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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... realized that no matter what they did, I was going to skip confirmation classes. They decided I would have to take my chances in life without the blessing of the church. I was a mostly shy, indifferent student, but I had INTRODUCTION 3.
... going down to the lake shore to buy a sailboat. We knew very little about sailboats and settled on the Sabre, which turned out to be a pretty good boat, simply because it had a pedestal and a wheel. I remember my father saying, "I'll be ...
... going to die, and I knew it was all my fault. I had made my pact with the devil long ago and now God was striking back at me. There is nothing as cold and numbing as a featureless hospital corridor in the cancer ward, death's waiting ...
... going to be the man around the house. Tom is on his own and Ed will be away at school. I am going to count on you to take care of your mom and little sister." Then a stern-faced nurse led me out of the room. That was it. That was the ...
... going to sea was no longer just a child's dream; it was my mission and there was no time to lose. It may seem strange, or might be interpreted as stretching a metaphor, to claim that my father's death drove me out to sea. But from the ...
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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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