Papa Would Approve

摘要

To understand why buddy Davis yachts are built so tough, take a look at the map: Off North Carolina's Outer Banks lie some of the richest fisheries anywhere in the world. To get to them, though, captains leaving the protected waters of Albe-marle or Pamlico Sound have to run a gauntlet. Only a handful of inlets provide access to the sea, and when tides are running high or a storm is brewing, those narrow inlets act like funnels, concentrating the full power of the Atlantic into walls of water ten feet high. A boat takes the full brunt of it on its bow, like a punch in the nose.