Word: catamaran
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...once magical islands of Hawaii. Soft-drink and souvenir stands clutter the beach front, the famed beach itself is often so crowded that it looks like Coney Island on a Sunday, and hawkers are everywhere ($8 for a twilight cruise plus a cup of rum punch in a catamaran...
...crocodiles), depicting every aspect of the ritual life of Dutch New Guinea's seafaring Asmat tribe. It was the last work of the museum's youngest trustee. Michael Rockefeller, 23, anthropologist son of New York's Governor, who was lost seven months ago when his frail catamaran swamped in the shark-teeming Arafura Sea off New Guinea...
...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...