Word: yachted
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OSLO: SCANDINAVIAN CHARTER YACHTS Sail out of the harbor on the 16.7-m Princess, explore the fjords and stop at some shoreside museums. Up to 22 passengers for $2,957 per day AUCKLAND: NEW ZEALAND CLASSIC YACHTS Recently refurbished, the 14-m, 69-year-old launch Lady Gay once carried royalty and patrolled the city's shores during World War II. Now you and 19 friends can take it for a run at $1,191 a day SINGAPORE: ATLANTIS YACHTS For up to 12 passengers, a 19.8-m superluxurious Italian-built yacht can cruise past the skyline, around the leafy...
...night at Boston’s swankiest cigar bar, armed with a brandy snifter, he prefers his eggshell button-down Oxford and tastefully tartan tie from J. Press. One day, his American Government degree will land him a stint in London negotiating real estate deals, a yacht named after his childhood golden retriever Sebastian and a wife as well versed in Don DeLillo and Michael Ondaatje as she is in Neiman Marcus heritage homewares for their house in the Hamptons...
...audiences the way his predecessor did. Goree island appeared abandoned, the brightly painted mustard and rose buildings that cater to vacationers shuttered, flanked only by the occasional uniformed soldier and his strapped carbine. The children who normally would have swarmed the beaches to greet the Senegalese presidential yacht, were kept well out of sight, behind ubiquitous metal cordons. To brighten their penning they draped the bars of the barren blockades with intensely colored local tapestries and played soccer in the dirt courtyard while they waited...
Perkins recalled taking sailing trips with Rothschild and both their wives on Rothschild’s yacht, the Moonbeam. Together, they took sea trips to places like Halifax and Scandinavia...
...Union Jacks?as well as these characteristics, the archetypal Empire clubs, until the late-20th century, shared another: unwritten color bars. May Holdsworth, in her history of Hong Kong expatriate life, Foreign Devils, cites Anne Baker, a Eurasian whose white husband had to resign from the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club in the 1950s upon marrying her. Also quoted is Michael Wright, a former government architect, who remembers that at the Hong Kong Club "there was nothing in the rules to say that Chinese couldn't join. It had simply been understood that you didn't put a Chinese...