There were a number of big name omissions, including Hanks for both his talked-up roles this year in Captain Phillips and Saving Mr Banks, as well as Robert Redford as a lone yachtsman in All Is Lost, Emma Thompson as crotchety author PL Travers in Saving Mr Banks, and Joaquin Phoenix in Spike Jonze's oddball love story Her.
My brother, David Dunstan, who has died aged 77, was an architect, community fundraiser, yachtsman and prolific watercolourist.
He still had time to indulge two passions nurtured since boyhood: as a watercolour artist, turning out countless paintings, and as a highly competent yachtsman, sailing his 26ft cruiser from Kippford on the Solway Estuary.
But the soaring share prices of electronic brokers such as E*Trade (which the yachtsman is advertising) suggest that investors, at least, believe online trading is the way of the future.
In a less likely situation for the average yachtsman, that of riding out a huge storm at sea, I do not doubt that Dyarchy would be the more comfortable and seakindly.DAVID GILESLondon.
The recent launch of a database containing details of creatures threatened with extinction is supposed to change that, but the task looks daunting.When nature conservation first became a popular cause, in the early 1960s, one of its champions was Peter Scott, a British naturalist, artist and Olympic yachtsman, and son of the ill-fated polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott.
GPS is available to any yachtsman or missile-maker (although the Americans' military system is more accurate).
That's right: the writer of "My Generation", "Substitute" and "Won't Get Fooled Again" now spends part of his time as a yachtsman in the Caribbean.
1936 Newcastle, Australia May 1 , 1988Sydney, Australia Ben Lexcen, original name Robert Miller (born 1936, New Castle, New South Wales, Australia died May 1 , 1988 Sydney, New South Wales) Australian yachtsman and marine architect who designed Australia II, the first non-American yacht to win (1983) the prestigious America's Cup in the 132-year history of the race.
New Zealand yachtsman and explorer who, was the winner of the two most important yachting competitions the Whitbread Round the World Race (1989 90) and the America's Cup (1995 and 2000)—and in 1994 in the ENZA New Zealand won the Jules Verne Trophy when he set a nonstop circumnavigation world record of 74 days 22 hours 17 minutes 22 seconds, which went unbroken for three years.
American lawyer and businessman, government official, yachtsman, and philanthropist who made Harvard University one of the most abundantly endowed academic institutions.
