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...Springs, Colorado. A brilliant and legendarily eccentric electronics engineer who put together an automatic telegraph machine when he was 10 years old, Cray built in the 1960s what many consider the world's first supercomputers. Not all his work was as constructive: for many years he built a new sailboat every winter and burned it, inexplicably, every fall...
...thought about leaving our anchor down for good. However, we figured the folks from the sailboat charter company were a little better at finding runaway clients than the creditors from up north. We were lucky enough to have one night in this peaceful place...
...J.F.K.'s MacGregor Woods golf clubs, $134,500 for a Norman Rockwell painting of the President and $189,500 for a leather desk set. From a different latitude, singer Jimmy Buffett telephoned in a winning bid of $43,700 for a Jamie Wyeth lithograph of the President in a sailboat...
...council is like a sailboat. Everyone is busy getting a new paint-job, a new mast. We need to be concerned with the integrity of the sailboat," said Kaplan...
People all along the so-called Emerald Coast suddenly found themselves either homeless or facing major repairs. In Fort Walton Beach, Florida, where large yachts littered the main street, Rodney Holcombe, 36, tried to be stoic about the loss of his floating home, a 36-ft. trimaran sailboat on which he had no insurance. "I guess this is my $25,000 week," he joked glumly. "Maybe I can get some Federal Emergency Management Agency money." Holcombe notes that he has had trouble finding a hotel vacancy because out-of-town insurance adjusters and Red Cross workers have taken almost...