Surviving the Storm: Coastal and Offshore Tactics
...An in-depth and long-needed examination of storm tactics and heavy-weather gear for modern boats. The book's strength is the range of experiences and storm-management solutions it details.The Dashews...take a comprehensive look at the pros and cons of such subjects as heaving-to, running off ...using drogues...and equipment tests of safety gear...Some of the most gripping and useful reading comes in a 67-page section of interviews with top-level professional skippers and seamen, a wealth of seasoned info.The Dashews aren't afraid to step on some toes ...The makers of safety gear ...touted for storm use won't be happy with field-test descriptions of ...breakdowns or malfunctions...Neither will believers in the "one-tactic-fits-all" approach to storm management. But the Dashews' frankness and open-mindedness is a considerable strength...After all, where dangerous weather is concerned, the more you know the more options you have, and the better your chances of weathering a storm.  --Tom Linskey, Editor, Sail Magazine, December 1999...Excellent work - thank you...Worth 2x the price. D.H., Nashville, TN --reader...The best book on the subject I've ever seen...(A) very important addition to the growing literature targeted at bluewater sailing.  --John Bonds, Safety at Sea educatorAn indispensable voyaging resource...With a wealth of stark photographs, and illustrative diagrams, Dashew digests heavy weather from every possible angle - human , mechanical, and meteorological  - annotating his treatment by citing countless case studies of real boats in really horrific conditions. No aspect of or item on a typical voyaging sailboat is left unanalyzed. Tactics and storm procedures are outlined. Renowned professional skippers are interviewed and profiled.   --Blue Water Sailing, November/December 1999Could ultimately save your life.  --Canadian Yachting, Winter 2000I'm to race in the BT Global Challenge and am enjoying Surviving the Storm. It will come in handy. C.B., England --readerReadable as it is long and thorough. Surviving the Storm... makes for some of  the most riveting and educational reading we've done in a long time...In addition to covering just about everything you could ever want to know about  storm preparations, gear and tactics from those who have been through  life-threatening storms, there are first person accounts of storm experiences from  amateurs... It's fascinating reading. In addition, the book includes 540 dramatic photographs or illustrations.   --Latitude 38, October 1999Surviving the Storm is the most sweeping manual on heavy-weather sailing I know. Encyclopedic in scope yet precise in analysis, it is extremely strong on the theories of seamanship and meteorology and also on actual practices in all types of boats. The Dashews...avoid careless overgeneralizing as they sympathetically examine how particular crews in particular boats handled particular storms. The Photographs and the accompanying schematic drawings showing how boats behave in big seas are worth the price of the book alone and demand careful study.  --John Rousmaniere, author, The Annapolis Book of Seamanship and Fastnet, Force 10You can take a half-dozen different books on storm seamanship with you, or you can take Dashew's Surviving the Storm and have it all in one volume. Not only that,  it's a good read when the wind isn't blowing.  --Gregory Jones, Editor, SailingYou'll likely be a better seaman after finding yourself captivated by this book's fascinating and usually useful accounts of sailors who have been there.  --The Boating News, January 2000