The shocking numbers of deaths and injuries from pleasure boating in the USA alone and worldwide must be brought down! Responsible captains and boat owners must take time, money, and well-planned efforts to reduce the risks of bad boat accidents to an acceptable low level. While it is possible to spend countless hours and immense amounts of money to improve a boat's safety, most captains and boat owners have limited time and money. To enjoy boating and sailing without excessive risks and too much time and money spent, Captain Oscar offers short and precise action plans to prevent the worst possible accidents, which cause deaths and injuries, such as collisions, fires, sinking, drowning, and shipwrecking. You can always do more, but by completing these actions you will achieve a very good safety level for yourself and your people on board. All this advice may be theory, but it explains how and why these tragic accidents happen, provides lists of what to do and learn, and explains how best to choose your skipper and train and brief your crew. You will also find the official safety Checklist of the US Coast Guard. But after all that, for boaters and sailors who do not have much of their own boating or sailing experience, Captain Oscar adds some stories of his most interesting and exciting boating and sailing experiences such as: How he overcame his worst storm in the infamous and murderous North Sea, the story of his first Atlantic crossing, and the funny story of the ballerina with the flexible rig, and how to sail in a storm with a defective rudder.
