And Then We Hit a Rock

A family of 5, a dog, and a cat move onto a sailboat. Hilarious true story!

De: Greg Buenzli

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Did you know that the remora fish will try to swim up a whale shark's butt when they poop? The crew of Twig didn't. It turns out there was an awful lot the family of five didn’t know when they decided to move aboard and set off for adventure on the high seas.

After decades of dreaming, and planning, the explorers finally sailed off into the sunset. Yes, they found the palm trees and coconuts they had longed for, but they also glimpsed the other side of paradise. They ran from waterspouts, dodged hurricanes, got (sort of) robbed by pirates, and played chicken with naval warships. They found themselves making emergency calls to the Coast Guard in the dead of night and learning the exact purpose of a nut jiggler during a late-night beach bonfire.

Join as the inevitable is pondered after a meal of coffee and chili on a night watch in “What if I have to go poo?”. Commiserate the anxiety of the hurricane season and practice dodging rogue unmanned boats during a midnight tropical storm. Laugh at the captain’s intimate misfortunes with marine toilets, sense what a pirate smells like, and discover how not to get crabs in this page-turning journey of the East Coast. You are invited to follow along with the frustration and joy of a life newly discovered afloat a 46-foot catamaran.

Remember: If everything had gone exactly as planned….it wouldn’t have been much of an adventure.

Chapter listing

Part 1: Damn you Lisa

1. Cocktails and Dreams
2. The hand of God
3. Down to the Banana Republics
4. Panama vs Twig
5. Christmas Blows
6. Georgia on my mind
7. Love and a sailboat

Part 2: Afloat

1. All Aboard!
2. There’s Vodka in the Boy’s Bathroom
3. Afloat
4. Hazmat
5. Things that go bump in the night
6. Don’t Ignore the Bright Red Light
7. Caulk the Wagon
8. Perfect Strangers

Part 3: The Bahamas

1. 42 Flushes
2. The Nut Jiggler
3. Watch your six
4. You smell like a pirate
5. I wet the bed
6. Twist and Spout
7. Weather or not

Part 4: The East Coast

1. What if I have to go Poo?
2. Dr Jekyll’s Island
3. You say Savannah, I say Banana
4. Pepperoni is not a fruit
5. House of Warship
6. Feeling Crabby
7. Tot
8. There’s Always Room For Jello
9. Oh Ophelia

Part 5: Due South

1. Boat Chill Factor
2. I lack depth
3. Wednesday
4. Anchor(s) Away
5. Cinderella Lost Her Slipper
6. Suck it Murphy
7. And Then We Hit a Rock
8. What the Fog?!

Epilogue

1. There’s no place like home
2. Come Monday (Tribute to Jimmy Buffett)

Glossary of Ridiculous Nautical Jargon

laid back sense of humor, and a very American story about getting ripped off by contractors left and right

it was a good book, but of course standard on the problems, but it's really what you need if you want to use this book as a guide to cruising your own boat.
the AI had a little trouble with the spacing between chapters or paragraphs, pauses with long, but it was a mostly believable human voice with mostly the right inflections.

Funny book!

The AI reader was not good at times. I prefer to listen to an actual human.

A fun story about something everyone dreams of doing.

Buy a boat and sail away...sounds wonderful and amid all the wonderful it's also a lot of hard work. I wish he'd talked about the dog and cat more. They just disappeared toward the end and we're never mentioned again.
A.I. narration is horrible. It had little infection and made the story so boring. It's a crime to ruin a book by not using a human narrator.

Excellent book!!

I didn’t dislike anything! I couldn’t stop listening! I laughed so hard! I cried a little at the end! Now I’m ruined I don’t know what to listen to next!! I wish the author would write another book!! This is awesome! My husband and I are buying a sail boat.. so I thought this was an appropriate read and it was!! Five stars!!

Great story-Virtual Voice Narration is terrible

This is a great story, surely with some funny sore to make you chuckle.
The virtual voice narration is awful and really takes away from what could have been a truly funny and heartwarming family story.

Narrated with virtual voice

I think the narration was far better quality than the story. I think this book would be best appreciated by boaters of which I am not.

Truly a Fun Listen

Perfect weekend vacation read about a family who sets sail on the east coast of the United States for about a year. The parents in charge of this voyage were less than inexperienced boaters, so a comedy of errors ensues. I loved listening to this audible, however, I did not care for the AI voice as it was devoid of inflection, emphasis, and timing and lacked personality. The author should record in his own voice, and it would be 100 times better!

Enjoyed the adventure but ditch the virtual voice!

The adventure was interesting and frequently funny but the narration was stilted and unnatural. Record it with a voice actor and it would be much better.

Well written, love the sarcasm!!

Just a good story about something many people would love to do!! I know I would.

AI Naration

I was looking forward to hearing this but once I found out it was AI, totally turned me off.