Boating Lessons You'll Never Forget: Safety, Emergency and Survival Techniques from Real-Life Disaster Stories (Fox Chapel Publishing) Avoiding Rocks, Bad Weather, & More (Essential Guide to Boating) - Softcover

Skills Institute Press

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1565235908 ISBN 13: 9781565235908

Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

Would you know what to do if a whale rammed your boat? If there was an engine fire? If you had to abandon ship? Learn how to deal with all kinds of boating emergencies:

• Wind and Waves - fires, storms, currents, winds, and other weather hazards
• Animal Encounters - shark attacks, breaching whales, distress calls, abandoning ship, air rescue, and more
• Avoiding the Rocks - underwater terrain, shoal waters, collisions, narrow passages, fog, and towing
• Power and Safety - powerboat prep, safety gear, sailboat prep, restoring power, steering failure, and repairs

Would you know what to do if your boat sank and you and your family were stranded at sea for days on a small dinghy? Or if a shark thought your boat looked like lunch and took a bite out of the hull? What if you ran ashore on rocky shoals?

Boating Lessons You'll Never Forget gives first person accounts of these and other harrowing ocean experiences so that you'll know what to do in a similar situation. From animal encounters to capsizing watercrafts, this book tells the true life stories of nautical mishaps and how the survivors applied essential boating knowledge to be able to walk away.

This collection of fascinating stories will have you on the edge of your seat while providing essential life-saving tips! Keep it nearby on your next boating excursion for information on zones of approach, using whistles, horns, and flares, understanding fog signals, firefighting galley flare-ups, dealing with currents, avoiding rocks, and more.

Stories include accidents caused by sudden winds and catastrophic waves, running ashore, a killer whale attack, flipped kayaks, and more unimaginable misfortune. In each instance, you'll learn what to do when the worst happens. There's also a section on what emergency equipment to pack on your boat.

Boating Lessons You'll Never Forget is a must-have for power boaters, sailors, and anyone who steps foot on a vessel!

About this title

About the Author

John Kelsey is a journalist and editor specializing in woodworking and furniture making. He has a degree in woodworking and furniture design from the School for American Craft at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is a former editor in chief of Fine Woodworking magazine and a publisher of woodworking and home building books at the Taunton Press. He is the author of Furniture Projects for the Deck and Lawn. He lives in Newtown, Connecticut.

From the Back Cover

Real-Life Stories of
When the Worst Happens
on the Water

Would you know what to do if a whale rammed your boat, sinking it and leaving you and your family stranded at sea for 32 days on a small dinghy? Essential Guide to Boating: Boating Lessons You'll Never Forget gives first-person accounts of this and other harrowing experiences so you can learn what to do in a similar situation.

From animal encounters to capsizing watercrafts, Boating Lessons You'll Never Forget is filled with true accounts of nautical mishaps and how the people on board survived. This collection of fascinating stories will have you on the edge of your seat while providing lifesaving tips. With each story, you'll learn what to do when the worst happens, from how to deal with sudden winds and catastrophic waves to how to signal for help when stranded at sea. There's also a section on what emergency equipment to pack on your boat. Boating Lessons You'll Never Forget is a must-have for boaters and anyone who sets foot on a vessel.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1565235908
• ISBN 13: 9781565235908
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144