Word: yachting
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Late in the afternoon of March 1, the nurse's friend, a member of the summer crew of Morgan Partner Thomas Lament's yacht, communicated with her. They later said that she told him that since the baby had a cold she would not be able to keep an engagement with Sailor Johnsen that evening. Soon after the kidnapping Sailor Johnsen was arrested at the home of a brother in a suburb of Hartford, Conn. Much attention was directed toward Johnsen because his automobile was found to harbor an empty milk bottle, the suspicion being that the sailor might have...
HONORED. ELLEN MACARTHUR, 28, British sailor who completed the swiftest around-the-world solo sea voyage in history, 43,000 km of ocean in 71 days; with the rank of Dame of the British Empire; by Queen Elizabeth II; in London. MacArthur sailed a custom-designed 23-m yacht, which she nicknamed "Moby," and is the youngest woman to be made a Dame, the equivalent of a knight-hood. "The trip has taken pretty much all I have," she said, but vowed more journeys. "There are lots more records out there...
...world's fastest yacht with a single hull is a 140-ft. carbon-fiber wonder. With two 148ft. masts and five sails, the silver-colored Mari-Cha IV, owned by billionaire Robert Miller, can travel at speeds of up to 36 knots, about twice what other boats its size can do. It holds four world records, including the West Marine Pacific Cup, a race from San Francisco to Hawaii, which it won this past July...
...Woodroffe's newest project is a hotel: combine a Japanese capsule hotel (tiny rooms, windows onto a corridor) with the plush service of a first-class airplane seat, and you've got YOTEL, a five-star inn at two-star ($130 a night) prices. (Think luxury cabin on a yacht.) The designs are done; all Woodroffe needs now is a central London spot to build it. His inspiration: a night in first class on a flight home from Kuwait. "As I lay on the bed with the comforter and the pajamas, and the [flight attendant] tucked me in," he says...
Flash forward: at the helm of his yacht Tenacious, Ted Turner battled 40-ft. waves for four hours in a storm that claimed 19 lives and disabled 210 of 302 vessels in a four-day ocean race in 1979. Turner not only lived to successfully launch an unlikely venture--a 24-hour cable news network called CNN, in 1980--but also won the sea race and later said that even during the worst of the storm his mind was on finishing first...