Everyone who comes aboard must read that poem, or they won t be offered a drink. Moore met Wayne once, and the Duke autographed a photograph of himself that hangs in the cabin. Rooster is Awlgripped in a dark claret red. Rooster carries 350 gallons of fuel and has a 700-mile range. This is my boat, and it s going to be my choice of color and fabric, he told her emphatically.
Most people say they like the combination of red, yellow, blue and green.
At least that s what they tell me. The single head and shower, incidentally, is forward where a V-berth might be. You aren t squeezed into a closet the way you are on a lot of sailboats, he says. And I stole some of old man Herreshoff s ideas about hiding bunk extensions in the head. Moore wanted a proper desk for his laptop computer to run his business on board.