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...Wichita, Kans. "I didn't want to be head of anything because then you have to go to meetings and junk," says Alter, who instead signed on with Coleman as a designer and began casting about for something different to create. The result: a 33-ft. fiberglass sloop, the Hobie 33. Equipped with a retractable keel and a mast that can be easily removed for transportation, the boat is small enough to be towed behind a car on a trailer, yet large enough to sleep up to seven. The sleek vessel is priced to sail away at about...
Backpacking tourists, women in ragged robes and children hawking sunflower seeds bundle into the sloop for the canal crossing. On the other side we can see ruins from the 1969-70 war with Israel, a bombed church with its cupola listing to one side and crumbled stone houses...
...logbook of their 41-ft. sloop Kalia III, Patti Kamerer, 46, recorded "Anchor up!" on April 28 as she and her husband William, 55, left Fort Myers for a six-month "dream cruise" of the Bahamas. It ended on July 25 with another laconic log entry: "Moored at Pipe Cay." Six days later, Illinois State Representative Harry Yourell, 62, and Son Peter, 20, aboard their 25-ft. cabin cruiser, eased up to the Kalia III and made a grisly discovery: in a dinghy bobbing astern lay a bloated body. The yacht was riddled with shotgun pellets, smeared with blood...
...range of tax shelters is limited only by the ingenuity of the lawyers who often launch them. Donald Flynn, 44, who made a small fortune recently by selling his interest in a North Woodstock, N.H. data processing firm, now keeps the IRS at bay with his 42-ft.-sloop tax shelter He paid $40,000 down on the $150,000 vessel last November and then put it out for charter. The sloop must show a profit two years out of five, but in the years when it loses money, the losses, including interest payments, insurance and upkeep, are deductible from...
...noon, he is aboard his 55-ft. sloop Curragh, which he treats the way a teenager nurses his first automobile. Kennedy will hastily grab a rag to wipe a thumbprint off a chrome fitting or to polish the brass. Once Ethel dropped a deviled egg on the teak deck. Kennedy frowned as she wiped up. "I'll bet we don't get invited back tomorrow," she murmured to a companion. She was right...