Bøger af Jerry

In many ways this is a very unlikely story. Even now after being involved for over 28 years, I still find it hard to believe it was actually done. The main idea was done plus a host of other adventures. That is not to say there weren't any problems, but one way or another we got over them and continued on. A lot can happen in 28 years. This sailing dream came out of thin air, and it required spending money and time I really didn't think I had. And, of course, how would I convince my wife of 19 years to believe I could do this? I didn't even try do that. This project I knew had to include three main points. The first point required building a steel boat from scratch and then sailing it to Norway, the birthplace of my roots. The second point was to use this boat to visit other countries before and after my visit to Norway. I was not going to do this as some kind of stunt but as a means to travel about. Thirdly, I didn't want any sponsors as they would have an agenda, and I had mine. I wanted to go where I wanted and stop when I felt like stopping. When I finally got into building and reading about boat voyaging, my heroes became Joshua Slocum, Harry Pigeon, Dwight Long, Eric & Susan Hiscocks and H.W. Tilman. They all did extensive traveling on small boats, and their adventures were so interesting to me as they took the time to stop and get to know people on their travels. Before I got started, I owned only a 15-foot canoe and knew nothing of sailing or navigation, but I did have a love for the water and adventure.

Indian Summer A Sailing Adventure in Photos (blue cover) This second book of ours is a 60 page book with over 90 pictures and a condensed text of the past 28 years of boat building and ocean voyaging to Norway and other countries in northern Europe. It puts a face on the people and events we visited and wrote about in our earlier book. It's format is different from our written one. It's larger size allows us to include our pictures and use captions to explain. It is meant to be either a stand alone or a companion book to our written one. A complete written account (1986-2013) is available in the book Indian Summer A Sailing Adventure. (brown cover)

This voyage would be different from the last two in 2012 and 2013. We would be moving the boat to a different area and not returning to our "home port" in Maine. Actually our real home port is New Orleans but we haven't been back there since we sailed away in the year 2000 for Norway. Now starts a new pipe dream, sailing to the Bahamas. It will include a trip down the Eastern Seaboard, stopping at a few selected ports, until we reach Florida where we will cross over to the islands. Since I have never been there, it will be a new experience for me. I'm in no hurry to get there, so this adventure will take a few months done over a period of two years. First I plan to put together a crew to sail partway down the East Coast where I will park the boat. The next year we will finish going down the coast and cross the Gulf Stream to the Bahamas at West End where we check into customs. Once we clear customs, then on to the Berry Islands and over to Nassau. After that, we will go south to the Exumas.

Is there such a thing as the perfect dad? Oscar seems to think so. He tries his hardest to take care of all of his responsibilities, yet also spend time with his twins and his wife. But there just doesn't seem to be enough time in the day to get everything done!Sometimes we are so busy with life that we forget what's really important. Read The Perfect DAD Sings the Birthday Song! as a reminder that material items are not nearly as important as the quality time you can spend with your loved ones.About the AuthorJerry sings in his church choir bass section (Saint Mark UMC). He is a 4 year's active duty Marines 11 years Army reserves. Jerry has an associate's degree and he is a thirty-year employee at Boeing.

Papa, a baby boomer, leaves a fun book of creative short stories for his descendants on life during the second half of the twentieth century. Each trip back in time is a stand-alone memoir based in truth, laced with imagination, and ends in some reflection and perspective. This grandfather takes the reader on a journey from growing up in a vibrant, ethnic neighborhood in Cleveland's inner city, through an extraordinary adolescence, to raising his own family in the suburbs.Excerpts:... Italians have this extraordinary reaction to drama and tragedy. They get angry before they can show compassion. I'm sure it has everything to do with the initial adrenaline rush, but I learned to wait it out since it never lasted long. I knew doting would soon follow. It always did, and it's no wonder that I now exhibit this same trait as an adult. ... We had a saying in my old Italian neighborhood. "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, I'll kick your ass."... This was no church club of boys I was joining. It was a gang of boys who just happened to be in a church club. And I wanted in! ... I stopped behind my cousin with my heart pounding in my chest, and rightfully so. Getting my ass kicked was not on this evening's agenda. I remained silent as the situation deteriorated in front of me.... Ordinarily, I cringe whenever I hear my non-Italian friends are serving me their homemade pasta - only because my family has been cooking sauce every Sunday since the invention of the tomato.... He stood there motionless for a moment as if he were making an important decision. "Here, take this," he said, and then shoved something into my hand. I looked down at what I was holding. It was a blue steel handgun.

Alcatraz: The Charles Manson Connection is a unique historical research study combining the worlds most famous prison with one of its most infamous criminals. The work explores the extensive history of Alcatraz Island beginning with the islands discovery in 1775. The book provides a synopsis of history with emphasis on the period when Alcatraz Island was a United States Federal Penitentiary from January 1, 1934 through March 21, 1963. Incorporated within the writings is a biography of Charles Manson specific to his intriguing, uncanny, and unexpected association with Alcatraz Island. Alcatraz: The Charles Manson Connection is a dynamic presentation of Alcatraz Island and Charles Manson as never revealed before.

Through it all, two factors emerge: One--Paul questions the repetition he experiences, labeling it boring travelogue. Two--mysterious individuals constantly follow him, especially an eye-patched Mr. Nemesis. And even the years-old Titanic dry dock in Belfast looms large during the breathtaking closing chapters.Filled with authentic information about religion, crime, and Napoleon Bonaparte, in addition to details about current scientific findings, Discovery is a book for both entertainment and learning.