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"She was twenty-two feet long, with a two-foot wooden bowsprit sticking from her nose, a stainless steel pulpit above it.  Her mast and boom were made of wood, kept in good shape and varnished to a high sheen.  And she had stainless steel lifelines all around and a small cabin in the middle with two plastic portholes on each side."

"She was, in reality, a small boat.  Two steps came down from the cockpit to the cabin floor.  Directly in the middle, in front of him, was a table with drop leaves on each side.  On each side of the boat, facing the table, was a bench with a cushion which could also be used as a short bunk.  Up front, peaked into the bow was a double bunk filled with bags of sails - six of them.  To his right and back under the cockpit was a single bed... and to the left and under the cockpit was a storage area."

" Stretching from the front pulpit to a back stanchion and all around the Frog were stainless-steel lifelines rigged in stout stainless-steel posts.  The mast was laminated spruce, a rectangle, and the boom was also spruce but attached at a right angle to the mast with a worm gear and crank arrangement so the boom could be rotated to roll down part of the mainsail in a strong wind."

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