||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Should Be Required Reading|By Robert L. Bayliss, CI, PAC, CMT|Every sailor and want-to-be sailor should read this book and learn from it. Kretschmer really is a sailor who knows what he talks about. I totally enjoyed his writing even though the book leads ultimately to the death of Carl Wake, my very best friend from age 8 through high school. Ironically, Carl and I both chos|From Booklist|Kretschmer was a friend of Carl Wake, one of three sailors caught in Hurricane Lenny on November 14, 1999, in the Caribbean. The storm's winds reached 150 miles an hour. The sailors were from three
“The tale of Carl Wake and the hurricane that was waiting for him goes straight to the heart of the greatest sea stories: they are not about man against the sea, but man against himself. John Kretschmer’s book is as perfectly shaped and flawlessly written as such a story can be. In addition to being the best depiction I have ever read of what it is like to be inside a hurricane at sea, At the Mercy of the Sea is as moving a story of a man’s failure ...
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