Flirting with Mermaids

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.<BR /><BR />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 Noriegaa tsunami an erupting volcano and Typhoon Roy then it was meant to be."