{"product_id":"seaworthy-essential-lessons-from-boatuss-20-year-case-file-of-things-gone-wrong-9780071453271","title":"Seaworthy: Essential Lessons from Boatu.S.'s 20-Year Case File of Things Gone Wrong","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e International Marine Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780071453271\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 274\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.46h x 7.60w x 0.75d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Robert A. Adriance","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38012569419957,"sku":"9780071453271","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_de01efa9-8cf1-4abd-acef-6707369a1b3c.jpg?v=1609136719","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/seaworthy-essential-lessons-from-boatuss-20-year-case-file-of-things-gone-wrong-9780071453271","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}