Flirting with MermaidsSheridan House, Inc., 2003 - 224 páginas In 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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... 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 rare times John Kretschmer ...
... 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 rare times John Kretschmer ...
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... 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 finding your way through life , about being a guru , of sorts , to those " trying to catch up ...
... 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 finding your way through life , about being a guru , of sorts , to those " trying to catch up ...
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... deliveries and sailing schemes and just write for a living . Soon the intoxication wears off . Writing is too damned much work and I begin to long for my real job . And then time works its magic and the inconveniences of the last ...
... deliveries and sailing schemes and just write for a living . Soon the intoxication wears off . Writing is too damned much work and I begin to long for my real job . And then time works its magic and the inconveniences of the last ...
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... delivered to far - flung quay sides fondly - like old girl friends . Of course , there have been a lot of good boats . There was the powerful Ocean 71 : running before a force too - much - blow in the North Sea , she never gave her crew ...
... delivered to far - flung quay sides fondly - like old girl friends . Of course , there have been a lot of good boats . There was the powerful Ocean 71 : running before a force too - much - blow in the North Sea , she never gave her crew ...
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... Delivering sailboats is probably the most over- rated , underpaid and , at times , exasperating job in the world . Yet , even after 15 years , more than 100 deliveries and nearly 200,000 miles , I still find it amazing that people pay ...
... Delivering sailboats is probably the most over- rated , underpaid and , at times , exasperating job in the world . Yet , even after 15 years , more than 100 deliveries and nearly 200,000 miles , I still find it amazing that people pay ...
Contenido
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 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Flirting with Mermaids: The Unpredictable Life of a Sailboat Delivery ... John Kretschmer Vista previa limitada - 2018 |
Flirting with Mermaids: The Unpredictable Life of a Sailboat Delivery Skipper John Kretschmer Vista previa limitada - 2003 |
Flirting with Mermaids: The Unpredictable Life of a Sailboat Delivery Skipper John Kretschmer Sin vista previa disponible - 2018 |
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