26-Feb-2006  (yacht cruise)

• 'Remodeler's Success Sails on Flexibility (RedNova)
By Jonathan Brinckman, The Oregonian, Portland, Ore. Feb. 24--HOOD RIVER -- This Columbia Gorge city, known for windsurfing and pear orchards, doesn't seem the ideal place to make and install ship interiors. It doesn't even have a shipyard. That hasn't stopped George Selfridge.
• 'Dapper dad had love kid, sez rat (New York Daily News)
Maybe they should have called him the Dapper Don Juan.
• 'Member of Schmidt brewery family dies (The Olympian)
Mike Schmidt, 63, a great-grandson of the founder of the Olympia Brewing Co. who worked his way up through the ranks of the company to become a vice president, died Wednesday after a two-year battle with cancer.
• 'Vilnius Book Fair kicked off today (Baltic Times)
VILNIUS - The largest book fair in the Baltics and one of the most outstanding cultural events in Lithuania Book Fair 2006 started today at Lithuanian Exhibition Center LITEXPO.
• 'Taking business meetings to the high seas (Miami Herald)
They sailed into North Palm Beach Marina, their bare feet dangling from the bow of the catamaran sailboat in the late afternoon sun. A crisp winter breeze tousled their hair and polo shirts, and they laughed as two danced along with a bluegrass riff.