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Confessions of A Reluctant Sailor: The Falkor Diaries: Sailing With Kids From Poland to the Caribbean (Books Boats & Babes Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Sherrie McCarthy (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.3 out of 5 stars 20 ratings

Who doesn't want to quit the rat race and pack it all in to see the world?


And it is not as if Sherrie and Patrick were strangers to travel. They met on Patrick's first round the world trip by motorcycle. Sherrie fell hard for the open road and the freedom of two wheels and a tent.

How much harder could living on a sailboat be?

Or at least that was Patrick's opinion. Sherrie is a Newfoundlander. She thought it prudent to bring up the Titanic whenever Patrick mentioned his dream of sailing around the world.

And then they had babies.

Which meant that dream of sticking them in a sidecar was no longer so realistic. Because putting imaginary babies in your sidecar is very different from putting breathing ones in. The desire to keep up a semi nomadic lifestyle beckoned, but could Sherrie get over her fear of living on the ocean?

And just as she agrees to commit to a life afloat, heartbreak and betrayal threaten to end the trip before it even begins.

Confessions of A Reluctant Sailor tells of how one family on the verge of breaking up and a woman brought to her knees with grief, went forward with fulfilling a dream and knitting themselves back together, all the while learning the very real difference between fear and danger.

If you have ever dreamed of packing up and escaping the rat race, or wondered how to move forward during a time of heartbreak and loss, get your copy today.

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This book is not about what we saw and did during our sailing trip but rather the emotional and healing journey that the past two years sailing on our boat Falkor has been.

As I wrote this book I was on a sailboat in the Caribbean with plans to continue through the south Pacific next year.

It would be very easy to show a sanitized beach perfect social media version of my life.

But I want to show up in my truth and to encourage others to do the same. To be witnesses and hold space for pain without being walking wounds without end. Since childhood I have believed that the world would be cured of most of its problems if people were taught self-esteem and how to think for themselves instead of blind adherence to what other people thought of them.

What kind of world would we have if we all stepped outside of our cages and embraced life for ourselves rather than what kind of image we reflected for other people?

That is what this book is about.


So many people live in golden cages of other people's making, doing things they do not love and spending money they do not have in an attempt to get this elusive approval from people they may not even like.


I began to see how we sanitize our lives and try to deprive ourselves of anything painful for fear of looking stupid, out of place, or just plain daring to ask for more. It keeps us safe and in a dull, gnawing seemingly endless pain. But we have been taught it is better that than risk the intense flare of pain that comes with making mistakes. With being vulnerable. With actually living our lives.

Sailing forces you to confront who you are on a daily basis. And it helps you decide how you want to move forward.

This book is about that. How I went from a very reluctant sailor (as in terrified) to embracing it as a lifestyle rather than a 2 - 3 year plan. It is also about rebuilding a partnership and the definition of myself after becoming a mother and losing my youngest brother.

If you are looking for a book that is more about the emotional aspects of sailing than what to see and when to go, I think you might enjoy this book and I hope you try it out.

About the Author

Sherrie is a writer, mama and reluctant sailor who traded in her motorcycle adventures for a mommy adventure. Having babies may have filled her with more love than she thought possible, but it did not quell her gypsy ways. Sensing this, Patrick, her partner in life, parenthood, and vagabonding ways worked at this crack to change her fear of the ocean into the desire to move onto a sailboat and sail away.  Which she finally agreed to.

The boat is Falkor, named after the most awesome Luck Dragon from the Neverending Story. Patrick's first bike was named Emma, after the locomotive from Micheal Ende's Jim Knopf series. Deciding to keep the theme, we chose the one creature that we wanted to take us around the world and named our boat after him.
Falkor is 9.5 meters long (just 31 feet!) but the builder maximized all the space within. Cutting the front berth in half (leaving it the perfect size for sleeping little monkeys) meant that he still managed to get in a small salon. And cutting the cockpit in half meant he was able to make a bedroom in the back.  So we have just enough space. Although abundant space is not something any sailor we know complains about!

The captain is Patrick, the true mastermind behind the idea of sailing the world. As he is German, it is also why we tell everyone we want to do the Barefoot Route and most people look at us like we are crazy. Unless they too are German, and then they get what we mean. Apparently, everyone else calls it the Coconut Milk Run.

The babes are our little monkeys, The Em to the J and Mr. Man. They were 4 and 2 at the beginning of our journey. Mr. Man loves boats and Falkor is the only home he remembers. The Em to the J, however, told us she likes to visit Falkor but she doesn't want to leave her best friends at Kita. (German daycare.) We're hoping she is happy enough as a pirate princess that sends postcards to her friends telling of her adventures. So long as we have other kids around she is.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07N62MLSB
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 26, 2019
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 4.3 MB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 114 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.3 out of 5 stars 20 ratings

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Sherrie McCarthy

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Sherrie is a writer, mama, and reluctant sailor who traded in motorcycle adventures for mommy adventures on the open seas. Sherrie believes passionately in the ability of creativity and going deeper to heal. Her book Confessions of a Reluctant Sailor tells about her first two years afloat on her boat as she knit herself back together after tragedy.

Sherrie is also the creator of the Cageology system, which came from the realization that most people live lives they tolerate rather than those they dream of. Cageology helps women create a roadmap for a creative and vibrant life on their terms, a system that brings them back into soul alignment.

She co-hosts the Creative Spirits podcast, and she has been a guest on the podcasts Writer On The Road and Those Diner and Motorcycle Guys. Her writing has been featured in Badassery Magazine as well as the Newfoundland and Labrador’s online magazine The Independent.

Currently afloat in the Caribbean, she lives with her family on her boat Falkor.

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  • Kindle Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Pure emotion
    Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2020
    This is adventure told through a stream of consciousness. It titillates an urge to drop everything and experience the world as a means to self awareness and betterment.
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    4.0 out of 5 stars Full of inspiration!
    Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2019
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    Full of eye opening wisdoms! It is not much about actually sailing, but rather about putting a dream into reality, daring to take this step. Narrated with a confident tone it feels intimate and almost like in a personal conversation with the author. You do not have to be sailing or a sailor to take part of the wisdoms this book offers.
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  • Cmac
    1.0 out of 5 stars Narcissistic woman writing about nothing to do with sailing
    Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2022
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    I never write reviews but I’m so disgusted that I spent money on this low quality book with the worst grammar I have ever seen. Clearly self published. I read this entire tiny book in an hour, and I’m still mad at the wasted hour. I’m a mother, about to buy a boat, and exploring the idea of long sailing trips with my family. Going off the cover, this seemed like the perfect book. Nope. This entire book is a rant about having to be a stay at home mom, giving up a career as a writer (so how come the ridiculously terrible grammar?), her husband working too much for 4 years, and having to take a sailing trip around the world to save her marriage. Poor her. It literally says nothing about the actual sailing and traveling. At one point, she copies and pastes a Medium article she wrote into the book, which of course had nothing to do with sailing. The book ends abruptly with a series of advertisements for what I think are other things she has written but even that was unclear. She blathers on for much of the book in a vague, pseudo-inspirational way that I’m not sure what the purpose was. Are we supposed to cherish these words of wisdom from a woman who seems to pride herself on being a hot mess? She even quotes a phrase she heard a guy say on a sailing video about not being afraid as if it’s a big life changing revelation in bold print. So strange. I beg of you not to waste your time or money.
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  • Sharon Emery
    1.0 out of 5 stars Truly terrible book
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 28, 2020
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    I read anything, even crisp packets, but I draw the line at this. Poor grammar, poor spelling, not been proof read. Content was appalling. Less inspirational rather more self indulgent tripe. Save your pennies and buy a packet of crisps instead, much better reading and tasty too.
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