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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... any uglier. Any hint of optimism is buried beneath too many layers of gray to even ignite a search engine. It is a terrible time and a terrible place to die. It still gives me the shivers to think about it today, 22 6 FLIRTING WITH ...
... engine in gear to maintain speed and keep the boat from rolling too much with the stiff beam-on sea. I prayed that the heading given in the guidebook was accurate. Reef running requires commitment. Once in the pass, there is no backing ...
... engine on our small Whaler dinghy had also quit working and we had to paddle. With the stiffbreeze behind us, we flew ashore. The guidebook describes Xcalak as a "sleepy village at the end of a long dirt road." That pretty well sums up ...
... engine. We were not going to slip away quietly in SIREN'S SONG. Someone had made damned sure of that. I was determined to keep my apprehensions about the boat to myself. This was Lesa's first delivery and I was foolishly hoping that ...
... engine," she demanded. I pulled and pulled on the starter cord. Outboard motors are just not my thing. I don't know what it is about outboards but an otherwise perfectly running machine will simply refuse to run once it senses my ...
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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 |
Flirting with Mermaids: The Unpredictable Life of a Sailboat Delivery Skipper John Kretschmer Prévia não disponível - 2018 |