Total Loss

by Jack H. Coote

Book Overview

Far from being another emergency handbook or survival manual to remain unread until it is too late, Total Loss is an anthology of carefully selected accounts by some 40 people who have survived the loss of a yacht at sea. The stories are grouped under the principal causes of loss & each is followed by an analysis of the lessons to be learned. The causes include structural damage, gear failure, faulty navigation, stress of weather, exhaustion & crew...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0229116841
• ISBN13: 9780229116843
• Release Date: April 1985
• Publisher: A. Coles
• Length: 322 Pages