Flirting with MermaidsIn twenty years of delivering sailboats to far-flung quaysides, Kretschmer has had innumberable adventures, both humorous and terrifying. In this first paperback edition of the wildly successful Flirting with Mermaids, he recounts the most memorable of them, from a Western Caribbean research voyage with a crew of eccentric Swedes to a North Atlantic crossing during which he discovers the existence of Force 13 winds. |
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... course . While John has spent 15 years sailing boats around the oceans of the world - some 200,000 miles , and more than 100 deliver- ies - he almost never turned back . We are surprised when he is forced to turn the unseaworthy ...
... course . While John has spent 15 years sailing boats around the oceans of the world - some 200,000 miles , and more than 100 deliver- ies - he almost never turned back . We are surprised when he is forced to turn the unseaworthy ...
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... course , there have been a lot of good boats . There was the powerful Ocean 71 : running before a force too - much - blow in the North Sea , she never gave her crew an anxious moment . And there was the sleek Swan 41 that blasted around ...
... course , there have been a lot of good boats . There was the powerful Ocean 71 : running before a force too - much - blow in the North Sea , she never gave her crew an anxious moment . And there was the sleek Swan 41 that blasted around ...
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... course , a wayward course that invariably runs counter to conventional wisdom . Yet , I have managed to eke out a living doing the things that I love . One of my great accomplishments is that , to this day , I have never held a real job ...
... course , a wayward course that invariably runs counter to conventional wisdom . Yet , I have managed to eke out a living doing the things that I love . One of my great accomplishments is that , to this day , I have never held a real job ...
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... course , the indomitable Ferdinand Magellan . I completely overlooked the inconvenient fact that my alter egos sailed with one hand on the tiller and the other on the cross . I as- sumed they had to go along with the religious mumbo ...
... course , the indomitable Ferdinand Magellan . I completely overlooked the inconvenient fact that my alter egos sailed with one hand on the tiller and the other on the cross . I as- sumed they had to go along with the religious mumbo ...
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... course , is the only way to truly know someone . But the two of us often piled into the family car and drove for hours on end . Few words were spoken . There was a soft , " What do you say , John Rob ? " a smile , a nod , an ...
... course , is the only way to truly know someone . But the two of us often piled into the family car and drove for hours on end . Few words were spoken . There was a soft , " What do you say , John Rob ? " a smile , a nod , an ...
Contents
A ShallowWater Appointment | 11 |
A Show of Presence | 33 |
Famous | 51 |
Yacht Delivery 101 | 65 |
A Waterfront Office | 89 |
Red Sky by Morn | 108 |
She Drives Me Crazy | 132 |
Just Another Crossing | 153 |
Force Unlucky | 172 |
A Home Delivery | 195 |
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Flirting with Mermaids: The Unpredictable Life of a Sailboat Delivery ... John Kretschmer Limited preview - 2018 |
Flirting with Mermaids: The Unpredictable Life of a Sailboat Delivery Skipper John Kretschmer No preview available - 2018 |
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