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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... waves that John Kretschmer has ridden, where no one-but the mermaids-hears your whimpers, hears you cry. "There are few professions .. . none that requires you to extract this from yourself every minute of the day like yacht delivery ...
... waves later, I know that Dad's death hastened me along my watery way. It took a few years. I grazed in college, toying with the uncomfortable notion of preparing for a real job. I made a few feeble attempts to sustain my collegiate pole ...
... wave crashed over the stern, flooding the cockpit. We were sailing on a lovely broad reach and while the easterly tradewind was brisk, it certainly wasn't strong enough to spawn waves capable of pooping TALISMAN. What was going on? Were ...
... wave. I feared we might pull the 11⁄2-inch stainless steel shaft right out of the boat, which would not be a good turn of events, and hollered for Stephen to lower all sail. We tried to rotate the shaft by hand but it was completely ...
... waves. Dressed in a tank top, denim shorts and flip-flops, she seemed at ease in the tropics. But I surmised that if she wanted, she could also look elegant. "Where are you headed next?" I asked, with a cunning ulterior motive running ...
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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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