| Title | : | Flirting with Mermaids: The Unpredictable Life of a Sailboat Delivery Skipper |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | John Kretschmer |
| Release | : | 2018-10-01 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Water Sports, Books, Sports & Outdoors, Biographies & Memoirs, Travel & Adventure, Specialty Travel |
| Size | : | 21536514 |
| 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 discovers 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." |
