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...weeks ago, our Modern Living section ran a story called "Cruising: The Good Life Afloat" and described, among others, the husky cruisers built by a California firm, Westsail Corp. Almost immediately calls began to come into Westsail's headquarters from as far away as Switzerland and Brazil at the rate of 50 to 60 per day, many from people who had never owned a boat before. Orders are currently flowing into Westsail at the rate of $600,000 per week, a fourfold increase since the story appeared...
...trade winds from the Mediterranean to the Caribbean, perhaps, or heading out to the warm atolls of the South Pa cific. At home, the new cruisers are getting ready to join them. Lighting Designer Len Thornback, 46, and his schoolteacher wife Jane, 48, have al ready moved aboard their Westsail at Newport Beach, Calif. "In a year or so," says Thornback, "we'll simply leave. First the Mediterranean and the Baltic. After that, we don't care where...