollough, Scott-Atwater, Sears, Firestone, Champion, Viking, Thompson, Mirro-Craft, Penn-Yan, Lyman, Elto.

Some of the Radio Brand Manuals we carry are:  Atwater Kent, Hammarlund, Fada, Allied, Heath, Heathkit, Bell & Howell, Philco, Paco,  Gonset, Western Electric, Eico, National Radio, E. F. Johnson, Radio Service Guides, Radio Craft.

Some other brands are 1939 Studebaker Car Radio, Sanyo SBM 15 Breadmaker Manual, Bread Factory, Welbilt ABM 100-3, Magic Chef Model 250-2

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