Bad Storms, Heavy Weather
Timothy Wyand
Here’s what you’ll discover in this book…
- The monster do’s and don’ts when you’re caught in a storm
- Four top tips to handling your boat in a rain squall
- What you need to know about the size of a wave
- Two spots you need to avoid when caught in a bad storm
- How to quickly determine bad weather by looking at the cloud formations
- The three worst types of waves for your boat and why they pose a problem
- Four beginner techniques to determine an approaching storm
- Two powerful strategies to apply in any storm after putting on your life jacket
- Two major reasons to avoid being near a lee shore
- The most important reason to know your boat’s characteristics
Highlights from
this Segment
– Which storm is most dangerous on a lake or river?
– What makes storm conditions on the ocean really bad?
– Why this storm is worse on the open ocean.
– The one key thing to help you from going aground in a storm.
About Timothy Wyand
Timothy Wyand spent 22 years in the U.S. Coast Guard as a boatswain and Chief Warrant Officer. He spent 12 years stationed in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the Alaska Bearing Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, the Persian Gulf, and South America.
