01-Nov-2005  (yacht cruise)

• 'IN MY OPINION / TOM SORENSEN: My home state left up a creek (The Charlotte Observer)
You know the party the Minnesota Vikings threw earlier this month, the one that reportedly featured strippers flown across state lines and dropped onto two cruise boats occupied by players?
• 'A man called Peter (Haaretz Daily)
Kobi Hayat learned one very important lesson from his short but nightmarish cruise a couple of months ago: Never take aboard people you don't know. Not even if they are Israelis looking for a "romantic cruise" along the coast of Turkey.
• 'Savannah Morning News, Ga., Ports Column (RedNova)
By Mary Carr Mayle, Savannah Morning News, Ga. Oct.
• 'The other side of Jamaica (Newsday.com)
Within a mile of Montego Bay's International Airport, we've already passed a goat grazing on a soccer field and fishermen hawking freshly caught lobsters and stringers of fish by the side of the road. On the four-hour drive to Port Antonio, a sleepy resort town on the eastern end of Jamaica, you can tell in an instant this is a world away.
• 'Coast Guard wrapping up inquiry into disappearance (Boston Globe)
The investigation into a New Hampshire man's disappearance at sea neared completion yesterday, as friends and family of Stephen Woods -- including his son, Asher, who was rescued last week from the family's sailboat -- mourned the 55-year-old lawyer and father of five at a memorial Mass.
• 'Investigators Seek Black's Ties To Lobbyists (NBC 17 Raleigh)
Federal subpoenas seek information linking House Speaker Jim Black with lottery and video poker lobbyists, including any communications with the owners of a Raleigh strip club.
• 'Birthday-suit cruises and other surprises (Los Angeles Times)
Nude sailings on the Caribbean are selling out. Too modest? Try a quick-hit European trip. Or there's always the Dominican Republic.
• 'Real Estate and Development (In Business Las Vegas)
At In Business Las Vegas we get a lot of press packets regarding interesting new projects - many of them for condo developments.