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From an informant, U.S. Customs Service officials had learned that as much as four tons of high-grade Colombian marijuana was due to arrive that night aboard the 48-ft. trimaran Two-Too Much and would be sent ashore in smaller boats. Elaborate plans were laid to catch the smugglers in the act. Planes of the Customs Service were to circle overhead, shining powerful spotlights on the scene below. Patrol boats would be cruising near each of the three suspected drug transfer sites. Hidden on shore would be heavily armed local, state and federal officers...
...offerings range from elegant scrimshaw and touristy puka-shell necklaces to T shirts with slogans like DON'T HASSLE THE HUMPBACKS, MAUI NO KA Ol (Maui is the best) and HERE TODAY GONE TO MAUI. On the town's bustling waterfront, tourists cram aboard the 50-ft. trimaran Trilogy for daylong sails, or the 65-ft. glass-bottomed boat Coral...
...such a leviathan without a crew across the treacherous Atlantic. He hopes to make the 3,000-mile passage from Plymouth, England, to Newport, R.I., in 18 days, beating his own record of 20½ days when he won the last race in 1972 in a 70-ft. ketch trimaran. To control the boat that Colas, 32, built at a cost of nearly $1.5 million, he has the help of an array of the latest electronic aids, but his plans for using a satellite navigational system were nixed by the race's sponsors, the London Observer and the Royal...
...Kola) had crossed the finish line 20 days, 1 3 hours and 15 minutes after the start, for the fastest - by more than five days - winning time in the four quadrennial races held to date. In his ugly duckling of a boat, the 70-ft. by 35-ft. aluminum trimaran Pen Duick IV, Colas had averaged about 150 nautical miles a day for the 3,000-mile voyage, covering 260 miles in one 24-hour period...
Within two weeks after set sail the London Sunday Times's round-the-world yacht race last October, Donald Crowhurst's 41 -foot trimaran, the Teign-mouth Electron, had started falling apart. The lacing on the boom snapped, the port forward hatch sprang a leak, and then his generator went out, leaving him without electricity for three days. While his boat disintegrated with the pounding of heavy seas, the sailor's sanity, strained as it was by the loneliness of the solo odyssey and haunted by the specter of fail ure, also began to fall apart...