Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fictional account of modern Bahamian piracy, and urged Loberg to ask for the caller's position. There was no answer. Five minutes later, a high-powered fishing boat appeared on the horizon and began chasing Rig-n-Tom. The intruder veered away, however, when Loberg put his yacht under the lee of a friendly sailboat...
...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 and littered with debris, including Patti's spectacles and bikini bra. Yourell told TIME Midwest Bureau Chief Benjamin W. Gate: "I haven't seen anything as bad since the South Pacific in World War II." Yourell radioed the authorities...
...Toole puts it. (Sherlock Holmes preferred his grouse fried with bacon and served with currant jelly, gravy, browned potatoes and mushrooms.) A grouse luncheon at the Connaught costs about $58, sans claret. At dinner, the à la carte menu does not list the price. As with owning a yacht, if you have to ask the cost, you can't afford...
...lesson in Georgian etiquette. "You shouldn't kiss a married lady. She's married to the Governor of Kentucky," scolded Miss Lillian Carter. Thereafter, the President's mother stood close by fair Phyllis at a party hosted by the Browns aboard Publisher Malcolm Forbes' yacht. "I felt like my mother was there," giggled Phyllis. Among the weighty matters the two discussed were food and dieting. "We're shrimping it," said Phyllis, as she daintily split a plate of six prawns with Jimmy Carter's mother. There was no such forbearance when she remembered Lillian...
...September against either Britain, France, Sweden or Australia; the foreign trials began last week off Newport. But from the outset Courageous has been buffeted by ill winds. In one race, the hydraulic device that controls the boom failed. Then the boom itself cracked, and a day later the yacht lost her mast when an inexpensive piece of equipment let go high in the rigging. To make matters worse, the New York Yacht Club selection committee "excused" Turner, 41, from the last racing season for the "serious indiscretion" of letting an Australian team member join his crew...