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...office and he sat us down, and the very first question he asked us was how would we like to room with the son of the owner of Bolero,” says Swett. Bolero was the premier private sailing yacht in America, “a 72-foot yawl, which was the finest boat that money could buy.”Swett and Cunningham, both interested in sailing, accepted.Swett says that he remembered his surprise when he first met Brown.“The chauffeur-driven Chrysler drove up to Thayer South and out came Brown, just bouncing...
...undergraduate anchored a yawl in the Charles as a temporary home...
...undergraduate anchored a yawl in the Charles as a temporary home...
Adults and offspring learn to respect and cherish their neighbors, who may live only four feet away. In emergencies-a ruptured water line, a balky motor, a hidden leak, suspicious intruders-boat owners of necessity lean on one another. There are no class distinctions or keeping-up-with-yawl in a marina. Says Manhattan-based Les Torgensen, 45, a writer and boat dealer who ran away to sea when he was 15: "The beauty of boat dwelling here is that we've got small-town living in the heart of a big city...
...Aren't they the ones who yawl "I Am So Into You" six times an hour on Adolescent Mawk radio...