Word: denison
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...starter, or "yuppie special," that sells for $2 million. The typical buyer is a fast tracker between 35 and 40 who yens for something more than an "off the peg" Hatteras 61-footer. "I just got a personal check in the mail for $1.3 million," says Ken Denison, vice president for new boat sales and construction. "The guy said it would be O.K. We looked into it, and it was. One of the things about this business is that we don't have to talk financing...
Many of his customers return within three years to trade up to a superyacht. "Twenty-five years ago, a 120-footer was for kings and princes," says Denison. "Now the average boat we build is 90 feet." As for size, which matters greatly to yacht owners, King Fahd of Saudi Arabia owns the world's biggest yacht, the 482-ft. Abdul Aziz, which includes a mosque and a movie theater that seats 100. Because the King's yacht is currently in drydock, the unquestioned ruler of the waves is Queen Elizabeth's 412-ft. Britannia...
Designers who favor aluminum hulls maintain they last indefinitely, hold three times as much fuel as fiber glass-hulled boats and are 15% faster. The American buyer wants a boat that looks "like it's going 20 knots when it's sitting at the dock," explains Denison. Perhaps the most stunning example is the Bannenberg-designed, 110-ft. Never Say Never, owned by Gary Blonder, a flamboyant entrepreneur who made his fortune in used auto parts. This rocket ship skims the waves at 34 knots full throttle (about 39 m.p.h.) and was used as a setting on Miami Vice...
Crime Story, co-written by ex-Chicago Detective Chuck Adamson and supposedly based on his own experiences, will follow three characters -- the police lieutenant, a rising young mobster (Anthony Denison) and a lawyer (Stephen Lang) -- over a period of nearly two decades. The two-hour premiere, set in 1962, is in many ways a throwback. The cops wear black trench coats and fedoras and wield their pistols with one hand, cowboy-style, rather than by Hill Street's two-handed method. The Mob characters seem to predate The Godfather, and nobody has heard of drugs. Most of the crimes...
Murphy said that Cambridge probation authorities will monitor Chamberlain's activities throughout the six month period. During the regular school year 22-year-old Chamberlains is registered at Denison University in Granville. Ohio...