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Surreal encounter with $27 million super yacht
The maiden voyage of the Aurora -- a new 160-foot, $26.6 million aluminum super yacht launched last week in Viareggio, Italy.   The latest entry into the rarefied world of super yacht ownership, wishes to remain anonymous -- is only 30 years old.

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It also took place entirely on land, when all 320 tons of the boat were loaded atop heavy duty, remote-controlled dollies and carefully rolled from the shed where it was constructed to the edge of the Mediterranean.

Watching an imposing vessel like the Aurora passing through the darkened streets of the scruffy, seaside town, halting traffic and only narrowly avoiding a collision with a streetlight, induces a surreal and somewhat disorienting feeling. But for those more immersed in the world of bespoke luxury yachts, surreal is perhaps the norm.

"Viareggio is famous for this reason," says Federico Rossi, COO of Rossinavi, the family-owned and operated company that built the Aurora. "Our tradition is to see vessels that go around in the city during the night."

Young millennial buyers

What isn't tradition is the age of the Aurora buyer; the latest entry into the rarefied world of super yacht ownership -- who, although present for the unveiling where he mingled with guests, wishes to remain anonymous -- is only 30 years old.

"Generally, the customer is 55 to 70," Frederico, himself only 39, explains. The Rossi family takes pride in satisfying all customers, 25 years outside of the usual age range or not.

In spending power, the buyer of the Aurora -- who is from Switzerland -- fits the profile of the typical Rossinavi client. His age is the most noticeable exception and also marks a potential turning point for the company.

Research conducted by Rossinavi suggests that the average yacht owner is getting younger; they believe it may shift in the next 20 years to include more buyers in their 30s.

Last year, the company partnered with the International University of Monaco to research what yachts for millennials could look like, focusing on environmental impact, implementation of new technology, safety concerns and updated aesthetics.

While acknowledging that super yachts for millennials is a niche corner of an already niche industry, Federico is enthusiastic about what tapping that market could mean for Rossinavi.

"Yachts are a conservative business. People generally want the same boat: classic," he says. "Millennials are used to going outside the general boundaries. For us, it's a great opportunity -- shipyards that can take this [demographic] into consideration are only shipyards that build full custom ships."

Family heritage

The Aurora is the second of three extravagant super yachts set to be delivered this year to clients of Rossinavi. The shipyard has roots dating to 1980, when brothers Claudio and Paride Rossi worked as subcontractors, assembling passenger ships on behalf of other builders in a previous incarnation of their business operating under the name Fratelli Rossi.

In 2007, they began to take commissions from their own clients. Save for some interior design pieces and the occasional element co-designed and co-engineered with companies like Rolls Royce, Rossinavi luxury pleasure boats are made entirely in-house.

Fixtures are often fashioned from a single piece of aluminum or steel -- "like Michelangelo," as one craftsman in the company's workshop describes it.

Claudio serves as co-owner and CEO of the rechristened Rossinavi brand. Paride is still a co-owner, as well as working alongside a handful of his siblings, nieces, and nephews enlisted to keep the enterprise humming.

As COO since 2010, Federico -- Claudio's son -- also functions as the face of the company. The creation of each bespoke ship takes between two and three years to complete and passes through several pairs of Rossi hands working in tandem before it's finally delivered to the client.

"We are really close," Federico says. "It's a good family."

Typically, the process begins when prospective buyers approach Rossinavi with an idea of the size and type of ship they want. Rossinavi enlists a naval architect outside the company to collaborate on ensuring the vessel can meet technical requirements like speed, range, and propulsion, as determined by the client's preference.

(Almost) anything is fair game

Exterior and interior designers come in next. Sometimes the same person or firm handles both duties, and most often they are selected from a pool of frequent collaborators, like Fulvio de Simoni, Tommaso Spadolini or Venice's Team for Design.

"If the client says 'I have my own designer for the interiors,' we accept it," concedes Gabriele Zucconi, Rossinavi's "historical consultant" who has known the Rossi family since Claudio was only 15-years-old. "[But], I will say, we are not very happy about it."

Once the plans are finalized and a fee negotiated (plans for the Aurora took four months to finalize) construction begins at one of Rossinavi's waterfront properties in Viareggio or their work site in nearby Pisa.

Achille Salvagni, the Rome-based architect and interior designer who has worked on three Rossinavi super yachts, including the Aurora, says the Rossi's status as Italy's only family-owned and operated super yacht shipyard separates it from the pack.

"From a screw up to the hull, they are capable to make a telephone call and go directly to the right source to get it ready," he explains. "You have a family that never says no to any single problem."

Federico can think of only one instance in which he will turn a client down outright. "When they ask me for a Spartan boat," he says. "I'm afraid the market recognizes a Spartan boat as a cheap boat. We prefer to maintain our target, and we say, 'no, this is not possible.'"

Otherwise, anything is fair game -- and Rossinavi clients come to play. Given a price tag that can run from $26.6 million to $53.2 million, coupled with yearly maintenance expenditures that the company estimates to be approximately 10% of the sales price, Federico explains that most Rossinavi clients need to have at least $106.5 million in liquid assets in the bank.

The cost of repainting the entirety of a 230-foot boat for instance, can easily run upward of $4.26 million when manpower is figured into the total.

"A guy who can buy a multimillion euro toy is supposed to be somebody who knows his business and who knows how to run it," Zucconi says.

"Generally speaking, you are dealing with successful people (who are) conscious of being successful." Zucconi describes a client who paid $127,732 to buy and install a 103-inch Sony plasma TV on board his yacht, then threw in an additional $120,000 to include a secondhand Steinway piano.

"When I tell you that we are speaking toys, they are really toys," he says.

Not that Rossinavi is in danger of running out of potential clients eager to pick up an expensive hobby. The company has received commissions from Luca Barilla, a repeat Rossinavi customer who sits atop the Barilla pasta empire; Mario Sbarro, of Sbarro pizzeria fame; Italian shipping magnates; and an international assortment of businessmen from Russia, India, and Germany.

The next one is the best one

Aside from courting a younger clientele, Rossinavi is also in the process of building an "ice class" ship, designed to perform in both Caribbean and Arctic waters, more vessels that push 230 feet in length, and others with the capability to traverse the Pacific and the Atlantic.

Federico says none of these technical achievements will come at the expense of the level of comfort owners and their passengers request from Rossinavi. But they might have them coming back for more.

"Luxury for us is to have the shipyard at the disposal of the client," he says.

"The next one is the best one, he adds.

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Watch "New Day" and "CNN Newsroom" each Friday to see inspiring stories of officers going above and beyond the call of duty.

Fewer than 200,000 people live in the sovereign nation that spans parts of three states: Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.

But beneath that bucolic veneer of serenity lives an impoverished people often racked by violence. Navajo Nation has a violent crime rate higher than most major US cities -- and a police force in mourning after a third Navajo Nation police officer in less than two years lost his life on the job.

That officer, Houston Largo, was shot March 12, while responding to a domestic violence call.

According to Navajo Nation Police Chief Philip Francisco, Largo, 27, traveled nearly an hour to the call, and -- as is typical -- without backup. "There was an altercation and shots were exchanged," he said.

Largo, who was also a volunteer fire fighter, was airlifted to an Albuquerque hospital, where he died the next day.

"It's just devastating, it really hits you right here in the heart," said Russell Begaye, President of Navajo Nation. "The nation is suffering. The nation is in mourning because of the death of Officer Largo."

Navajo cop: A different job

By all accounts, being a cop is tough business. Even if the safest areas, it's a tough job. But being a cop on Native American reservations -- where violent crime rates are more than 2.5 times the national rate, according to the US Department of Justice -- is different.

"We know that they have a different job on Navajo," said Begaye, who points to rampant alcohol abuse and high unemployment as culprits.

The entire reservation police force numbers approximately 200 officers. Combine that with the reservation's sheer size -- 27,000 square miles, greater than the size of West Virginia -- and being cop in the Navajo Nation isn't only different, it's quite dangerous.

"It's difficult to serve as a police officer on Navajo," said Begaye. "Most of the time, you don't have back-up ... sometimes you'll have another officer driving an hour an hour and a half, responding to a domestic violence situation."

Compounding the danger for the Navajo Nation Police Department is the challenge of policing with paltry resources.

"We are working with half the staff other departments are working with in twice the area," said Navajo Police Chief Phillip Francisco. "So the struggles and hurdles we deal with are immense, but they go out there and do it every day, despite the dangers, despite not having back up close by. They work twice as hard as any officers I know."

Francisco, a first-time police chief, is only months on the job in Navajo, and it's been like no other job he's had in his law enforcement career.

"I tell the officers all the time, they are the hardest working officers that I know of," he said.

Largo's death has rattled the beleaguered police department.

"They are struggling," said Francisco. "They lost one of their family, their little brother, so they are taking it hard."

Still, despite it all, Francisco said Navajo officers are like no other he's worked with.

"Officers in other departments, they retire after 20 years," he said. "A lot of the officers here have been here for 40 years."

For any officer, it's a commitment that comes with a price. For Houston Largo, it came with the ultimate price.

"To come to Navajo, where you know you're going to be covering long distances, driving long hours, (and where) pay is not going to be equal to the state or to the county," said Begaye, "you're making a commitment, I'm Navajo and i want to come home and help my people better themselves, and that was Officer Largo."

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121st Boston Marathon

Kathrine Switzer made history in 1967 by becoming the first woman to officially enter the Boston Marathon.  She will return to the starting line wearing the same number an official tried to rip off her clothing in the 1967 race

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Now, 50 years later, Kathrine Switzer will return to the Boston Marathon starting line wearing the same number an official tried to rip off her clothing in the 1967 race.

The incident was captured in an iconic photo that turned Switzer into a role model and launched her career as an advocate for women's equality in sports. Now 70, with 39 marathons under her belt, it will be her first time running the Boston race since 1976 and her first marathon since 2011.

Switzer has said she did not intend to break barriers by entering the race. After all, another woman, Roberta Bingay Gibb, had completed the Boston Marathon the year before without a bib.

But the photo exposed the ugly nature of sexism in sports, thrusting Switzer into the spotlight and altering the course of her life.

"Everything changed," she told CNN affiliate WBZ-TV. "I said, 'This is going to change my life, maybe going to change women's sports and change the world.'"

'No dame ever ran the Boston Marathon'

Unlike Gibb, Switzer managed to score a bib by signing up with her initials, K.V. Switzer. As she tells it, there were no official written rules saying only men could enter the race. Nor was there a spot on the entry form to select gender.

But in those days women rarely participated in professional or competitive sports. Even her coach at Syracuse -- where Switzer trained with the men's cross-country team -- told her the distance was too long for "fragile women."

"No dame ever ran the Boston Marathon!" coach Arnie Briggs told her, according to her memoir, " Marathon Woman." But if she could run the distance in practice he promised to take her to Boston.

When Switzer completed the 26-mile trial, Briggs insisted she sign up officially. She said she used her initials because her first name was misspelled on her birth certificate, Kathrine, and she was tired of repeating the error. Plus, she said she wanted to be a writer, and using her initials, like J.D. Salinger and e.e. cummings, seemed like a "cool, writerly" thing to do.

Her bib number would come to represent fearlessness in the face of adversity for female runners ever since. The Boston Marathon will retire number 261 in Switzer's honor after she runs the race on Monday with supporters from around the world.

'Give me those numbers!'

Switzer said she did not try to hide the fact she was a woman. She wore lipstick, earrings and burgundy shorts, but ended up wearing baggy sweats over her "feminine" running gear because of the wintry weather.

It was snowing by the time she and her teammates reached the starting line in Hopkinton. One of them told her to wipe off her lipstick so organizers would not notice her. She refused and began the race.

A few miles in she saw a man with a felt hat and overcoat in the middle of the road shaking his finger at her as she passed. Then, she heard the sound of leather shoes, a distinctly different noise from the patter of rubber soles, and knew something was wrong.

"Instinctively I jerked my head around quickly and looked square into the most vicious face I'd ever seen. A big man, a huge man, with bared teeth was set to pounce, and before I could react he grabbed my shoulder and flung me back, screaming, 'Get the hell out of my race and give me those numbers!'" she wrote in her memoir.

The man was race director Jock Semple. Press photographers captured Semple's contorted face as he grabbed at Switzer's numbers while her boyfriend pulled Semple off her.

After escaping the scene she ambled on for a few miles before her anger transformed into energy. She finished the race in four hours and 20 minutes, but would later be disqualified and expelled from the Amateur Athletic Union.

Support soon eclipsed the fallout and she became a celebrity.

'I could not let fear stop me'

Switzer used her influence to campaign to get women into the Boston Marathon by 1972. She went on to run 39 marathons, winning the New York City Marathon in 1974 and achieving her personal best in 1975, 2:51:33, when she finished second in Boston.

She created the Avon International Running Circuit of women's-only races in 27 countries, paving the way for the first women's Olympic marathon in 1984. She became an author and TV commentator for the Olympics, World and National championships before returning to marathons at 64.

Along the way, 261 became a rallying cry among female runners. Switzer formed 261 Fearless, a nonprofit running club for women that has groups across the country. Some of its members will join Switzer for her victory lap on Monday, wearing the 261 bib to raise money for charity.

Why didn't she drop out of the 1967 race? Her website FAQs include a prepared response:

"Because I knew if I did that no one would believe women could run distances and deserved to be in the Boston Marathon; they would just think that I was a clown, and that women were barging into events where they had no ability. I was serious about my running and I could not let fear stop me," she said.

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Now, 50 years later, Kathrine Switzer will return to the Boston Marathon starting line wearing the same number an official tried to rip off her clothing in the 1967 race. The incident was captured in an iconic photo that turned Switzer into a role model and launched her career as an advocate for women's equality in sports.