BOOK · 2013
Sailing a Serious Ocean
300,000 bluewater miles distilled - storm stories that double as the best heavy-weather course you can take from an armchair.
Part memoir, part offshore manual. Kretschmer has logged more than 300,000 bluewater miles and runs sold-out training passages aboard Quetzal, his Kaufman 47 - this book is what all those miles taught him, told through the storms that did the teaching.
Boat selection, heavy-weather tactics, voyage preparation - the practical chapters land because every one of them is anchored to a night that actually happened, in an ocean that did not care about the plan.
The subtitle promises storms, stories and lessons learned from 30 years at sea. It delivers all three, in that order. Narrated by Sean Runnette on Audible.