Sunk Without Trace

30 dramatic accounts of yachts lost at sea

Paul Gelder

• Publisher: Adlard Coles
• Year: 2010
• eBook ISBN:
  9781408197950
• Print ISBN:
  9781408112007
• Edition: 1

By the same author as the bestselling Total Loss,
this is a new collection of terrifying and compelling accounts of
yachts lost at sea. The seven deadly causes of loss continue to take
their toll, and Paul Gelder has compiled first-hand accounts of
shipwreck and sinking caused by Collision, Gear Failure, Stress of
Weather, Faulty Navigation, Fire, Crew Failure and Exhaustion.


The moving, emotionally charged descriptions of shipwrecked sailors
abandoning their yachts at sea will have you on the edge of your seat.
But these accounts are more than just gripping tales of disaster - they
carry valuable lessons which the survivors have been able to pass on to
all who go to sea for pleasure.



Praise for Total Loss:



'The tales provide gripping if sometimes unsettling reading and many valuable lessons.' - Cruising World



'Sure, you can learn from your own mistakes, but wouldn't you rather learn from theirs?' - Sailing

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• 1 The End of the Affair
• 2 Bluewater Castaways
• 3 Storm Survivors
• 4 The Leak that wouldn’t stop
• 5 Sea Dark, Sky Crying
• 6 The Cat that Capsized
• 7 The Granite Graveyard
• 8 Pumping for their Lives
• 9 Plunged to her Doom
• 10 The Mast that Moved…
• 11 Slowly Sinking
• 12 The Boat that Broke up
• 13 Rescued in Pyjamas
• 14 Deadly Chain Reaction
• 15 When Fear Came in Waves
• 16 Mystery Collision, Miraculous Survival
• 17 Sunk by a Whale!
• 18 Fire Aboard
• 19 The Exploding Boat
• 20 Trimaran Flipped and Sunk
• 21 Sunk in the Pacific
• 22 Disaster in the Mouth of the Elbe
• 23 The Last Hours of Windstar
• 24 The Fatal Reef
• 25 Struck by a Ufo
• 26 The Loss of Sea Breeze
• 27 Odd Times at Sea
• 28 Surviving a Hurricane
• 29 The Sinking of Tern
• 30 Storm Force 10 in the Irish Sea
• Imprint