Flirting with MermaidsIn twenty years of delivering sailboats to far-flung quaysides, Kretschmer has had innumberable adventures, both humorous and terrifying. In this first paperback edition of the wildly successful Flirting with Mermaids, he recounts the most memorable of them, from a Western Caribbean research voyage with a crew of eccentric Swedes to a North Atlantic crossing during which he discovers the existence of Force 13 winds. |
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... miles , and more than 100 deliver- ies - he almost never turned back . We are surprised when he is forced to turn the unseaworthy ISOLETTA - as beguilingly beautiful that she was - back east , but not disappointed . It was one of the ...
... miles , and more than 100 deliver- ies - he almost never turned back . We are surprised when he is forced to turn the unseaworthy ISOLETTA - as beguilingly beautiful that she was - back east , but not disappointed . It was one of the ...
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... miles , mile for mile , under ridiculous jury - rigged arrangements as the only solutions . Deliveries are about dream making , taking that boat to the arms of its loving owners on the other side of oceans . And deliveries are about ...
... miles , mile for mile , under ridiculous jury - rigged arrangements as the only solutions . Deliveries are about dream making , taking that boat to the arms of its loving owners on the other side of oceans . And deliveries are about ...
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... miles and always intense . There is mys- tery and a bit of foreboding in taking command of somebody else's boat , and pure magic in giving it back , complete with a list of sug- gested repairs . Smug with the sense of accomplishment ...
... miles and always intense . There is mys- tery and a bit of foreboding in taking command of somebody else's boat , and pure magic in giving it back , complete with a list of sug- gested repairs . Smug with the sense of accomplishment ...
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... miles were traded as currency and sea stories had a par value , I'd be rubbing shoulders with Bill Gates . Fortunately , I have reached a nice place in the evolutionary scale of skippers ; I don't have to impress everybody I meet with ...
... miles were traded as currency and sea stories had a par value , I'd be rubbing shoulders with Bill Gates . Fortunately , I have reached a nice place in the evolutionary scale of skippers ; I don't have to impress everybody I meet with ...
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... miles of interstate highway disappeared beneath us . I accompanied my father on many trips , both for business and out of curiosity , his and mine . As the forests and the meadows of the Midwest rolled by , I pictured myself exploring ...
... miles of interstate highway disappeared beneath us . I accompanied my father on many trips , both for business and out of curiosity , his and mine . As the forests and the meadows of the Midwest rolled by , I pictured myself exploring ...
Contents
A ShallowWater Appointment | 11 |
A Show of Presence | 33 |
Famous | 51 |
Yacht Delivery 101 | 65 |
A Waterfront Office | 89 |
Red Sky by Morn | 108 |
She Drives Me Crazy | 132 |
Just Another Crossing | 153 |
Force Unlucky | 172 |
A Home Delivery | 195 |
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Flirting with Mermaids: The Unpredictable Life of a Sailboat Delivery ... John Kretschmer Limited preview - 2018 |
Flirting with Mermaids: The Unpredictable Life of a Sailboat Delivery Skipper John Kretschmer No preview available - 2018 |
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