Word: sailboating
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...sailboat, it has often been said, is a hole in the water into which one pours money. Weekend sailors joke that boat is an acronym for Bring Out Another Thousand. A used 18-ft. sloop can cost $10,000, while a new 36-ft. two-masted ketch can run $100,000 and up. And then there's the maintenance and the commitment to sail from a single port. Sailing courses, however, free their students from these costs and limitations. That's because U.S. certifications are accepted in most ports around the country and the world. Graduates can use their certification...
...debt ($45,000) than savings and investments ($40,000). George, 69, is a construction manager and wants to retire in two years. Both he and Maria, 62, a financial-services compliance officer, rue their profligate lifestyle--for instance, they cashed in 401(k) savings to buy a $58,000 sailboat. "We lived dangerously," Maria concedes. Now the couple are scrambling to save what they can before George's current project comes to an end in two years. "My mother and father were able to live on Social Security," Maria says, deflated. "I don't think we'll be able...
Radio technology and medical know-how came together most dramatically in April 2000. Pirates had boarded the sailboat of a Dutch family off the coast of Honduras and had shot a 13-year-old boy who was aboard. His injuries were so severe that the bullet severed his spinal cord and paralyzed...
...Chinese-American immigrant who went to M.I.T. to do his graduate work, had learned to skate with his school buddies on lakes in China. Later, when we lived in New York City, he bought me a pair of skates one Christmas. He took me to Central Park's sailboat pond, and that was my first time ever on the ice. I fell in love with it--the speed, the flow, and the wind in my face...
Winthrop J-entryway: Li’l Sampson Lamberth, son of Senior Tutor Courtney Bickel Lamberth, spent Tuesday’s bath time playing with his new plastic sailboat. “Great job, sweetie!” Dr. Lamberth said. Are you playing with your boat? Can you say boat?” Young Sampson simply grinned and peed...