Tom Lochhaas is an avid sailor with more than 30 years of experience in sailboats of all sizes, experienced in coastal cruising as well as club round-the-buoy racing and offshore voyaging. For the last three years, Lochhaas has been the sailing writer for the Internet information site About.com. In this capacity he has already written extensively about seamanship and sailing safety issues, including both equipment reviews and behavioral/attitudinal safety articles. Lochhaas was the editor of Treacherous Waters and Intrepid Voyagers.

PrefaceIntroductionSources of the Stories * What the Stories Show * What Sailors Can Do About ItAcknowledgmentsChapter 1 The Storms We All FearChichester Bar * WingNuts * Rally Boat to Bermuda * BrieflyChapter 2 Some Incidents Can't Be Prevented?Tangled in Rigging * Lost Keel * Keep Treading * The Tether Issue-An OpinionChapter 3 A Good Day's Sail Goes BadJust One Little Mistake * Too Much Freeboard * BrieflyChapter 4 Anchoring, Docking, DinghyingLong Voyage, Quiet Harbor * Late to the Slip * The Season's Last Sail * BrieflyChapter 5Run AgroundTidal Estuary * On the Rocks * The Reef of New South Wales * BrieflyChapter 6Engine or Equipment FailureThe Delivery Captain * "Take It Easy" * BrieflyChapter 7A Gust of WindThree Generations Sailing off Puffin Island * A Hobie on the Lake * BrieflyChapter 8No Way to Call for HelpVoices * Short Sail on the Sound * The Inverted Cat * BrieflyChapter 9A Thousand Ways to End Up in the Water To Save a Puppy * Gone Fishing * BrieflyChapter 10The Perils of Solo SailingA Sailboat Comes Ashore * The Fouled Halyard * BrieflyChapter 11Can Your Crew Save You?Saturday on Lake Arthur * Wednesday Evening Club Race * Four Miles off Hyannis * BrieflyChapter 12 What Could Go Wrong? Capsize in Puget Sound * Capsize in Lake Huron * Sinking in the Georgia Strait * Bahia Transat Disaster Interview with Gary Jobson, President of US Sailing