Against the Sea: Great Adventure Stories from the Pages of Motorboating

by Motor Boating; Rudeen, Louisa

• ISBN13: 9781588160737
• ISBN10: 1588160734
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-06-01
• Publisher: Sterling Pub

Summary

More than 20 edge-of-your-seat stories of the open sea with remarkable human achievements and real-life dramas.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Louisa Rudeen
Staying Alive	1	(12)
After killer whales sink their boat, a couple survives for sixty-six days on a life raft adrift in the Pacific Ocean
Sid Stapleton
Hijacked	13	(8)
Looking down the barrel of a hijacker's gun, the captain and mate of the sportfisherman Rapscallion figure they are dead men
Michael Verdon
Fastnet Disaster	21	(8)
The toll is fifteen dead in yacht racing's blackest night. The winner tells what went wrong---and how he survived
Ted Turner
The Longest Ride	29	(20)
Two MB&S editors drive a Tempest 38 speedboat from Miami to Maine---in five days
Peter A. Janssen
Mayday, Mayday, Mayday	49	(10)
When a freak storm hits New England, the Coast Guard goes to the rescue---and almost loses its own men, boats, and choppers
Joanne A. Fishman
Across the Atlantic by Outboard	59	(12)
The firsthand account of a boatbuilder's record crossing from Newfoundland to Portugal on his twenty-six-foot skiff
Al Grover
Polly Whittell
Blood, Sweat & Tears	71	(6)
MB&S's women's team tackles the `Round London Boat Marathon---the event that makes you carry your boat almost as much as it carries you
Louisa Rudeen
Overboard	77	(8)
A blue marlin, caught during a high-stakes tournament, suddenly pulls an experienced fisherman off the boat to his death
Peter Wright
Tania's Triumph	85	(14)
Tania Aebi, a gutsy girl from New York, sails around the world alone---to find herself
Polly Whittell
The Agony of Andrew	99	(6)
Survivors of Hurricane Andrew---the worst natural disaster in South Florida's history, which wrecked thousands of boats---tell their stories
Michael Verdon
Rough Passage	105	(14)
What begins as a simple delivery trip to Bermuda turns into a nightmare as one thing after another on the thirty-seven-foot sailboat goes seriously wrong
Hank Halsted
School of Hard Knocks	119	(8)
The Canadian Coast Guard holds Rigid Hull Inflatable Operator Training School in the roughest waters it can find. Wimps need not apply
Louisa Rudeen
A Ride on the Wild Side	127	(10)
Heavy fog and high seas punish seven speedboats racing from San Francisco to Los Angeles
Peter A. Janssen
American Hero	137	(12)
Dodge Morgan, a fifty-four-year-old Maine newspaper publisher, sails alone around the world in a record 150 days---without stopping
Polly Whittell
Shipwrecked	149	(8)
A transatlantic record attempt ends in disaster---after which, the crippled sailboat is nearly crushed by the ship that comes to its rescue
Dag Pike
Venezuelan Justice	157	(8)
During a South American cruise on a sixty-one-foot Feadship, two Americans are suddenly arrested and sentenced to rot in jail
John W. Smith, as told to Roy Attaway
Heroes	165	(12)
At midnight, 200 miles offshore, in 60-knot winds and twenty-five-foot seas, the Coast Guard saves three shipwrecked sailors
Joanne A. Fishman
Nowhere to Hide	177	(12)
A sixty-five-foot Donzi sportfisherman takes on a 110-mile-per-hour hurricane 300 miles offshore, and wins---and then loses
John Clemans
Crash	189	(6)
At 95 miles per hour, Cigarette Racing Team's forty-two-foot race-boat hits a wave off Japan and does a barrel-roll with the author still on board
Craig Barrie
Tall Ship Tragedy	195	(12)
When the 117-foot barque Marques sinks off Bermuda, she takes nineteen crewmembers with her
Bonnie Waitzkin
Fastest Ever	207	(6)
We drive the new, world-record-setting, forty-seven-foot Fountain power catamaran 162 miles per hour
Peter A. Janssen
Adrift in the South Pacific	213	(10)
After their sailboat is sunk, a family must survive for twenty-four days in a dinghy and an inflatable life raft
Shearlean Duke
Sunrider	223	(16)
Environmentalist Bryan Peterson drives a twenty-four-foot Zodiac around the world---powered by soybean oil and solar energy
Polly Whittell
Coast Guard Capsize	239	(12)
On a stormy night, three coast Guardsmen die---and one survives---when their boat flips during a dramatic rescue attempt
Louisa Rudeen
Permissions	251