Powerless to work at her real craft, writing, she is obsessed with getting even until faced with others who have committed vengeful acts, such as an unhinged police officer and a shallow, affluent
sailboater. The finest story of the collection, "Palliatives" begins in an airplane.
The respondents were distributed among four boater styles as follows: recreational powerboater, 66 percent; recreational
sailboater, 23 percent; cruising powerboater, six percent; and cruising
sailboater, five percent.
"The
sailboater is getting hurt worse than the power boater," said Marl Carter, general manager of Staff Jennings Boating Center in Eugene.
In the absence of a motor, the elderly, the disabled, the single-person
sailboaters and others might as well be excluded from the lake.
Sailboaters and cottagers on Lake Superior know all too well of the power behind the prevailing northwesterly winds that sweep across the great lake.
By afternoon the breeze picks up, the fishermen--having set out at 5 a.m.--are back in their rooms taking siestas, and the windsurfers and
sailboaters are out in force.
a string of several dozen white houses is beautifully sited around outer Loch Carron, with hotels, restaurants, and bed-and-breakfast inns that appeal to artists and
sailboaters. It's a more restful stop than Kyle of Lochalsh 5 miles beyond.
Sailboaters are heeling, children cartwheeling, motorists automobiling, drinking in sights from around the state.
While few straight motor boaters use the lake, a lot of
sailboaters do - 508 days of visiting in 2008, according to the survey.
The motorized
sailboaters argued in their written appeal of the ban that the Forest Service "anoints one user group, admittedly a majority, over another.
If waterskiers and personal watercraft users are "hotdoggers," what do the editors call kayakers, canoeists and
sailboaters? Hippies?