Recreation: Sea Fever

Among boating buffs, unlike the mink-toothbrush set, there is no such creature as the man who has every thing. He may think he has — between boat shows. But when January rolls around and coliseums fill up with new craft and a thousand gadgets that have suddenly become sine qua non for sea farers, the amateur skipper realizes that his year-old, 40-ft. dreamboat is just a floating slum. Does Cap'n Jones have a Gentex contour-molded life jacket, guaranteed to turn the wearer face up in the water even if he is stunned...

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