Yachts

The groundswell of populist anger against banks and politicians picked up momentum in Southern California as powerful labor union support helped galvanize protests nationwide. Rallies extended to the 18th day in New York, where Occupy Wall Street planned a massive solidarity march with unions Wednesday. Protesters spent their fourth night camping outside Los Angeles City Hall, disrupted a bankers conference at a Newport Beach yacht club and demonstrated outside a financial executive's Bel Air home.

Royals fans who visit Edinburgh, Scotland, this summer can catch a new exhibit about Britain's queen -- and get a discount on tours of the royal yacht too. " The Queen: Art and Image ," at the Scottish National Gallery, celebrates the diamond jubilee of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. The queen, one of the longest reigning monarchs in British history, has been on the throne since 1952. During that time, her image has evolved from remote royal icon in diamond tiara to middle-aged granny in party hats and glasses.  Given a substantial boost by popular media coverage of her late daughter-in-law, Princess Diana, the queen’s reign has been marked by a major transition in the way the monarchy is portrayed and the way in which it portrays itself.  The new exhibit, running through Sept.

Stay at the waterfront Portofino Hotel & Yacht Club in Redondo Beach through June and you can save on rooms with a view. But you'll need to make your reservation this week. The deal : The Spring Ocean View Sale takes 20% off the best available rate for ocean-view rooms at the 161-room hotel at King Harbor. Under this sale, rooms with two double beds, start at $199 a night; rooms with a Jacuzzi start at $247 a night. Prices don't include tax. When: The offer is good for travel now through June 30,  but you must reserve by Friday.

A federal grand jury has indicted 14 suspected pirates in the attack on a yacht in the Indian Ocean that left four Americans dead. Thirteen Somalis and one Yemeni made initial appearances in a Norfolk, Va., courtroom Thursday on charges of piracy, kidnapping and firearms possession. The four Americans, Jean and Scott Adam of Marina del Rey, and Phyllis Macay and Bob Riggle of Seattle, were sailing the 58-foot Quest off the coast of Oman last month, headed toward the Red Sea, when their yacht was attacked.

Jean and Scott Adam traipsed the globe the way Georges Seurat painted an afternoon at the park ? point by point or, in their case, port by port. Aboard their 58-foot yacht, the couple sailed for months at a time, patching together an enviable life of exotic sights and blue-water adventure, imbued with devout faith. For every busted alternator or arduous dive to wipe muck from the propeller, there was a breathless report to friends from another remote locale ? Kota Kinabalu, Micronesian archipelagos.

As FBI agents on Wednesday began investigating the deaths of four Americans whose yacht was hijacked by Somali pirates in the Arabian Sea, U.S. officials were mulling whether to bring captured suspects to America to face justice. FOR THE RECORD: Hostages killed: In the Feb. 24 Section A, the photo accompanying an article about the U.S. investigation into the killings of four Americans whose yacht had been hijacked by Somali pirates was credited to AFP/Getty Images. Although transmitted by the wire service, the photo was provided by the Del Rey Yacht Club and taken by club member Joan Godfrey.

For nearly a decade, Scott and Jean Adam's home has been a 58-foot custom-made sloop and the ocean below. Although they docked every so often in Marina del Rey to pick up mail and see old friends, the couple spent most of their time sailing to far-flung locales like the Galapagos Islands, Tahiti and New Zealand. Posting photos and information on their website , they raved about their travels aboard the Quest. "We've decided to ... explore Fiji like petals on a flower," they wrote about their 2007 trip to the South Pacific.

Pirates off the coast of Somalia have hijacked the yacht of a couple on a worldwide voyage distributing Bibles, according to Somalia's U.N. Mission. Jean and Scott Adam have been sailing around the world for six years on their sailboat, the S/V Quest. They have raced with the Del Rey Yacht Club in Marina del Rey, which has been their mail drop during their global odyssey. Omar Jamal, first secretary at the Somali mission, said Friday that pirates in the Indian Ocean had taken four U.S. citizens captive when they hijacked the S/V Quest, according to the Associated Press.

Molecular biologist Britton Chance , who combined an expertise in electronics and automation with a knowledge of physiology to pioneer the study of ultra-fast reactions in human biology, died of heart failure Nov. 16 at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He was 97. An accomplished sailor who won a gold medal in yachting at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki , Chance was a protean researcher who worked on radar systems during World War II, developed optical imaging techniques for studying fast biochemical reactions and proved key biochemical concepts about enzymatic reactions.

GIL McDOUGALD Yankees All-Star was 1951's Rookie of the Year Gil McDougald, 82, the American League Rookie of the Year in 1951 and a versatile member of dominant New York Yankees teams for 10 seasons, died Sunday of cancer at his home in New Jersey, the Yankees announced. McDougald, who played second base, shortstop and third base, was an All-Star in five seasons for the Yankees. He played on five World Series champions from 1951 to 1960. Gilbert James McDougald was born May 19, 1928, in San Francisco and signed with the Yankees in 1948.