Flirting with mermaids : the unpredictable life of a sailboat delivery skipper
John Kretschmer (Author)
"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."--Amazon.com
Print Book, English, 2018
Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot, Guilford, Connecticut, 2018
Autobiography
204 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
9781493035298, 1493035290
1015823632
ForewordIntroductionChapter 1: A Shallow-Water AppointmentChapter 2: A Show of PresenceChapter 3: FamousChapter 4: Yacht Delivery 101Chapter 5: A Waterfront OfficeChapter 6: Red Sky by MornChapter 7: She Drives Me CrazyChapter 8: Just Another CrossingChapter 9: Force UnluckyChapter 10: A Home Delivery