The British Museum has been a place of pilgrimage for Perry since he was a child -- though he admits to a sense of disappointment on his first visit, because the model boats in the Egyptian collection were not as shiny and new as the cars he played with at home.

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Model yachts were real boats and they sailed good.

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Apart from an idle man halfheartedly flipping through a book of local attractions, there was no one in the front of the shop, where miniature carved boats and model fish aged unwanted on the shelves.

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In none of these instances, however, is there public record of any punishment imposed on Pacific Andes, which with its business model until recently owned no boats.

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McClurg aims to expand his time-share model to a fleet of four boats serving specific regions, such as the Caribbean and the Mediterranean.

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