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Gone were the dark glasses, slouch hat and sullen manner. In sunny Portofino, a smiling, bareheaded Greta Garbo breezed ashore from Movie Producer Sam Spiegel's yacht Malahne, sent a crowd into camera-clicking ecstasies with a big "Hello," joined her shipmate for a lighthearted shopping spree and dinner at the Restaurant Pitosforo. Burbled the proprietor: "It was the Garbo that for many years I've dreamed of seeing. She appeared rejuvenated in spirit...
...enthusiastically endorses the change in sailing from a seacoast sport dom inated by yacht clubs and big-boat own ers to a family hobby and national pas time. Last year, of 15,000 boats sold in the U.S., 80% were less than 20 ft. long and one-third were destined for fresh water launching. Only 10% of their new owners intend to race them. "The rest are weekend sailors who aren't out to break any speed records," says O'Day. "This is the market I decided to go after...
...idea. So O'Day, with a handful of U.S. sailing friends, decided to produce the boat himself. Famed British Naval Architect Uffa Fox got the design contract. The boat that came off Fox's drawing board, christened the Day Sailer, was enough to make an old yacht-club commodore choke...
...Darien, Conn., where he lives with his second wife (he has one stepson). Early-morning commuters do not recognize this unobtrusive suburbanite for one of the world's wealthiest men. About the only place that Ludwig's wealth shows through is aboard his $2,000,000 yacht Danginn, on which he occasionally likes to entertain movie stars and other celebrities while he lingers over a mild drink or soberly sips buttermilk...
Eighty of the budding seafarers have attended the beginners classes held each week. More than 50 have qualified as provisional helmsmen, a distinction which entities them to use the Yacht Club's fleet 15 fiberglass dinghies seven days a week. The boats are moored at the M.I.T. Sailing Pavilion on the Charles...