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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 623.88
EAN num: 9780071453271
ISBN number: 007145327X
Label: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
Manufacturer: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 288
Printing Date: October 03, 2005
Publishing house: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
Sale Popularity Level: 103192
Studio: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
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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
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Seaworthy Review
Seaworthy is a great read and a book that may save your life some day. Learn from 100s of lessons and mistakes boaters make in difficult situations that hopefully you will never have to face. But if you do this book will help you to prepare for the worst.
Bruce
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This book is so well written and organized that it should be aboard every boat and read more than once. I couldn't put it down the very first time through. It had some extremely valuable tips...some I had heard before and others I had never thought of.
It is organized in 7 chapters that make it very easy to refer back to if there are any items needing some quick review.
Nothing in the book is "text book" types of issues. Everything is real world and current.
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As a part-time cruiser (diesel engine) and sailor, I have depended much on reading about boats, and cruising, to help me make up for my lack of experience on the water. A small library has been acquired. This one book has been a great read, well-written, and manages to get the point(s)across better than any other format, eg., other people's actual experiences and losses. I am on my third reading of this book, making notes of what else I might do to my own boats to prevent the problems that have been expertly identified. Great book!
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Covers all aspects of boating risk elements with real world examples of what happens when maintenance and common sense are ignored.
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My husband is reading the book and comments about the useful information it contains. Overall, he is very happy with the book.
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