Word: yachting
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Time was when yachting seemed the last preserve of the gentleman athlete. All that changed in the 1980s, as the sport bred enough litigious excess to make Horatio Hornblower reach for the Dramamine. The latest episode in the salty soap opera better known as the America's Cup series came last week, when a New York Supreme Court justice stripped the San Diego Yacht Club of the sport's most coveted prize...
...expected, the U.S. catamaran blew New Zealand's monohull out of the water in September 1988. Fay then filed suit, charging that the U.S. had violated the deed of gift's requirements for a "fair match." Enter the New York Yacht Club -- the Cup's custodian for the first 132 years of its existence -- which filed an affidavit supporting New Zealand's charge...
Plagued by misgivings during the ensuing takeover battle, Lyman joins the search for Bresson's real identity. The French magnate owns no real estate and has no fixed address, except for the 325-ft. yacht docked at Monte Carlo. A reporter looking into Bresson's origins turns up dead. And the magnate's dentist tells Lyman that Bresson's "cement" filling could have been done only in the Soviet Union...
...hunting safari for wild boar, goats or pheasant on the slopes of Mauna Kea ($550 for the first person, $200 each for the next three). The game will be dressed and served for dinner that night, or shipped home upon request. Or deep-sea fishing on a luxury yacht ($1,380 for up to six people), Formula Ford race-car driving (not available until April), a day in the saddle with the paniolos (Hawaiian cowboys) of the vast Kahua Ranch ($1,460 for four) or dinner at the Hulihee Palace, former home of the Hawaiian royalty ($1,995 for four...
Trotman's athletic finesse, perhaps an innate quality, began to surface at the age of 10 when she was one of only two girls to join her hometown junior ice hockey league. At the same time, she began racing in single-handed boats at her local yacht club in Cold Spring Harbor in Syosset, N.Y., where her mother had won the Junior Championships...