Word: catamaran
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Their craft was a thing of beauty-a 160,000-cu.-ft. balloon, 65 ft. in diameter and 97 ft. high. It had a 17-ft. by 6½-ft. by 6-ft. gondola that was built, with a realistic if not fatalistic approach, with a twin-hulled catamaran that would float if the need arose...
Caroline and Philippe eventually won over the bride's parents. Whether they would vanquish the press was another matter. Caroline's 42-ft. catamaran, a wedding gift from her father, was ostentatiously brought to the harbor last week, and Rainier's motor yacht was given a fresh coat of paint. Perhaps these were diversionary tactics. Friends hinted that the couple might return to the Galápagos. If so, the archipelago that inspired Darwin will no doubt be overrun by one of the most curious creatures of all: genus scriptorum...
...killing his audiences. Martin says he is looking for "cat handcuffs." His tabby-a tiger-stripe he calls Dr. Carleton P. Forbes-has amassed $3,000 worth of "cat toys" by filching checks from Steve's mailbox. But alas, Dr. Forbes has escaped ... to Catalina. On a catamaran. Audiences invariably groan as this inventive tale turns into mushy vaudeville. Wide-eyed pause. "You think comedy is ... pretty?" leers Martin. He catches them catnapping every time. As a youngster in Southern California, Steve used to bike over to nearby Disneyland and virtually moved in. He sold guidebooks, practiced card tricks...
...Press boat, Hel Cat, a large catamaran that is otherwise used for charter fishing groups out of Long Island, joined the single file line of impressive power yachts as it weaved past the Vigilant and headed toward its special spectating area near the committee boat. The rest of the fleet had to stay back and be content to listen to the radio reports of Jerry Nevin and Norry Hoyt from the Hel Cat broadcast over Newport station WADK...
...first husband, is married to Thomas Morgan, onetime press secretary to former New York City Mayor John Lindsay and now assistant to the publisher of New York magazine. Mary's twin brother Michael disappeared at sea on an anthropological trip to New Guinea in 1961. When his catamaran capsized, he attempted to swim to shore and was never seen again...