Boat International US Edition

MY LIFE IN BOATS PETER VLASOV

 was raised between Switzerland and the Bahamas. We've owned an island there since the 1980s. My father and grandfather were in the shipping business and their Sitmar Line was the second-largest immigration service to North America. By the 1960s, airplanes became the preferred way to travel and my father, Boris Vlasov, became the first ship owner to turn a liner service into a cruise business,

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