Seaworthy: Essential Lessons from BoatU.S.'s 20-Year Case File of Things Gone Wrong
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| Rating | : | 4.55 (851 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 007145327X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 274 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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He is also the coeditor of Beacon magazine, which reaches 35,000 Coast Guard Auxiliary members.. Bob Adriance has written and compiled BoatU.S.’s accident reports for twenty years
Experience may be the best teacher, but the lessons are a lot less painful when the experience is someone else’s. 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. “A boaters’ guide as important and practical as any I’ve read. 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. And if you c
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 StrengthRobert A. Here is a unique opportunity to use other skippers’ misfortunes to make your own boat and seamanship safer. 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 compend
"Every boater should read this book." according to EJen. This is a great book, that every boat owner should read. It's packed with important stuff that many people overlook.. Robert Traxler said So so. Interesting book, but not a lot of stories. Probably wouldn't of bought if I was able to look thru it.. Richard Frehs said Gain from Others Loss. Seaworthy, the book, is a compliation of the quarterly magazine articles published through BoatUS insurance affiliates. If you own a power or sailboat and (or)dock or trailer it, this book is worth the money spent.The book describes common mistakes that have resulted in damage or the loss of their boat. Usually photographs show the results of the mistakes. The text descibes what happened, why, and how to avoid the cause.The lessons learned from these mistakes will save you m