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...Whaler, a twelve-story high-rise in Kaanapali, a two-bedroom apartment that sold for $175,000 in 1973 is worth $450,000 today...
...course of his voyage, DeVoss surveyed the island of Ponape via a Boston whaler, helped fly a Grumman goose...
...They lecture the crews of the ships in Russian in an attempt to persuade them of the wrongfulness of their acts. But with little success: in one case a captain ordered the crew to drag through the ice-cold water an ecologist who had grabbed onto the cable the whaler was using to haul a whale up to the boat. "Voyages" was filmed along the Northern California coast and on the North Pacific. Last Days of the Dolphin, the second film, is narrated by Dick Cavett...
Buffett's seagoing impulses were bred in Mobile, where his father was a naval architect at a local shipyard. His grandfather, to whom Buffett dedicated an album, was a retired ship captain who first sailed aboard a whaler at the age of 14. Buffett himself left home at 18, bounced through a series of Southern colleges and took guitar lessons. He began touring the Southern honky-tonk circuit and recorded his first album in Nashville. Says he: "It was a terrible record...
Died. Robert Cushman Murphy, 85, expert on oceanic birds and sea-life conservation; in Stony Brook, Long Island. In 1912 Murphy shipped aboard an Antarctic whaler as assistant navigator, and brought back bird, plant and fish specimens never before seen in the U.S. Among the discoveries of his 61-year career were the skeleton of the New Zealand moa, a flightless bird of centuries ago, and the cahow, a sea bird believed to have been extinct since the 17th century. As bird curator at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, he sailed on more than a dozen ocean...