????熱愛(ài)海洋和沙灘,，但是整個(gè)冬天不得不留在岸上的讀者們,，一定會(huì)喜歡G?布魯斯?奈赫特的新書《宏圖大志》（Grand Ambition）,。而當(dāng)他們拿起這本關(guān)于航海的新書，一定會(huì)因?yàn)檫@本書的副標(biāo)題而疑惑不解,，直撓頭皮,。這條誠(chéng)懇而又動(dòng)人的副標(biāo)題這樣寫道：“本書獻(xiàn)給一條非凡出眾的游艇和建造它的人們，以及一名無(wú)法真正享用它的億萬(wàn)富翁,?！?/p>

????奈赫特是個(gè)航海老手。他寫過(guò)兩本關(guān)于航海的書,，都大受歡迎,。一本是關(guān)于1998年的悉尼-霍巴特帆船大賽（Sydney to Hobart yacht race）。當(dāng)時(shí),，這個(gè)賽事斷送了6個(gè)參賽者的生命,。另一本則是關(guān)于“水煮魚”（poached fish）——既是餐廳里的一種菜肴，又是海盜非法盜捕的意思,。他還是瑪麗?查四世號(hào)縱帆船（Mari Cha IV）的船員之一,。2005年，他們駕駛這艘船打破了塵封100多年的橫渡大西洋航海時(shí)間紀(jì)錄,。

????這次，奈赫特寫了一本深入淺出,、包羅萬(wàn)象的手冊(cè),，告訴你一艘當(dāng)代的超級(jí)游艇是怎樣制造的。這艘夢(mèng)幻游艇的主人是一位私募基金投資大亨道格?馮?埃爾曼和他的妻子琳達(dá),。他們對(duì)現(xiàn)在擁有的游艇中的一艘不太滿意：這艘船長(zhǎng)197英尺,，設(shè)計(jì)高度有11.5英尺，大得沒(méi)法泊入他們?cè)趧诘麓鸂柋さ膭e墅碼頭,。他們打算重新訂做一艘略小的游艇,，大約187英尺長(zhǎng)，8英尺高,，就起名叫“琳達(dá)女士號(hào)”（Lady Linda）,。他們希望這艘船就在美國(guó)制造，從而證明美國(guó)制造的游艇也能和在荷蘭,，或者德國(guó)那些頂級(jí)船塢建造的游艇一樣好,。

????Sea-struck readers enduring the long winter ashore will want to pick up Grand Ambition, the latest maritime volume from G. Bruce Knecht. And the minute they do they'll likely start scratching their heads, bemused by the engagingly frank subtitle on the cover: "An Extraordinary Yacht, The People Who Built It, And the Millionaire Who Can't Really Afford It."

??? Knecht knows his boats. He is the author of two previous, well received sea stories, one about the deadly 1998 Sydney to Hobart yacht race, and one about poached fish -- the kind served in restaurants, and also the kind taken illegally by pirates. He was also, it happens, aboard the schooner Mari Cha IV in 2005 when it broke a transatlantic sailing record that had stood for 100 years.

??? This time Knecht has written a soup-to-nuts account of the construction of a modern superyacht. The vessel is the dream boat of a private equity investor, Doug Von Allmen, and his wife, Linda, who have a problem with one of their current yachts: at 197 feet, with a draft of eleven and a half feet, it is too big to keep at the dock behind their house in Fort Lauderdale. They decide to commission a slightly smaller one, to be called Lady Linda, 187 feet long with an eight-foot draft. They want it to be made in the U.S.A., so as to prove that an American-built yacht can be just as good as one built in the fancy shipyards in Holland and Germany.