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British yachtmaker Sunseeker launched its biggest boat yet at last year's London Boat Show: an $18 million, 121-ft. (37 m) superyacht. So far, it has built three of them; two are under construction at its boatyard in Poole, England; and eight more are on order. That kind of demand surprised Robert Braithwaite, managing director. "If we had sold five or six by now, I would be very happy." At this year's show, the company unveiled two more big boats, a $4.8 million 89-footer (27 m) and a $14 million 112-footer (34 m)--smaller than last...
...true test of a company is not whether it has problems, but what the company does when it has problems,” he said.Amid thunderstorms, the Harvard group also mingled with major business executives at a reception at Rick’s Café Boatyard. TD Ameritrade CEO Joseph H. Moglia said in an interview with The Crimson that U.S. companies will have to undertake a balancing act to remain competitive.“At the end of the day, American businesses will do well if they focus on understanding how to care for their clients, providing a reasonable...
...ways of the sea knew what was coming next. At the luxury Amanpuri Resort in Phuket, Richie Neustfisten was helping run the resort's water-skiing fleet when he noticed that the water had disappeared. He called his boss, Bill O'Leary, an Australian in charge of the Amanpuri boatyard, who was at sea with clients. O'Leary knew the signs. He told Neustfisten to get everyone off the beach and called friends at other hotels to tell them a tsunami was coming. The Amanpuri beach was cleared. About five minutes later, the waves started rolling in. Seppanen...
Gary Eisenberg has climbed mountains in Sri Lanka and scuba dived in Thailand. He has worked in a boatyard in Turkey and bartended in Portugal. He has roamed Egypt, Morocco and New Guinea. Yet this seasoned traveler--who globe-trotted for a decade before settling (at least for now) in New York City as a corporate lawyer--rarely takes a guidebook along. "As soon as a place gets listed," he explains, "everybody goes there. The quality drops, and it is hard...
...cowboy, I said I wanted to be an entertainer. Soon after dropping out of acting school at Carnegie Mellon and after having been busted and bailed out for marijuana possession, I wrote my first song. I was living with my grandmother in Watch Hill, R.I., working in a boatyard, trying to get past being a hippie. I wrote the song Edgar for a lobster fisherman there. It isn't very good, but the next week I wrote three more. I was really enthusiastic. I started doing gigs on the folk scene in New York and Boston, and about a year...