02-Oct-2005  (yacht cruise)

• 'Windstar Cruises' Degrees of Difference Add Up to an Experience 180 Degrees From Ordinary (CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance)
Windstar Cruises is launching a new initiative called Degrees of Difference, featuring added amenities and enhancements to the line's three motor sailing yachts -- the 308-guest Wind Surf and 148-guest Wind Star and Wind Spirit.
• ''Mutiny' at the Yacht Club: Descendents of leader of famous revolt tell their story in Mystic (Guilford Courier)
Mystic - A fifth-generation descendent of the leader of the mutiny on the HMS Bounty in 1790 visited the Mystic River yacht Club last Wednesday. Tom Christian and his wife, Betty, came from Pitcairn Island, one of the most remote islands in the world.
• 'Cracking up in chilly Alaska (Los Angeles Times)
THEIR friends raved about Alaska, so last June, Chuck Larsen and his wife, Shelby, of Pacific Palisades, signed up for a one-week cruise organized by tour company Abercrombie & Kent. Their 20-passenger yacht stopped for a few hours just south of Juneau, where Larsen snapped this picture of the calving of Sawyer Glacier.
• 'Chelsea Owner Abramovich Gains $13 Billion; Rival Sits in Jail (Bloomberg.com)
U.K. Sept. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Roman Abramovich's 377-foot yacht Pelorus steamed into Monaco's Hercules Harbor on the last Friday in August and tied up at a spot normally reserved for cruise ships.
• 'Special events calendar (The State)
BENEFIT FOR NEW ORLEANS MUSICIANS: 7 tonight at Headliners, 700 Gervais Street. All proceeds from the event go to the NOLA Musicians Relief Fund. Tickets are $25 and $100. (803) 401-8990.
• 'SeaMobile (Luxist)
As anyone who has spent time on the ocean knows, cell phone service has a tendency to dwindle away once you get out on the water. A new company has been created to offer wireless voice, data and Internet services to cruise lines, yachts, ferries, container ships and off-shore platforms. Vessels equipped with SeaMobile technology will people to use voice and data services available through their
• 'Dick Durham's East Coast cruise draws to a dramatic close (Yachting Monthly)
'I've hardly been ashore,' reported Dick Durham, YM's features editor, as he phoned into the office to update us on cruise of the East Coast. 'You can get quite introspective on a boat.'
• 'Cruise ship under construction at Qeshm, Iran (IranMania.com)
LONDON, September 28 (IranMania) - The first ocean-going cruise ship in Iran and the Middle East is under construction in the Persian Gulf island of Qeshm, reported CHN.