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Upcoming Events Today, noon Learn about cruising on the Great Lakes, with Debora Radtke of American Yacht Agents. USSA American Pavilion.
Today, 3 pm Seminar on Yacht Security, with Tony Sparks of Phantom Services. USSA American Pavilion, Yellow Zone.
Today, 4 pm Jones Boatyard 100-year anniversary party. USSA American Pavilion.
Today, 4:30 pm Happy hour to discuss upgrades at Miami shipyard RMK Merrill Stevens. Superyacht Tent, Booth 619.
Tomorrow, 8-10 am U.S. Superyacht Association annual meeting, aboard M/V Grand Floridian. www.ussuperyacht.com
Tomorrow, 8:30-10:30 am Coffee Talk on customs and immigration, with lawyer Scott Hershenson. IGY booth in the center of the Yacht Builders Tent.
FRONT AND CENTER: Crew from M/Y Muchos Mas, a 145-foot Crescent, dress for success on opening day of the 58th annual Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show on Wednesday. See more photos on pages 6-7. PHOTO/TOM SERIO
Visa snafu halts yacht’s US visit By Lucy Chabot Reed M/Y Savannah, the new 274-foot (83.5m) Feadship that turned heads at last year’s show, has decided not to visit South Florida this fall because of difficulties some of its 22-member crew have had obtaining B1/B2 visas. Several were issued C1/D visas, which are meant for crew on commercial vessels and limited to 29 days. But because the yacht is listed on a few websites as available for charter, consular officers interpreted that as being commercial and issued the C1/Ds. M/Y Savannah carries a Marshall Islands flag and can have limited charters under
its private registration. “The boat is privately registered, and the rules say we need a B1/B2,” said Capt. Michael Dailey, delivery captain on Savannah and other large yachts. “Being given a C1/D is like being given tickets to a double feature that are only good for the first movie. It doesn’t work for what we need to do.” Capt. Dailey has been instructed to take the yacht directly from the Med next week to its winter cruising grounds in the Southern Caribbean. As a relief and delivery captain, Capt. Dailey has crossed the ocean five times
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McCurdy has boating in his bones By Lucy Chabot Reed
fun. It’s what they live to do. They look forward to this show all year, and it’s the biggest piece of their business all year. A few years before FLIBS began, For us to have the responsibility and the Charlie McCurdy celebrated his first right to make that experience great is birthday aboard the family’s sailboat, on really humbling.” deck in a laundry basket. Informa has invested about $7 million McCurdy is CEO of Informa’s Global in Show Management’s infrastructure so Exhibitions division. Informa acquired far, including encapsulated docks that Show Management this past spring, and will stop leeching bits of styrene into the now produces three South Florida boat waterways, and upgraded power. He said shows, including FLIBS. more investment is coming, but did not But his company also owns and produces the Monaco Yacht Show, which elaborate. McCurdy still recalls the day his mom has worried some exhibitors whose main woke him and his sister up early to drive business is not centered on superyachts. to Newport to watch the final race of the At the press breakfast yesterday, McCurdy reassured reporters and others America’s Cup. It was1962, and he was 7 years old. The boat his father designed that Informa recognizes and respects won the race that day. that the shows are different. His brother “Each one has a became a naval local character,” he said, ‘We want to architect like their noting that in Monaco maintain the father, and his sister he wore cufflinks. At the is an accomplished breakfast, he partially unique character bluewater sailor. took off his sports coat of each show.’ “Me? I went legit in to reveal a button-down – Charlie McCurdy, CEO the business world,” he shirt with short sleeves. Informa Global Exhibitions said, to chuckles. When a reporter But the marine asked how Monaco will industry is in his blood, he noted. He impact Fort Lauderdale, he said, “We joined Informa a couple of years ago, want to maintain the unique character and being the owners of the Monaco of each show. Half the buyers of show brought that world back into his superyachts are from the U.S. Our plan life. Now, producing the largest boat is to bring more buyers to Florida to show in the world in Fort Lauderdale, he buy yachts they couldn’t see in Monaco, seems honored. and to bring more Florida buyers to “We’re pretty good at doing shows, Monaco.” and it’s not often you get to have an McCurdy, head of a company that experience as an organizer like you says it is the largest organizer of boat do with the Fort Lauderdale show,” he shows in the world, was like a little kid said. “This is a world-class event. South when he started talking about the Fort Florida has the greatest concentration of Lauderdale show. boating activity. There’s nothing like it in “There are 1,200 exhibitors at the show,” he said. “It’s just the coolest thing. the world. It’s quite extraordinary.” It all comes together here. Getting on a boat is fun, fun times thousands; 100,000 Lucy Chabot Reed is publisher of Triton Today. Comment at lucy@the-triton.com. people having fun. Exhibitors having
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CHECKING THE TIDE: Triton Today’s Question of the Day
What would you change about your uniform?
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Yachting is all about image and presentation, and the crew’s appearance is an integral part of that. Uniforms can define a yacht’s program to the public, but crew don’t often get a say in what they wear. Epaulets and black pants in the tropical heat? So we asked what crew like, or don’t like, about their PHOTOS/DORIE COX uniforms. Eng. Jaco Scheepers M/Y Lady Genyr 140’ CNR “More stretch material and the type that breathes. We need it with the work we do. And no floppy shorts; I like them long.”
Stew Jennifer Whitt M/Y Lady Genyr 140’ CNR “I don’t like it when they don’t fit nicely. I wish there was more customization. Polos are fine if it is sweat-wicking material.” Bosun Jez Hyder M/Y Lady Genyr 140’ CNR “Decent footwear, something cool. A traditional leather boat shoe takes six months to break in. It’s dangerous with no shoes on bigger boats.”
2nd Eng. Tom Hodgkiss M/Y Lady Genyr 140’ CNR “I want epaulets. (I’m just joking.) I don’t mind the uniforms. We look smart, but they are a little warm. No stiff ‘fishing line’ thread.” Bosun Toni Jones M/Y Safira 129’ Newcastle “One problem is the dark color; we are in the sun and it’s so hot. If I could change something it would be to cotton. And for things to fit every body type.”
Head Stew Katie MacAdam M/Y Safira 129’ Newcastle “Cotton is better. We have a collection of random uniforms that don’t match. We use those for day workers.”
Th u r s d ay • Nov. 2 , 2 0 1 7 | 5 Stew Karen van Heese M/Y Lion Share 130’ Heesen “The only thing I would change is the skirt. I’m a conservative dresser. I would never wear this out there.”
Deckhand Lucas Parent M/Y Lion Share 130’ Heesen “I am not fond of the polo shirt and I never have been. It’s not comfortable when it’s warm. I like it to be pretty comfortable.” Eng. Toby Quin Event staff, USSA “I don’t like wearing shirts at all, but if I have to, these [polos] are fine. As long as I don’t have to button the top button. But I’m not a golfer.”
Dayworker Oliver Plunkett M/Y Status Quo 150’ Richmond “I don’t think twice about the uniform. It is no bother and it’s perfectly comfortable. I do like to be barefoot, though.”
Chief Stew Prue Heffernan M/Y Status Quo 150’ Richmond “I would move away from the traditional colors. I like color schemes like bright red. I love the skirts, but I would prefer that it doesn’t cling. I am constantly adjusting this skort. I would like more stretch and for it to be longer, especially for older crew. I don’t need to show so much leg. And we need a stronger band. The radio pulls this skort down.”
Deck/Stew Roggette James M/Y Status Quo 150’ Richmond “The material is so uncomfortable. I work on deck and it is too tight; I need more stretch. If I worked full-time inside, I would like a dress with shoes.”
Capt. David Sloate M/Y Silver Lining 164’ Christensen “I like lightweight material that dries fast, shorts that are like board shorts and shoes that are no skid. Companies are starting to understand.”
Chief Eng. Stephen New M/Y Silver Lining 164’ Christensen “I hate the penguin suit [epaulets, black pants]. We wear them everywhere we go, which is tropical. I know it’s traditional, but it’s not logical.”
Mate James Derby M/Y Status Quo 150’ Richmond “The uniform is important, and it should be uniform. The captain should look different and distinguished from the crew. The belt helps with radio and knife.”
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OPENING DAY: Best Dressed Crew Yacht crew typically have a special type of relationship because they live, as well as work, on board together. This makes for terrific group shots as they take a break for photos on opening day of the 58th annual Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show on Wednesday. PHOTOS/TOM SERIO and DORIE COX
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this year alone, and has worked on at least as many large vessels. In a phone conversation yesterday from La Ciotat, France, he relayed similar visa stories from each one. • Four crew on a 200+ yacht came back from the U.S. embassy in Paris with C1/D visas, and one came back with a B1 for a year. They had previously all been denied. The yacht is leaving the Med later this month, and the plan was to come to Florida. But Capt. Dailey said it will depend on whether crew get their B1/B2 visas. “They had planned to stay six weeks, but if half the crew get C1/Ds, they won’t do what they planned to do,” he said. “If they hadn’t had the hassle, all that work would have been done in Palm Beach.” Dailey said that even the captain, an industry veteran who had had 10-year B1/B2 visas in the past, was denied on his most recent application. He has reapplied in a different embassy. • One of the rotational second officers on M/Y TV – the largest yacht in the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show this year at 257 feet (78.4m) – was to report for duty on Monday, but is still in the Med awaiting his visa. At his interview in Florence, he handed the consular officer all his paperwork from the privately registered yacht. The officer immediately did an internet search on the yacht’s name and saw it listed for charter. Five minutes after he had arrived, the second officer was denied and sent away. He has since reapplied for his B1/B2 in Madrid and was approved, but is also awaiting his passport to see how long the visa will be valid. “You look it up on the internet and suddenly it’s the God’s honest truth,” said Capt. Dailey, an American. “It’s not the people in Washington [that are the problem]; it’s the people at the various embassies around the world – some civil servant paid with my tax dollars, deciding to use Google instead of relying on the official documentation from the vessel’s master.” M/Y TV carries a Cayman flag and, like many yachts, flips its commercial registration to private during its crossing
so that it enters the United States as a private vessel. • On M/Y Constellation, a 262-foot (80m) private yacht, the crew all received their B1/B2s, but one came back with a C1/D. “What they obviously don’t understand at the embassy level is that yachts can charter here in the Med or the Caribbean on a commercial registration and then switch registrations to enter into the U.S. as a private yacht,” Capt. Dailey said. “And many make the switch, like I just did on TV on the way across. The yachts and management companies all know full well they cannot charter in the U.S.” About a dozen large yachts share the shipyard in La Ciotat with Capt. Dailey and Savannah, many of whom are still deciding on their winter programs, he said. An American who lives in South Florida, he said he’s worried that more captains will choose to avoid U.S. port calls due to the hassles their crew are having getting B1/B2 visas. “Crew have been denied visas previously for any number of reasons, which are completely valid,” Capt. Dailey said. “That’s random. This is rash. It’s been happening for about a month, and I’m hearing all the guys complain about the same thing. It’s happening embassywide.” Officers from U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the U.S. Coast Guard are scheduled to take questions from yacht captains and crew at the annual luncheon hosted by the Marine Industries Association of South Florida on Saturday at noon. (Invitations are required; email nicole@miasf.org or visit M/V Grand Floridian on the face dock at Bahia Mar to request one.) “If we address this all together, we could draft a memo that could go up the chain of command,” Capt. Dailey suggested. “CBP could help you all get to the bottom of this rash of C1/D visas being issued instead of B1/B2s, and why embassies are relying on Google to issue visas.” It may be too late for M/Y Savannah, which is scheduled to leave France next
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Stew back on board with crew Editor’s note: Visit www.the-triton.com and search “visa” for more on this topic By Dorie Cox There is at least one yacht stew who is especially happy to be at this year’s Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show. The Triton wrote about trouble she had with her B1/B2 visa in August. As a foreign passport holder, she was on a flight back to the United States to rejoin her yacht after a holiday when officials removed her from her seat. It turns out that her visa had been canceled in April, and she did not know it. “We were not notified it was canceled,” her captain said. “If we would have known, we would have handled the situation sooner.” The captain and stew asked not to be named. In an attempt to get her back onboard, the captain worked with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and filed with the Traveler Redress Inquiry Program (DHS TRIP), a resource for people who have been denied U.S. entry or exit. “Redress was a waste of time,” he said. “We were issued a redress number and were told if she flies or comes in, to use that.” Even using that number, she was denied a visa, so she returned to her
from VISAS, Page 8 week and head to the Caribbean. It had planned to stop in South Florida to provision for a lengthy, off-the-beatenpath season.w “They had some maintenance work to do, and they wanted to give some of the crew time off,” he said. “They wanted to stay longer than 29 days. “The biggest impact is going to be right there in Fort Lauderdale – not in Charleston or San Diego, but in South Florida where all the big yachts go,” he said from France yesterday. “If
home country and went through the process again. She was issued a B1/B2 visa about two weeks ago. He said he can forgive the non-yachting officer for not understanding, but would like to see consular officials be educated about the work of yacht crew. More importantly, he wants the yacht to be able to travel in the United States and to avoid another lengthy visa issue. “The owner is sick and tired of it,” the captain said. “He said, ‘It is so hard to own a boat.’ He is considering keeping it in the Bahamas and told me to stay out of here [the U.S.].” The captain, who has more than a decade in the industry, said he has not heard of another yacht with the same problem, but does not want this to happen to another crew. “But I think more people involved in this conversation with officials will help everyone work out a plan,” he said. “And clear this up so there are no more gray areas.” The Marine Industries Association of South Florida is hosting a panel discussion with U.S. customs officials at noon Saturday. Invitations are required. Email nicole@miasf.org or visit M/V Grand Floridian on the face dock at Bahia Mar to request one. Dorie Cox is editor of Triton Today. Comment at dorie@the-triton.com.
anything over 40m stops calling on Fort Lauderdale, we’re all going to wake up and say what the hell? It’s going to turn South Florida into a ghost town. That’s just unacceptable.” Any captains or crew who have had experience in the past couple of months applying for and/or obtaining a visa, please share your story, good or bad. This is our chance to address the issue with the officials who can do something about it. Lucy Chabot Reed is publisher of Triton Today. Comment at lucy@the-triton.com.
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News around the show Bradford Marine raffling a drone Fort Lauderdale-based Bradford Marine is giving away a DJI Phantom 4 Pro Quadcopter Drone. Raffle entries will be accepted through Dec. 1, and the winner will be notified via email or phone by Dec. 8. To enter, visit bradford-marine.com, scroll down, and click on “drone giveaway”.
Brig unveils Eagle 10m inflatable Brig Boats’ Eagle 10 flagship RIB makes its U.S. debut at the boat show this week. Tour it at the main gate of Bahia Mar. The nearly 33-foot tender features a deep-V hull for a dry, smooth ride and twin 300-horsepower engines to carry it at 50 knots.
E3, Kymeta offer antenna demos E3 Systems and Kymeta are offering tours and demos of Kymeta’s flat panel antennas and terminals, both at its stand in the American Pavilion and on M/Y Usher, docked at Pier 66 alongside the show. To register for a tour, visit e3s.com/TourReg/
Get 20 percent off desalinators Watermakers Inc., manufacturer of onboard desalinator systems, is offering 20 percent off its retail prices during the show. Find the company in the Equipment tent, Booth 548.
VBH offers free onboard A/V help VBH USA technicians will be at the show offering free service surveys onboard. Anyone with questions or problems with connectivity or their A/V network can request a visit by calling Mike Avery at 954-281-8244. If it’s an easy fix, it will be handled onsite at no charge. Other issues will be diagnosed.
YachtAir 10-ton chiller on display Fort Lauderdale-based YachtAir Products has designed a new lowprofile, compact 10-ton chiller for onboard air-conditioning systems. The unit is 13.5 inches wide, 26.5 inches deep and 23.5 inches high, and has a footprint comparable to most 5-ton chillers. See the new chiller at Booth 546 or visit www. marineairconditioning.com.
Attendees are invited to learn about important research at the Coral Reef Pavilion tent located near the center of the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show on the west side of the Bahia Mar Yachting Center. PHOTO/DORIE COX
Dive into underwater seminars While most of the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show (FLIBS) takes place above the waterline, several organizations want to remind people to think of the marine life below. To that end, each afternoon from Thursday to Sunday, show attendees are invited to hear marine scientists discuss their latest research on coral reefs, sharks and billfish.
The series of talks, billed as “Immerse Yourself at the Coral Reef Pavilion,” will be at the Coral Reef Pavilion located near the center of the show in front of the Bahia Mar Yachting Center office each afternoon at 2. They are sponsored by Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance, Greater Fort Lauderdale Hello Sunny, FLIBS, Marine Industries Association of South Florida and Starmark.
Immerse Yourself at the Coral Reef Pavilion schedule
Thursday 2 p.m. Coral Reef Exploration: The Next Frontier by Dr. Joshua Voss of Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute at Florida Atlantic University Friday 2 p.m. Why I Study Sharks by Professor Neil Hammerschlag of Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science at University of Miami Saturday 2 p.m. Living with Sharks by Dr. Kevin Boswell and Dr. Mark Bond of Marine Sciences Program at Florida International University Sunday 2 p.m. Shark and Billfish Research by Dr. Guy Harvey and Dr. Mahmood Shivji of Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography at Nova Southeastern University
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