Mayday!
Yachts in DistressBy Joachim Schult
(Book Out of Print)
192 pp. 37 color photos, 20 b&w photos, line diagrams. 1997. Paperback. $23.50
ISBN 1 57409 039 9
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“Mayday!” is the ultimate distress signal, recognized by sailors all over the world. It is also an apt title for this unique collection of some of the world's most dramatic and instructive accounts of collisions, fires, dismastings, strandings, and sinkings. Author Joachim Schult – who gathered these true stories of yachts in distress from eyewitness accounts, newspaper reports, maritime court proceedings, and insurance and Coastguard records – carefully considers each incident, offering thoughtful explanations and drawings useful conclusions that will help readers avoid such calamities themselves.
A series of vivid photographs complements the text.
“…gripping and instructive…” —Cruising World
“…satisfying adventure reading combined with practical analysis…” —Dockside
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About the Author:
As a young naval cadet, Joachim Schult spent two hours fighting for his life in the icy cold waters of the English Channel after his ship was sunk. Later, as an officer charged with saving sailors shipwrecked in the North Atlantic, he was washed overboard and rescued only by sheer chance. He is an experienced bluewater sailor, having sailed over 100,000 miles in small yachts, and is an internationally acclaimed author of yachting books.
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