Suddenly Overboard
McGraw-Hill Professional (Verlag)
978-0-07-180331-1 (ISBN)
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WHEN YOU ARE MORE LIKELY TO DROWN WHILE BOATING: SAILING ON ROUGH WATERS OR DOCKING ON A SUNNY, CALM DAY?Rough waters may seem the clear choice to you, but docking on a sunny, calm day can turn just as deadly--all you have to do is fail to think. That is what happened to author Tom Lochhaas more than twenty years ago, when he fell off his boat in its harbor and struggled to get out of the frigid water, even with help from a friend. Without a personal flotation device, he'd become a soaked dead weight within moments. Complacency had turned a simpledocking into a potentially fatal endeavor. Tom realized after this that he had to change his attitude about sailing safety.
With Suddenly Overboard, Tom will change your attitude about water safety, sharing stories about sailors who experienced catastrophes when least expecting them and who were rescued, or who died, or who lived to tell the tale simply by good luck. Consider the facts:
Only 22 percent of adults wear PFDs consistently while sailing . . .Only 50 percent of sailing fatalities happened while the victims were actually sailing; other sailors were docking or anchoring, etc., when tragedy hit . . .In 40 percent of cases, sailors drowned while their boat was still upright. . . .
Using stories from the U.S. Coast Guard and similar agencies in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and elsewhere, Tom exposes the mundane yet fatal mistakes sailors make every day. You'll find yourself thinking, "If these are how most sailors actually die, thenwhat if I was in that situation?" You'll suddenly realize that you are in these deadly situations every time you get on a boat. Reading Suddenly Overboard: True Stories of Sailors in Fatal Trouble will help you recognize and avoid unseen dangers and return to dry land safely.
Thomas Lochhaas is ideally qualified to serve as series editor for Epics of the Sea. He has worked in publishing for 15 years, both as an acquisitions editor (for C.V. Mosby Company) and as a freelance writer and developmental editor for major publishers such as Addison-Wesley, Jones & Bartlett, Simon & Schuster, and Little, Brown. He earned an M.F.A. in fiction writing from the University of Arizona, Tucson, and was a Ph.D. candidate (all but dissertation) in modern literature at Washington University, St. Louis. He has published short fiction, critical essays, and a number of articles on boating topics appearing in magazines such as SAIL, Maine Boats and Harbors, and Good Old Boat. He has taught writing at the college level as a lecturer at UCLA and the University of Arizona, Tucson. He is an avid reader of the literature of the sea. An experienced sailor, he is currently preparing his boat for a trans-Atlantic cruise. HOMETOWN: Newburyport, MA
PrefaceIntroductionSources of the Stories * What the Stories Show * What Sailors Can Do About ItAcknowledgmentsChapter 1 The Storms We All FearChichester Bar * WingNuts * Rally Boat to Bermuda * BrieflyChapter 2 Some Incidents Can’t Be Prevented?Tangled in Rigging * Lost Keel * Keep Treading * The Tether Issue—An OpinionChapter 3 A Good Day’s Sail Goes BadJust One Little Mistake * Too Much Freeboard * BrieflyChapter 4 Anchoring, Docking, DinghyingLong Voyage, Quiet Harbor * Late to the Slip * The Season’s Last Sail * BrieflyChapter 5Run AgroundTidal Estuary * On the Rocks * The Reef of New South Wales * BrieflyChapter 6Engine or Equipment FailureThe Delivery Captain * “Take It Easy” * BrieflyChapter 7A Gust of WindThree Generations Sailing off Puffin Island * A Hobie on the Lake * BrieflyChapter 8No Way to Call for HelpVoices * Short Sail on the Sound * The Inverted Cat * BrieflyChapter 9A Thousand Ways to End Up in the Water To Save a Puppy * Gone Fishing * BrieflyChapter 10The Perils of Solo SailingA Sailboat Comes Ashore * The Fouled Halyard * BrieflyChapter 11Can Your Crew Save You?Saturday on Lake Arthur * Wednesday Evening Club Race * Four Miles off Hyannis * BrieflyChapter 12 What Could Go Wrong? Capsize in Puget Sound * Capsize in Lake Huron * Sinking in the Georgia Strait * Bahia Transat Disaster Interview with Gary Jobson, President of US Sailing
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 16.5.2013 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 0 Illustrations |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 208 mm |
| Gewicht | 248 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Segeln / Tauchen / Wassersport |
| ISBN-10 | 0-07-180331-9 / 0071803319 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-07-180331-1 / 9780071803311 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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