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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... never been sailing . But gradually , sailboats came into my life . First a Sunfish , which we sailed on a northern Michigan lake that was so cold you only capsized once , and then a few years later 4 FLIRTING WITH MERMAIDS.
... never been sailing . But gradually , sailboats came into my life . First a Sunfish , which we sailed on a northern Michigan lake that was so cold you only capsized once , and then a few years later 4 FLIRTING WITH MERMAIDS.
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John Kretschmer. only capsized once , and then a few years later , a Sabre 28 sloop . My father had stunned us one Saturday morning by announcing that we were going down to the lake shore to buy a sailboat . We knew very little about ...
John Kretschmer. only capsized once , and then a few years later , a Sabre 28 sloop . My father had stunned us one Saturday morning by announcing that we were going down to the lake shore to buy a sailboat . We knew very little about ...
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John Kretschmer. gives me the shivers to think about it today , 22 years later . Death has its own schedule and Dad had the next appointment . One by one , we children were led into his room . By the time it was my turn , the visits were ...
John Kretschmer. gives me the shivers to think about it today , 22 years later . Death has its own schedule and Dad had the next appointment . One by one , we children were led into his room . By the time it was my turn , the visits were ...
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... later , I understood everything with a clarity I had never experienced before . With my father's death , I realized that a part of me had died , too . The shy , indifferent part and the quiet and timid parts were gone . His passing had ...
... later , I understood everything with a clarity I had never experienced before . With my father's death , I realized that a part of me had died , too . The shy , indifferent part and the quiet and timid parts were gone . His passing had ...
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Índice
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 |
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