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...Hobie catamaran, which suggests a Polynesian outrigger canoe with a sail, is the creation of Nautical Designer Hobart (Hobie) Alter, 47, of Capistrano Beach, Calif. In the 13 years since the first Hobie Cat set sail, the craft has become the favorite American weekend sailboat by far and helped make Alter a millionaire several times over. Though the twin hulls of Hobie Cats make the vessels a bit tougher to maneuver than single-hulled sailboats, the real thrill of skippering a Cat is in its exhilarating speed. The lightweight vessels can reach a motorboat clip of nearly 25 m.p.h...
...Viet Nam, and there are hints that a family fortune was somehow dissipated before that. He drinks, makes terrible scenes in public, and in private treats his wife Mo (Lisa Eichhorn) shamefully. Bone (Jeff Bridges) is pathologically amiable, a gentle gigolo who would rather be out on his sailboat or, better still, indulging a dream of rescuing his buddy's lady from her slummy, captive misery. In short, Cutter and Bone are the oddest couple this side of, La Cage aux Folles. The notion of their apprehending a rich and powerful man for a sex murder of which Bone...
...blasting, drug-strewn lifestyle that was his trademark. The birth of his daughter Savannah Jane in 1979 turned the man's thinking to the more pragmatic aspects of life. Though he still imbibes the greenies with regularity and enters races like Nantucket's Opera House Cup in his new sailboat also christened Savannah Jane), it is plain to see that marriage and a family--two of the heaviest anchors known to man--have caused even Jimmy Buffet to change his wild ways...
...Little Miss Magic" will bring sad tears to the eyes of those who love Jimmy Buffett for his immaturity. For in this track, it seems as if he has really gone around the grown-up bend. Voicing fatherly endearments to little Savannah Jane (not the sailboat) as well as reflections on his own aging, Buffett appears to have tied up at convention's dock...
...Island in the Bahamas. He is much devoted to his wife Pat and their five children. By all accounts, he lives simply, though he does indulge himself occasionally. At his private dock are moored a 60-ft. motor cruiser, a 27-ft. fishing boat, three small motorboats and a sailboat,and his yard is crammed with expensive equipment for them...