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...passed between wind and water -a day in 1961 when everything went right, a day in 1956 when everything went wrong, a long warm summer's sail among the shining isles of Greece. Much of his time is spent making crusty pronouncements from the poop ("A marina is the yachtsmen's slum"), and there is nothing here for people who think port is something that comes in a bottle. But anybody who can tell a top carling from a garboard strake will want a copy of Spring Tides in his dunnage the next time he does a windward...
...Hatteras Yacht Co.: "People who buy these yachts aren't sailors-they're landlubbers. They like to get there fast and drink long." And to enjoy Beethoven in stereo and bourbon on the rocks, the owner of a modern yacht must hook up to a marina's power line (and he often wants a telephone line) almost as soon as he shuts off his engine; his appliances draw too much juice to allow for quiet nights lying at anchor in secluded coves. If the new yachtsman wants to go for a cruise, he must plot his course...
...successful that it has branched into other fields, invested $100 million of its shareholders' money in such tangibles as vending machines, trailer trucks and real estate. Last week Thomachot roved the Riviera for what Algeco calls the "investments of the future"-land that can be made into marinas, golf clubs and vacation villages. Algeco already manages a three-chateau country club outside Paris, an all-year golf course in Lavandou and a 1,500-yacht marina in the bay of Saint-Tropez. Not long ago, it began selling individual lots in France to investors for $600 apiece, then constructing...
...cast of almost stationary people, Baker is a kind of perpetual-motion machine gesturing grimacing, smiling, patting Marina on the back, glowing in his drunkenness and grinning in his sobriety. Much of his business is taken from Chekhov's stage directions; much of it he and director John Black have added, unobtrusively and effectively...
...when he is off it. Among the one-dimensional characters, Gloria Maddox's Sofya, and Bruce Kornbluth's Telyegin are well put-together too, (though someone ought to get Kornbluth a balaika and get rid of that Everly Brothers-vintage guitar he's stuck with), and Gertrude Crippen's Marina is excellent...