No imagination is required if you are Sarah-Jane Blake, the 26-year-old daughter of the late New Zealand sailing icon Peter Blake, whose world has been rocked — fortuitously, she says — by this chain of events in the past few months.
More than 450 people paid $15 a ticket to hear him read from his latest book, "Sailing Around the Room," which is on best-seller lists in Washington, San Francisco and Boston.
Keeper Jack Butland had to deny Deeney, who also saw a late effort sail narrowly wide.
They are also environmentally conscious, for Seattle's stunning physical setting has long attracted outdoor types who start work early to leave time for a late-afternoon sail on the Sound or a ramble in the Cascade mountains.
Shelly Drucker, 67, of Boynton Beach, has sailed five times with Holland America and remained healthy during the Amsterdam's latest cruise.
So, back to the cool breezes of the river, sailing late into the long summer evening to Vers, where we sipped aperitifs poolside at La Truite Dorée, waiting for a table on the crowded, geranium-covered terrace.
A late convert to sailing — he started at age 27 — he is an even later convert to tobogganing, becoming a regular in the 1990s on the Cresta Run, the natural ice track in St. Moritz, Switzerland, where he once separated his shoulder flying off the track at the Shuttlecock, an infamously tricky curve.
Stuart Garrett, managing director of Serco NorthLink Ferries, said: "High winds and waves mean it is not currently safe to sail but we are watching forecasts very closely and believe it may be possible to sail late tomorrow (Sunday).
The head of the America's Cup challenger Emirates Team New Zealand accused the defending champion Oracle Team USA of cheating in the latest controversy in sailing's premier regatta.
Blackburn threw on new signing David Goodwillie on 72 minutes, and he had a late shot which sailed wide.
