Triton Today Saturday Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show 2016

Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show

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Saturday, Nov. 5, 2016

Test Your Mates

How nautical are your crew mates?

Find out with this little nautical quiz. n In earlier times, what did the phrase “all standing” mean? A ship was fully equipped and ready for sea; a ceremony on deck; no liberty while in port. n “To drown the miller” means what? Lower the anchor; add water to your rum ration, use the head, Answers on p9. drink too much.

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Today, throughout the day Seminars on Cuba and insurance, Nova Scotia, Bermuda, cruising Cuba, and Northwest Passage, American Pavilion.

Tonight, 7 pm - midnight National Marine Suppliers’ Customer Appreciation party. Invitation required.

Tonight, 2 am Daylight savings time ends. Set clocks back an hour and enjoy the sleep.

Tomorrow, 8:30-9:30 am YachtInfo seminar on Interior, CruiserPort tent, B Dock.

Monday, 11:30 am-2 pm Crew luncheon with USCG and CBP officials. RSVP to patience@miasf.org.

GOLD STANDARD: Between showing yachts and other work, some crew competed in several interior challenges yesterday during the 57th annual Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show. See more photos, pages 4-5.

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Winning captain challenges crew

By Lucy Chabot Reed Capt. Wayne Williams of the 50m expedition-style Amels M/Y Karima was named Fraser Yacht’s Management Captain of the Year at a party on the docks last night.

Capt. Williams has been with the current owner eight years and has traveled around the world in that time including all of Oceania, Southeast Asia and the Pacific.

“He’s demanding but fully dedicated to getting the best results for the owner,”

Lisa Peck, global marketing manager for Fraser Yachts, said in announcing the award.

Capt. Williams prefers to think of it as challenging his crew.

WILLIAMS “I like to be challenged,” he said after accepting the honor. “If I don’t get challenged, I’ll leave the job. With that See WILLIAMS, page 9

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New marina nearly ready to start

By Lucy Chabot Reed After a year of paperwork and permitting, a new megayacht marina is set to break ground in the coming weeks on property across the Dania Cut-off Canal from MarineMax, just west of Derecktor Shipyard and about a quartermile west of Harbortowne Marina.

The facility is designed to cater to large yachts with up to 24 slips for yachts 100-150 feet in about 2,400 linear feet.

“And it’ll have lots of power,” said Ken Edelman, president of Edelman Development Corp., a real estate development company in Weston, Fla., just west of Ft. Lauderdale. “We’re designing it for the future.”

Edelman and his father, Mike Edelman, hope to have the marina open by this time next year, in time for the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show. Named Dania Beach Megaport on design documents last year, the marina’s developers said the project is still

unnamed. Westrec Marinas is expected to be the marina operator.

Work to obtain permits and permission began about 20 months ago and were expected to be complete by the end of last year. The final piece is approval from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which Edelman hopes will come before the end of this year.

In related news, the company’s rebuild of the marine center near Haulover Inlet in North Miami Beach has opened. The three-story dry stack storage facility can haul and store 508 vessels up to 78,000 pounds or about 60 feet, according to John Louis, Westrec’s southern regional manager. It is hurricane rated for a Category 5 storm.

The new Haulover Marine Center will also serve as the staging and kick-off for this year’s Florida Powerboat Club’s poker run to Key West next weekend.

Lucy Chabot Reed is publisher of Triton Today. Comment at lucy@thetriton.com.

Next Miami shows to get better

By Dorie Cox Last year saw changes to the boat shows in Miami. This year, organizers said there will be improvements.

Most yacht crew work at Yachts Miami Beach, which will run Feb. 16-20 on Collins Avenue. The show has been free and open to all attendees during its previous 28 years. This year attendees will enter at five entrances for a $20 daily fee.

Show Management and the International Yachts Brokers Association (formerly FYBA), co-owners of the show, hired EDSA to implement another change. The foot traffic patterns, previously on Collins Avenue, will now be directed to a network of new floating docks. And the show’s 500 new and brokerage yachts will be arranged into dedicated new and brokerage yacht sections. The show will offer free water taxis connected to parking locations.

Yachts in the show will also be shown at Island Gardens Deep Harbour on Watson Island.

The other show, taking place at the same time and often causing confusion for visitors, is the Miami International Boat Show in Miami.

The show moved to its new location at Miami Marine Stadium Park and Basin on Virginia Key last year and the show’s owner, National Marine Manufacturers Association, is putting efforts toward addressing last year’s kinks. Thom Dammrich, president of NMMA, told an audience at an NMMA seminar this week at Bahia Mar to expect things to run more smoothly.

“Last year we had a 25,000 capacity, but we carried 52,000,” Dammrich said.

“So this year, we have increased the number of water taxis 50 percent.”

Both water transportation and bus shuttles will have more frequent trips with fewer routes. And in an effort to connect yacht crew, industry professionals and show visitors, the two shows have organized 14-15 shuttle buses to run between them.

Dorie Cox is editor of Triton Today.

Comment at dorie@the-triton.com.

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DOING THE CREW THING: From the inside A lot was going on inside the yachts on Friday. Stews on a number of yachts participated in tabletop dressing contests, with some elaborate table displays that included gilded gods, Aztec themes and even a smoking volcano, not to mention a few that donned god-like garb.

Down below, engineers graciously posed with their “heavy metal” they so dearly love. Perhaps the unsung heroes, these guys keep things humming so yachts can keep on cruising.

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CHECKING THE TIDE: Triton Today’s Question of the Day What do you think of your crew space onboard?

Since most yacht crew live onboard, the Triton Today wanted to learn more about what life is like in the crew’s quarters. We took to the docks yesterday to find out.

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Stew Anabell Wilson M/Y Sharon Lee 112' Westport "I brought too much stuff. And when I put my arms out of the bunk I hit the wall and the top bunk."

3d. Eng. Jan Kamstra M/Y Galactica Super Nova 229' Heeson "The closet is filled with working clothes. Epaulettes, evening, oncharter, off-charter, we have so many."

Mate Jonny Gay M/Y Magic 130' Norman Marine "We have like a little apartment with lots of storage. I just bring the bare essentials and my regulator and mask for diving."

Capt. Odel Dow Looking "They're getting smaller and smaller. I bring three days’ clothes; the rest is uniforms.

American yachts have the best setups. They think of crew more."

Capt. Jeff Dyess M/Y Azul 93’ Benetti "What crew space? I live in the guest room. We have five crew and four beds. We have no crew area, so on a nice day, we eat on the bow."

Capt.

Oliver Dissman M/Y La Tache 100' Azimut "The space is awesome; I don't bring a lot of stuff. It depends on the yacht manufacturer, some are hugely giving."

Chef Vanessa Swindel M/Y Sharon Lee 112' Westport "It would be great if we had men and women's rooms; we have a Jack and Jill. You can hear conversations between the door, and we have to take turns."

Capt. Matt Curtis M/Y Dahvin 87' Broward "It's tight but I'm used to it. I have three shirts and a pair of jeans because we wear uniforms so much.

The bed is big enough, but some boats are tight."

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Capt.

Larry Hastings M/Y Buckpasser 120' Hitachi Zosen "My lands, yes, we have room. I knew the architect and the crew's quarters are important to the owner. You don't need much stuff.”

Stew Tess Ergen M/Y Penny Mae 138' Richmond Marine “The stew quarters are a lot smaller, but we have enough cupboard; that's important to me. But there's not much movingaround space.”

Purser Catherine Finn M/Y Katharine 203' CRN Ancona “We have 16 crew; I share with my sister.

We have lots of space.

I scale to travel.

The closet is crew uniforms plus one each.”

Eng. Nigel Burrows M/Y Alisios 105' Leopard "I have enough space, plenty. I'm the engineer so I live alone. And that's good."

Capt. Tom White M/Y Excellence 150 Richmond Marine “The space is never big enough. You don't want to bring a lot of stuff; you never know when you're getting off. With the travel, you wear the same clothes but nobody notices.”

Deckhand Lennard Luiten M/Y Hello Dolly 106’ Westship “We got a new Seekeeper so we got rid of the crew kitchen. It's a tradeoff. We're not all puking, but we lost personal space.”

Deckhand Waldo Swart M/Y Penny Mae 138' Richmond Marine "I'm sharing with the engineer so mine's quite spacious."

Deckhand Ruan Van Der Berg M/Y Excellence 150’ Richmond Marine “I'm in the engineer's room. It's very big, almost the same as at home.

The rest are smaller and the mess is a tight squeeze.”

Mystery Mate 164' Westport "We have heaps of storage, a TV and two queen beds. I brought too much: snowboard, surfboard and skateboard. I keep my skateboard in my room."

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Manager awarded for tonnage work

By Lucy Chabot Reed

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Michael Reardon won one of the U.S. Superyacht Association’s highest honors yesterday, the Golden Compass, for his work to increase the U.S. recreational vessel tonnage limit from 300 tons to 500 tons.

Though the effort was started several years ago, Reardon and the association’s advocacy committee made headway in the past year through meetings with the U.S. Coast Guard.

REARDON Reardon is owner of Reardon Yacht Consulting, a Ft. Lauderdale-based yacht management firm.

Under the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations, any vessel over 300 tons, regardless of its use, is considered a commercial vessel and must be inspected. Those vessels abide by a host of safety regulations, including some that would not work on yachts (think orange life rings).

For the USCG to accept a change to 500 tons requires proof that those vessels would remain safe, Reardon said.

Reardon and others met with the U.S. Coast Guard during the American Boating Congress in May, when it agreed to consider the proposal. Most other Western countries recognize 500 tons as the lower limit for commercial vessels.

The U.S. Superyacht Association has commissioned the gap analysis, and hopes to meet with U.S. Coast Guard officials again in about six months.

The increased tonnage limit, Reardon said, will encourage American owners to flag their yachts in the United States.

“American owners don’t put foreign flags on their yachts for tax reasons,” Reardon said, dispelling the notion that offshore closings and subsequent flaggings are a way to avoid taxes.

“They are doing it because they don’t have another option.

“We’re trying to take what could be an onerous process and make it more simple so U.S. owners can say, this is safe.”

History and honors

In related news, the USSA honored the companies that helped start the association 10 years ago. The group’s first chairman, Karen Dudden-Blake of Paladium Technologies, told the story this way: “In December of 2005, David Reed called me to meet with him and John Mann of Bluewater Books and Charts and a few other industry leaders. I’ll never forget that day. The impacts of Hurricane Wilma, our Category 3 storm, were still vivid in our minds. It was a time when most were more concerned with the international exhibitors and the impact on their attendance at the show and not about the local companies.

It was a real wake-up call for us. We couldn’t count on the U.S. government to have our back like other associations from other countries do.

“So we developed a plan and defined the issues, including lack of berths, longshore requirements, U.S. flagging, and inconsistent U.S. regulations. Eleven founding members paid $1,000 each of their own resources to get it going.

“In September 2006, we were incorporated and official. Our first membership directory had 14 members.

I had the honor of being the first chairman, Tim Davey [of ISSGMT] was vice chairman, David was treasurer, and John was our honorary director.”

She remembered how difficult it was to get meetings with officials.

“They wouldn’t take our calls,” she said. “Now, after the work of people like Corey Ranslem, Kristy Hebert and John, now they call us.”

Other milestones include the association’s growth to 66 members one year later, and its first appearance at the boat show with 16 exhibitors. This year, the USSA hosts the American Pavilion, which is attached to the main Superyacht Tent, with two dozen exhibitors.

The USSA also awarded its annual Chairman’s Award to former industry leader Frank Herhold, who passed away in December, and Yachting the Chesapeake, which is working to market the region to yacht captains.

Lucy Chabot Reed is publisher of Triton Today, lucy@the-triton.com.

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Triton founder honored for caring The Triton’s David Reed was honored with one of the U.S. Superyacht Association’s top awards yesterday for his efforts to help those less fortunate in our community.

Reed was awarded the Beacon Award for his work to raise money and create programs for South Florida children and families.

He helped launch the popular Spin-A-Thon held each spring and create the REED Marine Industry Cares Foundation, which has raised more than $750,000 in eight years for organizations such as Kids in Distress and the Children’s Diagnostic and Treatment Center.

MICF has also recently launched programs for school-aged children, including a marine summer camp to expose them to the industry.

“We are all so busy with jobs and family that it’s hard to think about others outside yourself,” Kitty McGowan, manager of the USSA, said in announcing the award. “But that’s all he does, and he’s the busiest person I know.”

Reed was publisher of The Triton for 12 years, and remains chairman of its parent company, Triton Publishing Group, one of the founders of the U.S. Superyacht Association in 2006.

– Lucy Chabot Reed

Williams thanks owner, crew, friend WILLIAMS, from page 1 thought, I keep the crew challenged to get better.”

With 12 crew onboard, Capt.

Williams’ method seems to work, losing just a few crew a year.

“But usually it’s because they need to be promoted, to continue to be challenged,” he said.

He was humble in accepting the award in front of brokers, guests and top Fraser Yachts executives.

“There are other captains here tonight, and we all go through the same things, the same joys, the same disappointments, the same decisions to make, good and bad,” Capt. Williams told the crowd. “My owner is very good, and that makes my job easier. But the crew are key. I’ve got to keep them challenged.”

At the end, Capt. Williams got a tad emotional as he gave thanks to Roberto Migliaccio, a technical superintendent for Fraser who was killed in a cycling accident two years ago. He and Capt.

Williams were close friends.

“I have to thank Roberto for giving me this job,” Capt. Williams said, looking up to the heavens. “This is for you.”

Fraser has been honoring its charter captains and crew during the Monaco show for 15 years. It started its Management Captain of the Year honor last year, and awards it during FLIBS. Employees in all departments within Fraser Yachts can nominate. Captains are judged on cost control, management of crew, safety culture and happiness of the owner and guests.

Lucy Chabot Reed is publisher of Triton Today, lucy@the-triton.com.

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OFF THE DOCK: Scenes from a few events last night

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