Palm Beach International Boat Show
Saturday, March 25, 2017
Test Your Mates How nautical are your crew mates? Find out with this little nautical quiz. n When two power vessels meet and are at a half mile or less distance, two short whistle blasts means what: I am leaving you on my port side, or I am leaving you on my starboard side. n How many compass points are there? n What is the difference between flotsam and jetsam? Answers, p2
Today’s Events Daily Boat-handling classes (docking, anchoring, open water and precision boat control), Come-by-Boat dock at the south end of the show. For times, visit www.goo.gl/CTd9gd.
All day Nautical Ventures hosts the AquaZone, a 40,000 gallon demo pool for watersports toys and testing. In the Meyer Amphitheater area.
Today 12:30 pm Offshore Masters panel discussion, IGFA School of Sportfishing, booth 746A, free. For a list of all 12 seminars, visit IGFA.org and click on “Educate”.
Today, 3 pm Successful Swordfishing seminar, IGFA School of Sportfishing, booth 746A.
Tonight, 5-7 pm Young Professionals in Yachting happy hour in the AIM VIP Pavilion.
SITTING PRETTY: Interior staff of the 145-foot Heesen M/Y Octopussy built their Top Notch Tabletop Challenge setting yesterday around a favorite napkin fold. From left, 3d Stew Heather Chase, Chief Stew Nina Brunello, 2d Stew Samantha Gardiner.
Interior story told in settings Photos and story by Dorie Cox Melanie Wilkinson used to joke about what interior yacht crew were really doing all day. She worked as a deckhand for six years and joked with the guys working outside. That was, until she became a stew. “I thought that I knew what the girls did inside,” Wilkinson said. “But now after doing this, I have to go out and tell the boys, ‘We were wrong on everything’.” Wilkinson has learned how challenging the job can be as part of the current team on M/Y Kisses, a 175-foot Feadship with Chief Stew Krisli Melesh and 2d Stew Bernadette Zwart. The three created a safari-themed table to compete in the Top-Notch Tabletop Challenge
photographed at the Palm Beach International Boat Show yesterday. The crew are one of 14 yachts that will be judged by the public on Facebook. All the tables and some of the interior teams’ decorating tips will be featured on TopNotchTabletop.com. Keeping track of flatware, napkins, and other setting items is just one of the time-consuming and meticulous tasks interior staff do. “We keep inventories with photos of everything,” Zwart said. “Most are gifts, and we keep track of which guests gave the gifts. We always put those out when those guests are on board.” The record-keeping pays off. “It works beautifully,” she said. “They notice and say, ‘We gave those to you’.” See TABLETOP, page 2
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Chief Stew Ania Broszkievicz and Haylee Maddon find satisfaction with their hard work on M/Y Allegria, a 152foot Hakvoort. They know that meticulous records are vital for their classic setting. “How much can we hide on the boat?” Broszkievicz said as she pointed to several walls. “It looks plain, but those are cupboards.” On charter the interior staff sets different settings for M/Y ABBRACCI breakfast, lunch and dinner. “But we know where every But every piece they work with is plate is and there is no time to look,” fragile or expensive and needs to be Maddon said. properly stored. On M/Y Lady Joy, a 157-foot Winners will be announced at the Christensen, Chief Stew Daniela Breban Triton Expo on April 5 at Bahia Mar and 3d Stew Shannon Jones created a Yachting Center in Ft. Lauderdale. coral-centered display using the owner’s Dorie Cox is editor of Triton Today. favorite items of shells and corals. Comment at dorie@the-triton.com.
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Test Your Mates Answers to the quiz on page 1: n Starboard side n 32 n Flotsam is part of a wreckage or cargo found floating on the surface of the sea. Jetsam is parts from a ship intentionally thrown overboard.
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