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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... crew problems, all while the weather gods are beating him to a pulp, there is always that slightly smart-aleck, sanguine person telling us in self-mocking tones how he managed to stay the course. While John has spent 15 years sailing ...
... crews who sign aboard his deliveries. It's impossible to know what the sea will throw at you, but it's wonderful to live in its world, pulling from it a life that has no parallel. It is one where in the end, when you are alone out there ...
... crew farewell and saunter off into the sunset, or at least to the nearest bar. My commitment may be three days, a week or several months; it is measured in nautical miles and always intense. There is mystery and a bit of foreboding in ...
... crew an anxious moment. And there was the sleek Swan 41 that blasted around Cape Hatteras in a November snorter and the graceful Hylas 44 that meandered in and out of the eye of Hurricane Bob. Even the bad boats eventually find a soft ...
... 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 interesting," as he effortlessly ...
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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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