Flirting with Mermaids

The Unpredictable Life of a Sailboat Skipper

By: John Kretschmer

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Paperback | 1 March 2003

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224 Pages

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23.1 x 14.9 x 1.7

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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."

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ohn Kretschmer has an easygoing style that will ingratiate the reader from the very start of this book. It is a look at what a life at sea can mean to a person, and it is extremely well-written and easy to follow. Plenty of good insight into what can be expected when you are out there for days at a time. Consisting of anecdotes from his sailing career, this book is highly recommended for those who plan to go cruising.
— Latitudes & Attitudes

Wildly festooned with adventure, romance and outrageous characters.
— Miami Herald

Filled with a myriad of sea stories...all delivered with a wry and self-deprecating sense of humor.
— Sailing

I would highly recommend this book to anyone [with] a sense of adventure and romance.
— Good Old Boat

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