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Sailing a Serious Ocean
- Sailboats, Storms, Stories and Lessons Learned from 30 Years at Sea
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
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After sailing 300,000 miles and weathering dozens of storms in all the world's oceans, John Kretschmer has plenty of stories and advice to share. John's offshore training passages sell out a year in advance, and his entertaining presentations are popular at boat shows and yacht clubs all over the English-speaking world. John's talent for storytelling enchants his audience as it soaks up the lessons he learned during his often challenging voyages. Now you can take a seat next to John - at a lesser cost - and get the knowledge you need to fulfill your own dream of blue-water adventure.
In Sailing a Serious Ocean, John tells you what to expect when sailing the oceans and shows how to sail safely across them. His tales of storm encounters and other examples of extreme seamanship will help you prepare for your journey and give you confidence to handle any situation - even heavy weather. Through his personal stories, John will guide you through the whole process of choosing the right boat, outfitting with the right gear, planning your route, navigating the ocean, and understanding the nuances of life at sea.
Our oceans are beautiful yet unpredictable - water that is at one moment a natural mirror for the glowing sun can turn into a foamy, raging wall of fury. John knows our oceans, and he is one of the best teachers of taming and enjoying them. Before you set off across the big blue, turn to John for his inspirational stories and hard-learned advice and discover the serious sailor in you.
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- Edison young
- 2022-06-13
loved
This book was amazing it was fun to read and and very educational great job
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- Loupio
- 2019-04-04
great book and well narrated
I enjoyed this book a lot. there are a lot of valuable knowledge for wanna be blue water sailers. the narrator did a great job. please audible get us more awesome John Kretshmer books.
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- Anonymous User
- 2020-10-18
Scared To Life
After hearing this book, one would expect my review title to be “Scared To Death.” Certainly, one could walk away from this accounting of his travels and experiences and never want to step aboard anything that floats. It’s raw. It’s revealing. The book is unapologetic and so overly lucid and at times so candid in bits of personal prophecy, philosophy and prose that you feel you are there with John and his crew on every wind.
How can one listen to this audiobook by Kretschmer and not realize that no matter how short or long it takes each of us to arrive at our final port-of-call, (death being the inevitable permanent stop) there is a path to getting there that is only achieved by living.
John has revealed through his chronicles that life before dying is best “lived” through experiences that invigorate, stimulate and prevent us from attempting to protract our mortal fate and flaws through materialistic comforts that keep us safe yet unfulfilled in our commercialized and social-isolated throw away society.
Upon concluding this audiobook I am attempting to figure a way to circumnavigate from Halifax, Nova Scotia around our current circumstances of the 2020 covid-19 pandemic and join John Kretschmer and Quetzal and yes, be “Scared To Life.”
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- Mo Levesque
- 2022-10-04
A beautiful book, this one is going in my favorite
This beautiful book was a joy to listened to.
Learned a lot of good informations about sailing.
the Author has a charming was to inform and entertain. Was a little sad to get to the end as, felt a kinship with the author. The narrator is smooth clear, with a soothing voice. I recommend this book tol any that like adventure books and this one is all true. I recommend this book to any that want to get the feel of sailing.
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- Anonymous User
- 2021-07-30
wow 👏
Great read. inspiring I can't wait to go sailing again. this book me back to my over 25 years of life on the sea. how I long ro return my body and soul to that life
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- Cheryl Minkoff
- 2022-08-22
Invaluable knowledge shared with class
I look forward to reading and or listening many times. A definite requirement to have aboard any vessel. John is humble when his accomplishments and experiences are anything but.
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- Macanuck
- 2023-03-17
Mr. Kretschmer is my FAVOURITE sailing authority.
Knowledge, entertainment; outstanding listen. No better person to crew with than John the sailor man!
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- Masoud Baradaran Hakak
- 2023-04-19
Great Book
Enjoyed it so much!!
Perfectly narrated, great information, and wonderful stories to learn from.
I highly recommend this book
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- Jason
- 2023-08-13
Amazing!
I loved this book so much I bought a physical copy for a skipper i crewed for.
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- Lucy Neatby
- 2020-04-27
Dream material
An interesting collection of yarns about long distance yachting. Occasionally a little repetitive. A collection of advice and information on many aspects of boats and gear (slightly better suited to print format). Left me wanting to take a deep water voyage with the author!
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