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Tales From a Life Lived Off the Grid

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A True Story Of Terrifying Seas, Double-Dealing, And Love Across Three Oceans
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A  smuggling/sailing odyssey following a young couple across lonely oceans and exotic backdrops populated with wild characters, both dangerous and wonderful. You won’t be able to put this book down.

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Ranen is Back! (only younger), The long-awaited prequel to A Smuggler’s Guide to Good Manners 
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Gunplay, wicked storms, seductive love scenes: this story wanders with a twenty-something, rootless, reckless Ranen from his mountaineering days through the wild beginnings of the Caribbean drug smuggling scene. Queens, Kings, rock stars, none ever lived a lifestyle this exhilarating and elegant. Not really a cookbook, these are true tales of sailing adventure with ocean going recipes.

Ranen wrote and published stories from his life so his friends could visit these places, meet these characters, and experience the lifestyle. This is a sailing voyage worth taking.

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Coming soon to Amazon!
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These one-minute video clips filmed in the Red Sea and the Dalmatian Coast (ex Yugoslavia) were part of a television series project that my long-term partner, Elizabeth, and I came up with as substitute for smuggling to pay the bills. The series was meant to be a sophisticated reality series. More personal, less scripted, and way more real than almost all reality shows. Our method of creation was to explore everywhere we sailed. Get the footage then record the voice-overs live at a meeting right after the action, while it was still fresh and exciting.

RYI Television of Italy, and a lot of filmmakers, musicians, and producers contributed. In the end we just became discouraged by the ego trips inherent in broadcast television. However I think you’ll agree we have the best home sailing videos ever.

For the rest of the story see my blog.

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In 1971 Kenny Ranen was living in Telluride, climbing, and skiing. Then he was gone… For over three decades, no house, no address, no phone. Sailing the oceans of the world, and smuggling to pay the bills. Ranen’s Podcasts tell endless stories from the days when he was sailing ten to twenty thousand miles a year without GPS, and without a care, notwithstanding sharks, pirates, monsoon storms, medical emergencies at sea, the Guardia Civil and broadcast and publishing executive ego trips.

In 2002 Ranen sold his last boat, Sara, and left the sea to live in his house in the Idaho Rocky Mountains. Currently, Ranen is editing the second memoir in the Smuggler’s Guide series, “A Smuggler’s Guide to Fine Dining, A Sailor’s Hunger and the Ravenous Sea”.

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