The 1970s Were a Great Time To Be Famous and Lounging on a Boat

Famous people in the 1970s made so many things feel simultaneously stylish and carefree. They dialed it up for the airport and gave their off-duty look an incomparable easy-breezy quality. When they stepped onto boats, or hung out near boats, the result was no different, as these photos demonstrate.

Paul Newman during the filming of The Drowning Pool in Louisiana in 1975. He's on an airboat, the back of which is in the background.

Roger Moore behind the wheel of a speedboat during the filming of Live And Let Die on March 1, 1973 in Kingston, Jamaica.

Dennis Hopper, invited by the crew aboard the USS Saratoga aircraft carrier, in 1976.

Dennis Hopper, aboard the USS Saratoga, in 1976.

Dennis Hopper on the USS Saratoga.

Rod Stewart with his wife, actress Britt Ekland, at Southampton after arriving aboard the QE2 in 1977.

A shirtless Gregg Allman leans against the ropes on a boat in 1974.

George Harrison aboard the ocean liner QE2 from New York after three months recording in America in 1971.

German Chancellor Willy Brandt (front) and Soviet head of state Leonid Brezhnev during a boat ride in the Soviet Union in 1971.

Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman, and Mick Taylor on a boat during their tour of Germany in 1970.

Yves Saint Laurent with socialite Nan Kempner during a party for the launch of his new perfume called Opium, held aboard the sailboat Peking at the South Street Seaport Museum in New York in 1978.

Richard Dreyfuss, Roy Scheider, and Robert Shaw on board a boat in a still from the film Jaws, in 1975.

Julio Iglesias, with sons Enrique and Julio Jr., in Costa del Sol, Spain in 1978.

David Letterman competes in a kayak race during the Battle of The Network Stars in Malibu, California, 1978.

Telly Savalas filming Kojak aboard a boat in Los Angeles in 1975.

Michal Caine and Diane Keaton sit in a boat in a publicity still from Harry and Walter Go To New York, directed by Mark Rydell, 1976.

French cartoonist Raymond Peynet talks to Sophia Loren over a copy of her book, Cooking...with Love, which he illustrated for her, aboard the boat Raffaelo, moored in Cannes, France in 1971.

Ed McMahon fishes with Bob Newhart from a rowboat in Cypress Gardens, Florida in 1972.

Ed McMahon sits behind the steering wheel of a motorboat at Cypress Gardens, Florida, 1972.

Mick Jagger enjoys a relaxing gondola ride with his wife Bianca, on the Grand Canal in Venice after their wild wedding in St. Tropez in 1971.

Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip come ashore from the royal yacht Britannia to say farewell to the Amir of Kuwait and his ministers in Kuwait in 1979.

Neil Armstrong enjoys a boat ride on the Seine in Paris in 1979.

Margaux Hemingway, granddaughter of the late author Ernest Hemingway, shares a close moment with her husband, Errol Watson, during the Tall Ships ball at Rosecliff Manor in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1976.

Paul McCartney and his wife, Linda, seated in the back of a gondola as they and other members of McCartney's band Wings ride on a canal before their concert in St. Mark's Square in Venice in 1976.

Roy Scheider in a publicity still for Jaws in 1974.

Roger Moore glides out of the water in a motorboat in the Bond film Live and Let Die in 1973.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau aboard a submarine with the RV Calypso off to the side in 1970.

Barry Gibb feeds swans on a boat dock in Great Britain in 1970.

Richard Burton and Tatum O'Neal on the set of Circle of Two in 1979.

The cast of the disaster movie, The Poseidon Adventure, on the deck of a liner in 1972.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis behind the wheel of the Staten Island Ferry on its voyage back to Manhattan in 1976.

Paul McCartney and his wife Linda aboard the Royal Iris Ferry on the River Mersey in 1979.

Princess Grace at the port in Monaco, as she films a television documentary for NBC in 1977.

Prince Charles joins his younger brothers aboard the royal yacht Britannia for a royal tour of Canada in 1976.

Olivia Newton-John relaxes on a canal boat, while filming her first music video for her single "Follow Me" in 1975.

Famous newscaster, Walter Cronkite, behind the wheel of his sailboat in 1971.

Sean Connery leans over the bow of a small motorboat in 1970.

Arnold Schwarzenegger lounges in his bathing suit, while spending the day on a yacht with a female friend in 1979.