Flirting with Mermaids

Name: Flirting with Mermaids
Brand: Tantor Media, Inc
Price: 34.99 AUD
Availability: PreOrder

The Unpredictable Life of a Sailboat Delivery Skipper

Author: John Kretschmer

Narrated by: Mitch Crawford

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Format
Digital Audiobook

Duration
08:00.00

Available: 7th October 2025

Digital Audiobook

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Available: 7th October 2025

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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 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."