Boating Lessons You'll Never Forget: How to Avoid, and Survive, the Most Common to Extreme Mishaps on the Water (Essential Guide to Boating) - Softcover

What would you do if a whale thought your boat looked like lunch? Dive deep into these stories of real life boating disasters, as told by those who survived them. Not a guide book, but a great read. Real life disasters and how they lived to tell the stories, fill the pages of this book. It covers everything from sperm whales biting a hole in a hull and escaping in a rubber dingy, while your boat goes down in the Pacific, to running ashore on rocky shoals. It also includes tips on how to survive when the worst happens.

John Kelsey is a journalist, editor, and writer specialising in woodworking and furniture making. He is a former editor in chief of Fine Woodworking magazine, the author of Furniture Projects for the Deck and Lawn (9781892836175) and the editorial director for Fox Chapel Publishing.