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PARLAY

The 2000 Bacardi Bayview

Mackinac Race begins

Saturday, July 15, in the

Black River and finishes at

Mackinac Island usually

Sunday evening or Monday.

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arlay is a bet or parlay can
be a conversation, but to
Walter Cohen of
Bloomfield Hills, Parlay is
a 35-foot Catalina sailboat. His wife
Margaret named the boat because of
the double entendre, but it's Cohen
and his children — Nicholas, David
and Laura Beth — who love the
sport. For pleasure, the family can
sail a small boat on Sodon Lake, but
for competition the Parlay sets sail
on the Great Lakes.
Sailing is a passion for the 52-

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year-old president of
Arco Construction,
who develops commercial and resi-
dential property. He operates and
restores several housing develop-
ments in downtown Detroit,
including the River Place
Apartments and the Park Shelton.
Currently one of his projects is a
development on Duck Lake in
Milford.
Cohen began boating with his
father, Arnold, on Lake St. Clair. He
then sailed in high school on Long
Island Sound while attending
Milford Academy. today in Detroit.

Cohen doesn't just sail. He races.
His boat is moored at the
Jefferson Beach Marina and he
belongs to the Grosse Pointe Yacht
Club and Clinton River Boat Club.
He is also a member of the Detroit
River Yachting Association.
He competes all through the
summer. Cohen enjoys the chal-
lenge and the strategy. "All boats
race against one another, and com-
pete by class," explains Cohen,
whose Parlay took third place in the
1998 Bacardi Bayview Mackinac
Race, Division III, Class 0.
"Because of the rating on a given

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day, you can have a world-class racer
next to you," notes Cohen. "And if
you did everything right you could
beat them."
Cohen especially enjoys the Port
Huron-Mackinac Race, a race
known for its tradition and chal-
lenge. "The history of it makes it
special. There's a sense of adven-
ture, endurance and nature," he
adds. Cohen explains that depend-
ing on the wind, it can be a long
race.
"When you finish, there's a real
sense of accomplishment."

—Carla &Imam