Flirting with Mermaids: The Unpredictable Life of a Sailboat Delivery Skipper
10 best books like Flirting with Mermaids: The Unpredictable Life of a Sailboat Delivery Skipper (John Kretschmer): The Long Way, A Voyage for Madmen, The Proving Ground: The Inside Story of the 1998 Sydney to Hobart Race, Wanderer, The Water in Between: A Journey at Sea, To Timbuktu: A Journey Down the Niger, The Motion of the Ocean: 1 Small Boat, 2 Average Lovers, and a Woman's Search for the Meaning of Wife, Slow Boats to China, The Darkest Jungle: The True Story of the Darien Expedition and America's Ill-Fated Race to Connect the Seas, Six Months in the Sandwich Islands: Among Hawaii's Palm Groves, Coral Reefs and Volcanoes
| Author | Bernard Moitessier |
| ISBN | 0924486848 |
The Long Way is Bernard Moitessier's own incredible story of his participation in the first Golden Globe Race, a solo, non-stop circumnavigation rounding the three great Capes of Good Hope, Leeuwin, and the Horn. For seven months, the veteran seafarer battled storms, doldrums, gear-failures, knock-downs,...
| Author | Peter Nichols |
| ISBN | 0060957034 |
In 1968, nine sailors set off on the most daring race ever held: to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe nonstop. It was a feat that had never been accomplished and one that would forever change the face of sailing. Ten months later, only one of the nine men would cross the finish line and earn fame,...
The Proving Ground: The Inside Story of the 1998 Sydney to Hobart Race
| Author | G. Bruce Knecht |
| ISBN | 0316499552 |
On December 26, 1998, 115 sailboats set out on the annual race from Sydney to Hobart; only 43 would make it to the Tasmanian city, the race having turned into the worst modern sailing disaster since the 1979 Fastnet Race. Combining the best elements of The Perfect Storm (W.W. Norton, 1997) and Barbarians...
| Author | Sterling Hayden |
| ISBN | 1574090488 |
Since its publication in 1963, Sterling Hayden's autobiography, Wanderer, has been surrounded by controversy. The author was at the peak of his earning power as a movie star when he suddenly quit. He walked out on Hollywood, walked out of a shattered marriage, defied the courts, broke as an outlaw,...
The Water in Between: A Journey at Sea
| Author | Kevin Patterson |
| ISBN | 0385498845 |
Wise, funny and beautifully written, The Water in Between is an inspiring-and cautionary-tale for anyone who has ever wanted to escape into another life.
A stint in the army and a broken heart lead Kevin Patterson, who has never sailed before, to buy a 37-foot sailboat. He recruits a more experienced...
| Author | Mark Jenkins |
| ISBN | 0688115853 |
Twenty years ago, when the author and his best friend, Mike Moe, were eighteen years old, they lit out from Wyoming to explore the world. They washed up in Africa and without forethought or planning set off for the most remote place on earth they could imagine: Timbuktu. Stopped by disease and the desert,...
| Author | Janna Cawrse Esarey |
| ISBN | 1416589082 |
The humorous true story of a woman who abandons her tidy life to honeymoon across the Pacific on a leaky, old boat—only to find that sailing 17,000 miles is easier than keeping her relationship off the rocks.
“Somewhere fifty miles off the coast of Oregon I realize the skipper of this very...
| Author | Gavin Young |
| ISBN | 0525481060 |
It was a simple idea, the kind all of us have had at one time or another. Take a series of ships of different sizes and kinds, go where they lead and see what happens. Inspired by great sea writers like Jack London, Herman Melville and Joseph Conrad, Gavin Young decided he would port-hop to some far destination...
| Author | Todd Balf |
| ISBN | 0609609890 |
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blurb - The Darkest Jungle tells the harrowing story of America's first ship canal exploration across a narrow piece of land in Central America called the Darien, a place...
| Author | Isabella Lucy Bird |
| ISBN | 1566470501 |
Isabella, Isabella, who would have thought? You beat us hands down - in your long skirts and in your early 40's - what an intrepid traveler you were! So enthusiastic, especially about volcanoes (letting the soles of your shoes melt like that, really! and your early morning worship at the altar of lava...
A World of My Own: The first ever non-stop solo round the world voyage
| Author | Robin Knox-Johnston |
| ISBN | 0713668997 |
On Friday 14 June 1968 Suhaili, a tiny ketch, slipped almost
unnoticed out of Falmouth harbour steered by the solitary figure at her
helm, Robin Knox-Johnston. Ten and a half months later Suhaili,
paintwork peeling and rust streaked, her once white sails weathered and
brown, her...
Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas
| Author | Abby Sunderland |
| ISBN | 1400203082 |
Abby Sutherland grew up sailing. Her father, Laurence, a shipwright, and her mother, Marianne, wanted their kids to develop responsibility, to see other cultures, to experience the world instead of watching it on TV. So they took them sailing down the coast of Mexico... for three years.
When Abby...
True Spirit: The Aussie Girl Who Took On The World
| Author | Jessica Watson |
| ISBN | 0733624979 |
True Spirit: The Aussie Girl Who Took on the World by Jessica Watson
Reviewed by: Kimberly Reikow
Have you ever dreamed of going on an adventure to a far off land all by yourself? What if that adventure took you throughout the major oceans in the world? From October of 2009 to May of 2010, 16 year...
| Author | Ellen MacArthur |
| ISBN | 0141006978 |
When Ellen finished the Vendee Globe, yachting's toughest race aged just 24 the nation took her to it's heart. The depth of the affection for Ellen is extraordinary - she makes people feel like they can do anything!
This is her story, written intrue Ellen style, in her own words, without the help...
| Author | Pete Goss |
| ISBN | 0786707410 |
On November 3, 1996, former Royal Marine Pete Goss embarked on the most grueling competition in his sailing career: the Vendée Globe, a nonstop, single-handed round-the-world yacht race. For the next seven weeks he met every challenge in his stormy path, from combating waves the height of six-story...
Left for Dead: The Untold Story of the Greatest Disaster in Modern Sailing History
| Author | Nick Ward |
| ISBN | 1596914556 |
In August of 1979, Nick Ward began the 600-mile course of the UK's Fastnet Race with perfect weather. Within 48 hours, the deadliest storm in the history of modern sailing had blasted through the Irish Sea. By the time it had passed, it had thrown one of the world's most prestigious races into bedlam and...
Across Islands and Oceans
Across Islands and Oceans is the memoir of twenty-five year-old James Baldwin and his epic two-year, solo circumnavigation in Atom, his trusty but aging twenty-eight foot sailboat.
Early on and "as broke as [he] dared to be," James determined not only to sail around the world, but also to hike...
Breaking Seas: An overweight, middle-aged computer nerd buys his first boat, quits his job, and sails off to adventure
Do you have a dream to pursue but everyone says it’s unrealistic? Or that you’re not qualified? Too old, too out of shape? Or you don’t have the “right experience?” Glenn Damato was a forty-one year old software instructor who walked away from his humdrum existence on a mission for which he...
Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual: How to Maintain, Repair and Improve Your Boat's Essential Systems
| Author | Nigel Calder |
| ISBN | 0071432388 |
Do yourself a favor: if you own a boat, you should also own the Boatowner's Mechanical & Electrical Manual. Written in a simple, accessible style, the Manual is aimed at helping the nonexpert solve problems in marine systems--think of it as a friendly mechanic.
Author Nigel Calder explains...
The amazing autobiographical account of the youngest ever solo circumnavigation of the Earth. Aged just 14, New Zealand-born Laura Dekker defied the authorities and braved the open oceans to realise her dream of becoming the youngest ever sailor to circumnavigate the Earth. When she finished the...
The Annapolis Book of Seamanship
| Author | John Rousmaniere |
| ISBN | 0684854201 |
Since the publication of the widely hailed first edition in 1983, The Annapolis Book of Seamanship has set the standard by which other books on sailing are measured. Used throughout America as a textbook in sailing schools and Power Squadrons, The Annapolis Book of Seamanship thoroughly and clearly...
As Long as It's Fun: The Epic Voyages and Extraordinary Times of Lin and Larry Pardey
| Author | Herb McCormick |
| ISBN | 1929214987 |
To anyone interested in small-boat cruising and voyaging, the names "Lin and Larry Pardey" need no introduction. As world-girdling sailors who roamed the planet on a pair of small, engineless boats that they built themselves, the Pardeys established their hard-earned reputations by eloquently...
Two Wheels Through Terror: Diary of a South American Motorcycle Odyssey
| Author | Glen Heggstad |
| ISBN | 1884313493 |
Glen Heggstad is an adventure motorcyclist who seeks out and rides the most rugged places on the planet. He has been a Hell's Angel and a martial arts competitor, but no amount of training or experience was able to prepare him for what he became while riding to the southern tip of South America: a prisoner....
| Author | John Caldwell |
| ISBN | 0924486201 |
In May 1946 John Caldwell set out to sail from Panama to Sydney to reunite with his wife who he hadn't seen for more than a year. Eager to reach his destination and unable to secure any other form of transport, he had to resort to singlehanded seamanship. After an ignominious scene in the harbor, where a tangled...
