Dead Sea (2012)
“Like her godfather Richard Mariner on the road bridge in Tokyo three months earlier, she wasn’t letting the weather worry her. Even though she had simply shrugged a navy Helly Hansen three-quarter-length rigging coat over her Carven trouser suit and strode out on to the six hundred metres of park-front shoreline separating the yacht club from the sailing centre, thus ruining several thousand dollars’ worth of grand couture and a pair of Jimmy Choos almost as expensive as Richard’s handmade Lobb... Oxfords. But there had been a bunch of students out here waiting to walk with her and she wasn’t the kind of woman to ignore her friends – or her fans.
The crowd of University of British Columbia students behind her paused also, straining, like her, to catch a glimpse of her vessel Flint, as she sailed across from the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club to the Jericho Sailing Centre ready for ‘the off’. It was the first of August and coming up to high water. Liberty had a lot to do and not much time left, as anyone watching her recent broadcast from the grand reception at the Royal Yacht Club would have been very well aware.MoreLess
The crowd of University of British Columbia students behind her paused also, straining, like her, to catch a glimpse of her vessel Flint, as she sailed across from the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club to the Jericho Sailing Centre ready for ‘the off’. It was the first of August and coming up to high water. Liberty had a lot to do and not much time left, as anyone watching her recent broadcast from the grand reception at the Royal Yacht Club would have been very well aware.MoreLess
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