Heavy Weather Boating Emergencies: What to Do When Everything Goes Wrong

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 288 pages
• Published by: Marlor Press February 1, 1999
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 094340097X
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0943400976
• Book Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Weighs: 15.2 ounces

Product Description
Fresh-water boaters will find life-saving information on how to maintain control in emergency situations. Written specifically for powerboaters, this book details what to do when encountering heavy weather and on-board emergencies such as engine failure, man overboard, or loss of position. Also, learn how to prevent accidents by learning how to identify storms.

About The Author
Chuck Luttrell has more than 14 years of professional boating experience. He is a search and rescue specialist and a certified instructor in motorboat operation for the Department of the Interior. Jean Luttrell is a lifelong boater.

Reader Reviews
Simply put, Heavy Weather Boating Emergencies: What To Do When Everything Goes Wrong is a critically important survival guide that should be considered "must reading" for anyone operating a powerboat of any size or dimension on a freshwater lake or river system. Author and powerboat expert Chuck Luttrell (a Search and Rescue Specialist and a Department of the Interior certified instructor in motorboat operation with more than fourteen years of professional boating experience that included being a boat patrol ranger in Kentucky, Texas, and Lake Mead, Nevada) shows how to deal with flooding, capsizing and sinking; people overboard; engine failure and grounding; navigational loss of position; other boaters in need of rescue; and much more. Black-and-white photographs and diagrams illustrate the key points of this literally lifesaving guide.