Seaworthy: Essential Lessons from BoatU.S.'s 20-Year Case File of Things Gone Wrong
Robert A. Adriance
ISBN 10: 007145327X ISBN 13: 9780071453271
Published by International Marine, 2005
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You're safest on the water when you and your boat are seaworthy
BoatU.S. provides marine insurance coverage to 250,000 American powerboaters and sailors, which makes its collection of claims reports one of the world’s largest archives of boating accidents. For more than 20 years, as writer and editor of BoatU.S.’s quarterly publication Seaworthy, Bob Adriance has sifted and analyzed this rich trove to discover and highlight the profound lessons it contains.
Here is the ultimate boater’s guide to preventing, responding to, and surviving accidents under power or sail, including hurricane damage, lightning strikes, collisions, fires, groundings, sinkings, crew overboard, dismastings, and more.
Experience may be the best teacher, but the lessons are a lot less painful when the experience is someone else’s. Here is a unique opportunity to use other skippers’ misfortunes to make your own boat and seamanship safer.
“A boaters’ guide as important and practical as any I’ve read. And if you can ignore the occasional frisson of guilty pleasure, one that’s as engrossing to read as The Perfect Storm.”–Tony Gibbs, yachting writer, editor, and novelist
“Hair-raising disasters, hard facts, and helpful advice; Seaworthy is a compendium of no-nonsense information on avoiding problems that only a marine insurer could provide. Invaluable for the boater, builder, designer, and surveyor.”–Dave Gerr, director, Westlawn Institute of Tecnology; author of The Nature of Boats and The Elements of Boat Strength
About the Author:
Bob Adriance has written and compiledBoatU.S.’s accident reports for twenty years. He is also thecoeditor of Beacon magazine, which reaches 35,000 CoastGuard Auxiliary members.
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Title: Seaworthy: Essential Lessons from BoatU.S.'s...
Publisher: International Marine
Publication Date: 2005
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good