Roosevelt's son John, who inherited the estate, was a champion ice yachter.

Its isolated nature means it is rarely visited, save by the occasional scientist or yachter.

By the same token, the trip lacks the yachter's frisson of anxiety about getting into a harbor before it's too dark or too hungry out.

Robert Thomson is a round-the-world cyclist, yachter and longboarder from New Zealand.

After being destroyed in the 1946 tsunami, the area was abandoned until the early 1960s, when a wealthy yachter anchored offshore came up with an idea that sp.

Recent attacks have been especially violent, including the murder of a U.S. citizen on his boat in November 2008, and the killing of a French yachter in September 2008.

LEAD: Equal-Opportunity Yachting Equal-Opportunity Yachting THE flags were flying over the Breezy Point Yacht Club in Amityville as a yachter, James Bunting, showed a visitor his yacht, a 36-foot 1963 Pacemaker.

He was an avid sportsman, and in the 1880s was a champion ice yachter at a time when the Hudson just north of Poughkeepsie and the river's salt front, where it freezes over in cold winters, was the center of the sport in the United States.