Flirting with Mermaids: The Unpredictable Life of a Sailboat Delivery Skipper
Lyons Press Maritime Classics
Seiten
2018
The Lyons Press (Verlag)
978-1-4930-3529-8 (ISBN)
The Lyons Press (Verlag)
978-1-4930-3529-8 (ISBN)
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.
He crosses the Western Caribbean with a crew of eccentric Swedes researching ancient Mayan mariners, lands in Aden at the outbreak of civil war, and endures a North Atlantic crossing during which he disocvers the existence of Force 13 winds. Approaching Japan at the end of a particularly trying delivery, he finds himself sailing in "a high impact debris zone," but his resolve is unshaken. "If a piece of rocketship jetsam fell out of the sky and sank [me] after encounters with Hurricane Floyd, General Noriega,a tsunami, an erupting volcano, and Typhoon Roy, then it was meant to be."
He crosses the Western Caribbean with a crew of eccentric Swedes researching ancient Mayan mariners, lands in Aden at the outbreak of civil war, and endures a North Atlantic crossing during which he disocvers the existence of Force 13 winds. Approaching Japan at the end of a particularly trying delivery, he finds himself sailing in "a high impact debris zone," but his resolve is unshaken. "If a piece of rocketship jetsam fell out of the sky and sank [me] after encounters with Hurricane Floyd, General Noriega,a tsunami, an erupting volcano, and Typhoon Roy, then it was meant to be."
John Kretschmer has been a sailboat delivery skipper for over 25 years and has made over 100 deliveries. He is the author of Cape Horn to Starboard and Used Boat Notebook and has had articles published in numerous boating and travel magazines. He is a contributing editor to 'Sailing' and currently lives in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, with his wife Lesa and their two daughters.
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1: A Shallow-Water Appointment
Chapter 2: A Show of Presence
Chapter 3: Famous
Chapter 4: Yacht Delivery 101
Chapter 5: A Waterfront Office
Chapter 6: Red Sky by Morn
Chapter 7: She Drives Me Crazy
Chapter 8: Just Another Crossing
Chapter 9: Force Unlucky
Chapter 10: A Home Delivery
| Erscheinungsdatum | 31.08.2018 |
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| Zusatzinfo | Illustrations; Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; Black & White Illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Guilford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 228 mm |
| Gewicht | 313 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Segeln / Tauchen / Wassersport | |
| Reisen ► Reiseberichte | |
| Reisen ► Sport- / Aktivreisen | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4930-3529-0 / 1493035290 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4930-3529-8 / 9781493035298 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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