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...sailors seem up to their challenge. Desmond Hampton, 41, a handsome London real estate broker, has chartered the 56-ft. ketch Gipsy Moth V from the family of the late Sir Francis Chichester. Hampton's only companion will be a tiny stuffed koala bear presented to him for good luck by his daughter. Guy Bernardin, 37, a French business executive who will skipper the 38-ft. Ratso II, accepts the loneliness of the long-distance sailor. "For a race such as this," he says, "you must clear out all the responsibilities in your life. Anything can happen. You must...
...quite a lot. Since the classic Friends of Eddie Coyle (1972), he has written seven books, most with the same Boston Irish locale and personae. Recognition has enabled Higgins to indulge a recently acquired love of the sea: he plans to spend this summer living aboard his 37-ft. ketch Litigator with his wife of eight months, Loretta, and two children by his first marriage...
...path to the Knesses' door may have been beaten simply because of the Ketch-All Automatic Mouse Trap, Patent No. 2433913. But Emerson suggested an additional reason for this family's success: "Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing...
...usual, the fin was pumped with air and towed to the Icelandic whaling station 30 miles from Reykjavik to be carved up. Back on shore, Greenpeace Leader David McTaggart, 47, a dedicated environmentalist who had sailed a ketch into France's South Pacific nuclear proving grounds in an effort to halt atomic testing, addressed his companions: "What we saw today was disgusting ... disgusting. The whale is a mammal. It makes love. It is warm-blooded. It has been here 40 million years longer than we have...
...most live-aboards, the ketch or cruiser is like a mobile home buoyed on the briny. No small part of the allure of boat living is that, theoretically at least, you don't need to dock anywhere except to take on fuel and supplies. Scanning the sunset at the helm of his schooner, Atlantas, in Los Angeles Harbor, Teacher Ron Remsburg muses: "When you look at that compass, you can say to yourself: I can go any direction in the world that I want to go." Or stay at home, listening to the slapping halyards, creaking hull, bird cries...