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Yacht Balboa and President Wash Ashore

by Marsha Gibbons

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Rodriques "Rocky" von Balboa while taking the president out to meet the troops returning from the Malvinas War, struck the converted troop ship Andrea-Doria, nearly sinking the Balboa.

Yacht Balboa on the Beach
- Balboa on the beach -

As the Balboa washed up on to the beach, dozens of waiting reporters and camera men swarmed to chronicle the indignity of the "unsinkable president" along with that of the shipbuilder of both the Balboa and the Andrea-Doria.

When the press arrived however, they found only two women at the site. Rocky and the president had changed into women's clothes to avoid the reporters. One of the reporters from Sweden who was a cross-dresser him self, recognized the ruse, but taking a liking to the president said nothing until years later, writing about the incident in his tell-all book "Va er Kendt?"


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