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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... Sailors—United States—Biography. 6. Yachting. I. Title. G440.K927K74 1999 910.4'5—dc21 98-47633 CIP ISBN 978-1-4930-3529-8 (pbk: alk. paper) ISBN 978-1-4930-3530-4 (electronic) The paper used in this publication meets the minimum ...
... sailor extraordinaire, we know he would not have liked the regimen, the requirements, the business aspect of it. For, above all else, John Kretschmer represents one of the great free spirits of this world. When you read about his ...
... sailors weren't explorers anymore; that was the province of astronauts. Astronauts had to be good students. That didn't bode well for me. Then Francis Chichester came into my life. I'll never forget the day when Gypsy Moth Circles the ...
... sailor at heart; I cross oceans to pay my bills. The shoal waters of the Western Caribbean had begun to unnerve me. I'd come to dread the gradual slowing and dull thud of fiberglass hitting sand and, worse, the sudden stop and angry ...
... sailors-a legendary watering hole. We were both down on our luck. Christer, his lovely wife Annika and recently adopted Costa Rican son, were returning to Sweden after a two-year sailing sabbatical, and they were completely broke. They ...
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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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