Flirting with Mermaids: The Unpredictable Life of a Sailboat Delivery Skipper

Lyons Press Maritime Classics

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John Kretschmer

Verlag:

Rowman & Littlefield

Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: 26Z669E

EAN: 9781493035298

Erhältlich:

Nicht auf Lager

Zustellung: Do, 28.05.2026

Versand: Kostenlos

CHF 28.25

Beschreibung

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. "

Spezifikationen

Sprache

Englisch

Autor

John Kretschmer

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Format

Buch (Softcover)

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