Akshaye Khanna spent some happy days all by himself in filmmaker Priyadarshan’s yacht in the backwaters of Alleppey, Kerala. The yatch Solitaire is quite popular with Bollywood. It also has fishing equipment and Khanna indulged himself to the hilt fishing in the backwaters.“Priyadarshan had bought the yacht a few months back. It has two well-furnished bedrooms and an enormous dining room as well. Solitaire as it is called is a big hit with Priyadarshan’s friends,” a paper reported.Priyadarshan revealed, “My children have grown up in concrete jungles unlike me, who had the opportunity to see nature in close quarters. This vehicle is therefore a good escape from the city life for families such as mine. Yes, my friends do spend a lot of time on the yacht all by themselves or
Akshaye Khanna spent some happy days all by himself in filmmaker Priyadarshan’s yacht in the backwaters of Alleppey, Kerala. The yatch Solitaire is quite popular with Bollywood. It also has fishing equipment and Khanna indulged himself to the hilt fishing in the backwaters.
“Priyadarshan had bought the yacht a few months back. It has two well-furnished [...]
Today, Ara K. Hovnanian, CEO of Hovnanian Enterprises Inc., presented the results of Q1 2007 showing a net loss of $57.3 million.This reflected a significant series of pretax impairment charges related to their Fort Myers-Cape Coral Florida operations which totaled $93 million.Apparently, Hovnanian acquired land and started building in the Fort Myers area in August 05, the exact month that MLS listings in that area soared from less than 5000 to over 20,000.The first quarter also showed a 36% cancellation rate, the highest Hovnanian has recorded since the downturn began.Hovnanian is now projecting a decline in deliveries of 14.8% to 20.8% below the 2006 actual of 20,201 units resulting in an 8.2% to 16.4% decline to total revenue from the 2006 $6.1 billion total.But with all this, Hovnanian, although sounding very tentative and even explicitly reiterating that he is tentative, suggests that many markets may be starting to stabilize.“Its not getting worse and it is slow and steady.”
Yesterday I had a bit of free time on my hands and after finding out during last week that one of my cousins was sailing in the West Lancashire Yatch Club's 40th 24 hour race I decided to go and have a look at the start of the event on Marine Lake, Southport.My cousin and her husband both sail for Ogston Sailing Club and each of them were doing a couple of 2 hour shifts throughout the race. Ogston had 3 boats competing this year consisting of masters (over 40's), fast and everything else crews, all in Enterprise class boats.The event was very well attended and the weather was fantastic. The wind coming across the lake made some good speeds possible and it was not unusual to see the small boats plane across the water - especially the GP14 class as pictured here which was able to take a spinnaker (the light blue sail) to catch even more wind.It was good to have a little insider knowledge into the 'mechanics' of sailing and after a while I began to realise that I had underestimated th
