“Worse things happen at sea”, they say. And it’s a saying borne out by this second anthology of mishaps and disasters afloat, collected from the confessional pages of “Yachting Monthly magazine” For over 25 years, yachtsmen have clamoured to tell the world about their most embarrassing exploits and their most shameful blunders, so here is another crop of entertaining examples, so that the rest of us can learn from other people’s mistakes instead of our own (or at least have a good laugh at their expense!).

Edition: 2002