Word: boat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some successful boat people are also work-aboards. New Yorker Harvey Abramson, 48, a bright-eyed, bearded designer of medical equipment, maintains an office in midtown Manhattan that he has not visited for a year; he does all his work in the fo'c'sle of his 43-ft. cabin cruiser, which is berthed in a boat basin on the Hudson River at Manhattan's 79th Street. He keeps in touch with secretary and clients by onboard phone. Says he: "My therapy is tinkering. On a boat there's always something to do." There...
...Some boat kids can swim before they can walk. Dorothea Johnston's ketch-reared kids have left Long Beach Marina, their home port, but Son Monte, 25, is an aspiring officer in the Merchant Marine, while Daughter Thea, 26, became Southern California's first woman deckhand on a commercial fishing boat. (She is studying for her captain's license...
Adults and offspring learn to respect and cherish their neighbors, who may live only four feet away. In emergencies-a ruptured water line, a balky motor, a hidden leak, suspicious intruders-boat owners of necessity lean on one another. There are no class distinctions or keeping-up-with-yawl in a marina. Says Manhattan-based Les Torgensen, 45, a writer and boat dealer who ran away to sea when he was 15: "The beauty of boat dwelling here is that we've got small-town living in the heart of a big city...
Still, life aboard your own boat is not quite like first class...
...like corned beef and cabbage." Miamian Tom Dixon, 35, who inhabits a relatively spacious 45-ft. catamaran houseboat he designed and built, notes that his 360-sq.-ft. living area is the equivalent of a one-car garage. Even at a dock, high winds and storms can make a boat dweller feel as if he were inside a Cuisinart...