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4B THE PALM BEACH POST THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1996 msl Surf, winds sealing fate of dream boat The Movie Season A host of movies opens this weekend, including the new Star Trek flick and Arnold Schwarzenegger's Jingle All the Way. Check tomorrow for the reviews. The 65-foot sailboat washed ashore Oct. 23. out of debt from just salvaging it," Kappele said.

"I'll be an old man in a wheelchair before I could afford to put another boat in the water." MRA WIH MR TOTALLY WireLESS, Inc. (CQmrOcifanmaiQ Dim MynntDDir FREE Cell phone FREE Lectfiercase FREE Cigarette AdapterCharger with Kappele doing most of the work himself, having a friend teach him how to weld and custom designing every detail, down to the fuel tanks that were placed so they wouldn't explode even if the boat was torn to pieces, Kappele said. Money from a small rental house Kappele owned helped pay for Mariner's transformation. And when it came time to put the expensive final touches on the boat, Kappele sold the house and used the money to finish the boat, he said. Upset at the thought of losing his Mariner, Kappele had to be taken to the hospital after the first three attempts to free the boat failed, said Jan McLaughlin, Kap-pele's sister.

"I spent 10 to 12 hours every day working on that boat, it became a part of me," said Kappele, who is unemployed and lives on an Army disability pension. "Watching it toss around on the beach was like having my arms and legs slowly pulled off." Now, the fate of Mariner is nearly sealed. Sand and water are filling the boat and putting it out to sea is impossible at this point, Kappele said. He has talked to salvage companies about buying the boat as scrap, but no company has been interested so far. And keeping the boat is probably out of the question, Kappele said.

"I just don't have the resources to fix the boat after I get Several attempts to free 'By JENNIFER MERRITT Jalm Beach Post Staff Writer 3'. After almost a month, a 20-jyear dream has died at the hands pf the crashing surf and gale force "winds that whipped the boat Mari-Jner from the shallow waters off jPalm Beach onto rocks exposed by jerosion. "It's been devastating," the Mariner's owner, Art Kappele, Jsaid Wednesday after surveying Jthe recent damage to his 65-foot sailboat. "If we can't come up with imy way of salvaging the boat, it mean cutting the boat up and taking it off the beach in pieces." Kappele had hoped to repair ihis boat and float it again. "But I just don't have the money to do 'that after what I saw Monday," he jsaid.

The ordeal began as Kappele and his girlfriend Joann Rentz Vere sailing the boat to Key West Jin the wake of Hurricane Lili when 'Jhe boat washed ashore on Oct. 23. After battling the rough surf for hours, the waters calmed and the two fell asleep exhausted, Kappele said. When they woke a few hours Hater, the aluminum boat was bouncing in the shallow beach wafers. a Since then, several attempts to free Mariner with a tugboat have failed.

Mounting costs put the operation on hold for almost a week after the mast broke off as the boat it have failed. tossed in the surf. Towboat One planned to bring in a crane mounted on a barge last week to lift the boat over a two-foot high rock line 20 yards from the shore, but the plan had to be abandoned after some of the rigging chains and other equipment were stolen, said George Mansfield of Towboat One, the company that has been trying to tug Mariner off the beach. Last week's strong winds and heavy surf not only battered Mariner's already fragile hull, but those forces also exposed nearly four feet of jagged rocks above the shoreline. The surf tossed the uninsured boat away from the water onto the rocks, resulting in several gaping holes in the hull, Mansfield said.

"That boat will never float again," Mansfield said. "We're not sure what to do next." Kappele, who turned 50 on Oct. 28, began drawing plans for his dream boat in 1978. He bought Mariner's hull from a ship yard in Oyster Bay, N.Y., five years ago and towed it down the Intracoastal Waterway with a 21-foot fishing boat, he said. The Mariner was originally owned by media mogul Ted Turner, who sailed it in the 1974 America's Cup race another battle that Mariner lost.

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Rander said he was not naming either of the Cooleys as a suspect but had not eliminated them. "We're looking at a lot of people," he said. to the results of a search warrant filed Wednesday in circuit court. "From the physical evidence obtained from the vehicle we believe it was related to the crash," said David Rander, a vehicle homicide investigator with the Palm Beach County Sheriffs Office. "We're awaiting lab results for verification." The car's windshield was broken, the hood was dented, the front bumper cover was broken and had fabric on its edge.

Fabric was also found on a windshield wiper. There was no rust on the metal exposed on the dented hood, indicating the damage occurred within a few days, according to the search warrant, which a judge issued Thursday. Investigators are trying to By CHRISTINE STAPLETON fjalm Beach Post Staff Writer WEST PALM BEACH Sheriffs detectives investigating the hit-and-run death of a 14-year-iSld girl have searched the car of a Jupiter Farms couple who reported their car stolen three hours iafter the Nov. 9 accident. The car, a maroon, 1994 Mitsubishi Gallant, was reported as Abandoned 13 hours after Kady Wilt was killed as she walked long 133rd Terrace North near L56th Place in Jupiter Farms with friend.

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7 U.S. 441 Theater Review The physical production has a lot to do with this script working. Rest assured that James Noone's set and Ken Billington's lighting do their part to spring the traps you will be pleased to be caught in. Deathtrap plays through Sun LOCATED IN HELP! HELP! Ann Landers offers advice every day in Accent in Th Palm Beach Post. a- ROYAL PALM BEACH BUSINESS PARK 260-B BUSINESS PARK WAY ROYAL PALM BEACH, FLORIDA CD Q.

SSSSSSSS By HAP ERSTEIN Palm Beach Post Theater Writer MIAMI BEACH Ira Levin's 1978 comic thriller Deathtrap and Anthony Shaffer's Sleuth are the standards by which modern mystery entertainments are measured. The former, which has not had a major revival since its long-running Broadway production, is back now in a crackerjack touring edition starring Elliott Gould and Mariette Hartley. Encountering the play again, one is pleasantly reacquainted with a devilishly clever script that twists on itself with self-referential humor. Those unfamiliar with jts serpentine turns and dramatic reversals should enjoy it even more. And judging from the gasps and giggles at Tuesday evening's opening at the Jackie Gleason Theater, Deathtrap may be reaching a substantially new audience this time around.

1 Levin gives us the dilemma of playwright Sidney Bruhl, desperately reaching out for one more hit thriller after several dismal flops. Qne day, such a script arrives in the mail from one of his writing seminar students. Bruhl instantly recognizes it as a can't-miss commercial gold mine and starts "hatching a homicidal plan to make the play his own. As least that is what we are asked to believe in the early going of an evening salted with red herrings, gimmicks and some gleeful surprises. I Director John Tillinger has not so much rethought the play as reassembled it.

Not that Deathtrap needed a new production concept. Nearly 20 years after it first tickled audiences, it still has that ability. After all, don't we love returning to roller coasters, even though we know exactly where each jolt is? As Bruhl, Gould begins with a disconcerting stiffness, but as the plot starts accelerating, he comes to life wilh the character's increased agitation. Although billed above the show's title, Hartley really has a supporting role as Sidney's wealthy, squeamish wife, which she handles with an assured, natural touch. Soap opera hunk Douglas Wert gets a workout as Bruhl's protege and diminutive Marilyn Cooper is in her element in the hammy comic relief role of neighboring psychic Helga Ten Dorp.

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