Word: catamaran
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seemed an all but hopeless search. Five days earlier, on a trip between south New Guinea's coastal villages of Agats and Atsj, Mike Rockefeller's native catamaran capsized in the swelling Arafura Sea. Mike dived off to swim for help through waters infested with sharks toward a swampy shore swarming with crocodiles. After a companion who stayed with the boat was rescued, New Guinea's Dutch officials ordered a search for Michael. Nelson Rockefeller chartered a jet for $38,000, flew out to join the hunt. "I could never forgive myself," he explained, "if I didn...
...Liked That Catamaran." Traveling with Dutch Ethnologist Rene Wassing, 34, Rockefeller journeyed along the southern coast. In village after village, the two men traded shells and axes, got back more than 50 pieces of native art. In some villages they were guests at missions of the Crozier Fathers, to whom Michael showed off his catamaran, two native canoes lashed together by planks and powered by an 18-h.p. outboard motor. Mission priests warned that the coastal tides swelled 20 feet high, surged 75 miles upriver and out again with a force that overpowered even the best native rowers...
...their last day together, Rockefeller, Wassing and two natives left Agats, boarded the catamaran, pushed off for the village of Atsj, 25 miles down the coast. As Wassing told it later, the catamaran shipped water in a rolling sea; despite bailing, it foundered and the outboard was swamped. The two natives swam to shore to get assistance; the two white men stayed with the boat...
...Battle of the Millionaires," Kaiser has had a go at almost everyone. His pressure (usually successful) in pushing through zoning laws to suit his projects has angered many residents. He has tangled publicly with the doctors in his hospital (over their salaries), the Coast Guard (his $225,000 catamaran, since turned in for a smaller one, could not pass inspection for commercial use), the Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation (Hawaii Kai will replace large crop areas), the Hawaii Yacht Club (he wanted to call his club the Hawaii Kai Yacht Club), the airlines (he threatened to start his own airline...
...sails), Cape Cod Shipbuilding's 23-ft. Marlin day sailor ($5,500 without sails), the 25-ft. New Horizons auxiliary sloop ($8,950 with sails), and the 41-ft. Bounty II with a new yawl rig to improve its racing potential. Newest members of the flotilla are the catamarans, which will easily outspeed many power boats. Among them: Pearson Corp.'s 17-ft. Tiger Cat ($1,795 without sails), which last year won the One-of-a-Kind Regatta against 39 other one-design small sailboats, and Catamaran Corp.'s 12-ft. Tiki ($995 without sails), which...