Flirting with Mermaids: The Unpredictable Life of a Sailboat Delivery Skipper: Lyons Press Maritime ClassicsRowman & Littlefield, 1 de out. de 2018 - 224 páginas 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. |
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... Stephen, the expedition cook, were barely on speaking terms. "He's driving me nuts," Christer complained, using his best American slang. "He's the cook but he wants to eat out every night. We've been here a week and he still hasn't ...
... Stephen of his watch, only to find that TALISMAN was headed back toward Panama. The autopilot had taken the night off, the boat had quietly gybed and Stephen, who was absorbed scribbling in his journal, hadn't noticed. I didn't scream ...
... Stephen to lower all sail. We tried to rotate the shaft by hand but it was completely wrapped and impossible to move. There was only one thing to do. I donned mask and fins and, armed with a sharp knife, plunged over the side. There is ...
... Stephen did. We had picked up another crew member at Livingston, my friend Tim Budziak, a dentist craving adventure. While Christer, Tim and I would painstakingly comb a pebbly beach, Stephen would stroll around and announce, "This is ...
... Stephen, hold on." Although our timing was perfect, an hour before high tide, I held out little hope that we would make it through the quarter-mile gap between two scrubby mangrove cays. Stephen, completing a sketch in his journal ...
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CHAPTER 3 Famous | 51 |
CHAPTER 4 Yacht Delivery 101 | 65 |
CHAPTER 5 A Waterfront Office | 89 |
CHAPTER 6 Red Sky by Morn | 108 |
CHAPTER 7 She Drives Me Crazy | 132 |
CHAPTER 8 Just Another Crossing | 153 |
CHAPTER 9 Force Unlucky | 172 |
CHAPTER 10 A Home Delivery | 195 |
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Flirting with Mermaids: The Unpredictable Life of a Sailboat Delivery Skipper John Kretschmer Visualização parcial - 2003 |
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