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Nellson's list runs for 1,736 pages, from Aden (bone sellers, dates, gums and spices) to Zambia (cement makers, mining companies, clothing manufacturers). The International Yellow Pages also locates beeswax in Angola, molasses in the British West Indies, yacht charterers in Cambodia, industrial real estate agents and vodka vendors in the Soviet Union, lawyers in the Fiji Islands, safari services in Kenya, coconut harvesters in Tanzania. Even Pope Paul's Vatican City telephone number is in the book: Vatican City...
Result is that the average new yacht is neither austere nor able to get very far away from it all. Chris Craft, the General Motors of the powerboat industry, now finds that 70% of its customers who want 28-ft. yachts and more also want and are willing to pay for a whole galaxy of luxury accessories. Among them: refrigerator-freezer, $1,250; four-burner stove with oven and broiler, $365; deluxe hot-water system with mixer faucets and spray hose, $1,210; electrically pumped shower, $450; automatic pilot...
Boats Without Brine. Virtually every boat manufacturer has had the same experience. C. P. Leek & Sons Inc., a New Jersey company that built clippers 40 years before Ben Franklin flew his first kite, began making luxury items standard equipment on their Pacemaker yacht five years ago, has seen sales soar from $1,000,000 to $14 million. Its largest model, a 53-ft. motor yacht, offers all the amenities found on Chris Crafts, plus built-in television, bathtub, washer-dryer combination and ironing board, symbols of domesticity that would wrinkle the brow of any old salt...
Thus there is a new breed of sailor that doesn't sail-at least not much or far. Says Dave Parker, executive vice president of the Hatteras Yacht Co.: "People who buy these yachts aren't sailors-they're landlubbers. They like to get there fast and drink long." And to enjoy Beethoven in stereo and bourbon on the rocks, the owner of a modern yacht must hook up to a marina's power line (and he often wants a telephone line) almost as soon as he shuts off his engine; his appliances draw too much...
...than lose their charge and their communications, many never even leave the dock, preferring to remain permanently plugged in. Many just like to go down to their boats on a hot summer night, and sit on the stern deck for a quiet, cool drink and a chat with friends. Yacht clubs, which usually let visiting yachtsmen plug in free of charge, are not much happier. Said Ted Tolson, vice commodore of the St. Petersburg Yacht Club: "They hook up on our docks and blow all the fuses in the circuit. Then they holler like hell because the power...