SPRING SIGNS

The activity in America's marinas is a sure sign of spring, and here—in this single dramatic picture of Ft. Lauderdale's Bahia Mar—the season and the sign have been captured by Photographer Richard Meek. At Bahia Mar, the world's biggest pleasure-boat dock, the slips already have begun to empty as sleek power cruisers point their noses into the channel; and in a few weeks, marinas from Portland, Me. to Seattle will start to fill with early arrivals from the South as another summer of boating gets under way.

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