04-Oct-2005  (yacht cruise)

• ''Mutiny' at the Yacht Club: Descendents of leader of famous revolt tell their story in Mystic (Guilford Courier)
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.
• 'Latvians feeling down on EU (Baltic Times)
RIGA - The results of a new poll show that most of Latvia?s population would vote against EU membership if a referendum were held now. The poll, conducted by the Latvijas Fakti polling company, found that 40.3 percent of Latvians would vote ?yes? and 48.7 percent would vote ?no.?
• 'Major events (San Jose Mercury News)
SOUTH BAY ``Game On.'' The history, culture and future of video games, with more than 100 games from the past 40 years, running through Jan. 2 at the Tech Museum of Innovation, 201 S. Market St., San Jose. Hours 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays-Sundays and on Monday holidays. 201 S. Market St., San Jose. $10, $8 seniors, $7 children (for either museum or IMAX); $16, $15 seniors, $13 children (for both
• 'Chelsea Owner Abramovich Gains $13 Billion; Rival Sits in Jail (Bloomberg.com)
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. Abramovich was late for a soccer match featuring the Moscow team sponsored by his oil company, OAO Sibneft.
• 'Dick Durham's East Coast cruise draws to a dramatic close (Yachting and Boating World)
'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.'
• 'False info from Russia not to deter crash investigation (Baltic Times)
VILNIUS - Defense Minister Gediminas Kirkilas said that the false information about the Su-27 fighter that crashed recently in the western part of the country would not have a detrimental effect on the investigation.
• 'Cavalli goes cruising for the saucy sailor look (Telegraph.co.uk)
For the final day of Milan Fashion Week, the designer Roberto Cavalli created the atmosphere of a luxury cruise on his 134ft yacht. Hilary Alexander. was there.
• '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.
• 'One-note 'Slut' (The Journal News)
"Slut," which opened last night at the grandly named, but very seedy, American Theatre of Actors (where "Urinetown" originated), is a terrible musical.
• 'Ship recoveries on the Internet (BizJournals)
Many of the boats damaged by Hurricane Katrina will be sold auction-style over the Internet, according to National Liquidators.