Boats and Boating
Why Rotterdam Wouldn’t Allow a Bridge to Be Dismantled for Bezos’ Yacht
“When I was about 11 years old, we had an American boy stay with us for a week, an exchange student,” she recalled. “And my mother told him, just make your own sandwich like you do in America. Instead of putting one sausage on his bread, he put on five. My mother was too polite […]
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The Tesla Effect: Snowmobiles, Boats and Mowers Go Electric
STOWE, Vt. — Snowmobiles are part of the winter soundtrack in this part of Vermont, at their worst shattering the stillness of the forest like motorcycles on skis. But the motorized sleds bouncing along a wooded mountain trail in February were silent except for the whoosh of metal runners on snow. The machines, made by […]
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Man Killed His Mother at Sea to Inherit Family’s Estate, U.S. Says
A Vermont man lured his mother on a fishing trip off the coast of Rhode Island in 2016, killed her and sank the boat in a scheme to inherit his family’s estate, federal prosecutors said on Tuesday. An indictment unsealed in federal court in Burlington, Vt., on Tuesday, accuses Nathan Carman, 28, of Vernon, Vt., […]
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The Owners of Grand Banks and Pilot Open Restaurant on Land
Alex and Miles Pincus refer to Holywater, their new bar below the sidewalks of TriBeCa, as their first “land bar” in New York City. It’s not a strange distinction when you consider that every bar the brothers and bar owners have opened in New York up until this point has been seasonal, either near or […]
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In Venice, a Young Boatman Steers a Course of His Own
VENICE, Italy — From the time he was a child, Edoardo Beniamin could envision paddling a gondola through the waterways of Venice, his native city. He saw himself, dressed in a striped jersey and ribboned straw hat, following his father and an uncle into a profession that has served as the enduring symbol of La […]
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American Officials Believe They Have Located Putin’s Yacht
WASHINGTON — American officials are examining the ownership of a $700 million superyacht currently in a dry dock at an Italian seacoast town, and believe it could be associated with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, according to multiple people briefed on the information. United States intelligence agencies have made no final conclusions about the […]
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A 459-Foot Mystery in a Tuscan Port: Is It a Russian’s Superyacht?
One trade website, which bills itself as “the global authority in superyachting,” claims that the vessel’s owner is “known to be a Middle Eastern billionaire.” The Scheherazade shares a name with the female storyteller in “The Arabian Nights,” and it made one brief foray into the Red Sea in September 2020, calling at the Egyptian […]
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After Burning for Days, a Ship Carrying Thousands of Luxury Cars Sinks
Two weeks after catching fire, a mammoth ship that was transporting thousands of luxury cars sank on Tuesday morning about 253 miles off the Azores, according to the company that managed the vessel. The ship, the Felicity Ace, went down at about 9 a.m. local time after tilting starboard, plunging about 4,000 cars — including […]
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‘Somewhere With No Bridges’ Review: Of Men and Memories
In the compact documentary “Somewhere With No Bridges,” the director Charles Frank sets out to put a heartbeat to a memory. The movie’s ostensible subject, Richie Madeiras, was 44 in October 1999 when he fell from his boat. Days later, divers pulled his body from the water a few hundred yards off Martha’s Vineyard, where […]
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