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Sailing a Serious Ocean: Sailboats, Storms, Stories and Lessons Learned from 30 Years at Sea by John Kretschmer

Sailing a Serious Ocean: Sailboats, Storms, Stories and Lessons Learned from 30 Years at Sea: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Sailing a Serious Ocean: Sailboats, Storms, Stories and Lessons Learned from 30 Years at Sea audiobook runs 10.6 hours unabridged, narrated by Sean Runnette (about 7.1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

10.6listening hrs
Memoirsstore shelf
2019released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 10.6 hours of listening.

Days to finish Sailing a Serious Ocean: Sailboats, Storms, Stories and Lessons Learned from 30 Years at Sea at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day22 days
1 hour / day11 days
2 hours / day6 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×8 days

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What our data says

  • At 10.6 hours, it runs longer than 83% of the 5,212 Memoirs audiobooks in our catalog.

Computed from 170,512 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read October 21, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.

About this listen

Sailing a Serious Ocean: Sailboats, Storms, Stories and Lessons Learned from 30 Years at Sea is an audiobook by John Kretschmer: a 10.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Sean Runnette, released February 26, 2019, on the Memoirs shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
10.6 hrs
Narrated by
Sean Runnette
Released
February 26, 2019
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Memoirs
ISBN
9781977340566

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Sailing a Serious Ocean: Sailboats, Storms, Stories and Lessons Learned from 30 Years at Sea audiobook?

Sailing a Serious Ocean: Sailboats, Storms, Stories and Lessons Learned from 30 Years at Sea runs 10.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7.1 hours.

Is the Sailing a Serious Ocean: Sailboats, Storms, Stories and Lessons Learned from 30 Years at Sea audiobook free?

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Who narrates Sailing a Serious Ocean: Sailboats, Storms, Stories and Lessons Learned from 30 Years at Sea?

Sailing a Serious Ocean: Sailboats, Storms, Stories and Lessons Learned from 30 Years at Sea is narrated by Sean Runnette.

Is Sailing a Serious Ocean: Sailboats, Storms, Stories and Lessons Learned from 30 Years at Sea worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7.1 hours, saving 3.5 hours.