On the Wind and a Prayer: How a fair-weather day-sailing couple from the Northeast managed to find their way to the Bahamas and back  enlarge Author: Paul Koestner Publisher: Xlibris Category: Book List Price: $19.98 Buy New: $17.14 as of 9/10/2010 02:45 CDT details You Save: $2.84 (14%) In Stock New (9) Used (4) Collectible (1) from $16.94 Seller: thermite-media Rating: 3 reviews Sales Rank: 1,156,518 Media: Paperback Pages: 232 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7 Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.7 ISBN: 1436310768 Dewey Decimal Number: 920 EAN: 9781436310765 ASIN: 1436310768 Publication Date: September 3, 2008 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Also Available In:   •  Hardcover - On the Wind and a Prayer Similar Items: The Motion of the Ocean: 1 Small Boat, 2 Average Lovers, and a Woman's Search for the Meaning of Wife All in the Same Boat : Living Aboard and Cruising Flirting With Mermaids: The Unpredictable Life of a Sailboat Delivery Skipper Sailing the Dream Seasoned by Salt: A Voyage in Search of the Caribbean Editorial Reviews: Product Description This is the story of a personal journey. It involves a loving couple, a half-baked plan, and a leaking boat. The author spent his formative years adolescing about in the freshwater wonderland that is his home state of Michigan. His second quarter century was spent plying his profession on that concrete island slab charmingly referred to by its denizens as the capital of the world, New York City. In 1994 Paul met Deb, who when not willfully commuting to the aforementioned rock outcropping, could be found tooling around in her "stinkpotter" on the Long Island Sound. What's a small-town, freshwater boy to do with a girl harboring big-city dreams? Add salt, sails, and stir vigorously. Customer Reviews: I WISH!   August 11, 2009 J. Morales (Miami, FL) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful This is a funny book! I don't sail but it is fun to live vicariously through their yearlong escape on a sailboat. I highly recommend this book! A BOOK FOR THE REST OF US   December 28, 2009 FAIRWINDS 1 out of 1 found this review helpful GET THIS BOOK, AND NO, I'M NOT THE AUTHOR. IT'S JUST A LOT OF FUN, AND YOU'LL LEARN A FEW PRACTICAL THINGS ALSO. BUT MAINLY, IT MAY JUST GIVE YOU THE COURAGE AND THE INSIGHTS INTO TRYING YOUR HAND AT LONGER DISTANCE ADVENTURES IN YOUR SAILBOAT, AND MAYBE EVEN A SAIL DOWN TO THE BAHAMAS. MAYBE I'LL SEE YOU SOMEWHERE ALONG INTRACOASTAL WATERWAY. HAVE FUN. Fun in Boats!   February 24, 2009 T. Coyne (Naperville, IL USA) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful Is it ok to write a love letter to a book? Probably not...too personal. The whole point of a book is to put itself out there, like a strumpet on sleezy street, making whoopee with as many readers as possible. So instead, in keeping with the nautical theme, this will be a 'luff' letter about "On the Wind and a Prayer" by Paul Koestner. Briefly, Koestner & wife Deborah took a year off from their regular lives to sail a 30 foot boat from Manhattan down the Eastern Seaboard's Intracoastal Waterway, and then out into blue ocean to the Bahamas. And back. And what a trip - even without storms, pirates or mutineers. Like any good travel story, it's strong in details ... the getting through, not the getting to. Each anchorage gets equal attention. The Beaufort twins NC and SC are parsed thoroughly. Who knew there was (is?) a locktender on the ICW collecting his vigorish in seashells? How many through-hulls are there, in fact, on your typical sailboat? If you know boats and cruising, OW&P will recall to you your own watery ways. If your affinity for watercraft is like mine - on the poop deck with one hand on the mop and one foot in the pail - you'll still get a chance to experience vicariously a trip of a lifetime. How many countless readers harbor such fantasy trips. Me, I've got planned a ride acoss the USA on a 30-year-old moped. That same vehicle is all in pieces in my basement and I'm going nowhere fast. But Paul and Deb - they actually did it - got their idea, got the boat, got it provisioned, and left the rest of us stuck-in-traffic, cube-farmers behind. How many of us can claim the same? Well, if you read this book you may well get up and go. Or not. But you'll be glad someone did and wrote about it. Time for full disclosure - I went to high school with Paul and several other denizens of this book - then lost track of them for decades - until this story dropped like an anchor into my reading pond. Who knew he had it in him? Not me! However, this review is no puff piece and I can prove it: skip chapters 1, 2 and 3 and you miss nothing, or at least not much. The appendices will NOT help you conduct a similar campaign across far waters. The rest of this book is pretty smooth sailing, with no evidence of the logorrhea or adverb reflux which can trip up new authors. The goodies are these: lively writing (in particular, fans of Tom Robbins' style will find some of that favoring mixed into the burgoo); a mysterious leak not solved until the last pages; lots of pictures; a general tone of nervyness - the good kind that makes one think: "Hey, I could do that!" Koestner does not take himself seriously - and his book is funny without ever begging for a big laugh. Get this book! Read it! Then haul anchor. Meanwhile, I'm going downstairs to snug up a few bolts on that Mobylette...

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