Luckily for us, a couple had just tied the knot on the beach near our boat and we had to hitch a ride with the newlyweds to a place where the captain and his wife could be airlifted out.
Down on the beach near an overturned boat was some ignoramus.
The grounds offer a sport court where tennis and other activities can be played, a private beach, and three boat moorings (Nantucket has a moratorium on boat docks).
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Max dragged the boat onto the beach, placed a group of large stones around it, and tied its lead to the biggest tree he could find.
The section used to be one of the capital's most luxurious suburbs, complete with beach chalets and golf clubs, boat clubs and casinos.
Tourist Ernst Mollemans, on the last day of his vacation and taking a boat trip from one island to another south of Phuket, narrowly escaped death or serious injury when he heard the driver scream and abruptly turn the boat toward a small beach to their left.
We had a motor boat which towed another to and from the beach.
"The whole deal with the preppy summertime lifestyle is that you go right from the beach into cocktail hour or you're on a boat, " he says.
The Cup has traveled from the back of a duck boat in the streets of Boston to the greens of Pebble Beach, and from a sauna in Finland to a Slovakian castle.
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But if you simply cannot be pried from the ivory sands of Muri Beach, the hotel offers scuba diving, windsurfing, glass-bottom boat tours and guided walks through the green jungles on the island.
As each colourfully painted wooden fishing boat returns from three or four days at sea, the beach rapidly transforms into a market and large metal bowls of shiny silver herring and tuna are hauled ashore by men who look like Olympic medal-winning body builders.
The force of the waves combined with the high tide ripped up part of the beach and lifted some of the boats onto the road, and the nearby boat museum was flooded.
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In Ixtapa, activities start with a boat trip along the coast and a morning of golf, tennis and beach time followed by lunch at Slim's home.
In Costa Rica we did some zip lining, boat riding and snorkeling, a few nature tours, a bit of sitting on the beach and a whole lot of restful, sometimes jolting, and always thoroughly stimulating gazing across Costa Rica's undulating landscapes from the windows of tourist transport vans.
There's a number of great hotels, islands to speed boat out to for lunch and then lay around in hammocks afterwards before heading to a secluded beach.
The sand has been dredged by boat from a sandbank 20 miles (32km) out to sea, then pumped onto Colwyn Bay beach through a pipeline.
Floating cargo from Asia to the east coast by boat will always be cheaper, concedes Christopher Lytle, the executive director of the Port of Long Beach.
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Spend a day there (or three, as I did while we waited for the boat's engine to be fixed), and you will fall in love with the friendly, beach bum lifestyle.
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