{"product_id":"flirting-with-mermaids-the-unpredictable-life-of-a-sailboat-delivery-skipper-lyons-press-maritime-classics-1493035290","title":"Flirting with Mermaids: The Unpredictable Life of a Sailboat Delivery Skipper: Lyons Press Maritime Classics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1493035290\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Kretschmer, John\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lyons Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52207796846880,"sku":"NEW1493035290","price":19.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/81uS5aVHxIL.jpg?v=1787126036","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/flirting-with-mermaids-the-unpredictable-life-of-a-sailboat-delivery-skipper-lyons-press-maritime-classics-1493035290","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}