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On-Board Emergency Handbook: Your Indispensable Guide for Handling any Challenge at Sea
  Instant Answers to Any Seamanship Emergency
When something goes wrong at sea, and the proper response is critical, you need to know immediately how to bring your vessel and your crew safely through. The On-Board Emergency Handbook contains all the information you need to cope with extreme circumstances.
This book should become one of your most vital pieces of life-saving equipment.
- Step-by step instructions tell you exactly what to do, in common and uncommon nautical emergencies, from engine or rig failure to crew overboard, from groundings to flooding
- Flow charts and easy-to-follow illustrations provide at-a-glance responses for powerboaters and sailors
- Tried and tested solutions provide advice you can trust
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Abandoning Ship | Aground | Anchoring
- Boom Breaks
- Chafe | Collision
- Dinghies and Tenders | Dismasting | Diving | Docking
- Electrics | Electronics | Engine Failure: Diesel, Gasoline/Petrol
- Fire: Engine, Stove | Fog
- Heavy Weather: Prepare, Tactics | Holing
- Icing
- Jury Rigs: Masts, Rudders
- Keels
- Leaks | Lee Shores | Life Rafts | Lightning | Lights
- Man Overboard | Man Overboard Pick-up | Mast Problems | Medical Emergencies
- Propeller Problems | Pumps
- Radar | Radio | Rigging
- Sail Repair | Salvage | Self-Steering | Signals | Steering Gear
- Towing
- Water
- Appendix A: Spares and Tools | Appendix B: International Regulations
- Glossary
- Index
About the Author:
Tony Meisel has sailed extensively on boath coasts of the United States, the Caribbean, and in northern and southern European waters. He was associate editor of Motor Boating & Sailing magazine and is the author of books on boats, seamanship, and the sea.
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PRODUCT DETAILS:- Publisher: International Marine — 2006
- Author: Tony Meisel
- Binding: Paperback (vinyl-coated) — 5½ x 9½ inches
- Pages: 224 — Hundreds of b&w illustrations
- ISBN: 0071474676
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On-Board Emergency Handbook: Your Indispensable Guide for Handling any Challenge at Sea |
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