Complex sentence: In 1986 he became a qualified pilot, in the hope of taming his fear of turbulence, and in 2007 he bought the Créole, a 70-foot wooden motor yacht built in 1930 and moored in Seattle.
Split into simpler sentences: In 1986 he became a qualified pilot, in the hope of taming his fear of turbulence. In 2007 he bought the Créole, a 70-foot wooden motor yacht built in 1930 and moored in Seattle.