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

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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• Sailing to the Edge of Time: The Promise, the Challenges, and the Freedom of Ocean Voyaging
• At the Mercy of the Sea: The True Story of Three Sailors in a Caribbean Hurricane
• Sailing a Serious Ocean (CREATIVE MATH SUPPLEMENT)
• Escape from the Ordinary
• The Long Way
• Becoming a Sailor: A Singlehand Sailing Adventure
• Journey to the Ragged Islands: Sailing Solo Through The Bahamas
• A World of My Own: The First Ever Non-stop Solo Round the World Voyage
• Sea Trials: Around the World with Duct Tape and Bailing Wire