{"product_id":"seaworthy-essential-lessons-from-boatu-s-s-20-year-case-file-of-things-gone-wrong-hardcover-3","title":"Seaworthy: Essential Lessons from Boatu.S.'s 20-Year Case File of Things Gone Wrong - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Adriance\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYou're safest on the water when you and your boat are \u003ci\u003eseaworthy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBoatU.S. provides marine insurance\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eSeaworthy\u003c\/i\u003e, Bob Adriance has sifted and analyzed this rich trove to discover and highlight the profound lessons it contains. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExperience may be the best teacher, \u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003eThe Perfect Storm\u003c\/i\u003e.\"-Tony Gibbs, yachting writer, editor, and novelist \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Hair-raising disasters, hard facts, and helpful advice; \u003ci\u003eSeaworthy\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Nature of Boats\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Elements of Boat Strength\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYou're safest on the water when you and your boat are \u003ci\u003eseaworthy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBoatU.S. provides marine insurance\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eSeaworthy\u003c\/i\u003e, Bob Adriance has sifted and analyzed this rich trove to discover and highlight the profound lessons it contains. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExperience may be the best teacher, \u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003eThe Perfect Storm\u003c\/i\u003e.\"-Tony Gibbs, yachting writer, editor, and novelist \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Hair-raising disasters, hard facts, and helpful advice; \u003ci\u003eSeaworthy\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Nature of Boats\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Elements of Boat Strength\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert A. Adriance\u003c\/b\u003e has edited \u003ci\u003eSeaworthy\u003c\/i\u003e magazine and written and compiled BoatU.S.'s accident reports for more than 20 years. He is also editor of BoatU.S.'s Technical Information Exchange for Marine Professionals, the co-editor of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary's \u003ci\u003eBeacon\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, and assistant vice president, technical services, for BoatU.S.'s Marine Insurance Division.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBob Adriance\u003c\/b\u003e has written and compiled BoatU.S.'s accident reports for twenty years. He is also the coeditor of Beacon magazine, which reaches 35,000 Coast Guard Auxiliary members.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.75 x 9.46 x 7.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42034702418000,"sku":"9780071453271","price":49.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/9540\/0016\/files\/bVdUVTVKWlBTaWZpVDdoUnREUmtWdz09_9afe365c-af44-4d03-ace9-bbcd11e2d8a6.webp?v=1771837737","url":"https:\/\/palm-malen-gift-shop-pmrc.myshopify.com\/products\/seaworthy-essential-lessons-from-boatu-s-s-20-year-case-file-of-things-gone-wrong-hardcover-3","provider":"Palm Malen Gift Shop -PMRC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}