And there's no better way to get into the rhythm of rural life and religious customs than sailing on two great rivers, the Mekong through Vietnam and Cambodia or on the Irrawaddy in Burma.
Among them are Blue Yankee, a 67-foot custom racer sailed by Robert Towse of Stamford, Conn., and the winner of the IMS division at this year's Block Island Race Week; Donnybrook, a custom-built 73-footer skippered by Jim Muldoon of Washington; and Sonny, a spanking new custom 70-foot wood boat owned and sailed by Albert Phelps Jr. of Norwalk, Conn.
The Blue Moon Cafe is seaside, and the Aqua Action Dive Center offers custom dives and training, windsurfing, snorkeling, sailing and other water sports.
These days, Ray sails C-Squared, a custom Wyliecat 44 from the San Francisco designer Tom Wylie.
Our berths aboard the Illusion cost us each $55 a day, a sum that covered breakfast, dinner, basic instruction in sailing, plus mooring and customs fees — pretty much everything except lunch, beer and off-shore excursions.
The Portland based company makes custom tote bags out of recycled sails.
At Barajas Airport in Madrid, I sailed through customs with my Spanish passport and waited for the rest of our caravan to catch up and collect the bags.
It is precisely the complexity of matching the right classification to products and creating flawless shipping documents that will sail past customs, that has more companies turning over their compliance responsibilities to contractors like Vastera.
Oppenheimer, who resisted building the hydrogen bomb, lived out his life hobnobbing with geniuses at the Institute for Advanced Study, living in a house full of Van Goghs in Princeton, sailing in St. Johns and wearing custom-made suits.
David Crane, a San Diego marine software consultant, installs custom marine electronic and computer systems aboard large power and sailing yachts.
