Seaworthy: Essential Lessons from Things Gone Wrong

Seaworthy: Essential Lessons from BoatU.S.’s 20-Year Case File of Things Gone Wrong 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. Format: Hardcover # of pages: 288 Size: 9.46″ L x 7.6″ W x 0.75″ H Author: Robert Adriance