Flirting with Mermaids: The Unpredictable Life of a Sailboat Delivery Skipper

Flirting with Mermaids: The Unpredictable Life of a Sailboat Delivery Skipper
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 221
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ISBN-10 : 9781493035304
ISBN-13 : 1493035304
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Download or read book Flirting with Mermaids: The Unpredictable Life of a Sailboat Delivery Skipper written by John Kretschmer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of twenty years of delivering sailboats to far-flung quaysides, John Kretschmer has had innumerable adventures, both humorous and terrifying. In Flirting with Mermaids, he recounts the most memorable of them. He crosses the Western Caribbean with a crew of eccentric Swedes researching ancient Mayan mariners, lands in Aden at the outbreak of civil war, and endures a North Atlantic crossing during which he discovers the existence of Force 13 winds. Approaching Japan at the end of a particularly trying delivery, he finds himself sailing in "a high impact debris zone," but his resolve is unshaken. "If a piece of rocketship jetsam fell out of the sky and sank [me] after encounters with Hurricane Floyd, General Noriega, a tsunami, an erupting volcano, and Typhoon Roy, then it was meant to be."


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