18-Dec-2006  (yacht cruise)

• 'Maritime Mansions Awash In Luxury (Hartford Courant)
As the housing bubble bursts on land, it seems a wave of interest rises at sea.
• 'More to this place than a pass-through (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Panama has always been a convenient shortcut for travelers on their way to somewhere else. The Spaniards used it to haul treasures from Peru. Prospectors used it to race by rail to California for the Gold Rush. And the whole world still uses its canal, the fastest way to move cargo and cruise ships between oceans.
• 'Lights, action! Parade's a stage (Miami Herald)
Gray skies and a steady drizzle didn't dampen the enthusiasm of Kailynn and Kelvin Taylor at their first Winterfest Boat Parade on Saturday.
• 'Pyrotechnics (San Jose Mercury News)
Board a Hornblower Holiday Cruise Imagine kissing your New Year's honey on the deck of a yacht beneath a raining sky of fireworks. Sound ideal? It'll cost you a pretty penny, but you only celebrate New Year's Eve once -- a year! Choose from four five-hour cruises, from an all-out four-course dinner package with hosted bar and live band to a scaled-down hors d'oeuvres, chocolate fountain and ...
• 'Set sail for luxury: Fulfill your fantasies with cruise on Heiress' former private yacht (Boston Herald)
A BOARD THE SEA CLOUD -With the British Virgin Islands slipping past on either side, I looked up at a complex web of lines and masts supporting al- most an acre of sail that stretched 178 feet into...
• 'On the horizon: New ships with more of everything (Chicago Tribune)
Though shipbuilding is no longer conducted at the feverish pitch of several years ago, new vessels continue to slip into the water at shipyards abroad.
• 'Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club (Boothbay Register)
The following report, regarding our new BHYC in-house telephone system was received from our Commodore; "Good News! Our new telephone system is installed and working.
• 'Business homepage (The New Zealand Herald)
SYDNEY - Disgraced Australian businessman Alan Bond is set to make a second fortune from brokering foreign mining and energy projects.
• 'Getting shipshape, from stem to stern (Sun-Sentinel)
With no new ships on their respective horizons, Windstar Cruises, Disney Cruise Line and Crystal Cruises each have opted for the next best thing: renovations.