Seaworthy: Essential Lessons from BoatU.S.'s 20-Year Case File of Things Gone Wrong - Couverture rigide

Adriance, Robert

 
9780071453271: Seaworthy: Essential Lessons from BoatU.S.'s 20-Year Case File of Things Gone Wrong
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ISBN 10 : 007145327X ISBN 13 : 9780071453271
Editeur : International Marine Publishing Co, 2005

Synopsis

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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À propos de l?auteur

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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Éditeur
International Marine Publishing Co
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
007145327X
ISBN 13 
9780071453271
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
288
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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