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."
Autorentext
By John Kretschmer
Inhalt
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1: A Shallow-Water Appointment
Chapter 2: A Show of Presence
Chapter 3: Famous
Chapter 4: Yacht Delivery 101
Chapter 5: A Waterfront Office
Chapter 6: Red Sky by Morn
Chapter 7: She Drives Me Crazy
Chapter 8: Just Another Crossing
Chapter 9: Force Unlucky
Chapter 10: A Home Delivery