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Lesson learned: Be ready to correct U.S. immigration mistakes By Lucy Chabot Reed As they tried to enter the United States in June, the engineer and stewardess on a foreign-flagged yacht were told they needed C1/D visas to work on their yacht. Since they had B1/B2s, they were denied entry. The stewardess lost her job; the engineer learned a valuable lesson.
The immigrations officer was wrong – the proper visa for yacht crew is a B1/B2 – but when the crew members tried to tell him that, he threatened to seize the boat and fine each of them $10,000. “When I questioned him, he got very defensive, which made me believe he didn’t know the rules,” said the engineer, who asked that his name and the name of the vessel not be printed
because of a privacy agreement. “We had a crew list and the proper visa, but it wasn’t enough.” Several crew have run into similar problems this summer as the United States increases its commitment against illegal immigration. Increased commitment translates into more border patrol officers, not all of whom are familiar with seaports or yachting. “It’s more of a training issue,” said
Florence Chamberlin, an immigration attorney in Miami who has helped more than her usual number of crew members in June and July. “The officers are using their own discretion and, in their opinion, being more cautious,” she said. “We want them to be cautious. We want our borders safe. But it’s not
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Bridge advice Triton’s 1,000th classified ad sought fun stew to the young: Hang in there By Lucy Chabot Reed
In many professional industries, an entry-level employee gets a foot in the door, works hard and moves up. Paralleling that to yachting would mean getting a job as a deckhand or stew, working hard to become mate, chief stew, or an officer, and eventually becoming From the Bridge a captain. Lucy Chabot Reed But that’s not always the way it works. So we gathered veteran, midcareer and young captains to answer the often-asked question of how to become a megayacht captain. As always, individual comments are not attributed to any one person in particular so as to encourage frank and open discussion. The attending captains are identified in a photograph on page A26. “One thing I learned 15 years ago: If you want a 150-footer, stay on a 150footer,” one captain said. “Most of the guys running big boats today were deckhands with me.” So working on a big boat, going down to obtain that first captain’s position, and then moving back up doesn’t work? “There’s definitely a hurdle there,” another said. “I was a mate on a 180footer and went down. I think it’s hard to get back up.” “It’s more of an inheritance then?” someone asked. See THE BRIDGE, page A26
S/Y Seljm took a break at the Seno Glacier in Northern Patagonia on her way around Cape Horn in 2004. After crossing the Southern Ocean from New Zealand (26 days), the crew took a little cruise on the way down from Puerto Montt, Chile, on their way to pick up the boss in Punta Arenas for the trip around. For more photos by photographer Daniel Forster, visit PHOTO COURTESY OF JESSICA DEVEREAUX www.yachtphoto.com/ch-04.html.
The Triton listed its 1,000th classified ad in July, a witty request for a sailing stewardess with no dietary or attitude problems. The ad came from Chef Jessica Devereaux and Capt. Steve Ray, who have run S/Y Seljm for nearly 11 years. The charter yacht, a 34m Sangermani staysail schooner, has been on a whirlwind cruise for the past two years, with at least another year of exciting cruising to go. Forgive us this shameless plug of The Triton’s free classified ad listings. Though Seljm didn’t find her stew through us, the ad did generate “a ton of responses,” Devereaux said. Our online classifieds listings at www.the-triton.com average 2,500 visitors and 12,000 pages viewed a month. We have helped hundreds of yachts and crew find each other. The Triton doesn’t take an active role in checking credentials or vouching for the qualifications listed in the ads – check with a crew agency for that kind of service – so please use professional discretion in interviewing and selecting possible boats and crew. The yacht isn’t well known in the states, Devereaux said, but is a familiar sight in Antigua, where it won overall in its class this
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Constellation charter breaks Galapagos rules with submarine The 290-foot (88m) Constellation, a luxury passenger ship that can carry 48 guests and has 50 crew, was arrested in June for using a submarine to view Galapagos National Park without a permit, according to press reports. The ship, which according to press reports only had permits to use tenders and scuba gear to explore the park, was joined in late June by Cebaco Bay, a Panamanian support vessel with a mini-submarine. The captains of both Cebaco Bay and the submarine reportedly were confident that Constellation had obtained the proper authorizations to
S/Y Legacy in February. PHOTO/LUCY REED
Plan to refloat Legacy started In July, engineers began moving the 156-foot (48m) Perini Navi S/Y Legacy off the shallow seagrass beds of a national marine sanctuary north of the Florida Keys. Washed there by Hurricane Wilma in October, Legacy has stayed until the owner and government officials could determine the best way to remove her. Fas-Dam, a private engineering company, has been contracted to build a 700-foot-long cofferdam. According to the salvage plan, an article in the Key West Citizen, said the cofferdam would be built under and around the yacht and filled with about 12 feet of water. The yacht will be moved to its end, when the cofferdam will then be dismantled and re-erected, moving the yacht inchworm fashion about 500 feet every four days. The move to deeper water was expected to take about three weeks, the paper reported. Fas-Dam is a private engineering company in Missouri that specializes in flexible cofferdams. A sanctuary spokeswoman told the Citizen that the operation will damage the seagrass beds, but less so than any other alternative for moving the boat. “They [the owners] are being cooperative,” she told the newspaper. “If there is any additional damage they will work with us to restore it. There is significant damage already.” – Staff report
use the sub, and four of Constellation’s 20 Russian guests were taken down. The next day, the Ecuadorian Navy arrested Cebaco Bay’s crew and seized the boat and submarine. It was unclear what role an agent played, if any. Constellation had already departed the archipelago, reports stated. Panamanian authorities arrested the ship as it prepared to transit the Panama Canal. By mid-July, both vessels remained seized. Cebaco Bay’s captain was sentenced to 90 days in jail, with the remaining eight crew members, all of Panama, sentenced to 30 days.
Panama is demanding their release, insisting Constellation should be held accountable, according to a report on the industry news service BYM News. The Galapagos is the world’s most heavily protected environmental reserve. The United Nations in July heard demands by ecologists for the Ecuadorian government to enforce stricter controls on tourism, illegal fishing and economic development in the archipelago, according to a story in a British newspaper. Visitor numbers topped 100,000 last year, the paper reported. Tour vessels and fishing boats are blamed
for bringing in invasive species to the islands. “There needs to be much stricter marine tourism management” the newspaper quoted Inen Meliane, from the IUCN office in Quito, Ecuador. “It’s such a huge reserve. The capacity to control it really needs to be strengthened.” Constellation is the second yacht to make headlines in the Galapagos recently. In late April, M/Y Talitha G was denied a second cruise in the national park over a dispute between her private vs. commercial status. – Staff report
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Impact of marine industry stuns candidate for Florida governor By Lucy Chabot Reed Gubernatorial hopeful Rod Smith, a Democrat from north central Florida, told a luncheon crowd of megayacht professionals that the size and impact of South Florida’s yacht community surprised and shocked him. “I was stunned at the numbers,” Smith said in July. “I think most folks would be surprised to hear the number of businesses and workforce in this industry.” South Florida’s marine industry generates $13.6 billion to the industry’s total impact of $18.4 billion, according
to a recent study by the Marine Industries Association of South Florida. And 73 percent of the state’s 220,000 industry jobs are in the region’s tri-county reach. About 1,400 of the world’s megayachts reportedly visit South Florida, the study found, with 1,300 visiting shipyards and each spending, on average, $400,000 while here in everything from service and repairs to restaurant and bar visits, hotel stays and car rentals. “I will absolutely tell you I had little idea about the impact of your industry until [Lurssen sales representative
Buddy Haack] spent time with me,” he said. “I would have never known, nor guessed, this industry’s importance to Florida. You are the best-kept secret in Florida’s economy.” Though Smith has spent six years in the Florida Senate, he admitted he was unaware of the reach the industry has in terms of jobs, economic impact and potential growth. He also wasn’t aware that the industry faced competitive pressures from outside the state, and vowed to support it should he win the primary in September and eventually the governor’s race in November. South Florida has lost six shipyards
in the past five years, and of the remaining 13, nine have offers from developers, said Frank Herhold, executive director of the MIASF. “We need to offer incentives to the second- and third-generation owners of these marinas and shipyards,” Herhold said. “The up-front money of a condo conversion is hard to turn down.” He pointed out the attention events such as the National Football League’s Superbowl attract. Government officials worked hard to attract the Superbowl to Miami in February on the promise of $329 million in economic impact. The state’s tourism industry brings $8.4 billion and 112,000 jobs. Even Florida’s famed citrus industry – with a marketing budget of $50 million – brings in less than the marine industry does, Herhold said, with $9 billion of economic impact. “We’ve never asked for a dollar from the state, but we need to think about it,” he said. Smith is one of two men vying for the Democratic candidacy. A lawyer for 17 years, he was appointed prosecutor in 1990, gaining recognition as the successful attorney in the student murder cases of the University of Florida. He was elected state attorney shortly after and was elected to the senate in 2000. “I claim no expertise in what has happened to your industry, but I promise you this: I will do what I can to help this industry remain as competitive as possible and keep this industry viable,” Smith said. “Just as we have done for the film industry and citrus and tourism, your industry should be elevated in its importance in this state.” Contact Editor Lucy Chabot Reed at lucy@the-triton.com.
Florida gubernatorial hopeful Rod Smith spoke to a group of yachting professionals in Ft. Lauderdale in PHOTO/LUCY REED July.
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Italy prohibits anchoring within 300m of shore With this new feature, we encourage captains and crew to let each other know of rules, regulations or procedures they run up against. If you have updates to help your yachting colleagues, e-mail Editor Lucy Chabot Reed at lucy@thetriton.com. Also, sign up for our weekly e-mail blast and get the news first. From Jayne and Howard Just, cruising on their Shannon 38 S/Y Just Imagine around Malta, Greece and Turkey: Thought you might like to spread the word that Italy did indeed pass a law – on May 24, we were told – that prohibits anchoring within 300 meters of shore. We were sailing around the south coast of Sicily on our way to Tunisia when we anchored about 180 meters off the famous Greek temples of Selinunte, a little west of the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento.
It seems to us that foreign-flagged vessels are targeted. We met the owners of a 46-foot Ed Dubois sloop who were warned not to anchor too close on the north coast, west of Palermo. So yachtsmen beware of the Guardia Costera in Sicily.
From a crew Workers at Ocean World paint the foam, stone-like member in Australia, façade of the casino. A grand opening is planned for who wrote in to PHOTO/MARY MILLER December. remind the industry that, effective Jan. 1, basis right now. 2006, drivers of personal watercraft There is water and electricity, which need a PWC license. To get a PWC is generated on-site so it’s not subject license, operators must to local black outs. On the docks, have a current and valid there are friendly and helpful staff and marine license. For ground transportation available to more information, visit town or the airport. And there’s one the Maritime Safety direct flight daily to Miami or several Queensland (MSQ) options to Miami and Ft. Lauderdale Web site at www.msq. via San Juan, Puerto Rico. qld.gov.au or contact We were there on the 90-foot Burger MSQ on 07-3860-3551. we manage in early April and then again for two weeks in June. We’ve been there in the calm and not-so-calm times and, depending on the weather, From Stewardess/ there is quite a bit of surge in the Cook Mary Miller marina, but they are working on that. Anchoring in the bay outside Selinunte to visit the in the Dominican They are planning a grand opening for Valley of the Temples landed the crew on one 38- Republic: December. footer a fine of 344 euros. By the way, the facade on all the You know that buildings is made of foam. I guess in a The weather was calm with high marina that we see in many boating strong wind, they may lose some bits pressure so we left the boat at anchor publications with a line sketch of and pieces but at least no one will get all day to hike up to the temples. the marina and casino [Ocean World hurt. When we returned to the boat in Marina near Puerto Plata, Dominican All the best to you all, and we’re the late afternoon, the Guardia Costera Republic]? pleased to report we’ve found The approached us by inflatable and fined Well, as you can see from these Triton in all the stops we made in the us 344 euros for a law that is not even photos, it’s under construction and northeastern Caribbean this spring and on the Internet yet. open for boat business on a half-price summer. We are going to contest the fine, which they advised us to do in writing, because of the fact that there is nothing on the Internet about the ordinance and because Rod Heikel’s “Italian Waters Pilot” advises that you can visit one of the prime tourist spots in Sicily by anchoring. However, 300 meters is too far away from shore to anchor safely and leave the vessel unattended. So they are cutting off their nose to spite their face, making the most beautiful Greek temple we’ve seen in Sicily off limits to yachtsmen in smaller vessels; ours is 12 meters. A megayacht can anchor with someone on anchor watch but our question is, what about all the Sicilian boats we saw anchored outside of San Yachts can dock at Ocean World Marina in the Dominican Republic for half Leone Marina in Agrigento, all closer PHOTO/MARY MILLER price with water and power. than 300 meters?
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Sardinia’s new luxury tax drives megayachts away The 300-foot (90m) M/Y Tatoosh, an annual visitor to Sardinia, reportedly anchored offshore this year to avoid the Italian island’s new luxury tax. The 414-foot (125m) Octopus decided to forgo its summer visit altogether, according to a report in the Corriere della Sera newspaper. The yachts are steering clear of Sardinia’s new luxury tax, which charges every yacht over 14m a oncea-season graduated fee based on size to dock at the island. Calling in port would have cost Tatoosh 15,000 euros. The tax, applied the first time a vessel visits the island between June 1 and Sept. 30, also applies to second homes and private aircraft. It is expected to raise as much as 800 million euros for the island. Sources and crew in Italy report that the tax has driven yachts from Sardinia to neighboring destinations, including Corsica. “This is a very hard blow,” Gian Battista Borea D’Olmo, the director of Porto Rotondo harbor, told The Telegraph, a UK newspaper. “It wipes out 30 years of work and is a gift for Croatia and Greece.” At the Sardinia port of Santa Teresa di Gallura, Mayor Piero Bardanzellu
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M/Y Octopus, seen here in Cannes a few years ago, reportedly skipped Sardinia this year. PHOTO/WEBSHOTS.COM said a fleet of 26 French yachts had diverted its course from the island, The Telegraph reported. UCINA, the Italian trade association, opposes the tax and filed an appeal of it with government authorities. The group is calculating the cost on the Sardinian economy, according to a story in IBI Magazine. Chat rooms are full of sailors telling each other alternative locations in Corsica, including Bonifacio, which has a small marina, Porto Vecchio, which has a protected bay with “excellent anchorage,” and Ajaccio. – Staff report
M/Y Lionwind captain, one crew get jail time for stealing artifacts The captain and crew member convicted of taking artifacts off several World War II wrecks in Palau lagoon were sentenced in late June to jail terms and fines, according to a story in Marianas Variety. The captain of M/Y Lionwind was sentenced to six months and a $12,000 fine for violating the Lagoon Monument Act, and four counts each of grand larceny, malicious mischief and conversion of public property. He was sentenced to six months for each violation, which run concurrently, the publication reported. The crewman received a threemonth sentence and a $5,000 fine for violating the Lagoon Monument Act, and one count each of grand larceny, malicious mischief and conversion of public property. He also was sentenced to six months for each violation, but the chief justice suspended the first three months of his sentence, which also ran concurrently. “The sentences were less that what we have asked for, but we are confident that the sentences will have some deterrent value,” Assistant Attorney General Christopher Hale told Variety. “The message is: loot Palau’s historic
shipwreck and you go to jail.” The two crew apologized during the sentencing for their “wrongdoing” and said they were remorseful and vowed not to do it again, the publication reported. Three other divers charged in May settled, paid restitution or pleaded guilty, the paper reported. All five men had originally pleaded not guilty to 29 criminal charges, which ranged from damaging a historical site to grand larceny and conspiracy. According to news reports from Palau, one crew member mentioned to someone that they had dove on several wrecks in February and March and had taken some artifacts. That person alerted police, who searched the yacht and recovered six items, including a porthole, compass and lanterns. In a related action, the owner of Lionwind paid $40,000 to settle a civil lawsuit filed against the yacht by the Attorney General’s Office in Palau, according to a story in Pacific Islands Report. The law sets a maximum fine for the removal of an artifact at $1,000, so the maximum fine for the six artifacts found on Lionwind is $6,000. – Staff report
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Ready to relive America’s Cup history? Charter the replica of the 1851 champion By John Freeman When Troy Sears looks at the yacht America, he sees more than majesty. He sees the history of sailing come back to life. The yacht is a replica of the first America’s Cup champion yacht from 1851 for which the world’s oldest sports trophy is named. Built in 1995, the new America is about 38 feet longer than the original, which was destroyed in 1942 when she was crushed by a snowladen roof in Annapolis, Md. The new America, berthed at San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina, became available this summer for charters on San Diego Bay. With her shimmering wood hull, three towering masts and huge U.S. flag, she is a visual treat for visitors strolling San Diego’s Seaport Village promenade. “It’s part of my living dream,” said Sears, operator of Next Level Sailing, a San Diego firm with the lease to charter the vessel. “I still can’t believe it’s happening. She’s a true icon and I get to be her captain on every trip.” San Diego hotel owner/developer Doug Manchester bought the yacht earlier this year as his own. Manchester, a life-long sailor, played a role in bringing the America’s Cup to San Diego in 1987, the year San Diego’s Dennis Conner claimed the Cup in Fremantle, Australia aboard Stars & Stripes. “To have America based here is a
America’s Cup Lore The date was Aug. 22, 1851, when the original schooner America won the Royal Yacht Squadron’s 53-mile regatta around the Isle of Wight by a convincing margin of 20 minutes. In doing so, the yacht captured the “One Hundred Sovereign Cup,” which was to become known as the “America’s Cup,” honoring the first race’s winner. According to Cup lore, it’s said that England’s Queen Victoria watched in dismay as America sailed into first place. This, of course, was the era of British dominance on the high seas. Inquiring as to which yacht had finished second, she received the famous reply that went on to signify the event’s pursuit of excellence: “Your Majesty, there is no second.”
Cruises aboard America Location: San Diego Bay Cost to build (1851, 101 feet): $30,000 Cost to build (1995, 139 feet): $6 million Rate: $6,500 for 3-4 hours Contact: Next Level Sailing Phone: 1-800-644-3454 E-mail: info@nextlevelsailing.com
Troy Sears said of the new America: ‘She’s a true icon.’ PHOTO/JOHN FREEMAN real privilege for me personally and for our company,” he said. When Manchester isn’t using the yacht to relax and entertain, she is part of Sears’ fleet, which includes Stars & Stripes and two Abracadabras of recent Cup vintage. “My first goal, of course, is to make the business a success,” Sears said. “But my passion is reconnecting to our America’s Cup legacy. San Diego has a great sailing history and the world doesn’t really know it.” Sears grew up in San Diego’s Clairemont neighborhood. Sailing was his escape. His first boat was a 10footer made of Styrofoam. He bought it mail order and attached it to a skateboard to cart to the nearby waters of Mission Bay. He was 9. “That was my freedom,” he said. “Once I put it in the water, I was hooked.” A few years later, his mother gave him the book “America’s Cup Showdown,” a pictorial history of the Cup. “Instead of rock star posters, I hung up a poster of Intrepid,” Sears said. “I guess I was a little different in that way. I just loved sailing.” Sears, now 43, earned a management science degree from the University of California at San Diego. He spent a few years on Wall Street as an investment banker before returning to take over his family’s pest control business. Soon realizing that “my passion wasn’t pests,” he said he decided to volunteer his management/finance skills to the San Diego-based America’s Cup effort of the late 1980s and early 1990s. In 2003, he joined forces with former college roommate Eddie Novak to form Next Level Sailing. Their goal was to buy Stars &
Stripes and put her into charter. Though similar America’s Cup boat charter firms operate in Australia, New Zealand and Italy, none had been tried in the United States. In fact, such once-used-and-abandoned vessels were derisively labeled “Sailing’s Edsels” by The Wall Street Journal years ago. “These carbon-fiber boats are very expensive to build, with very limited usage,” Sears said. “No one had thought to put them into charter here. Eddie put in a lot and I put in every penny I had. It was difficult for me, but fear is a great motivator.” Next Level paid “less than a million” for each of its four America’s Cup vessels. After Stars & Stripes, the firm soon added Abracadabra 50 and Abracadabra 54 to the fleet. The first of Next Level’s clients came shortly after the company’s launch. MTV sought a distinctive home-base sailboat for its “Real World” reality TV series, shot in San Diego during the summer of 2003. “My phone hasn’t stopped ringing since,” Sears said. “Now we book clients like corporate groups and law firms. There’s nothing better than getting a check from a law firm rather than writing one.” With America, Sears’ sailing dream has blossomed, which comes as no surprise to Chuck Nichols, who headed the America’s Cup committee in San Diego as well as the successful effort to bring the USS Midway aircraft carrier to San Diego Bay. He worked closely with Sears on both projects. “A lot of people are bright and have dreams, but most won’t follow through,” Nichols said. “Troy’s always been very analytical and inventive, plus he’s a great guy to go sailing with. I couldn’t be prouder of his success.” John Freeman is director of communications for Knight & Carver YachtCenter. He spent more than a dozen years as a journalist at the San Diego Tribune and Union Tribune newspapers before joining the marine industry. Contact him at jfreeman@ knightandcarver.com.
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Atlantic speed limit proposed to protect whales The United States’ National Marine Fisheries Service has called for a speed limit of 10 knots for vessels 65 feet and larger in areas of the Atlantic Ocean where the endangered North Atlantic right whale is active. The proposal is expected to face fierce opposition from the commercial shipping industry, according to several trade reports. Fewer than 350 right whales remain in the world, with most of them in the Northern Hemisphere off the U.S. East Coast. Ship strikes account for about half of all known, human-caused deaths of the mammals, which tend to swim near the water’s surface, according to the fisheries service.
in the national suite using only an Internet browser. Not sufficient for navigation, the online charts can be used for voyage planning and research, NOAA said in a statement. Each chart is updated weekly for Notice to Mariner corrections.
USCG District 7 captain retires
Capt. James D. Maes, commander of U.S. Coast Guard Sector Miami, formally relinquished command to Capt. Karl L. Schultz in mid-July. Capt. Schultz reports to Sector Miami from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. While at Harvard, he completed a one-year research fellowship in national security studies. From July 2003-July 2005, he served as commanding officer of Coast Guard Cutter Venturous homeported in St. Petersburg.
The endangered right whale feeds near the surface of the water, making it more susceptible to collisions with boats. Scientists identify and track them based on the unique patches of light-colored callosities on the head. PHOTO COURTESY OF WHALE CENTER OF
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On July 4, the U.S. National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration introduced a new public service called the Online Chart Viewer (www. nauticalcharts.gov/viewer/), which lets mariners display any nautical chart
USCG Capt. James Maes, seen here at right during The Triton’s USCG and immigration seminar in March, PHOTO/DAVID REED retired in July. Maes is retiring after 30 years in the Coast Guard. He has held the posts of Captain of the Port, Federal Maritime Security Coordinator, Officer in Charge of Marine Inspection, Federal on Scene Coordinator, and Search and Rescue Mission Coordinator. He and his wife plan to reside in Miami Beach, Fla., upon his retirement.
PWC hits, kills tourist
A Polish tourist was killed in early July when his wife’s personal watercraft jumped a wave and landed on him. The accident occurred just off Hillsboro Inlet in Pompano Beach.
Celebrity damages new Benetti
Supermodel Naomi Campbell reportedly caused $54,000 worth of damage to her boyfriend’s yacht following an argument with the chef. Campbell destroyed furniture and fittings on Dubai Prince Badr Jafar’s yacht, the 30m Benetti Nasma, which was moored in Viareggio, according to BYM News. The Sun in the UK reported that Campbell lost her temper because
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The classic megayacht Cardigrae VI was towed into the Italian port of Leuca after being severely damaged by fire on July 20, according to a report from BYM News. The news service reports that the Portuguese-flagged, 39m yacht had sailed from the Croatian port of Zadar the previous weekend and was cruising off the Italian coast, near Saint Maria di Leuca, when fire broke out. The five French charter guests and seven crew abandoned ship, leaving the National Fire Brigade to bring the blaze under control, the service reported. The Cardigrae VI was built in 1962 by Camper and Nicholsons, and underwent a major refit at GT Marine
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“Reducing serious injuries and deaths among right whales due to ship collisions will allow more of these rare animals to reach maturity and to reproduce,” Fisheries Service Director Bill Hogarth said in a statement. “We believe the measures proposed here will make U.S. East Coast waters safer for right whales.” The geographic area of the speed limit would shift seasonally to reflect whale movements. Affected areas would include habitats off the Southeastern coasts (Nov. 15-April 15), the Mid-Atlantic (Nov. 1-April 30) and New England (January-July). A public-comment period is open until Aug. 23. Written comments can be sent to Chief, Marine Mammal Conservation Division, Attn: Right Whale Ship Strike Strategy, Office of Protected Resources, NOAA Fisheries, 1315 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910; or by e-mail to shipstrike. comments@noaa.gov or www. regulations.gov. – Staff report
the chef ’s tomato, mozzarella and dried ham starter with white wine failed. The chef reportedly shouted back at Campbell, who then began throwing items about, smashing antiques and ripping curtains and furniture upholstery, according to several other press reports. Campbell is defending herself in three lawsuits filed by former employees who claim the supermodel assaulted them.
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Bronstien joins Broward as COO
Jim Bronstien, former owner of Rybovich Spencer in West Palm Beach, has joined Broward Marine as executive vice president and chief operating officer.
Bronstien Bronstien resigned from Rybovich last year after more than 20 years. He helped the new owners transition and said he wasn’t planning to get back into the industry so soon. “After about eight months, I met [Broward owner Tom Lewis] and we chatted,” Bronstien told a meeting of the Marina Mile Association in July. “I was curious what his plans were and the more we chatted, the more energized I got at what he wants to do.” Lewis has brought the service yard and operations back in house and has begun hiring more crew. The yard has about 100 employees now, and growing, he said. The yard is well into construction on two 120-foot models with another yacht scheduled to begin. “I’m excited to re-engage that company and see what we can do,” he said. “These are all built to ABS. These are not your father’s Browards.”
New Zealand leading America’s Cup Emirates Team New Zealand headed into the off-season in July leading on all counts at the 32nd America’s Cup. The Kiwis won a winner-take-all race over Alinghi on July 2 to claim Valencia Louis Vuitton Act 12, which put the team on top of the 2006 Louis Vuitton ACC Championship. The ranking points the team earned in Act 12 allowed it to stretch out a lead over BMW Oracle Racing on the challengers-only Louis Vuitton Ranking.
Project USA 2007 in San Diego
The magazine The Yacht Report announced in late July that it will bring its three-day industry conference Project USA 2007 to San Diego from May 9-11. The conference was created as the American counterpart to the magazine’s popular Project seminars held in Amsterdam each November. Project USA rotates around the country, held this past May in New Orleans. The conference is expected to attract more than 350 industry leaders, including captains, owners and yacht managers, with an emphasis on the fast-growing international large-yacht market. The three-day conference will be ad.qxd 4:53 PM Page 1 based at the9/14/2005 San Diego Manchester Hyatt Hotel alongside San Diego Bay.
Maxi catamaran Orange II beat the previous record set by Steve Fossett by more than 9 PHOTO/ hours. GILLES MARTIN-RAGET
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Capt. Bruno Peyron and his maxi catamaran Orange II with 11 crewmen crossed the North Atlantic in 4 days, 8 hours, 23 minutes and 54 seconds at an
average speed above 27 knots, besting the trans-Atlantic crewed record set by Steve Fossett’s PlayStation by 9 hours 4
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Corvettes got under this captain’s skin at an early age By Capt. Brad Tate Like many of us, I have spent so much time on and around boats in my career that my toy has nothing to do with the water. Funny, but cars like mine do have similarities to a boat. They take a lot of maintenance, the checks you write to the mechanic can be large, and you have a passion that explains the whole thing. I’ve had this passion for Corvettes (especially C-3s) ever since I first had the opportunity to drive a brand new 1981 Corvette at the start of my senior year in high school. From that day I was hooked on them. Most people don’t get it, but some do. Of course, now that we are older, more of us do than don’t. This is the second Corvette I have owned. It is a 1977 with the factory 350 C.I. engine with mostly factory equipment. The odometer says 61,000 miles, but I can’t prove that. It does not have the original paint job, but you can’t usually
the beach or hitting the highway for a trip out to the Everglades. With the high fenders that are trademark of this body style, it’s kind of like driving the Batmobile. In fact, if you are too short, you aren’t usually able to see any asphalt over the front of the car. My first Corvette was a 1980 with 47,000 original, documented miles. That car was cherry. I sold it to do some traveling on my own. I missed it so much, I bought this one. Capt. Brad Tate oversees the rebuilding of the old Summerfield Boatworks in Ft. Lauderdale into Pier 17.
Landside now, Capt. Brad Tate is as passionate about his 1977 Corvette as PHOTO/LUCY REED he often was with yachts he ran. tell. The seats are original leather, and the entire interior is in great shape. The only real collectible thing about this car is the fact that it is the last year of the
flat back Stingray style. Although the car doesn’t hold any monster collector price, it is a blast to drive. There is nothing like taking the T-tops off on a sunny day and cruising
Yacht captains and crew have a variety of interests. This column is meant to show off some of them. If you have an interesting hobby, choice car or other diversion from yachting, we want to know about it. Send us a little info to editorial@thetriton.com.
MIASF produces job DVD NEWS BRIEFS, from page A15 minutes and 12 seconds. The first record on this route from New York to The Lizard at the southwestern tip of Great Britain was set by Charlie Barr, captain of the Atlantic schooner, in 1905 in 12 days and 4 hours, a time that would remain the record for 75 years. In 1980, Eric Tabarly and his foiler Paul Ricard improved on Barr’s performance by two days, crossing the Atlantic at an average speed of 11.93 knots.
Following that, the attempts and improvements came at a steady pace. For more information, visit www. orange-sailing-team.com.
DVD touts industry careers
The Marine Industries Association of South Florida and WorkForce One, a Broward County employment agency, have made an educational DVD detailing the numerous jobs in the marine industry. Record-low unemployment rates and a growing industry in South Florida have resulted in job openings in businesses across the region, the agencies said in a statement. “There is such a broad range of marine industry careers and a need for workers in virtually all segments of the industry,” said Frank Herhold, MIASF’s executive director. “This DVD will assist us with educating people about opportunities in the industry and showing them how they can be a part of the marine community and boating lifestyle.” The 98-minute DVD, paid for with a grant from the state of Florida, involved interviews with nearly 50 marine industry professionals including shipyard project managers, carpenters, painters, crew, designers and marina operators. The DVD is available for schools or individuals seeking work in Broward County. For more information, contact WorkForce One at 954-494-6876 or www. wf1broward.com.
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Largest sportfish at 171 feet in design stage
Douglas Sharp Yacht Design of San Diego has been hired to design the largest privately owned, custom sportfish ever built. The new vessel will be 171 feet (51m) with a beam of 31.5 feet (9.6m). Designer Doug Sharp called the project “a seminal design that will redefine the sportfisher genre by increasing the speed, range, voyaging capabilities and luxury accommodations of the type to levels never before dreamed of.” Two main engines of 3,648 horsepower (2,720 KW) will deliver the 25-knot cruising speed and 32-knot top speed. Sharp said he expects to use carbon fiber and other composite materials in the hull, bulkheads, decks and superstructure to meet performance and maneuverability goals. The client, an unnamed California yachtsman, has mandated that performance parameters cannot be met with conventional propulsion arrangements, a detailed engineering study of alternate means should be done, including the use of water jets and/or pod drives. “I wanted a design that really pushed the envelope of performance and luxury and something that would be the outstanding example of her type for years to come,” the client said in a statement. For more information, visit www. sharpdesign-na.com. The third annual St. Maarten Charter Yacht Exhibition announced in July that the 200-foot (61m) Lurssen M/Y Phoenix plans to attend the show from Dec. 2-5. This is the first time Phoenix has attended a charter show in the Caribbean, organizers said. The charter show is based at Port de Plaisance in Simpson Bay. The dates for the show have been moved up so they do not overlap with the Antigua Charter Yacht Meeting, scheduled for Dec. 6-11. The S/S Nomadic, tender to the RMS Titanic, is back at the Abercorn Basin where she was fitted out 95 years ago. She was brought to Belfast, Northern Ireland, on a barge from France and will get hauled out in about a month for extensive restoration.
Bought in December by the Department of Social Development of Northern Ireland for 250,001 euros, the 221-foot boat was built by Harland and Wolff shipyards in Belfast to ferry passengers to White Star Liners calling at Cherbourg. Nomadic was launched on April 25, 1911, with a capacity to ferry 1,000 first and second class passengers. She served Titanic on April 10, 1912. For more information, visit www. savenomadic.com. International Yacht Collection of Ft. Lauderdale announced the sale of M/Y Briann, a 118-foot Christensen, by broker Jim Eden, and the sale of M/Y Scorpio, a 115-foot Sovereign by broker Jim McConville. Scorpio has been renamed Golden Boy II and was last seen at Platypus Marine in Port Angeles, Wash., getting her transom painted. (See crew photo on page A31.) On the charter front, the 122-foot CRN M/Y Lady Madelyn will charter in the Caribbean this winter before heading to the Mediterranean next summer with Capt. Boris King at the helm. For more information, call +1-954522-2323 or visit www.yachtcollection. com. Westport Shipyard of Washington recently launched the 112-foot M/Y Nina Lu, registered in the Cayman Islands. Westport launched its first new 165-foot (50m) yacht in February. No Limits Yachts announced the participation of the fourth, final and largest Moonbeam, a 110-foot gaff cutter designed and built by William Fife Jr. and launched in 1914, in the 2007 St. Maarten-St.Martin Classic Yacht Regatta. She will set sail from the south of France to St. Maarten by the end of October after her summer charter season. She participated in the Louis Vuitton Act 12 and Copa del Ray Mahon. For charter inquiries, visit www. NoLimitsCharters.com. A bevy of brokers with Fraser Yachts Worldwide were named
central agents recently, including Stuart Larsen of Ft. Lauderdale for M/Y Barbara Jean, a 185-foot (56.5m) Feadship; Gerry Hull of Ft. Lauderdale for M/Y Nirvana, a 118-foot (36m) Hatteras; Neal Esterly of San Diego for Takapuna, a 112-foot (34m) Valdettaro, and M/Y Lady Vanessa, a 100-foot (30m) Benetti. He shares that listing with Antoine Larricq, also of San Diego. Fraser Yachts brokers sold several yachts so far this season, including M/Y Blue Moon II, a 165-foot Feadship (selling agent Darrell Hall of Monaco; the owners renamed her Sweet Pea); M/Y Printemps, a 112-foot (34m) Heesen (central agent William Aveston and selling agent Antoine Larricq of Monaco); M/Y Aria, a 100-foot (30m) San Lorenzo (selling agent William Aveston of Monaco); M/Y Princess Mary, a 70-foot (21m) Delta (central agent Patrick McConnell of San Diego); and S/Y Alert, a 62-foot (19m) 1949 wooden W.F. Stone & Son classic sloop (central and selling agent Neal Esterly of San Diego). Fraser Yachts added these yachts to its charter fleet: S/Y Patient Falcon, a 93-foot (28m) Able Marine in charter this summer in New England; and M/Y Loyalist, an 85-foot (26m) Souters in the Eastern Mediterranean. For more information, visit www. fraseryachts.com.
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Pier 17 changes hands, work set to begin By Lucy Chabot Reed Pier 17, the former Summerfield Boatworks on the south fork of the New River, has been sold to a private investor who is moving forward on the existing renovation plans. Earl Weber, the owner of a 107-foot Dennison, was looking for a place to dock his yacht in Ft. Lauderdale. Instead of buying a slip at the proposed dockominium project, he decided to make an offer on the whole property, said project manager Brad Tate. “When this deal was presented to me I jumped at the opportunity,” Weber said in a statement. “As a yacht owner myself I was spending $4,000 a month renting a slip just off the Intracoastal Waterway. “The slips at Pier 17 are deeded, fee simple, under cover, and safely up the New River,” he said. “I instantly realized the value for myself and other yacht owners in the same position throughout South Florida. I now own a secure slip that is an appreciating asset in the center of Ft. Lauderdale. This deal was a no-brainer.” Part of the condition of the sale was that all permits be in place to move ahead on the proposed renovation, a hurdle the previous owners, GreyHawk
A computerized rendering of the Pier 17 project. Marine Group, took 18 months to clear. Dallas-based GreyHawk bought the property in January 2005 but work had yet to begin. All the permits for the water improvements have been obtained, Tate said. Since the changing of hands in July, the service center closed and all boats were expected off the hard to prepare for demolition of the property’s old service buildings, which Tate expected some time this month. Soon after, the docks will be removed and the six-month process of repairing and replacing the sea wall will begin. Once construction on the docks begins, Tate estimated the project to take about a year to complete. He could not say when construction would begin, but hoped it might be completed by the fall 2007 in time for the Ft. Lauderdale International Boat Show. The yard will still offer dockage until work on the sea wall begins, at least until September, he said. Weber develops condominium projects, mostly in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast. He is also involved in the construction of a Ft. Lauderdale 16-unit condo project with accompanying yacht slips. Tate, a former employee of management firm Flagship Marinas, left that company’s employ to work with Weber on this project and possibly another. About a dozen of Pier 17’s 23 covered slips have been reserved so far, the company said in a statement. The slips will accommodate yachts up to 155 feet (and up to a 40-foot beam) with drafts up to 10 feet and each includes a two-car garage and storage unit. Three uncovered slips are also in the plans. Pre-construction price of the slips is $15,000 a foot for slips less than 130
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feet, and $600 a square foot on the longer, wider slips. For more information, call +1-954934-6403 or e-mail info@pier17.net.
Jackson Marine sold
Naples-based marina developer BoatClubsAmerica has purchased Ft. Lauderdale’s Jackson Marine Center with plans of creating wet and dry slips for more than 300 boats, about 150 fewer than currently there. The new marina, whose investment is estimated at $50 million, will handle boats up to 170 feet in the water, according to a story in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. The 12-acre marina on the New River just west of I-95 has been renamed Ft Lauderdale BoatClub. “We are very excited to have a marina property in the Fort Lauderdale market,” said Ed Ruff, president of BoatClubsAmerica. “We have completed two marina projects in Naples and have begun construction on a third marina in Ft. Myers. We think this market is a perfect match for our boat club concept.” Plans for redevelopment include a state-of-the-art service center with enclosed “clean space” work bays, 300 boathouse slips for purchase, 14 inwater slips for purchase, and 1,000 feet of in-water docking for repair and property operations. The renovated 50year-old property will include a 4,000square-foot club house, pool, outdoor bar, billiard room, locker room and laundry facilities, and owner’s lounge with business conference center. The new service and parts center, combined with retail space, will encompass more than 80,000 square feet. “Every inch of the property will be
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Ft. Lauderdale BoatClub developers Patrick and Ed Ruff announce the purchase of Jackson Marine Center with former owners Patty Jackson and PHOTO COURTESY OF FT. LAUDERDALE BOATCLUB Donna McGlynn.
Jackson family stays on in service MARINA NEWS, from page A18 reconstructed from the ground up,” Ruff said. Until permits are obtained, the marina will remain open with the Jackson family – which has been in Ft. Lauderdale’s marine industry since 1954 and bought the marina about 20 years ago – operating the service, parts and repair center. The seven other contractors who operate from the yard will continue to do so, the company said in a statement. Sale of slips is expected in early 2007, Ruff said. For more information, visit www.boatclubsamerica.com.
Ozzies set rezoning standards
The Boating Industry Association of Queensland has put forward a six-point plan for the government to follow in any future marine rezonings.
The plan was resolved at a national summit in Brisbane recently to consider future introduction of Marine Protection Areas in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. It proposes any future marine rezoning by any government should be based on: l scientific verification; l full consultation with resource users; l economic impact study; l public accountability of the rezoning authority; l suitable resource allocation; and l appropriate penalties. The industry has been concerned about rezonings following the rezoning of the Great Barrier Reef two years ago, said BIAQ General Manager Barry
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San Diego’s Kona Kai improvements complete MARINA NEWS, from page A20 Hibberd. “That impacted 600 businesses and the initial $1.5 million estimate for the cost of industry restructuring, which indicated minor economic impact, is now estimated at $200 million,” he said. “The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority got it badly wrong and this must never happen again.”
They built it; will they come?
So far, so good for Pete Taliercio, dockmaster of San Diego’s newest megayacht marina, Kona Kai Marina. The marina recently completed an $8 million improvement project that has brought nearly a dozen large yachts in recent months to the facility on Shelter Island, only minutes from the Pacific Ocean. For megayachts, the 518-slip marina’s main appeal rests with its 10 large-vessel slips: six for 120-foot yachts and four for 200-foot yachts. In addition, the entire marina now boasts concrete docks along with the latest in dockside amenities. “We’re going after that big-boat market, and they’ve been coming, one by one,” said Taliercio of the renovated marina that opened in February. “We’re trying to get the word out.” Along with nearby Island Palms Marina, which boasts 188 slips, including 19 slips for yachts 116 to 200 feet, Shelter Island has become a popular stopping point for yachts
Dockmaster Pete Taliercio of Kona Kai Marina on Shelter Island in San Diego PHOTO/JOHN FREEMAN is open and ready for business. traveling the West Coast. Kona Kai Marina is affiliated with Kona Kai Resort, which recently acquired new ownership and changed its name from Shelter Pointe Hotel. Long viewed as an under-used facility – even dating back to its founding in the mid-1950s – the bayside resort has five-star plans under its new owners, longtime San Diego-based hoteliers Richard Bartell and Terry Brown. – John Freeman
LMC to expand into old Broward yard By Lucy Chabot Reed Ft. Lauderdale’s Lauderdale Marine Center received preliminary approval to expand into the old Broward west yard, nearly 19 acres it purchased last year. Plans call for the construction of a 39,000-square-foot assembly building as well as a 24,000-square-foot contractor building along with room for 29 yachts in the water and 45 on the hard, all for yachts up to about 150 feet. The familiar blue-roofed shed would hold six yachts with 30-foot beams, according to the plan. Seeking approval from the city of Ft. Lauderdale’s Marine Advisory Board, which is chaired by former megayacht Capt. John Terrill, LMC’s attorney Donald Hall of Gunster Yoakley displayed drawings of a lushly landscaped plot with a separate entrance on Southwest 20th Street (the same one Broward Marine had) and a perimeter road to help keep yacht guests away from the shed areas of addition. The expansion would push LMC’s capacity to nearly 140 wet slips on its 50 gross acres of marine facility.
In an attempt to appease opposition from neighborhood residents, LMC plans to place the roadway connecting the two portions of the yard beside the concrete wall on its south side, forcing yachts on the hard to move about 75 feet north and farther from residents. “I tell you this with 18 years as a megayacht captain, a good portion of those years being spent in shipyards all over the world: Lauderdale Marine Center is a very well-kept yard, orderly and safe, compared with other yards I’ve seen,” Terrill said. “The neighborhood benefits tremendously from the yard. There are a lot of families in that neighborhood and surrounding neighborhoods that have food on the table because of jobs at Lauderdale Marine Center.” The city’s planning and zoning board must next offer its recommendation, expected this month, before city commissioners vote on the project this fall. It was unclear when, pending approval, construction would begin. Contact Editor Lucy Chabot Reed at lucy@the-triton.com.
Dry storage open in Riviera Beach Loggerhead Club & Marina, a 300-slip dry storage in Riviera Beach, recently opened. Hurricane rated, it can store boats up to 46 feet or 52,000 pounds. For more information, visit www.loggerheadclubandmarina.com.
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Fool-proof fueling: Crew call fuel ship Being fortunate to jump right into the South Florida yachting scene when I moved to this southern climate about three years ago, I was put right by my friend Capt. Nick and his wife, Laurie, aboard their charter yacht Eastern Star. Familiar with some of the larger fueling docks in the area, I asked Capt. Nick one day if we needed to head out for a fuel-up. He mentioned that there is a fuel barge Captain’s Call service that comes right Tom Serio to the boat. Not wanting to feel “Norman Paperman-ish”, I nodded like I knew what Nick was talking about. (Who’s Norman Paperman, you ask? He’s a character in Jimmy Buffett’s “Don’t Stop the Carnival” who didn’t understand the need to hail the water barge. Long story. Pick up the CD.) Curious by nature, I wanted to learn more about these “barges” and recently hooked up with one of the area’s largest fuelers, Peterson Fuel Delivery, for a ride-along. These aren’t really barges but self-propelled tankers or, as Managing Partner Robert Lambert put it, fuel ships. Why obtain fuel this way as opposed to a fuel dock? Easy. As most yacht crew members told me, it’s convenient, more affordable and, at least with Peterson, dependable. The day I tagged along, Capt. Rick Gonzales was behind the wheel. Capt. Rick has spent a number of years pushing real barges on the Mississippi River, so this 61-foot fuel ship is easy, comparatively. We departed from Lauderdale Marine
Center, where Peterson keeps two of the signature-yellow vessels that serve Broward County. (There is a fuel ship in Miami for that area.) Capt. Rick deftly maneuvered the single-screw (and bow thruster-assisted) ship outbound on the New River. All five bridges had to be opened due to spuds that stick up about 30 feet. I asked Capt. Rick how he wanted to tie up or anchor, as our first stop was all the way up on the head dock at Hall of Fame Marina. “No need,” he said. “We’ll never touch the other vessel.” The puzzled look on my face must have spoken a thousand words, with Capt. Rick replying that the spuds jutting up at the bow and stern will be lowered, essentially anchoring us in any place we wish. Capt. Rick positioned the bow about 2 feet from Pro Diver II, a 60-foot dive vessel, and lowered the fore spud. He then pivoted the stern around and dropped that spud. We were locked in place. Within minutes, the hose was over the rail and the vessel was being fueled with 300 gallons of diesel. Peterson fuel ships are designed and built to ABS standards and certified by the U.S. Coast Guard. These double-hulled ships hold up to 10,000 gallons of diesel in several tanks, with two pumping systems. The pumps can push up to 300 gallons a minute through the 2-inch hose, a little less through the 1.5-inch hose. If it’s lube oils you need, Peterson supplies them via buckets and barrels. Other products can be ordered, including fuel additives and filters, oil absorption and containment items, and cleaners and degreasers. Peterson also can remove waste oil and off-load fuel prior to a haul-out. I chatted with a crew member (out of
The fuel ship – or self-propelled tanker – in the foreground carries of diesel and can sell it for as much as a dollar less than dockside volume of fuel it sells. earshot of Capt. Rick), looking for some pros and cons of this type of service. Basically, he didn’t like tanker truck service and noted it is more convenient for fuel to come to the boat, as it fills up weekly. With a quick signature on the invoice and
thanks all around, Capt. aft spud, swung the stern fore spud, and we were o tall with a pointed end fo waterway floor, and weig Once they’re down, they
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A winch-and-chain assembly lifts the 3,000pound ‘spud.’ Once the fuel ship has ‘spudded down,’ the supply line is delivered to the customer.
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them takes a beefy winch and chain assembly. Next stop was the Best Western docks – or what’s left of them during the renovation period – off 17th Street Causeway to fuel the Nekton Pilot, a 78-foot SWATH (Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull) vessel that specializes in dive excursions to the Bahamas. Nekton also offers trips to Belize, Mona Island off Puerto Rico, the Cayman Islands and Silver Bank to dive with the whales, among other cool destinations. Nekton Pilot was moored on the outside at Best Western, so we pulled up on the inside of the dock and spudded down. Since the fuel inlet is up about 15 feet on the top deck of Nekton, a line was dropped and the hose tied to it and hoisted up by engineer Brad, who oversaw the fueling. Capt. Rick stayed on the fuel ship, manning pumps and valves in case a quick shutoff was necessary. Peterson fuel ships
typically operate with one captain, who handles all aspects of vessel operation and fueling. When asked why his vessel uses Peterson’s, Brad mentioned the convenience but more importantly that the service is always on time, if not early. And that’s important on a charter schedule, he said. Remember that fuel ships or other fueling services are not allowed in all marinas, especially those that sell their own fuel. For yachts docked in one of those marinas, Peterson’s can arrange to meet a vessel somewhere along the ICW where the fuel ship is already “spudded down” and waiting. Peterson’s fuel ships operate in the rain and other adverse weather. When a hurricane is forecast, the company will position one ship up river and one down river to ensure continued service, regardless of bridge closings. After pumping 2,000 gallons into several tanks on Nekton, the hose was lowered and secured in the container before departing.
The container is midships and is a fully contained metal box where all pumps, valves and connections are located. Any accidental spill, leak or overflow of fuel will be contained within, preventing fuel from getting into the water. All Peterson fuel ships carry containment booms for spills and other recovery gear, since they also carry lube oils and other petrochemicals. The cruise back up the New River was eventful for me, as we had to buck a ripping outflow and several cruise boats and recreational vessels running down current. But Capt. Rick was cool, calm and in control, masterfully working the wheel, thruster, throttle and shifter like he had four arms, negotiating the bends and bridge openings like a seasoned professional. Back at the dock, I had a chance to speak with Robert Lambert in detail, as he explained that Ted Peterson, who founded the company, is still involved a bit with the business along with Lambert and several other partners. The company has plans to expand with a larger and newer fleet and additional locations over the next one to two years. Asked pointedly how he can run such an operation while charging, on average, 50 cents to $1 less per gallon than dockside pumps, he said it’s all in the volume sold. So with that, convenience and dependability, make sure you don’t let the barge go by, Norman. Contact Capt. Tom Serio through editorial@thetriton.com. For more information about Peterson Fuel Delivery, visit www.petersonfuel.com or call 954-764-3835.
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Canada’s West Bay SonShip emerges from bankruptcy A reorganization plan by Canadian yacht builder West Bay SonShip has been approved by the Supreme Court of British Columbia, enabling the 40-yearold builder to emerge from creditor protection under bankruptcy laws and continue building yachts. West Bay filed for bankruptcy protection last year. As of July 1, West Bay SonShip Yachts will be fully functioning outside the umbrella of court protection. “We are extremely grateful and moved by the support we have received during this difficult time,” Ben Vermeulen, chairman of West Bay SonShip, said in a statement. “We look forward to presenting our customers, vendors and employees with an even better West Bay SonShip Yachts.” Based in Delta, B.C., West Bay SonShip builds power yachts from 50107 feet. The company delivered three yachts in May and expected to deliver two more in late July. The company’s service department also announced that it is open for summer and fall bookings for refits and service. For more information, call
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The Cayman Islands Shipping Registry announced in June the relaunch of its operations in Greece with a strengthened, dedicated team based in Athens and the introduction of full-line services for commercial shipping, the registry said in a news release. The CISR’s operations in Greece now include survey and audit services, increased capacity in vessel registration and mortgage services for new and existing clients. The Cayman Islands has experienced growth in the Greek market in both the commercial and pleasure industries. Commercial shipping has grown 28 percent over the past three years while pleasure yacht registrations have doubled in the past three months.
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Feadship announced that Francois van Well has been appointed director and CEO of Feadship America. Previously one of the directors at Royal Van Lent, van Well will work alongside Don Kenniston, who has run the Dutch luxury yacht builder’s stateside office since it opened in 1977. As the new director and CEO of Feadship America, van Well will aim to further strengthen the sales function of the office in Ft. Lauderdale. More than half of Feadship’s clients are based in the United States. In addition to maintaining close relationships with clients and potential clients, he will network with captains and prepare marketing materials specially aimed at the American market. Before taking up his new position, van Well was involved with a project to analyze the yachting market in general and the stateside market in particular. For more information, call +1954-761-1830 or e-mail info@
Simpson Bay names new manager
Clarena Connor has been named administrative manager and controller at Simpson Bay Marina. For years, Connor has been the first voice many captains heard on the VHF. Born and raised in St. Maarten’s main city, Philipsburg, Connor Connor succeeds Joanne Corrick-Lake. who entered private financial practice.
focus on the development of crew operations in the south of France and neighboring areas. The Crew Network is a division of Fraser Yachts Worldwide. For more information, visit the Antibes office at 12 Avenue Pasteur, call +33 (0) 4 97 21 13 13, e-mail antibes@crewnetwork. com or visit www.crewnetwork.com.
Fraser adds to San Diego team
Michael Selter and James Nason have joined Fraser Yachts San Diego as yacht brokers. Selter began his yachting career at age 8 by scraping the bottom of boats at the Shelter Island Boat Yard; at that time the boatyard was owned and operated by his grandfather. He started his own brokerage company, American Yachts, with locations in Newport Beach and San Diego. Nason has logged thousands of ocean miles. His experiences range from being a deckhand on a 127-foot oceanographic research schooner to being a commercial fisherman to being a mate on ocean-going tugboats in Alaska and being a licensed tanker man on a 100,000-barrel oil barge. He has owned his own yacht dealership and brokerage since 1981.
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Crew Network hires new manager
Helen Robertson has been appointed manager of The Crew Network in Antibes, France. A former chief stewardess for nine years, Robertson started with The Crew Network in January 2005 as a crew placement specialist. In her new role, she will
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and project staff from Ft. Lauderdalebased Resolve Marine Group were on hand to watch the USS Oriskany make her 36-minute descent some 25 miles off the coast of Pensacola, Fla., in May. An estimated 250 vessels filled with spectators encircled the near 900-footlong decommissioned Navy aircraft carrier to witness its historic plunge into 212 feet of water to begin her new life as an artificial reef as part of the Navy’s new initiative to dispose of several such vessels. The aircraft carrier was built in 1945 and decommissioned in 1977. She was the last of the Essex class carriers in the Navy’s active fleet at the time and served her country during the Korea and Vietnam Wars.
Dockwise donates to Unicef
As a direct result of the $10 donation for each completed survey that Dockwise Yacht Transport received, a $6,000 donation was made to the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, in support of UNICEF’s Water, Environment and Sanitation programs that focus on providing access to safe drinking
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New teacher in Oz
In September, Donna Morris will begin as instructor of the steward/ ess courses offered by Club Sail’s Superyacht Crew Academy in association with the American Yacht Institute. Morris spent six years as a chief stewardess on private and charter yachts up to 210 feet Morris (64m). With more than 20 years in the hospitality industry, her skills include concierge and business services, budgeting, reporting to owners/ management and purchasing. For more information, contact SCA at +61 (0) 2 9979 9669, info@clubsail. com.au or visit www.superyacht-crewacademy.com.
New Zealand builder moves
Pushed by exponential growth, Yachting Developments moved from its yard of nearly two decades in Beach Haven, Auckland, to a larger facility on the Hobsonville Air Base in July. Local government officials plan to create a marine hub out of the former defense facilities on the air base. With more than 5,600 square feet of hangers and 8,000 square feet of warehouse and office space, Yachting Developments can have three projects running. The relocation also allows access to launch facilities. Yachting Developments specializes in performance power and sail superyachts. For more information, visit www.ydl.co.nz, e-mail info@ydl. co.nz or call +64 (0) 9 417 0060
MIASF announces board
The officers of the Marine Industries Association of South Florida for the 2006-2007 term are: Kristina Hebert of Ward’s Marine Electric as president; J.J. McConnell of Gilman Yachts as vice president; John Stephens of Lewis Marine Supply as secretary/treasurer; and past president Jay Reynolds of J.P. Reynolds Co. The board of directors includes: Jim Bronstien of Broward Marine, Jeff Dana of Pantropic Power, Wes Dickman of
HMY Yacht Sales, Phil Everingham of The Marine Council, Patricia Hamilton of Keystone Point Marina, Mark Hanke of MarineMax/Associated Marine Technologies, John Mann of Bluewater Books & Charts, Craig Muir of Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World, and Chris Wren of the Downtown Development Authority. Patience Cohn of Penumbra Marine and Don Kenniston of Feadship resigned from the board.
in recent years Barton has added unique non-sail items to its line. The Barton ClamSeal repairs RIBs, inflatables and liferafts without glue. The product received a NMMA Product Innovation Award and a DAME Award when it was introduced in 2004. For more information about Barton Marine products, visit www. bartonmarine.com or call +1-800-3438294.
Golden Anchor honor bestowed
Westport debuts new Web site
The Marine Industries Association of South Florida awarded George Irvine of Pipewelders Marine the 2006 Golden Anchor Award. This award honors an individual for a lifetime of achievement and extraordinary accomplishment. Irvine started a marine and recreational division at the Owens Corning Fiberglass Company in New York in the late 1950s. He joined the Hatteras Yacht Company and helped produce the first fiberglass yachts. He became president of Chris Craft Corp., for which he created a new line of boats and built an innovative two-piece mold for the 74-foot motoryacht, the biggest mold of its kind at that time. He purchased Pipewelders in 1977. John Ziegler of the Waterfront News, Shary Patton of ASA Promotions and the management and staff of Yachting Promotions were honored for marine industry contributions in the past year.
Hideaway Marina adds boat line
Hideaway Marina in Pompano Beach has added the sport fishing boat line Deep Impact to its dealership. “They do not build hundreds of boats for the masses,” Marina President Pierre Gaudreau said. Established in 1998 in Miami, Deep Impact boats range from 33-36 feet. Hideaway Marina will be a dealer as well as service center for the boats. For more information, visit www. hideawaymarina.com or www. deepimpactpowerboats.com.
Sabre Yachts hits safety milestone Sabre Yachts, Maine’s largest recreational boatbuilder, celebrated six years and 2 million hours of labor without a lost-time accident. “It takes an extraordinary group of people to make this happen,” said Christopher Evans, president of Sabre Yachts. For more information, visit www. sabreyachts.com.
Barton opens US facility
British equipment and accessories manufacturer Barton Marine has opened a warehouse and distribution center in Guilford, Conn. Operating as Barton U.S.A., the new facility will speed delivery and enhance customer service for Barton’s growing U.S. wholesale and retail customer base. Known for sail hardware products,
Yacht builder Westport debuted its newly designed Web site (www. westportyachts.com). The enhanced site follows Westport’s incursion into the international superyacht market with the debut earlier this year of its new flagship 50m yacht, a 164-foot trideck launched in February. The site includes details on all of Westport’s series-built yacht lines, including the 50m, Westport 130 and the Westport 112. The site includes a photo gallery for each model, interactive blueprints with links to 360degree virtual tours and performance graphics. Pacific Mariner Yachts are also featured, with specifications and galleries for the 65-foot and 85-foot series-built vessels.
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Bridge: To end up on a large yacht, start out on one THE BRIDGE, from page A1 “It’s not as much an inheritance as it is you know what’s going on.” “And you’ve got to be patient,” said another. “The trap people get into is a Feadship comes along and they jump.” An exception noted to being patient for the captain’s position is when the owner moves up and takes the captain with him, but that spurred a whole separate discussion on insurance companies and qualified skippers. “I support what the MCA is doing with time required in one position to get to the next,” one captain said. “Today, there aren’t enough experienced captains around, but in 10 years, there will be.” Getting started on a large yacht is easy in some ways – there are more entry-level positions available – but harder in others because of the requirements and training required. In the “old days,” one captain who had been a sailor all his life said he walked the docks in Palma, dreaming of big white boats. Asking around, he couldn’t get a job because he had no experience on them. Then he broke up a fight one night in a bar where a big-boat mate happened to be. The next day he was hired as a deckhand on a large yacht and stayed. He runs yachts over 150 feet today. “All the guys on big boats started out on big boats,” he noted. While moving up is hard, moving down isn’t always easy, either. “I tried to go from big to smaller because I wanted to stay home,” said a captain with a home and family in South Florida. “Everyone told me I was overqualified.” “Does that translate to ‘too much money’?” a captain asked. “It never got that far,” he said. Family can sometimes drive the
desire to work on smaller yachts, but not always to stay home. “I always thought my dream job was to work on a big boat,” one captain said. “Then I met my wife and that wasn’t my goal anymore. We work together for a family with a family. “I hear all the time from captains on bigger boats that they’re constantly having crew problems,” he said. “No amount of money is worth that.” “But you can get beyond that,” another captain said. “I worked my way up working for anyone that no one else wanted to work for because I saw it as a way to advance my career. And it worked. I work now for the best family in yachting.” “That step from 80 feet to 130 is huge, in terms of management, budget, regulations,” one captain said. “It’s complicated.” “And there’s a huge increase in responsibility,” another said. So what hurdles have you seen in a career focused on taking command of a large yacht? “I have had to fight to keep up with regulations,” one captain said. “I spent five years taking every one of my vacations in school.” “One hurdle I’ve noticed is the age factor,” another said. “It’s a problem coming on a larger yacht as an engineer or mate with a captain who is younger than I am.” “If you want to be the captain of a big boat, you have to be crew on a big boat,” a captain reiterated. “If you don’t know how to take an order, you’ll never know how to give one.” “Not necessarily,” disagreed a captain who started his career in command. “Management skills are transferable from different industries. I had no problem coming in as a captain. But I did learn that I can’t tell someone to do something I can’t do myself. I
Attendees of The Triton’s August Bridge luncheon were, from left, Martyn Walker (looking), David Hare of M/V Thunder, Ken Bracewell of M/Y Curt C, Rick and Catherine Topel (looking), Howie Stein formerly of M/Y Carmac VII and Peter Spooner of M/Y Manatari X. PHOTO/LUCY REED learned real fast how to varnish.” Technical and management skills are the hardest to teach, the veteran captains agreed. “If someone asked me how to be a good captain, I’d tell them to go to mechanics school for four years, get some clinical psychology training for about four years, and take a navigation course for a week,” one captain said. The group laughed in agreement. So what mistakes did you make that younger crew could learn from? “I regret not going to the merchant marine academy,” one captain said. “You graduate from Kings Point and you can write your ticket,” said another. The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, NY, is one of five federal service academies. At the end of four years, students sit for their license as third engineer or a third mate. “I didn’t start in yachting until I was
28,” one captain said. “If I had known this was what I wanted to do, I would have gone to the academy.” “That’s a lot to ask of an 18 year old,” another said. “I think if you are serious to try it as a career, go to the yachting centers, get your basic safety training and then day work, meet people, try it out for a year. If you like it, then go to the academy.” What other advice would you offer someone considering a yachting career? “My advice is to always do the right thing,” one said. “That way, you’ll always land on your feet.” If you are a hired yacht captain and are near Bar Harbor, Maine, on Aug. 2 or Ft. Lauderdale in early September, contact Editor Lucy Chabot Reed at lucy@the-triton.com for an invitation to our monthly Bridge luncheon. Space is limited to eight.
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Lesson: Take along print out of B1/B2 policy, yacht letter LESSON, from page A1 always convenient and the law is not always applied fairly. … I have seen it misapplied. It happens.” In the case of this engineer and stewardess, the officer with U.S. Customs and Border Protection refused to get his supervisor and told the captain who accompanied them that he either had to fire the stewardess or she would immediately be put on an airplane out of the country. The captain said he fired her so she could enter the United States on her B2, the tourism portion of the visa. The officer stamped her in for the minimum stay of 30 days. “He didn’t want to hear one thing,” the captain said of the officer. “The more we challenged him, the worse it got. So we took what we got and started making phone calls.” The encounter shook the stewardess so much that she left the industry and eventually returned home to Brazil, the captain said. The engineer, though, didn’t frighten easily. Familiar with international travel, he fell back on his seven years experience working on yachts and traveling to the United States. He was finally admitted on his B1 for 30 days but was told his passport would be flagged so he could not re-enter after that. The engineer left the office and set to work trying to resolve the issue. He called every agency he could think of, all “useless,” he said. “It could have meant that I would have lost my job,” he said. “Captains are starting to shy away from the whole thing. They’re saying, ‘if I can have American crew, I can avoid all this.’” Then a friend suggested he call Jack Garofano, assistant director of field operations for U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Miami. Garofano, who spoke at The Triton’s immigration event in March, gave the engineer the names and numbers of people to call. It took the engineer about a week of phone calls and another visit to the immigration office to correct the mistake, but he eventually was admitted on his B1/B2 visa and his passport was stamped for a six-month stay. (By the way, that flag the officer threatened that would remain on his record never appeared, the engineer said. Phone calls to several divisions of U.S. Customs and Border Protection were referred to the agency’s public affairs department in Miami. Messages left there were not returned.) “You feel intimidated,” the engineer said. “You don’t want to cause an issue. You can’t leave because you run the risk of not sorting it out. The only reason I got it sorted out was because of Jack.” The crew members did everything they were supposed to do. They had
For a print out of the B1/B2 policy on boat crew, visit: l http://barcelona.usconsulate. gov/cons/nonimmigvisac1d. html, or l www.amb-usa.fr/consul/niv/ typevisas/crew.htm their B1/B2 visas and showed up to clear in with their captain. The engineer was prepared for the litany of questions yacht crew sometimes get asked. What he didn’t have was proof that yacht crew need a B1/B2. So from now on, he said, he will carry with him a print-out of the policy that yacht crew need a B1/B2. (Several contacts within CBP as well as immigration attorneys could not cite an actual rule pertaining to yacht crew, but two U.S. embassies note the policy on their Web sites. See box.) “When you come in, make sure you come in on a B1,” the engineer said. “You’ve got to have something to say you work on a yacht, a crew list or a letter from the yacht.” Chamberlin suggested that yacht crew who run into problems first ask – diplomatically and politely – to speak to the shift supervisor. That should resolve the problem, but if it doesn’t, she said a crew member can request that their inspection be differed to give him or her the chance to review the issues, contact an attorney if necessary, and prepare to plead the case before an officer. “Politeness, patience and being well presented make as much of an impression with an immigration officer as a prospective employer,” said the well-traveled captain of a foreignflagged yacht with 16 crew. “The same question can be asked in many ways, resulting in a different response each time. If someone is polite and amicable throughout the event, it will not upset an official to have them check with their supervisor on a visa entry status question. “At the end of the day, they are doing a job that needs to be respected, whether we like it or not,” he said. Of all the American ports he has cleared in in his yachting career – Seattle, San Diego, New York – the engineer said Ft. Lauderdale and Miami are by far the worse. This is the second run-in he has had with U.S. immigration in South Florida. The first time, about three years ago, the officer took him to the airport and wanted to put him on a plane, he said. “That time, I got the supervisor who said I didn’t need to be there [at the airport],” the engineer said. “A lot of the customs officers we met didn’t understand yachting, and they still don’t.” The engineer acknowledged that yacht crew members often come into
the United States on a B1/B2 visa with a job, then lose it or quit, and search for a new one. It is illegal to be stamped in on a B1 and then be unemployed and remain in the country. “We all do it, but it’s wrong,” he said. “But that’s the nature of the business. Ft. Lauderdale is the place where the yachts come. All the crew agents are here. We don’t want to stay here; we want to find work on yachts that happen to be here. If they really start stepping up on the B1 and not let anyone in, it’s going to kill the industry here.” Part of the problem is that so few government officials understand how yachting works. When asked at the immigration office how long the yacht is expecting to stay, many crew honestly answer that they don’t know. Could be three months, could be four. That uncertainty raises flags with immigration officials, often prompting them to ask more questions, such as how they are being paid and whether they have an American bank account or driver’s license. The engineer’s advice is for crew members to be truthful in their answers and careful in their lifestyle. “Don’t have a bank account or a driver’s license,” he said. When they ask if you have a car and you do, say yes. “Don’t lie because if they check, it’s worse,” he said. Do you have a house? If you do, say yes, a vacation home. Immigration officers are looking for evidence that you intend to go home, so you have to have a primary residence somewhere – and be able to prove it, if asked – but it’s not illegal to have a vacation home here. “They hear all that and they jump to the conclusion that you are living in the United States, but you’re not,” the engineer said. “You are only here to work.” Despite his experience in yachting and with U.S. immigration, the engineer said he still feels like he’s taking his career in his hands each time they yacht enters America. “I don’t have a lot of confidence in the system,” he said. “It depends on who you get. If you get the one I got, you’re on a plane.” Three days after sorting out his problem and being cleared in for six months, the owner decided to take a trip to the Bahamas. He said he was worried when he came back in, but nothing happened, though he fully expects his comings and goings to catch up with him one day. “That’s the nature of the business.” Have you learned a lesson that other crew members might benefit from? Share your experience with your colleagues. Contact Editor Lucy Chabot Reed at lucy@the-triton.com.
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Ads passively connect yachts, crew SELJM, from A1 year in the Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta, took the honors for bestdressed crew, and won first place (again, in class) in the Concourse d’Elegance. “A great tribute to the quality of crew, race crew, extra help, and even guests,” she said. “[They] S/Y Seljm’s Chef Jessica Devereaux, center, and Capt. wanted us to Steve Ray, right, enjoyed Antigua last year. For listing look our best when the judges the 1,000th free ad on www.the-triton.com, they won came onboard, Triton T-shirts. PHOTO COURTESY OF JESSICA DEVEREAUX so they went out to breakfast said. “Seljm is a very solidly built and stayed away all morning so we yacht, very comfortable. What more could get the yacht in tip-top shape to could we ask for?” be seen.” Just a stew, it seems. Under Ray’s command, Seljm has been around the world twice and is due Contact Editor Lucy Chabot Reed at to head back out to the Pacific again lucy@the-triton.com. next spring. The private yacht carries five crew and eight guests. Triton classifieds are available free to “The boss and his wife are great, crew members, yachts and industry their guests are wonderful, the program professionals looking for jobs, is always something new, different and employees or customers. exciting, and when the crew mix is Visit www.the-triton.com. right, life couldn’t be better,” Devereaux
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Here’s The Triton’s 1,000th classified ad, posted July 10: Sailing stew needed for 34m Sangermani staysail schooner. We are a classic yacht, looking for a clean cut, presentable, wellspoken, normal, fun, hard-working lady. Deck work and sailing required, but interior is your primary responsibility. Owner usage only. 8 guests, 5 crew. Summer ’06 Newport-Nova Scotia; winter east & west Caribbean; summer ’07 Galapagos/Tahiti! English must be your 1st language (Americans, Brits, SA’s, Kiwis, Ozzies). Applicants should be over 25, no tattoos, extraneous jewelry/piercings/brandings, and no food issues, please, i.e. vegans, veggies, fishatarians, lactose/wheat intolerances, or Dr. Atkins subscribers. We need you to be cheerful, self-starting, organized, responsible, experienced, ready to go! Boss arrives Aug. 1. Great boat, great owner, wonderful guests, fantastic crew! Laundry sent out! Boys do all dishes while guests are onboard! Boys clean crew head! 30 days paid holiday and “month 13” paid after one year. Send resume ASAP to jessica at yachtseljm@yahoo.com. EDITOR’S NOTE: The position has been filled.
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Lenardson spent summer shuffling boats, time zones Capt. Rick Lenardson got a lot of miles under his feet this summer, much of it in the air. He flew from Ft. Lauderdale to Vancouver, British Columbia, where he sea-trialed the new 142-foot Richmond Sun Chaser with the yacht’s new crew, including Capt. Bill Waite. (Unlike rainy Ft. Lauderdale, Latitude Capt. Lenardson Adjustment reports in that Lucy Chabot Reed the weather in BC is smashing.) Capt. Lenardson works for Don Davis, owner of Richmond Yachts and former owner of the 138-foot Sovereign/Richmond Status Quo, now Keri Lee. Lenardson returned from BC to Lauderdale for a few days before catching a flight to Tahiti to meet the yacht transport vessel Super Servant 3 and off-load the Status Quo/Keri Lee, which sold this summer. Once there, he picked up the ex-Melrini/Keri Lee (a trade that was part of the sale) to prepare her for the ride back to Lauderdale on Dockwise in September. Capt. Adam Lambert of M/Y Keri Lee, the 120-foot Westport/Sovereign formerly known as Melrini, reported in from Tahiti about the same time, having traveled almost 11,000 miles since we saw him last in Ft. Lauderdale in December. Looking around the docks, he spotted Pangea, Bullish, Andiamo (not sure which one), Senses and Cracker Bay. The smaller Keri Lee was once again refitted at Mango Marine at Lauderdale Marine Center before being shipped to Tahiti, the land of black pearls. Incidentally, Capt. Lambert reported that the boat loaded onto Dockwise behind Keri Lee was the vessel Black Pearl from the “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie. She’s in Tahiti to resume filming of “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End,” the third in the series set for release next year. The bigger Keri Lee (former Status Quo) already booked her first charter in Tahiti to begin on July 27th, just a few days after Lambert takes command. These captains promised some photos of lovely Tahiti. Hopefully next month.
In it for the long haul
Since teaming up in 2005, Capt. Steve King and Mate Julie Morgan have logged over 10,000 miles. Much of it was on deliveries of vessels from 41 to 120 feet, sail and power as well as commercial. The team is now on S/Y Eastern Sky, a 46-foot Moody sailboat that just finished eight months in the Caribbean,
primarily in St. Vincent, the Grenadines and Grenada. Next spring Morgan says they look forward to sailing Eastern Sky back to England where she was built.
Dinner for 60? In his sleep
When he’s not working as a freelance charter chef, Leslie Bore keeps busy. We reported last month of his trials at becoming a kite surfing champion in New Zealand this spring. This summer he’s in Canada at a yacht owner’s lodge playing banquet chef for a weeklong birthday bash. He was one of a few chefs preparing three meals a day for about 60 people, “plus everything else in between, including one black-tie affair for 150 people,” he said. Bore took a few days off to explore Jasper National Park and commune with bears. “I saw two grizzlies, twice the size of me and not too friendly, and a black bear who sat and ate dandelions for 30 minutes about 20 feet from me.” The dandelions must have been psychedelic as the bear rolled around in the grass afterward, Bore said. He stayed after the parties for the Calgary Stampede before heading back to the water to find more work. Keep soaking it up, Leslie.
Meet the new boss
Capt. Rob Loveall has taken over M/Y Newvida, the 160-foot Delta formerly known as Gallant Lady.
Nuptials, Georgia on their mind
Capt. Tim Cook is getting married Aug. 12 to long-time partner Emily Krehl. They’re getting married in McCall, Idaho, former home of both bride and groom. They will make their new home in Cleveland, Ga., where Capt. Tim will oversee development of The Captain’s Mate, The Triton’s online resource directory for yacht captains and crew. Congrats, you two.
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The making of a yacht chef By Chef Peter Ziegelmeier Growing up in New York and Pennsylvania, the ethnic influences were already upon me. Being part of a large German-Italian family, you might wonder just why I became interested in food at such a young age. My paternal grandmother (Emilie) taught me quite a bit about the German end of Ziegelmeier things. I helped her prepare such dishes as beef rouladen, spätzle, dumfnoodles. (I have no idea how to spell it but that’s what I heard my Gramma say). The dough was white and puffy and airy inside, and they were shaped like gigantic hamburger buns. She fried them in lard and they would get an almost black crunchy bottom. We dipped them in homemade potato soup after we added a generous dollop of sour cream to the steamy heaven. My maternal grandfather (Maurice) taught me about product identification, meaning what produce should look like when it is fresh, and how it should smell and taste. We would eat whole heads of iceberg lettuce and onions as though they were delicious red apples, and we had plenty of those, too. I worked in restaurants, including the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and the now-defunct Brown Derby Restaurant as a show chef. Show chefs displayed their grilling talents as celebrities such as Vanna White, the King of Egypt and Cher looked on, smiling, as you prepared fabulous food with a big, bright smile and a high-onthe-head white toque to boot. After three years, I opted for culinary school. A friend I met there wrote “The Making of a Chef.â€? I was envious because I wanted to write a book. One day, perusing the bulletin board at school for jobs, I discovered that people were actually looking to hire private inresidence and on-yacht chefs. I had an epiphany and knew right
then that after graduation, I would move to Florida, become a private yacht chef, travel and write “The Making of a Yacht Chef.� I was disappointed at first because being a yacht chef wasn’t about culinary training; it was about yacht experience, having your STCW and things like that. So I got my STCW and searched for charter yachts where I could show my talents. What I got was bad timing: I missed the season, so I went back into a short-lived restaurant scene and did private residence work in Palm Beach and Jupiter. I was told Ft. Lauderdale was the place for crew, so I signed up with some agencies. Because of my inexperience, I was turned down for assignments I really wanted, but I did land some charters and did well, according to the captains and crews. I missed the boat again and moved back to Pennsylvania on my way to Newport for that season. I got roped into becoming an event and wedding planner, commuting to Baltimore and Washington every day. I didn’t leave for a year and a half. Looking back, I know now that I learned an incredible amount as an event planner that would prove invaluable in my yachting career. When winter rolled in at the end of 18 months, I rolled out. I went back to Florida, got my resume, menus and references together and plunged again. I landed at the Miami boat show. As I was leaving, I returned a call from a captain who was looking for a chef for a private assignment – working for one family and guests, no charters. I took it and am now the chef aboard M/Y Been There Done That, a 100-foot Hatteras. I wouldn’t trade this lifestyle for land lubbin’ ever again. Some people make the land-to-sea transition and cannot deal; others survive. I haven’t written my book yet but I will someday. I am a survivor. How did you get your start in yachting? Send your story to lucy@the-triton.com. Who knows? You might inspire someone. Contact Chef Peter Ziegelmeier at opistolpete@yahoo.com.
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THE AFTERLIFE: Life After Yachting
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Bridges unburned, he followed them into cyberspace By Richard George Discovering a life after yachting was a gradual process for me. After five years as a boat owner and 10 years as a charter captain, the time came to move on to newer things. Never having burned my bridges (or harbors, as the case may be), I used the extensive contacts I had in the yachting world to start a maintenance management company with three to seven employees and five to 20 boats in management. Reliable and conscientious service is always in demand and my company soon was kept busy by the worldreaching needs of Fraser Yachts. I was still able to do the odd delivery as a part of my services and still enjoyed captaining part time for my full-time
clients. to the office and you’ll learn more than After six years of maintenance you’ll ever want to.” I took his offer management it was time again to seriously and spent time on a volunteer try something new. To reduce time basis learning about the Internet expended on accounting and other and how to apply the many facets of financial matters, I invested in my communication to business. first computer. The Then it was time Connections made to make the plunge. Internet was starting through being a boat I trimmed down the to catch on and I could see that the number of active owner and charter idea of any computer boats, placed them captain ultimately anywhere being able in safe moorings led to an Internet to communicate with supervision and with another in the went into seclusion education and a business world was a a home in the blossoming business. in sure winner. woods with a phone One of my clients connection and a will in maintenance management had just to learn html basics. A month later started the first Internet provider in I returned and started writing Web Fort Lauderdale. I asked him about the sites and doing site maintenance on a Internet and he said, “Come on down subcontract basis.
I started Captain-Net and my first account was the first crew agency online. How thrilled we were when we reached a thousand users a month. Now we typically see 15,000 users in a month for a site like this. I am now full time as an Internet consultant and have more than 100 clients to work with. Using my long-term contacts from yachting has been the most important part of my success in creating a life off yachts. If you want to get off yachts someday, don’t burn your bridges. Contact Richard George through www. captain-net.com. Do you know someone who has made a successful transition from yachting to another career? Let us know. Contact Editor Lucy Chabot Reed at lucy@the-triton.com.
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IMO’s identification numbers add security to ships and ports With the numerous security regulations that have been created in the past few years, it is not unlikely that something may have been missed or overlooked. In recent observations on the waterfront, this statement has become true regarding the Ship Identification Rules of the Road Number. Jake DesVergers Before you think that it only applies to merchant ships or commercial yachts, you’ll be surprised to read it affects quite a large audience. The International Maritime Organization’s ship identification number scheme was initiated through adoption of Resolution A.600 (15) in 1987. The resolution assigned a permanent number to each ship for identification purposes. It remains unchanged upon transfer to another flag or owner and would be inserted in the ship’s certificates. When made mandatory, through SOLAS Regulation XI/3 (adopted in 1994), specific criteria for passenger ships of 100 gross tons and more and cargo ships of 300 gross tons and more were stipulated. (Yachts that carry fewer than 12 passengers are considered cargo ships. If they carry more than 12 passengers, they are considered passenger ships.) As a result of the attack on the USS Cole, the events of Sept. 11, 2001 and the suicide bombing of the oil tanker Limburg, the IMO held a Diplomatic Conference on Maritime Security in December 2002. At the conference, it adopted a number of measures aimed at enhancing the security of ships and port facilities. In addition to the creation of the well-known ISPS Code, the conference also included a modification to SOLAS Regulation XI-1/3 to require ships’ identification numbers to be permanently marked in a visible place either on the ship’s hull or superstructure. The IMO Ship Identification
Number is a unique seven-digit number assigned to propelled, seagoing vessels of 100 gross tons and above. The number is assigned by Lloyd’s Register - Fairplay Ltd. on behalf of the IMO. It consists of the three letters IMO followed by seven numbers. If your yacht does not have an IMO number, it can be requested online at: www.imonumbers.lrfairplay.com. It is important to note that this number is separate and different from your official number. The official number is an internal control number issued by your yacht’s flag administration and cannot be used to replace the IMO number. Where is the IMO number placed on the yacht? The regulation states that the ship’s identification number shall be permanently marked in two places, one exterior and one interior. For the external marking, there are several choices. It shall be marked in a visible place on the stern; on either side of the hull, amidships port and starboard, above the deepest assigned load line; either side of the superstructure, port and starboard; on the front of the superstructure; or, in the case of passenger ships, on a horizontal surface visible from the air. For obvious reasons, the marking of such a number would be unsightly for any yacht. Because of this, most major flag administrations, including the Cayman Islands, Marshall Islands and the United Kingdom, allow yachts to make the external marking the same as passenger ships. The interior marking must be in an easily accessible place either on one of the end transverse bulkheads of the machinery spaces; on one of the hatchways; in the pump-room (for tankers); or in the case of ships with roro spaces, on one of the end transverse bulkheads of the ro-ro spaces. For yachts, the number is almost always being posted on a transverse bulkhead in the engine room. How do we mark this IMO number? The permanent marking shall be plainly visible, clear of any other
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Lettering has size requirements RULES, from page B6 markings on the hull, and shall be painted in a contrasting color. The height of the exterior marking shall be not less than 200 mm (7.8 inches) in height, while the interior marking shall not be less than 100 mm (3.9 inches) in height. The width of the marks shall be proportionate to the height. The marking may be made by raised lettering, by cutting it in, by center punching it, or by any other equivalent method that ensures that the marking is not easily expunged. Who must comply? This is a question whose answer changes depending upon your flag administration. If one reads the SOLAS regulation, it clearly states that it applies to “all passenger ships of 100 gross tonnage and upwards and to all cargo ships of 300 gross tonnage and upwards.” Since a yacht that carries fewer than 12 passengers is defined as a cargo ship for regulatory purposes, if that yacht is over 300 gross tons, the regulations requiring the marking of the IMO number would appear to apply. In speaking with Angus McLean, head of statutory compliance of the Cayman Islands Shipping Registry and Jack Enright, senior vice president of International Registries, Inc., the maritime administrator for the Republic of the Marshall Islands, they confirm that this regulation applies to commercial and private yachts within their
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respective registries. CISR 09/2004 and MI Notice 2-011-16 both document this policy. In contrast, Phil White, head of maritime security for the UK’s Maritime and Coastguard Agency states that the marking requirement does not apply to private yachts, only commercially registered yachts above 300 gross tons. The MCA has an M-Notice in draft form explaining this policy. It should be released to the public shortly. When must the number be marked? The deadline for the installation of the IMO Ship Identification Number must be completed by the first scheduled drydocking after July 1, 2004. For most yachts, this deadline has already come and gone. While most commercial yachts above the 500 gross ton threshold have had this item checked by a surveyor at least once, if not several times during their ISPS verification audits, it is the commercial yachts between 300 and 500 gross tons and all private yachts above 300 gross tons, that should ensure they are meeting this simple, yet important international regulation.
The UK Maritime Coastguard Agency has approved a name change for the Professional Yachtmaster Certification issued by International Yachtmaster Training. Since July 1, IYT’s Yachtmaster Coastal certification has been known as “Master of Yachts 200 Tons” (Coastal); the IYT Yachtmaster Offshore will be known as “Master of Yachts 200 Tons” (Offshore); and the IYT Yachtmaster Ocean will be known as “Master of Yachts 200 Tons” (Ocean). Master of Yachts courses will continue to require STCW Basic Training. There will be no changes with regard to sea time, standards or content. The MCA will accept these certificates for use on private and commercially registered yachts up to 200 tons. Contact IYT at +1-954-7797764, info@yachtmaster.com or through www.yachtmaster.com.
Capt. Jake DesVergers is President of the US Maritime Institute. Prior to his current role, he sailed as Master on merchant ships, acted as Designated Person for a shipping company, and served as regional manager for an international classification society. Contact him at 954-449-3444 or www. usmaritimeinstitute.com.
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IN THE GALLEY
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The scoop on ice cream: Mustard, beer are trendy flavors Vanilla is apparently not cutting the mustard as the all-purpose ice cream flavor these days, according to my sources. Instead, it’s mustard – along with other condiments, vegetables, spices and beer – that are making the cut in ice cream. A prime example is at Culinary Waves WD-50 in New Mary Beth York. Sam Mason, Lawton Johnson the pastry chef extraordinaire, is again making headlines, using mustard for this delicious concoction and pairing it with other creations such as Braised Pineapple with Coconut Foam as only this test-tube beaker chef knows how to do. The trend is to offer a different twist on an old favorite onboard using newer and bold flavors. Chefs are churning just about anything under the sun that they can get their hands on these days, including Salsa Cruda Ice Cream to go with Fried Ice Cream Tacos to White Truffle and Lobster Roe Ice Cream to compliment main entrees such as seafood crepes. Consider appetizer ice creams such as Iberian ham flavor with tomato seeds and olive oil, being made famous by Francis Paniego from Spain, another talented chef to watch. Or how about sea urchin and nori ice cream served over a piece of sushi for an appetizer? Amazing, and just when I thought I had seen it all. These new flavors and bold ingredients paired together make use of organic produce and products, and chefs are taking advantage of them. What really is taking place is an it’sOK-to-experiment-in-ice-cream-flavors movement. No longer do we have to settle for plain old chocolate, vanilla and strawberry ice cream from the store. We can make our own using savory products. I don’t know about you but I don’t even own an ice cream maker onboard as we already have installed a soft serve ice cream machine that spits out lowfat, no sugar frozen products. However, this new movement is appealing to me as a pastry chef and for other chefs in general, foremost because I can mix savory with sweet. Not only is ice cream making us scream for it during appetizers, dinner and dessert, but it is being put on the breakfast menu as well. Served with Wheat Toast Cakes and Fresh Feta Cheeses is apparently a great way to start the day. Then you have the Fresh Rosemary ice cream served with Fried Apple Fritters. Now that sounds too good to be true. This revolution is not just limited
to ice cream. Its cousin Semi Freddo, a typical Italian dessert rich with eggs and whipping cream, is taking on savory applications as well. Easy to make and better and richer tasting (in my opinion) than regular ice cream, making applicable use for this product extends it to the world of limitless. Gelato and ices are also making a comeback after an almost decade-long hiatus when the hype wore off. You will see flavors such as Honeysuckle, Guinness and Lager flavors to Wasabi and Cactus Pear with Cinnamon already on the menu at Il Laboratoria de Gelato in New York. Saffron Honey
and Strawberry-Habanero Gelato along with Pistachio Cardamom are also some favorites. Even the cones are changing. Some new ideas in containers are using homemade fried crepes to savory cannoli shells. Homemade tuile cups – whether using a dough preparation to using chocolate mixed with savory ingredients – are also used as containers for ice cream. Fresh organic produce is also being incorporated into containers to add a new spin on the old sugar cone. All it takes is experimenting to find the right
flavor to hold your ices. Imagine having a freshly made mint flavored cone to hold your Raspberry Green Tea Ice Cream. Not only is the ice cream making a screaming comeback in different and unique flavors, it is being used in the long forgotten ice cream floats to update it. Remember the traditional banana split with ice cream? It is still around and experiencing a comeback as well, but supersized. Instead of two scoops, now the norm is four or five. Calories are not a concern for
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Recipe and photo by Chef Mary Beth Lawton Johnson 5 eggs 5 egg yolks 1/4 cup of sugar 10 ounces of dark chocolate chopped 2-1/2 sticks of butter (1/2 stick for buttering molds) 1/2 cup of flour
Coconut Semifreddo
This is classic formula that pleases even the most discriminating connoisseur. But don’t stop with just coconut, use pumpkin or tomato puree in it next time. The choice is yours.
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Chocolate Molten Cake
Butter six 4-ounce molds. Beat the eggs, egg yolks and sugar until light and pale. Melt the chocolate and butter together in a pan set over a pan of simmering water. Stir to combine. Slowly add the egg mixture to the chocolate mixture. Fold in the flour. Pour into the molds. Let sit for 6-8 hours. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Bake for 10 minutes or until the outside is firm and the inside is still soft to the touch. Do not overbake as this would destroy the whole concept of the dessert. Let cool to the touch.
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6 eggs 4 egg yolks 2 cups sugar 1 teaspoon coconut extract 3 cups whipping cream 1 1/2 cups coconut Whisk the eggs and yolks together. Place the egg mixture and sugar in a pan set over a pan of simmering water. Whisk to keep from curdling.
Add the coconut extract. When heated through, remove from heat. Beat in mixing bowl until pale. In another bowl beat the whipping cream until it forms soft peaks. Combine the egg mixture with the cream. Fold in the coconut and pour into a large pan. Freeze for four hours until ready. When ready to serve, toast some coconut and place on top.
someone who orders this. It has gotten glamorous with the addition of fresh fruits and nuts added in reinventing the split. The actual stores selling this gold are also changing. Trendy new boutiquestyle ice cream social parlors are the rage in Manhattan and in Spain. So if we apply these theories already in practice to our menus onboard, we might just stay ahead of the game and come out with some new unique ice cream desserts. Whether it is ice cream, shaved flavored ice or semi freddo, try using pureed fruits, spices and vegetables. I think I will buy an ice cream machine. Mary Beth Lawton Johnson is a certified executive pastry chef and Chef de Cuisine. A professional yacht chef since 1991, she has been chef aboard M/Y Rebecca since 1999. Visit her Web site at www.themegayachtchef.com or contact her through editorial@the-triton.com.
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Guest chef profile: When Klinke cooks, he puts his heart into it Chef Silvio Klinke hails from Dresden, Germany, and joined M/Y Blue Moon in December. Before that, he spent more than a year on Lady Moura. Klinke spent three years working on a cruise ship before joining yachting. Q: What sort of culinary training do you have? A: I learned for three years in a culinary school and was a trainee in a restaurant in my hometown. Q: What are your favorite foods? A: I like Thai food very much, as well as Mediterranean cuisine and of course traditional German food such as schnitzel or braised pork with sauerkraut and dumplings.
Q: What is your speciality? A: Although I have been trained in all disciplines, I was a saucier chef in a London hotel, and also in a Swiss restaurant. Now, on board, I enjoy being able to cook everything and I´m always looking for new and unusual things to cook. Klinke Q: How many crew/guests do you cook for? A: I cook for 14 crew daily, and the amount of guests can range from 12 for plate service and up to 40 for buffet service. Q: Do you have to do special diets on board? A: Sometimes the owner or the
guests request diet or lowfat food because of health or fitness reasons. We also have had some guests with severe allergies. Q: What is the most challenging part of being a yacht chef? A: To be a chef on a yacht is already a big challenge, but of course to obtain provisions is one of the biggest challenges. The owner and guests expect a very high standard, with the best products available. I must be able to organize provisions from anywhere at anytime. Q: Any suggestions for other yacht chefs?
Pink-roasted Fillet of Beef
Two-color Bell Pepper Soup
With sweet mash potatoes and madeirajus
Recipes by Chef Silvio Klinke 1 whole beef fillet, cleaned 1 clove garlic, crushed 1 tbsp Dijon mustard 1 tsp. salt 1 tsp. pepper, crushed 1 tsp. thyme, chopped 1 tsp. rosemary, chopped Combine garlic, mustard, salt, pepper, thyme and rosemary to form paste. Rub evenly all over the beef. Sear the beef from each side in a hot pan quickly. Roast in a 90 degrees C (200 degrees F) oven for about 45 minutes until the beef is medium rare. 4 large sweet potatoes 1/2 cup chicken stock 2 tbsp cream 2 tbsp butter Salt, pepper, nutmeg to taste
Cook the peeled, chopped potatoes in salted water for 15 to 20 minutes. Remove the water and add the chicken stock, butter and cream. Mix until smooth. Add salt, pepper and nutmeg to taste. 400 ml red wine 200 ml madeira 300 ml beef jus 2 oz sugar 3 oz butter (cold) 1 sprig thyme 1 sprig rosemary 1/2 clove garlic Salt, pepper to taste Heat in a sauce pan and reduce red wine, madeira and sugar until it is like a syrup. Add beef jus, thyme, rosemary, a little garlic and reduce by half or to your preference, depending on how strong you want the flavor. Remove the sauce from the stove, add
A: Put your heart into the job, cook with passion. Also be prepared to adapt to new environments and challenges. Q: Do you like your galley? What is your favorite piece of equipment? A: I like my galley very much. As for my favorite piece of equipment, well ... TV to watch the soccer World Cup. No, seriously, the work station is perfect. Q: Where do you see yourself in five years? 10 years? A: Well, this is a good question. There are a few things in my mind, but to be honest, I don’t want to know what I´ll doing in five to 10 years. It keeps life interesting, and anyway you never know what´s going to happen tomorrow.
PHOTO COURTESY OF SILVIO KLINKE
cold butter and mix. Refine with salt and pepper. And also use the juice from the roasted beef, it gives a nice taste. To serve, pipe the mash potatoes three times on a hot plate, serve the vegetables in between the mash potatoes and put 2 slices of beef in the center. Dress the sauce around and you are ready to serve.
3 yellow bell peppers (3 red bell peppers) 2 tbsp olive oil 1 shallot, finely chopped 500 ml chicken or vegetable stock 50 ml white wine 1 fresh cilantro Garlic, salt and pepper to taste Preheat oven to 350°F. Cut the peppers in half, remove the seeds and put them in the oven for 10 minutes until the skin gets brown. Remove the skin and cut the peppers in small cubes. For each color pepper, heat the olive oil in a pot, add the shallot, peppers and little bit of garlic. Saute for a few minutes. Deglaze with wine, add the stock and cilantro, bring it to boil and cook slowly for 15 minutes. Mix in a blender, sieve it and season with salt and pepper. When both pots of soups are ready, fill soup plate at the same time slowly. Garnish with chopped cilantro and croutons.
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Congratulations to Chef Jacqueline Antoinette of M/Y Blind Faith, who won first place in Chowder Fest in Newport in June. Here is her award-winning recipe.
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Crab Chowder Recipe by Chef Jacqueline Antoinette 8 cups half-and-half 8 cups heavy cream ¼ cup good chicken soup base ¼ cup Harvey’s Bristol Cream Sherry 1 tsp. white pepper 2 tbsp. Old Bay Seasoning 2 cups flour 2 cups melted butter 2 16 oz. cans lump crab 1 large carrot – grated Heat the half-and-half and cream gently in a large pot to just below simmering point. Add the chicken base, sherry, pepper and Old Bay, continue heating. Make a roux by mixing the melted butter with the flour to a thick\ paste. Add all of this to the hot cream mixture and stir until it thickens. Add the grated carrot and crabmeat. Heat but do not boil.
of three weeks was the one with the Harvey’s Bristol Cream Sherry. We recommend you do not substitute Bristol Cream for an imitation. Real sherry comes from Spain. Also, this chowder improves with age, so you can make it in advance and it will keep all day in a slow cooker. If it thickens too much, add more half-and-half. On competition day, I just kept adding sherry. For good measure, we added another slug of sherry into the tasting cup. Many thanks, too, to the good-humored judges who staggered out of our galley.
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My thanks to the Blind Faith crew who had to attend tastings prior to the competition. We unanimously agreed that the best brew at the end
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Fancy Food Show was delicious By Rosemarie Hassen I spent six months at Lauderdale Marine Center on a refit, got laid off and decided to visit New York. As an unemployed yacht stewardess and chef, I needed to find myself again. For three days, 180,000 of the best of gourmet and specialty food products were tasted in at the 52nd Fancy Food and Gourmet Show, hosted by the National Association of Specialty Foods. From July 9-11, the exhibit hall in the Jacob Javitz Center held 52 pavilions. The best part of the show was the “Meet the Tastemakers” reception. Thirty restaurants and exhibiting countries along with 20 vineyards entertained late into the evening on the second day to a fantastic band overlooking New York Harbor. Buffet stations served treats such as olive oil marinated diver scallops with a caviar crème cheese on a cracker, eggplant mousse, pate jellied with sweet sake and plum wine, seafood cocktail, prosciutto, chorizo grilled in grappa and gelatos. I saw many of the things to come for chefs. Balsamic vinegar comes in a glaze, and is now infused with 12 flavors, including coffee. Caviar is married to many new flavors such as truffles, citron, dill and mango. Sea Salt comes in 20 flavors, including Bolivian rose, Cyprus black lava and coconut and lime. Have you tried a
Check out these Web sites from the Fancy Food show: www.taorminasales.com (for the balsamic glaze) www.seasalt.com www.stirrings.com (for the martinis) www.melissas.com (organic foods) www.creativepi.com (skinny water) www.bluecrabbay.com (sting ray mix)
basil martini? How about rose petals, lavender, or chocolate peppermint? Crème Brule is now a mix that does not need baking, just refrigeration. There was a terrific Bloody Mary mix called “Sting Ray” that can be used in sauces. It contains clam juice. There is also Skinny Water with an appetite suppressant. New Zealand, Australia, Sardinia were there with a new bottled water. The master pasta makers of Italy have invented a dollar sign pasta. The show presents a terrific opportunity to network and meet food distributors from around the world. As most yachts travel and can be provisioned around the world, it’s good to know what’s news in food. Rosemarie Hassen is a freelance chef and stewardess and can be reached at rhassen_2000@yahoo.com.
Wine vintages: What do they really mean? There is much discussion about the relative merits of wine vintages. People often only want to buy from good years or great years, and savvy consumers clearly have the right to get the best wine for their dollars. A common issue raised by some yacht crew is the requirement for a specific vintage because either the By the Glass owner likes that Mark Darley year or charter guests specify it in their wine lists. I often politely suggest that a 1998 California chardonnay is neither available nor even drinkable, only to be told “that’s OK, we will get it in Sint Maarten” or some other place. I wish them well; even if the wine is found, it is very unlikely to be in decent condition. Chill it well is the advice I offer. If the vintage you are looking for is not available, what do you do and what should you know? Firstly there is always a good alternative to a wine that is similar to the one originally
requested. The advice I offer is geared to listening to the taste profile that crew suggest to enable me to fit the wine to stated needs or provide a new acceptable experience. Secondly, the whole vexed question of vintage needs, I feel, to be better understood. Great wine makers, especially in the so-called New World (as opposed to Europe), will make good wines in “off ” years because of less marked vintage variation. Napa in 1998, for example, saw some great wines yet many people shunned this vintage because it was pronounced a bad year. Sometimes the wine press and critics do the wine drinker a disservice by pontificating about how good or bad a vintage is. It either creates false expectations or missed opportunities to drink less highly priced but good wines. And that is where your friendly wine seller comes in. Develop a good relationship with a knowledgeable retailer as the first step toward ensuring the wine you get, if different from vintages requested, is going to be acceptable. Having done this, gain insight into how vintages work.
On average, Europe sees over a 10year period two great vintages, two good vintages, four fair ones and two poor ones. Broadly speaking, France saw great wine in 1990 and 1995, good wines in 1996 and 1997, fair wines in 1991, 1994, 1998 and 1999, and poor wine in 1992 and 1993, although there was some variation from region to region. Occasionally the trend is bucked, as in Italy where from 1995 to 2001 Piedmont and Tuscany had a run of excellent vintages followed by disaster in 2002. Despite this, few reserve wines were made in 2002 resulting in great basic wines as the declassified juice from the great wines went into the basic stuff. This is worth knowing. Having said this, vintage declarations are at best a generalization geared toward selling wine as anything else. Detailed knowledge of good wines within a vintage is the key to success. In Napa, for example, 1991, 1994 and 1997 were generally pronounced as great years. Consequently, many American buyers bought heavily and demanded these wines. Prices were sky high. 1993 and 1998 were deemed far less successful and the wines were
widely shunned, which is a pity because 1998 certainly saw good wine made. Fortunately there is often less variation in California and the rest of the New World as the weather and growing conditions tend to be better than in Europe. This results in fewer really bad vintages and variation then becomes a relative matter. My reaction to this is to say, “are you going to stop drinking wine because critics say a vintage is bad?” In a world obsessed with perfection and 100 point scoring systems, it seems the ability to enjoy wine is lost in pseudo-scientific rating systems. Which brings me back to my basic point: Trust your retailer. If you work with them, you will get wine that fits your needs. The skill is to discover the gems in all vintages and avoid the poor wines that come out of even great vintages. This can only be done through a good working relationship rather than taking a formulaic approach. Mark Darley is a managing partner at Seventh Street Wine Company in Ft. Lauderdale. Contact him at mdarley@ seventhstreetwine.com or +1-954-5225560.
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Try these new puzzles based on numbers. There is only one rule for these new number puzzles: Every row, every column and every 3x3 box must contain the digits 1 through 9 only once. Don’t worry, you don’t need arithmetic. Nothing has to add up to anything else. All you need is reasoning and logic. (Answers, page B5) Start with the Calm puzzle left. Then try your luck in the Stormy seas at right.
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Managing food allergies is key to a safe, fun dining experience Dining out is great fun. But, if you have a food allergy, eating out in a restaurant can serve up life-threatening consequences. So, how do you enjoy this grand social event and maintain your health, too? By following a few strategic tips. First, let’s define food allergy. A food allergy is a reaction by the body’s immune system Take It In Carol Bareuther to something you either eat or drink. An allergic reaction occurs when the body’s immune system mistakenly believes that a harmless substance – food, for example – is harmful. To protect the body, the immune system creates substances called antibodies to that food. The next time you eat that particular food, your immune system releases huge amounts of chemicals, such as histamines, to protect the body. These chemicals trigger symptoms that can affect the respiratory and cardiovascular systems, gastrointestinal tract and skin. Reactions differ. They may occur right away or not for several hours. Symptoms may be mild, or they can be life threatening when the allergy causes breathing problems. Some symptoms of an allergic reaction to food may be: skin rash or hives; itching; swelling in the lips, face, throat, or other part of the body; and vomiting, diarrhea, coughing, trouble swallowing, throat tightness or closing, fainting and dizziness. The symptoms of a severe reaction generally occur within minutes or up to two hours after contact with the offending food. In rare instances, symptoms may occur up to four hours later. How do you prevent an allergic reaction when dining out? The only way to not have a reaction is to avoid the food that causes the allergy symptoms. To do this, start by carefully considering your restaurant choice. Restaurants that are most likely to cause problems are those that have buffets – where items are kept close to one another and cross-contamination via serving utensils may occur – or bakeries since baked items are often kept next to each other in large display cases. Other potential problems exist in restaurants that rely on prepared items and don’t cook from scratch, and restaurants that pose obvious risks, such as a seafood restaurant if you’re allergic to shellfish. Take the same care in choosing your menu as you do in selecting a restaurant. The key to a safe, allergy-
Common food allergens The foods that most often cause allergic reactions are: cow’s milk eggs peanuts nuts seafood (esp. shellfish) soy
peas beans tomatoes spices fresh fruit wheat or gluten
Source: The Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network, Fairfax, Va., 800-929-4040. free meal is to speak up early about your allergy. To do this, ask for advice. Inform your waiter or waitress immediately about your food allergy and ask them for recommendations about what to choose from the menu. If your server isn’t sure, ask to speak to the manager. Or better yet, call ahead to the restaurant and let the staff know about your food allergy before you arrive. In spite of the most careful planning, and the diligence of the wait staff, not all of the important information you provide may be accurately relayed to the chef. One way to ensure this is to prepare a chef card ahead of your restaurant visit and take this card with you. A chef card is a personalized card on which you list your food allergen and related ingredients, as well as ways to avoid cross-contamination from utensils, surfaces and other dishes in the kitchen. You can personalize your chef cards by using bright colored paper, designing your own cards or laminating them. Make copies and keep them in your wallet. Then, when you go to a restaurant, give a chef card to your waiter or waitress and ask them to share it with the chef. Bear in mind that handing out a chef card doesn’t take the place of asking questions of the chef or careful planning when you’re ordering at a restaurant. Chef cards can’t guarantee an allergen-free dining experience, but they can help make your meal safer. Finally, trust your instincts. Don’t be afraid to leave a restaurant if you think your requests can’t be met. And, even if you’re certain your food is safe, accidents can happen so be prepared. Keep emergency epinephrine on hand and consider wearing a medical alert bracelet. Carol Bareuther is a registered dietitian and a regular contributor to The Triton. Contact her through editorial@thetriton.com.
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The last word in light control: ISO setting Welcome aboard, photography enthusiasts. I have covered some very important and essential basic ground in photography: the interplay of the aperture (f-stop) and shutter speed settings. There is the temptation, even for me, to suggest this is really just cursed technical stuff, but it’s not just that. These Photo Exposé are the technical James Schot resources that allow you to be a most creative photographer. Photography is a product of the Industrial Revolution, now expanding in a Digital Age. Such a product asks you to use your right and left brain, the whole thing, and also explore the science of art. OK, you’re not aiming to be a photo artist, but to improve any capacity; navigation, cooking, all those things we do aboard ship requires both measured and creative thinking. Having discussed the shutter control, keep in mind that, although most times you may want to stop motion, sometimes you don’t. And in talking about the aperture, you may want great depth of field, sometimes you won’t. I’ll get into different scenarios and what I think would be the best desired effect, but there remains one more adjustment in controlling light that needs to be covered. Before that, let’s have one more look at the photograph of a speeding boat (above) similar to the one published last month. Did you pick up on any key visual elements that improve the picture quality? The main element in this photograph worth noting is allowing space for the object to move in to. This is an aesthetic plus that keeps this image from being disturbing. The boat is quickly moving from the left to the right, so in taking a photograph and making your composition you want to, in effect, leave some open space ahead of the boat for it to “move” in to. If you centered the boat in the frame it would be counter-intuitive to the viewer’s feeling of movement. This is a rule to follow whether the movement is horizontal (waterskiing, windsurfing, etc.) or vertical (climbing the mast, scuba diving, etc.) or diagonal (possible in para-sailing) where you want to give space for an object to move in to in both directions. The amount of space may even increase incrementally in respect to the speed that is being portrayed. And don’t forget: we can show movement by doing what? Yes, by controlling the shutter speed setting, and there will be some examples forthcoming. Now back to the last method, in
A particularly noteworthy element of this photograph of a fast-moving boat is that it is framed so there is room in front of the boat, giving viewers a comfortable sense of space. PHOTO/JAMES SCHOT addition to aperture and shutter settings, by which you can control light for a proper exposure. This is the ISO setting. It will help to look back at film to explain this setting. It used to be you bought film by ISO or film speeds (most commonly) of 100, 200, 400, etc. The highest numbers are most sensitive to light, meaning they are more capable of working for you in darker low-light conditions. But, as with everything in life, this advantage had a disadvantage making lesser speeds more attractive. Higher speed films (400, 800, 1600, 3200) worked better in getting an image in lower light, but the image suffered from more graininess the higher the speed. If you were only shooting in brighter daylight conditions you could use slower speed films (100, 50, 25) with far less graininess and better color saturation. Digital offers similar settings – again most commonly 100, 200, 400 – and as they increase, the chip becomes more sensitive to light (and less saturation). But there are times after exhausting your maximum f/stop and slowest hand hold-able shutter speed that you have only one remaining option to capture a low-light image, and that is your ISO setting. We discussed how shutter speeds – 1/30, 1/60, 1/125 – and f/stops – f/4, f/5.6, f/8 – are “full” stops. If the camera light reading is 1/60 at f/5.6, this is the same as 1/125 at f/4 or 1/30 at f/8. The ISO of 400 is 1 stop greater than 200, which is 1 stop greater than ISO 100, etc. This means … think with me creatively … if the camera light reading is 1/15 at f/2.8 and you are afraid of taking a hand-held shot at 1/15 of a second, you can go from ISO 100 to 200 to get an extra stop of light. That means you can raise your shutter speed to 1/30 for a more steady hand-held shot.
You now have full control. Don’t throw me overboard. Permission to come ashore. James Schot has been a professional photographer for 27 years and owns Schot Designer Photography. Feel free to contact him at james@bestschot.com with photographic questions or queries for future columns.
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Self-publishing a book is tricky Has someone told you, “You should bought by the author. “Promised sales write a book”? First-person accounts never materialize,” she said. such as “Dove” and the Tristan Jones When asked about book sales, Gillis books have inspired many fledgling replied, “Self-publication strikes the sailors. That journal wrong chord with the media (your free or those scraps of advertisers) and other possible users paper in a drawer such as schools and libraries..” can often be the “Most major reviewers will not touch start of a good book, self-published books,” Viets said. The but there’s more review offered as part of packages are to being an author paid for by the publisher; they are not than the writing. taken seriously, she said. Finding an agent, Gillis raises a distribution concern: Well Read getting a publisher, “Most major bookstore chains work Donna and selling the book through a centralized bureaucracy, not Mergenhagen are sometimes the easily accessible to the average author.” most challenging Stocking and inventory charges for part of the effort for those who have self-published authors severely lower put pen to paper. the financial gain of putting the book in We recently had an unusually large a chain store. There are other options. number of customers ask us how Book fairs (but booth rentals are steep), to self-publish. Self-publishing has signings at neighborhood or special been touted as an expedient route interest events, donation of books to sell your work. But I wonder if to book clubs, print advertising, and circumventing agent and traditional sponsorship of events are additional publisher is the best means to an end. investments that self-published authors We asked two successful Ft. have made to balance the work a Lauderdale authors to share their publisher or agents may do. opinions on self-publishing. Elaine Self-published work also is not Viets is an award-winning fiction eligible for major awards such as the writer. Her current book in the Dead- *-]Ê Edgar, Shamus Nebula./Without the -Ê or Ê End Job series, “Murder Unleashed,” is assistance of a professional editor, plots a best seller. Susan Gillis has written can lag and character development four books on Ft. Lauderdale history, suffers gaps, Viets said. including “Ft. Lauderdale: The Venice “Spending - -Ê ",Ê9 /$90, $500 or $10,000 Ê / , ",Ê of America.” doesn’t make you a published author,” A cottage industry of book printing Viets said. “It makes you someone who has sprung up. Viets notes that “in paid to put your unedited manuscript many cases, self-publishing is a scam.” between covers.” There are so many self-published ripSelf-publishing contracts are offs that organizations have warning aggressively marketed, but downsides lists on the Internet. Editors and for a new author are significant. Predators is one. (www.anotherealm. Writing is an enormous investment of com/prededitors/peba.htm). time, energy and emotion. Package deals offer printing services, “If you really care about your work, Internet listings, review options, get a legitimate publisher,” Viets said. press packets, cover design and more. “It takes time, but it’s worth the effort.” Of course, options carry additional Next month two self-published charges. Beware the fine print. Internet books will be reviewed in the context of sales returns have wiped out the profits the points made by our guest authors. of more than one self-published author. Viets shared a study undertaken Donna Mergenhagen owns Well Read, a by a professional writers group. It used book store on Southeast 17th Street found that the average sale for a selfin Ft. Lauderdale. Contact her at 954published book was 10 copies, mostly 467-8878.
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The role of the yacht manager EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a portion of Module 1, An Introduction to the Superyacht Industry. The job of the yacht manager is one that is comparatively new, even if the role is not. With an increase in the number of owners who do Up and Running not have the time, inclination or skill Ian Biles to manage their yachts, a need has arisen for specialist yacht managers. Managers should support the captain and crew with services that are more efficient to provide onshore. The objective is to assist the crew in achieving the owner’s objectives within a fixed time frame and budget. Several new bodies of regulations have emerged to increase the administrative workload of a megayacht master. The MCA Large Yacht Code is a de facto requirement for all Red Ensign flagged charter yachts over 24 meters and less than 3,000 gross tons. It is increasingly seen as an international standard, even for yachts that are not Red Ensign flagged and do not charter. The International Safety Management Code and International Ship and Port Facility Security Code also require policies, plans and audits to be created, followed and performed. Management companies have gained considerable experience with these codes, and they also can act as the Designated Person Ashore, the DPA, that they require. The ISM Code, for example, requires that a safety management system is in place to regulate how a vessel operates and to ensure that it does so safely. The specific requirements mean that procedures need to be documented for the normal day-to-day running of the yacht as well as for emergencies. These need to be accompanied by the necessary checklists and forms to maintain the paper trail required by ISM. Yacht managers perform myriad other functions. In cooperation with designers and builders, managers can help maintain a vessel within class by carrying out the owner’s paperwork and ensuring that hull, machinery and equipment surveys are done on time, and that remedial work or “conditions of class” that are discovered during surveys are dealt with. For crew matters, many large management companies operate agencies or have relationships with large crew agents, providing a convenient pipeline to candidates. A warning, however: If the captain does not have control or at least
MPI Group of Surrey, England, is introducing a distancelearning course designed to bridge the gap between master certification and the reality of running a large yacht. The course begins in October and is sponsored by the Professional Yachtsmen’s Association and Middlesex University. Course material was created by Ian Biles and future topics include the legal aspects of yacht management, interior management, chartering, repairs and security. For more details, call +44(0)1252-732-220 or e-mail et@mpigroup.co.uk. influence over the appointment of crew members, this can be a cause of friction between captain and crew or the captain and the management company. When it is time for an owner to upgrade his vessel – either with a refit or a new build – large management companies have a range of skills in new building, refitting and running both engineering and deck departments of a yacht. This can include planned maintenance as well as sorting out problems either from in house or through known individuals and firms. An important decision that requires much research is choosing which flag to fly on a yacht. Some management companies have specific experience working with the various flag administrations and have a procedure in dealing with a particular regime. Don’t forget the actual cruising. While much of cruise planning is the responsibility of the captain, a management company can provide more detailed planning in far a-field places as well as shore-side assistance. For example, the management company can organize the provision of spares, bunkering, moving guests and crew and finding suitable berths for the yacht. Finally, professional yacht management entails budgeting to an owner’s requirements and translating those requirements to the captain and crew as spending guidelines. Depending on the latitude of those guidelines and the skill of the captain, this should result in the running of the yacht to the owner’s budget and requirements. In other words, to the owner’s pleasure, which is the objective. Ian Biles is the founder of Maritime Services International, a marine surveying and consultancy business. He holds a Class 1 (Unlimited) Master’s certificate and developed a risk management program for large yachts for a London-based underwriter. Contact him at ian@maritimeservices. demon.co.uk or +44-2392-524-490.
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In early August, use the Moon to locate Jupiter and Antares By Jack Horkheimer August will begin with a cosmic bang because during its first week a waxing Moon will pay a visit to both the king of the planets and a giant star, which means you’ll be able to use the Moon as a finder to locate two wonderful celestial objects. On Aug. 1, face southwest an hour after sunset while there’s still a bit of twilight. The brightest thing you see will be a lovely first-quarter Moon. Directly above it, the second brightest thing in the sky – looking very much like a bright star – will be the king of the planets, Jupiter. We all know that when the Moon is waxing, it is growing. And it always moves from west to east, so in 24 hours time, it moves about 13 degrees or 26 times its own width toward the east. So on Aug. 2, we can expect the Moon to be well past Jupiter and a little bit fatter. On Aug. 1, look up to the left of the Moon to find Jupiter; on Aug. 2, look up to its right. Twenty-four hours later on the night of Aug. 3, an even fatter Moon will be parked next to the J-shaped pattern of stars we call Scorpius the scorpion and to the right of the bright star that marks the scorpion’s heart. It is called Antares and it is one of the biggest stars we can see with the naked eye. Our 2,000-mile-wide Moon will be less than a quarter million miles away on the first four nights of August, whereas 88,000-mile-wide Jupiter, which is so huge we could line up 44 Moons across its middle, will be 490 million miles away. The mind blower is Antares, which is 700 times as wide as our almost 1million-mile-wide Sun and is so far away that it takes 604 years for its light to reach us.
Meteor shower: good, bad news
I’ve got some good news and some bad news. The good news is that the Perseids, traditionally the best meteor shower of the year, will occur Aug. 13. The bad news is that the light of a just-past full Moon will hide all but the brightest of the Perseids. But the Perseids shower frequently has very bright, very fast meteors so you may see a few. On Sunday morning, Aug. 13, between 3 a.m. and sunrise, face northeast. Although it is summer in the northern hemisphere, don’t be surprised to see some of winter’s brightest stars. To your right you can see Orion the Hunter, Taurus the Bull and Gemini the Twins. Up to your left, you’ll see the dimmer stars of the mythical hero Perseus, for whom this meteor shower is named. Meteor showers are always named for the
constellation from where the meteors appear to originate. Meteors are simply tiny specks of comet debris that slam into our Earth’s atmosphere and light up. Every time a comet visits our Sun, it sheds tons of debris in its path. And eventually this debris gets spread out all along the comet’s path. Whenever our Earth plows directly into any path of comet debris, these tiny pieces of debris slam into our atmosphere. Because they plunge through our atmosphere traveling many miles per second their friction causes the atmospheric gasses surrounding them to heat up and glow, making visible streaks of light. The meteors we see during the Perseid meteor shower each August are the debris of a comet named Swift-Tuttle whose debris filled an orbital path that our Earth plows through this time every year. It is one of the oldest recorded meteor showers in history and has been seen every August for more than 2,000 years. So lie back early this Sunday morning with your feet facing northeast, then slowly scan the sky. The longer you stay out, the better your chance of seeing a few bright Perseids. The single most important rule for observing a meteor shower is patience. You may see no meteors for 20 minutes and then suddenly two or three will flash by all at once.
Mercury, Saturn cheek-to-cheek
Just before sunrise during the third week of August, you’ll be able to watch Mercury and Saturn dramatically change their positions relative to one another from morning to morning. About 30 minutes before sunrise on Aug. 21, look slightly north of east and you will see an exquisite 27-dayold Moon hovering just above brilliant planet No. 2 out from the Sun, 8,000mile-wide Venus. Just below it, planet No. 6 (though not nearly as bright) is 75,000-milewide ringed Saturn. And just below it is planet No. 1, 3,000-mile-wide Mercury. The best day for viewing will be Aug. 22, because an even prettier crescent Moon will be right next to them. Planets change positions in the sky daily, but when they’re clustered, changes look very dramatic. On each successive day, Saturn and Mercury will zero in on each other. On Aug. 26-27, they will be at only 1 degree apart. Jack Horkheimer is executive director of the Miami Museum of Science. This is the script for his weekly television show co-produced by the museum and WPBT Channel 2 in Miami. It is seen on public television stations around the world. For more information about stars, visit www.jackstargazer.com.
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Get ready, Leo: Saturn is moving in until 2007 LEO (July 22-Aug. 22) You have
probably heard the buzz by now: Saturn is in your sign until 2007. It’s all about your heart, Leo, in every sense of the word. Saturn can be cold and calculating, and you may find your passions challenged over the next years, but you have an opportunity to emerge as the wise alchemist. The Leo Looking Up Moon on the 22nd Maya White is a perfect day to plan the second half of this year. Take some time away just for you.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) If the work
situation of late has been deteriorating, now you know why. New information comes to light and try as you may, it has to change. As master of the graceful exit, you morph easily into your next phase. Just do not allow the uncertainty to affect your health. The New Moon in your sign on the 23rd will help motivate as well as guide you. Ties are being cut, and new ones formed. Release the old ones graciously.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 21) This is a good
month to be you. Expect to receive a kiss of kindness at some point; some of you sooner and some later, depending on your birthday. The Aquarius Full Moon of Aug. 19 places you in a good position to get what you want. Saturday the 26th finds you feeling a bit low when the Libra moon joins Saturn, but Sunday the 27th is a great day to indulge in one of the love goddess’s favorite activities: shopping.
SCORPIO (Oct. 22-Nov. 21) Seems like it has been a long wait, huh, Scorpio? You still have a ways to go. The planetary emphasis right now is on what you have to give. The rewards are coming soon, though it feels like not soon enough. One way to conquer fear is to lean into it. You have faced more dragons than any other lightweights can imagine. Now, look deeply into the mirror and face the most fearsome one of all. Ask for what you want on the 2nd, and expect to get it by the 22nd.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 20)
Did you learn something new about your old friends when Mercury was retrograde last month? It was not intentional, rather a fatality of poor judgment. Maintain your sense of comedy; you may need it now. Remember your sign is about gathering wisdom, not excuses. Enjoy this summer month. You will be more motivated than ever before by the end of it when the action starting first quarter Sagittarius moon meets you on
your own terms.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 21-Jan. 19) Don’t
allow a detractor to try to keep you from truly enjoying your well-deserved reward. This is a month for play and creativity, Capricorn. Keep a watch on overindulgences, though. Finances are critical, but Mars signals to learn the lesson of using other people’s money. Act quickly, though; your best opportunity comes early in the month, by the Full Moon of the 9th.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 17) The Full
Moon is in your sign this month. Moon conjunct Neptune on the 9th and the Sun opposing Neptune again on the 11th can leave you feeling a bit fuzzy, but use this energy for inspiration and vision questing; bring a notebook. Partnerships play an important role in your life now. Show your appreciation on the 27th.
PISCES (Feb. 18-March 19) What you
wish to keep private right now has a special way of creeping out into the limelight. Your compassion is tested, and more questions are asked than answered. Trust your intuition on the 20th when Mercury joins Saturn; it really is right on, and you do know the right answer, and in fact maintain the upper hand by month’s end. Celebrate your unique wisdom on the 29th. You knew the truth all along.
ARIES (March 20-April 19) It is all
about you now, Aries. Exuberance reigns; you’re happy, and so are those most dear to you. Plan an outing for Sunday the 13th. Everything is in your favor. The Moon in your sign promises an extra special time. Take extra precautions from the 25th until the end
of the month when Mars heats you up and Pluto cools you down. This could be a dangerous combination.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) The planets this month can set you up to feel like the proverbial ‘bull in a china shop’ if you’re not careful. Jupiter in Scorpio and Saturn in Leo both create special challenges. Think poise, patience, and even strategy. I know it’s not always your style, Taurus, but the planets have you at crosshairs this month. Keep plan B in mind; you may have to use it. Might as well relax; you can’t change the situation right now. Be prepared to stay the course on a critical decision to be made on the 15th.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) You have
been purposeful and perhaps even a bit preoccupied lately, much to everyone’s amazement. Well, that’s about to change. This month is when you reveal what you have been so busy formulating inside your busy mind and your timing is impeccable. Ferret out any last-minute ghosts that may delay your plans on the 14th, and prepare for launch on the 19th.
CANCER (June 21-July 21) Yours is
a cardinal, action-initiating sign, something that those near and dear to you never forget. Finances play an important role this month, but you may find yourself having to say “no” to a proposal that sounds right but yet does not ring true. Stay with your instincts. The reasons why will be known by month’s end. Set your sails for a stellar weekend with friends and family on the 19th and 20th. Maya White is a professional astrologer living in South Florida. With 25 years
experience, she is one of only 86 people in the world certified in AstroCarto-Graphy, a specialized branch of astrology that addresses issues relating to location and travel. Contact her at 954-920-2373 or through www. whitestarastrology.com.
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EVENT OF THE MONTH Aug. 22-27, South Carolina Old South Summer Swing around Hilton Head and Charleston Make your way to South Carolina this month, join in a summer cruise and contribute to a worthy cause: the Boys and Girls Clubs of Broward County. There are cocktail parties, a “Gone with the Wind” dinner ball, yacht hops and crew parties. Tour a plantation and see the cities as never before. Boat entry starts at $7,500. Invitations are for private yacht owners and event sponsors only. For more details, call Kerry Becher at +1-954-563-2822 or +1-954-983-0422, or visit www.oldsouthsummerswing.com. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE HILTON HEAD ISLAND VISITOR & CONVENTION BUREAU AND THE HARBOUR TOWN LIGHTHOUSE AT THE SEA PINES RESORT.
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Aug. 2 The Triton’s monthly
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Show, Sydney, Australia. Held in six halls at the Sydney Convention & Exhibition Center, Darling Harbor and Cockle Bay Marina, with more than 250 exhibitors, and more than 270 vessels from 70 in-water exhibitors. Open 10 a.m.-8 p.m. each day. $17 adults, $9 kids under 17. Show includes a fishing clinic, a Strictly Sail Expo, a boatbuilding competition, fashion shows and a “better boating” workshop. www. sydneyboatshow.com.au
Aug. 4-6 Dunkin Donuts Newport Folk Festival, Newport, RI. International
Tennis Hall of Fame and Fort Adams State Park. More than a dozen acts, including The Indigo Girls, Cherish the Ladies, and Chris Smither. www. festivalproductions.net
Aug. 6 Sunday Jazz Brunch, Fort
Lauderdale, along the New River downtown, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., free. Five stages including a variety of jazz types. www.fortlauderdale.gov
Aug. 9-20 Bahamas Summer Boating Fling (Extended Fling) to Bimini/ Chub Cay/Nassau/Staniel Cay. www. bahamas.com, 954-236-9292 or 800327-7678.
Aug. 10-13 AVP Pro Beach Volleyball
Tour, Manhattan Beach, NY. This is the 11th tournament of the 2006 series featuring more than 150 of the top athletes in this sport. The main draw is on Friday, the women’s final is on Saturday, with men’s finals on Sunday. Tickets $35. www.avp.com
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Aug. 11-13 JVC Jazz Festival, Newport, RI. International Tennis Hall of Fame, with John Pizzarelli Big Band and Jane Monheit. Tickets start at $30. www. festivalproductions.net
Aug. 14-20 88th PGA Championships, Medinah Country Club, Medinah, Ill., one of golf ’s majors tournaments. www.pga.com
Aug. 17-20 AVP Pro Beach Volleyball
Tour, Coney Island, NY. This is the 12th tournament of the 2006 series featuring more than 150 of the top athletes in this sport. The local qualifier is Thursday, main draw is on Friday, men’s final on Saturday, women’s final on Sunday. Tickets $20. www.avp.com
Aug. 18 Ida Lewis Distance Race,
Newport. The only offshore distance race that begins and ends in Newport. Two courses (The Shinnecock at 231 nm and The Montauk at 160 nm) on the coastal waters of Block Island Sound and Rhode Island Sound, for single-hulled boats of 28 feet or longer. Social events at Ida Lewis Yacht Club clubhouse on Lime Rock. www.ildistancerace.org.
Aug. 23-29 Lucaya Marina Village,
Grand Bahama Fling, 242-373-8888, www.bahamas.com
Aug. 30-Sept. 4 Bimini Big Game
Fling, 242-347-3391, www.bahamas. com
Sept. 2-4 9th annual Newport Irish
Waterfront Festival, Newport, RI. Three-day festival celebrates Irish music, culture, cuisine and crafts, with five stages. www.newportfestivals.com
Sept. 3 Sunday Jazz Brunch, Ft.
Lauderdale, along the New River downtown, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., free. Five stages including a variety of jazz types. www.fortlauderdale.gov
Sept. 6 The Triton’s monthly
networking event, the first Wednesday of every month. Sign up for our e-mail blast at www.the-triton.com for details.
Sept. 8-10 5th annual Shipyard Cup,
East Boothbay, Maine. An invitational regatta open to sailing yachts over 70 feet. Contact Andrea Holland at Boothbay Region Boatyard, (207) 6332970, andrea@brby.com; or Ted Smith at Hodgdon Yachts, (207) 633-4194, tedsmith@hodgdonyachts.com. www. shipyardcup.com
Sept. 13-18 29th annual Cannes International Boat Show, France, at the Port de Cannes. www. salonnautiquecannes.com
Sept. 14-17 7th annual YachtFest,
San Diego, the U.S. West Coast’s largest yacht show, on Shelter Island Marina, single-day tickets start at $32, discounts for multiple days. (858) 8360133. Includes free crew seminar “Your Career in Yachting” where captains, engineers, stews and chefs discuss their years of experiences aboard yachts (Sunday, 9 a.m.). www.yachtfest.com
Sept. 14-17 36th annual Newport
International Boat Show, Newport Yachting Center, 401-846-1115, www. newportboatshow.com
Sept. 20-23 16th annual Monaco
Yacht Show, Port Hercules. More than 530 exhibitors and 93 yachts are expected. About a third of the yachts
MAKE PLANS Feb. 4, 2007 Superbowl XLI Miami The National Football League’s 41st championship game will be played at Dolphins Stadium, making this South Florida’s ninth turn hosting the game. While much of the rest of the world knows football as the game recently decided in the World Cup, we silly Americans reserve the word for our game of passing and catching, running and tackling. For details and ticket info, visit www.superbowl.com. PHOTO COURTESY OF WWW.SUPERBOWL.COM were launched in 2005 and will be making their first public appearances. There will be more, larger airconditioned tents to house equipment manufacturers and service providers,
shipyards (including 14 of the 15 largest in the world), designers, interior decorators and the national pavilions. Tickets are 50 euros. www.monacoyachtshow.org
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Ocean World: Gets job done in Caribbean
August 2006
THE ENDURANCE AND POWER OF A DIESEL
GettingUnderWay By Mary Miller
Cruising around the Caribbean this spring, we suffered two bouts of engine trouble with our 90foot Burger. The first time was in early April en route to the USVI to meet the owners. We lost an engine and limped back 75 miles to Ocean World Marina in the Dominican Republic. We found some great mechanics who took our dead engine apart and got us running in six days and for a fraction of what it would have cost us in Florida. Our engines are older 12V71 Detroits and the mechanics were very familiar with them. I’m not recommending that they can work on all the newer-style engines, but they did a fantastic job servicing the blowers, turbos, heads and injectors. They also replaced the main seals but did not do any work to the pistons or sleeves. Of course it helped that Capt. Rob [Messenger] and I speak conversational Spanish from our years of living in Costa Rica in our terra firma life. Rob See OCEAN WORLD, page A37
Florida rewrites laws for marina evacuation Florida State Statute 327.59, Marina Evacuations, has been amended to give marina owners, operators, employees and agents authority to take reasonable actions to secure any vessel “to minimize damage to a vessel and to protect marina property, private property, and the environment,” including hauling it out, according to a story in the Pensacola News Journal. If the boat cannot be hauled for some reason and causes damage to the marina while afloat, the boat’s owner can be held liable for the damage. The marina also can charge “a reasonable fee for such services,” the law states. In effect since July 1, the law was promoted by the Marine Industries Association of Florida as a way to minimize the crippling damage to marinas and boats following two hurricane seasons. Florida Statute 328.17, Non-Judicial Sale of Vessels, has also been amended to address vessels abandoned in marinas after a storm. The law suspends application of lien provisions for 60 days after a vessel has been damaged in a named storm. It also reduces from 120 days to 60 days the time an owner has to pay costs owed to a marina before the marina can sell the vessel and permits the marina to remove the vessel at the owner’s expense. – Staff report
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Joe Rubano is an admitted “clean nut” and also has a passion for customer service, panning the allPHOTO/DAVID REED too-frequent no-can-do attitude. “Good service is what we’re all about.”
RPM runs grea t after 50 years By Bransom “Rocky” Bean Diesel engines were different in 1956 when RPM Diesel Engine Company first opened its doors on State Road 84 with three employees. So was Ft. Lauderdale. Still a stepson to a sizzling Miami made popular by the hottest movie stars of the day, Ft. Lauderdale of 1956 was just entering its first residential building boom. Just about everything has changed for RPM in these 50 years of business – the customers, the vendors and even the engines themselves. One thing that has remained constant – or nearly so – is the people in the family-run company. Joe Rubano, the company’s chairman of the board, has been the face on the company in recent years. He joined the company in 1960. (By the way, RPM doesn’t refer to the number of revs on a tachometer; it stands for the initials of founders Reynolds,
Paulie and Mulligan, Rubano’s brother-in-law.) As Rubano walks through the RPM Diesel of 2006, it’s hard for him to hide his pride. “Frankly I don’t see how some people stay in business,” he said. “They seem to have such a nocan-do attitude. Good service is what we’re all about.” RPM literally sparkles with not a fleck of rust or a swirl of metal shavings. Of course, besides water, dirt is the biggest enemy of those unforgiving clearances in an injection pump. “Between my time in the U.S. Navy and working on aircraft engines at Pan Am, I guess I’m a bit of a clean-nut,” Rubano said. “I want the place to look like a fire house.” Everything is in its place, even on the desks of the smiling administrative staff. The walls are covered with the professional certificates of employees. “Actually they are skilled technicians, not mechanics,”
Rubano said. “We sell craftsmanship; people are our most valuable asset.” In the increasingly complex technical world of diesel engines, Rubano said technical competence is only the starting point. It’s the company’s employees and the service they offer that has kept the company running for 50 years. “There are bigger outfits, but I trust RPM implicitly,” said Gene Fittery, engineer on the 158-foot Feadship M/Y Highlander. “They go the extra mile and drop what they’re doing to help.” Fittery gives RPM much of the credit for Highlander’s almost perfect record for availability. “In my 14 years, we missed only one day, and that was because we didn’t have a part,” he said. “Once I needed a part RPM didn’t have; they found it in Jacksonville, arranged shipment and I had it in a day.” The key to RPM’s strong
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ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS
Sea chest anti-fouling development Chem-Free Water Treatment Systems has installed its latest technology in sea chest anti-fouling on board the 153-foot M/Y Argyll at Merrill Stevens in Miami, according to a company press release. The Chem-Free Sea Chest Guardian system draws water from the sea chest, mixes it with ozone and returns it to the sea chest. Ozone, in combination with the naturally occurring bromine found in seawater, creates a solution that is hostile to all larval forms of sea life, killing them before they can attach to the walls, piping or any system such as heat exchangers downstream, the company said. A vessel’s sea chest and lines must be mechanically cleaned prior to installation, but no fouling should ever occur after that point, the company said. The system has no copper electrodes to be serviced or replaced. Other than monthly internal inspections, regular service includes required annual cleaning of a reaction chamber, the company said. The system is capable of operating on its own internal clock, or from an external dry contact closure that may be under the control of a vessel’s computer or just a simple switch controlled by the engineering staff. Installation requires the addition of three lines to existing sea chests;
one each for the pump supply and pump return, and an automatic residual air vent to prevent the possible accumulation of air in the sea chest. Also included with the system are the stainless steel water pump, ozone injection device, a patented automatic vortex-type de-bubbler and a Chem-Free Purification Systems ozone generator. No gas is vented into the vessel and the vortex de-bubbler vent may be plumbed into an existing overboard water discharge line. Chem-Free has been servicing yachts since 1994, with the installation of its first unit on a 110-foot Feadship for black water holding tank odor. Since creating the sea chest stystem in early 2004, Chem-Free is on the spec sheets for several yachts under construction, the company said. Dealers exist in Palma, Singapore, Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, Jacksonville and Norfolk. Chem-Free Water Treatment Systems designs ozone systems for marine applications. The Chem-Free exclusive fully automated potable Water Quality Assurance systems are installed on all the major research vessels operated by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, as well as many large luxury yachts worldwide. For more information, visit www. chem-freeozone.com.
Today’s fuel prices
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Prices for low-sulfur gasoil expressed in US$ per cubic meter (1,000 liters) as of July 15.
Prices for low-sulfur gasoil expressed in US$ per cubic meter (1,000 litres) as of July 15, 2005.
Region Duty-free*/duty paid U.S. East Coast Ft. Lauderdale 645/689 Savannah, Ga. 642/NA Newport, R.I. 657/NA Caribbean St. Thomas, USVI 789/NA St. Maarten 647/NA Antigua 721/NA North Atlantic Bermuda (Ireland Island) NA/NA Bermuda (St. George’s) 822/NA Cape Verde 611/NA Azores 620/NA Canary Islands 608/736 Mediterranean Gibraltar 592/NA Barcelona, Spain 664/1,307 Palma de Mallorca, Spain NA/1,267 Antibes, France 656/1,451 San Remo, Italy 787/1,413 Naples, Italy 785/1,418 Venice, Italy 762/1,410 Corfu, Greece 851/1,427 Piraeus, Greece 799/1,321 Istanbul, Turkey 603/NA Malta 584/NA Tunis, Tunisia 599/NA Oceania Auckland, New Zealand 656/NA Sydney, Australia 652/NA Fiji 631/NA
Region Duty-free*/duty paid U.S. East Coast Ft. Lauderdale 490/520 Savannah, Ga. 493/NA Newport, R.I. 521/NA Caribbean St. Thomas, USVI 646/NA Trinidad 487/NA Antigua 588/NA North Atlantic Bermuda (Ireland Island) 651/NA Bermuda (St. George’s) 641/NA Cape Verde 507/NA Azores 486/NA Canary Islands 504/NA Mediterranean Gibraltar 519/NA Barcelona, Spain 570/1,127 Palma de Mallorca, Spain NA/1,098 Antibes, France 540/1,374 San Remo, Italy 624/1,392 Naples, Italy 621/1,320 Venice, Italy 630/1,342 Corfu, Greece 603/1,160 Piraeus, Greece 568/1,090 Istanbul, Turkey 530/NA Malta 501/NA Tunis, Tunisia 538/NA Oceania Auckland, New Zealand 562/NA Sydney, Australia 556/NA Fiji 553/NA
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Putting ozone under the microscope This is the first of two articles about ozone and its use aboard megayachts. By Ken Hughes There are hundreds of ozone systems controlling odor from black and gray water holding tanks on board yachts and ships. By injecting ozone into the headspace, odors can be eliminated that can turn what otherwise would be a relaxing and enjoyable experience on board a beautiful yacht into a mutiny. For some reason, urban smog alerts in the United States always give all of the credit to street-level ozone. Ozone is indeed the final product of the exposure of industrial and automobile emissions to sunlight. However, that is not the end of the story. The ozone that is a major part of smog is different from the ozone produced from filtered air and especially from pure oxygen. Ozone produced by the interaction of such hydrocarbon and chemical emissions and sunlight carries along for the ride an incredible array of other chemical compounds that are dependant on the makeup of the original emissions. It is therefore impossible to even identify much less calculate the infinite number of compounds in urban smog. There are literally hundreds of uses for ozone, so one should be skeptical of outrageous claims of the ability of ozone to do equally outrageous things made by unscrupulous manufacturers and sellers of some ozone systems or devices.
Getting a grasp on ozone
It may help to understand what this stuff with the funny-sounding name is all about. According to Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary, ozone is a naturally occurring, highly unstable, pale-blue, tri-atomic allotrope of oxygen, with a strong unique odor somewhat similar to new mown hay. Ozone is formed in nature by ultraviolet radiation from sunlight and lightning, and produced artificially by high voltage electric discharge or UV lamps in air or pure oxygen. It is used commercially in laundries as a bleaching agent, in potable and wastewater treatment and in odor control. So much for the definition; now for the facts. We must have a steady and sufficiently concentrated supply of oxygen to sustain life. Just a very short period without oxygen will do permanent damage to the brain of any creature that has one. Oxygen is available for our respiratory use in the form of O2, or an oxygen molecule composed of two atoms of oxygen that makes up about 21 percent of the Earth’s atmosphere. Terrestrial oxygen is also locked up
Ozone – naturally occurring and highly unstable – is formed in nature by a PHOTO COURTESY OF NOAA/U.S. DEPT. OF COMMERCE few sources, including lightning. in an incredible amount and variety of compounds as an oxide. Ferric oxide – or its more commonly known name, rust – is composed of two atoms of iron and three atoms of oxygen. About two-thirds of the human body and one third of water is oxygen and, along with its compounds, oxygen makes up a surprising 49.2 percent by weight of the Earth’s crust. Oxygen is the third-most abundant element found in the sun and was once thought to be responsible for the energy produced by our sun and all the other stars. Free oxygen was not available in Earth’s primitive atmosphere for a very long time after its formation or accretion. In fact, for a considerable time, there was no atmosphere at all surrounding the Earth.
Pre-ozone, water blocked UV rays
When the Earth’s early atmosphere formed from gasses emerging from surface rocks, it was initially harsh and mostly acidic. Even after the oceans had collected, free oxygen was still not present in the atmosphere. Consequently, there was no ozone produced to block any of the Sun’s deadly ultraviolet radiation from reaching the Earth’s surface. No oxygen means no ozone; therefore, the existence of any form of surface life was impossible, that is unless it was shielded from direct or even indirect reflected ultraviolet light. Ultraviolet light does not penetrate water very well, and if it is even slightly turbid virtually no UV light will penetrate below the surface. During that time, water provided the best shielding from UV light and thereby the most favorable environment for a little
process we call life to begin. That first step after about 4 billion years ultimately led to each and every life form that either stands, lies, sits, lurks, swims, jumps, runs, slithers, crawls or walks on or under the face of the Earth, and on, under or through its waters. Human beings share DNA with every life form from cyanobacteria to trees to apes and indeed each and every flora and fauna present on the planet. One particular early life form managed to incorporate a process that many eons later was given the name photosynthesis, “photo” from the Greek phos, of or produced by light; and “synthesis,” also from the Greek sys, together, and tithenai, to place. In the time span between 4.2 and 3.8 billion years BCE (Before Common Era) cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, developed and formed into vast colonies. Sunlight falling on the bluegreen algae reacted with carbon dioxide (there’s that pesky oxide bit again) in a material we call chlorophyll. The magic of chlorophyll is its ability to strip the carbon out of carbon dioxide and synthesize it into other substances such as sugar for the cyanobacteria to live, grow and multiply. It does not, however, need the O2, so it was expelled as waste. Most have no doubt heard the old saying, “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” If there ever was an instance of treasure coming from trash, it was the trash known as oxygen tossed out by that little critter cyanobacterium. Without that little two-atom form of trash, life as we know it would have never been possible. All life up to that time was in the oceans as
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Mother Nature will restore atmospheric ozone – some day OZONE, from page A34 single-cell organisms, and the Earth’s surface was mostly bare, acid-etched and eroded, but mineral-rich volcanic rock. The existence of life at this early time, approximately 3.8 billion years BCE has been unquestionably confirmed both by chemical analysis of soil and the existence of calcium carbonate mounds called stromatolites in many parts of the Earth where oceans existed at some time in the distant past.
Stromatolites present today
There are also living stromatolite colonies present in all of the world’s oceans, with the majority of large stromatolite colonies occurring today off the coasts of West Australia and Africa. Fortunately, the process is still on going today, and is most familiar to us as pond scum. When you look at that disgusting blue-green slimy, yucky stuff with bubbles trapped at its surface, remember the bubbles are pure, sweet, life-giving oxygen. In fact cyanobacteria in the world’s oceans produce far more oxygen than all of the Earth’s grasses, weeds, flowers, bushes, shrubs and trees put together. The oceans are the single largest source of oxygen and at the same time the largest sink or absorber of carbon dioxide, and play the major role in keeping levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide within a range acceptable for life to exist. No matter how much oxygen is in the air, if carbon dioxide levels rise too high, we will perish. Oceans are mankind’s septic tank, and should mankind ever manage to kill them – and we have come a long way on that track – we will all die shortly thereafter. Oxygen concentrations in seawater eventually became high enough for it to start out-gassing and escape into the atmosphere. Atmospheric oxygen levels began to increase dramatically. When oxygen was present in the atmosphere, and especially in the upper regions, it was immediately exposed to ultraviolet radiation.
Why is the sky blue?
Ultraviolet light comes from just beyond the blue end of the Sun’s electromagnetic spectrum beyond the region detectable by the eyes of human beings. The eyes of some insects such as the bumble bee function in the UV spectrum, which is used by the bee to detect blooms of flowering plants where nectar is stored. For scientific convenience UV has been broken into three types: Near UV, Far UV and Extreme UV, or more conveniently, A, B and C bands.
The shortest wavelength, and thereby the most energetic and dangerous of the three types, is the C band. Fortunately for all surface life forms on Earth virtually no C band UV light and very little of the other bands reach the Earth’s surface. At the opposite or red end of the sun’s spectrum one finds the comparatively long wavelengths of infrared, which are detectable to us as heat. Energy in sunlight arrives in “packets” of energy expressed as quanta or photons of light. Without getting into quantum mechanics, we will simply state that the higher the frequency of light or the shorter the wavelength, the more energy it can contain. Oxygen atoms in the molecule of oxygen dioxide will absorb the additional energy of UV photons. If enough additional energy is absorbed into the molecule, the two atoms will become like-charged enough to force them apart. The same thing happens in the case of lightning or any high voltage arc or discharge. In such cases, the additional energy comes in the form of highenergy electrons escaping from plasma created by the high voltage as it ionizes the air. Therefore, the energy cycle of UV radiation or high-energy electrons reacting with atmospheric oxygen is expressed mathematically as O2 + E = 2 O. Most oxygen atoms will shed the additional energy as a photon of longer wavelength light, and two atoms will recombine as an O2 molecule. However, since the energy level is half or less than that which was absorbed, the light will be visible as blue, and is largely responsible for the blue skies of daytime. Fortunately a certain percentage of
the free oxygen atoms will glom onto an O2 molecule and thereby form a molecule of O3, or ozone.
The ozone-UV balance
The amount of ozone produced is determined by barometric pressure, temperature and moisture and, of course, the amount of O2 available. Fortunately, the wavelength at which ozone is most efficient at absorbing UV energy just happens to perfectly match the wavelength of UV radiation. That absorption window is what prevents virtually all of the sun’s most dangerous electromagnetic spectrum from reaching the Earth’s surface. If even a slightly higher percentage of solar UV radiation were to reach the Earth’s surface, there would be a dramatic increase in the instances of skin cancer and other problems such as corneal damage to the eyes. UV energy causes great damage to the DNA in all cells to which it is exposed. The damage is cumulative and is responsible for the cancerous lesions of melanoma. If the amount of DNA
damage is too great to be corrected by the cell’s natural DNA repair system, or before the damaged skin cell is shed, cancer can get a foothold and metastasize or spread. There is already considerable mutation occurring among zooplankton in the southern oceans caused by excess UV radiation where ozone depletion is the most severe. Atmospheric depletion of ozone is a fact and the chemical process, which involves chlorine released from CFCs by UV energy, is well documented. Fortunately chlorine will eventually leach out of the upper atmosphere and ozone will once again close the gaps. Unfortunately for almost all of us alive now, it is estimated that a century or more will be necessary for the job to be accomplished by nature. Ken Hughes is president of Chem-Free Water Treatment Systems. Next month, he explores the different kinds of ozone treatment systems. Contact him in Texas at +1-940-627-2353 or through www.chem-freeozone.com.
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Looking to make yachts more secure, Burger Boat teams with SAFE Burger Boat Company announced in July an alliance with SAFE, the Los Angeles-based designer of security systems for governments, corporations, high-end homes and megayachts. Al V. Corbi, president of SAFE (an acronym for Strategically Armored and Fortified Environments), created the science of modern-day ballistic resistant security, according to his Web site (http://safenvironments.com). In 1975, he designed installation for the U.S. Department of Justice and other government agencies around the world. “Given the times in which we live, the need for world-class security is
evident,” said David Ross, president of Burger Boat Company, said in announcing the agreement. “The challenge was to provide the highest level of security in a manner that would be transparent to our owners and their guests. SAFE’s extraordinary reputation for invisible leading-edge security solutions is a natural fit with Burger’s commitment to building the safest yachts in the world, protecting those aboard from both natural and manmade threats.” SAFE systems do not rely on burglar alarms, the police or security guards. The systems integrate detection,
deterrence, defensive and offensive options to protect a place from the outside in, with each layer encircling and protecting the core. As criminals advance, the SAFE Web site says, they encounter resistance on multiple, ever-increasing levels. SAFE’s proprietary security designs prevent anyone from approaching a yacht at sea, boarding a yacht or causing personal injury. “Teaming with the superior quality of Burger now provides a new level of safety and peace of mind which is farand-away the highest standard in the yachting world,” Corbi said.
With Burger’s announcement, SAFE security solutions will be available to all of the Wisconsin-based yacht builder’s future clients. An advanced design has already been incorporated into one of the latest Burger projects, the builder said, making her one of the safest yachts afloat. “In today’s world, the safety of one’s family is no longer an assurance but rather a proactive pursuit that can only be attained through careful planning,” Corbi said. “For reasons all too obvious, no where is this need more apparent than in the creation of luxury yachts.” – Staff report
M/Y Valkyrie had been in the GCCM yard for five months. PHOTO/DEAN LEIGH-SMITH
Valkyrie refit ends By Dean Leigh-Smith M/Y Valkyrie, a 125-foot Crescent, is scheduled to leave the east coast of Australia this month en route to South America after a five-month refit period at Gold Coast City Marina. On Jan. 19, Valkyrie was hauled out into the purpose-built, 900-squaremeter paint booth with state-of-the-art filtration, compressors, scaffolding and painting equipment. Within hours, the team from East Coast Yacht Finishing began preparations for the top sides application of Awlgrip 2000 acrylic modified polyurethane paint. The yard crew also applied International Paints’ Micron 66 Antifoul bottom paint along with the silicon-based PropSpeed for the running gear. Valkyrie upgraded engineering with Murray Owen of Marine Engineering Consultants and performed custom modifications carried out by Patrick Caterson and his team at Caterson Boat Building. “I am absolutely over the moon with the caliber of work,” said Capt. Martin De Banks, the owner’s representative. “GCCM should be very proud because [its] facility is on equal footings with any of the internationally renowned shipyards in Europe and the Americas.” M/Y Valkyrie was scheduled to board the Dockwise this month for South America, where she will go game fishing and cruise. Dean Leigh-Smith is executive manager at Gold Coast City Marina & Shipyard. Contact him at info@gccm.com.au.
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Above, Alejandro, second from right, and his crew took care of two 12V71TI Detroits two months apart. Below, the cylinder head. PHOTOS/MARY MILLER
Bilingual employees bust barriers OCEAN WORLD, from page A32 speaks “mechanical” Spanish and was able to communicate with the team and get the job done. The owner was pleased with the results and scheduled us to stop there en route to the Bahamas to have the other engine overhauled as well. The timing was good as we arrived in early June with exhaust from the second engine on the hull, indicating it was time to have Alejandro and Sisi give us their services. We got that engine back in order in good time with the same crew that helped us out in April. The marina office knows how to contact Alejandro and/or Sisi, the mechanics. They brought helpers to assist in the work and clean up, and did a fine job in that regard, too. For those who don’t speak Spanish, the marina has bilingual employees who can help
out. Miracles do happen and all in all, our engine trouble in the middle Caribbean ended up being a good adventure. Contact Stewardess/cook Mary Miller through editorial@the-triton.com.
customer service is being a one-stop diesel shop. RPM has a complete fuel injection and turbocharger repair facility, plus state-of-the-art engine overhaul and repair capability while stocking almost 70,000 parts. “If we don’t have it we get it,” Rubano said. RPM is an authorized dealer for MTU-Detroit Diesel and Volvo Penta marine engines as well as Westerbeke, Northern Lights and Kohler gen-sets. RPM is also an authorized dealer for all diesel fuel injection systems. “Big yachts are actually easier to work with,” said Bill Bickart, RPM’s service coordinator, who has been with the company for 10 years. “They set up their maintenance well in advance so we can schedule the parts to be on the pier when they arrive. “There’s nothing worse than holding up a job because you don’t have a 20-cent part,” he said. As times have changed, Bickart has seen engine technology change along with it. The cams are gone and with common rail, electronics have taken over even the simplest diesel.
“You wouldn’t believe how many calls we get now as a result of lightning strikes,” he said. Not surprisingly, fuel is changing too. ULSD (Ultra Low Sulphur Diesel) is all the rage with the environmental agencies, removing the sulphur and with it the lubricity. “So RPM sells increasing amounts of additives, and repairs those injection systems that don’t use them,” said Todd Marnes, the company’s fuel injection manager. RPM is a happy ship itself. Still run as a family business, the RPM family extends to the staff and their families as well. “I personally telephone everyone on their birthdays and anniversaries,” Rubano said. “It’s no surprise that there’s a big Christmas party, I suppose, but in April, the company gets together for a special awards dinner.” Dinner this year not only celebrated 15- and 20-year employees, but also 50 years in business. Bransom “Rocky” Bean is a yachting industry business consultant and ocean sailor. Contact him at bbean@ the-triton.com.
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Wärtsilä launches compact waterjets Wärtsilä Corp. has introduced a new compact, high-performance waterjet that is optimized for fast vessels. The new Wärtsilä LJX waterjet offers, in comparison with other waterjets, a 25 percent reduction in mounting flange diameter, a 10 percent overall weight reduction and a 35 percent increase in cavitation margin. The LJX waterjet allows further innovation in fast vessel design. The new Wärtsilä LJX waterjet is being developed to allow an optimum number of waterjets to be chosen for a given propulsion power requirement without requiring an excessive transom width in high-speed vessels. They have cut out the extremes in hydrodynamic design parameters and are based on a completely new design approach to create more compact jets with heavily increased cavitation margins. The mechanical design is similar to the current Lips Jets series with all main parts of the stator and the steering assembly fabricated from stainless steel plates. It is thus possible to have not only common steering/ reversing and booster jets, but also jets for fast crash stop and reversing, jets with nozzle closing devices, and jets with inboard hydraulic systems. The oil-lubricated thrust bearing remains inboard in the jet room with a water-
Wärtsilä’s new line of compact waterjets – featuring weight and size ILLUSTRATION/WWW.WARTSILA.COM reduction – is aimed at fast vessels. lubricated marine bearing supporting the shaft in the stator bowl. The first Wärtsilä LJX waterjets are being delivered for two Incat 112m high-speed wave-piercing catamarans for Japanese customers. The catamarans will be delivered in 2007 from Incat’s Hobart, Tasmania, shipyard. With a load-carrying capacity of 1,500 tons, these will be the largest catamarans powered by diesel engines. Capable of speeds greater than 40 knots, the catamarans will each be equipped with four LJX waterjets having a 1500 mm diameter impeller and an inboard layout for steering and reversing hydraulics. In other news, Wärtsilä acquired in July the German service company INTEC Injectortechnic GmbH, a Hamburg-based company that specializes in fuel injection equipment, providing installation and conducting service of injection components for marine diesel engines. For more information, visit www. wartsila.com.
is also designed to take advantage of value-added services such as electronic chart downloads, automatic weather routing, remote diagnostics and performance monitoring, DaCunha said. And shore-based managers will be able to access the ship’s systems through Sperry Marine’s BridgeLink Web-based portal to access operational data, view performance data and remotely monitor the ship’s navigation systems and sensors. For more information, contact Sperry Marine in Charlottesville, Va., at +1 (434) 974-2656, by e-mail at sales_commercial@sperry.ngc. com, or online at www.sperrymarine. northropgrumman.com.
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Sperry airs navigation technology
Northrop Grumman Corp.’s Sperry Marine business unit unveiled its next-generation marine navigation technology in a press preview in July at the Sunborn Yacht Hotel in London. The new Sperry Marine family of navigation products, which will be marketed under the VisionMaster FT label, will be publicly launched at the Shipbuilding Machinery & Marine Technology exhibition in Hamburg in September. “VisionMaster FT is a scalable family of solutions designed with an advanced PC-based Ethernet architecture offering easy upgradeability and builtin redundancy to meet the emerging requirements for shipboard navigation in the 21st century,” said J. Nolasco DaCunha, director of Sperry Marine Systems. “With VisionMaster FT, the shipowner can select whatever level of sophistication is needed, from a standard type-approved radar up to a complete integrated bridge system with a built-in upgrade path to address future requirements. The VisionMaster FT technology
Constructed of heavy-duty materials, flat fenders from Aeré are similar to fender boards, and were designed to protect the stern or swim platform of larger yachts. Damage to platforms is eliminated even when docking stern-to, rafting stern-to-stern with another boat or when smaller craft are alongside. The fender’s design prevents it from rolling under or on top of the dock or platform. The flat fender is relatively thin, which permits a small step from the tender or small craft to the platform. Most models come with stainless steel D rings on each end and more on one edge. Aeré flat fenders range from an 8-foot-by-1-foot model to a 16-foot-by-2-foot model. All flat fenders are 8 inches thick and come in dark gray with a black wear face. A new 3-foot-by-2-foot model is in development, and will be available
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Canal expansion clears first hurdle BRIEFS, from page A38 soon. Retail prices begin at $499. For more information, contact Aeré in Coral Springs, Fla., at +1-301-3241380, toll free at +1-877-617-5615 or online at www.praktek.com.
Panama Canal expansion closer
On June 27, Panamanian President Martín Torrijos and the Cabinet Council of Panama approved the proposal to expand the Panama Canal. In late June, Ricaurte Vásquez, chairman of the Panama Canal Authority’s board of directors and Minister for Canal Affairs, submitted the proposal to the National Assembly, which will review it and hold discussions open to Panamanian citizens. If approved, the Panamanian people will vote on the expansion. The Panama Canal expansion would be the largest project at the Canal since its original construction. The project would double the waterway’s capacity and allow more traffic by creating a new lane along the canal through the construction of a new set of locks.
SkyMate adds dealers
Marine satellite communications systems provider SkyMate has added 16 new dealers to its network of more than 150 authorized resellers in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean. SkyMate delivers telematics, messaging, tracking and weather solutions for recreational boaters, commercial fleets and the boat building industry. The new SkyMate dealers include Global Wifi Marine Systems in Ft. Lauderdale, Navatech Electronics in Miami, ACM Electronics in Jacksonville and Sea Technology Co. in Seattle.
Onan gensets earn DNV approval
Marine generator set company Onan has earned class approval from DNV for the engine and alternator used on its 40-99 kW e-QD marine generator sets. For more information, visit www. onan.com or call 1-800-888-ONAN or 763-574-5000.
2 genset companies open in China
MTU and Wartsila have opened manufacturing facilities in China this summer. The MTU Group’s new facility in the Chinese city of Suzhou opened in July for the start of local assembly of MTU Series 2000 diesel engines. The newly constructed facility is located in Suzhou Industrial Park, about 100 kilometers northwest of Shanghai. The gensets assembled there, exclusively for the Chinese market, are earmarked for service in decentralized power generation plants. The MTU Group has been marketing engines in China for more than 40 years.
“Our commitment in China is another major step in the internationalization of our company,” said Volker Heuer, MTU Group’s chairman of the board of management. Local assembly of engines in Suzhou includes the V12, V16 and V18-cylinder versions of MTU’s Series 2000 engines. In the medium term, up to 30 percent of the engine components will be supplied by locally based companies. For more information, visit www. mtu-online.com/en/ on the Internet. For Wärtsilä, its new factory in China for Auxpac marine generating sets opened in June by Wärtsilä Qiyao Diesel Company Ltd (Shanghai), a joint venture between Wärtsilä Corp. and the Shanghai Marine Diesel Engine Research Institute, according to a news release. “China is one of the leading shipbuilding countries in the world and its shipbuilding will grow very fast,” said Ole Johansson, president & CEO of Wärtsilä Corp. “This new factory would definitely have the capability to manufacture world-class diesel products, which is significant for the development of Wärtsilä diesel engines in China, as well as the growth of China shipbuilding industry,” said Li Chang Yin, general manager of SMDERI parent China Shipbuilding Industry Corp. The total investment is about 10 million euros. The new assembly factory manufactures Wärtsilä Auxpac 20 and Auxpac 26 diesel generating sets for the growing shipbuilding market in China and exports them to other countries through Wärtsilä’s global sales network. The factory is expected to deliver more than 100 Auxpac sets during 2007, focusing mainly on Wärtsilä Auxpac 20. The production of Auxpac 26 will start by the end of 2007. The annual production capacity will be some 300 to 350 sets. The new factory is located in the Shanghai’s Lingang Industry Zone, and it will employ 80 people by the end of this year. The first Wärtsilä Auxpac 20 sets were delivered to Chinese shipyards from Wärtsilä’s Vaasa factory in Finland in April 2005 for a 4,000-ton heavy-lift ship built at the Jing Jiang Eastern Shipyard for Guangzhou Salvage Bureau (under the Ministry of Communications). For more information, visit www. wartsila.com.
Sunken ships into storm barriers?
Marine scientists and Louisiana officials are considering sinking obsolete tankers, research vessels and cargo ships along the coast to create a steel barrier against hurricane flooding, according to a report in the Associated Press.
Since Hurricane Katrina hit last fall, Louisiana officials are considering every option for shoring up its storm defenses. The catastrophic flooding of New Orleans was due in part to a navigation channel that runs through St. Bernard parish. Planting ships in the channel would go a long way to plugging what has been dubbed a “hurricane superhighway,” the news service reported.
Canada gives $500k to IMO security
The government of Canada announced it is contributing $500,000 to the International Maritime Organization’s Maritime Security Trust Fund. Lawrence Cannon, Canada’s minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities, along with Peter McCay, Minister of Foreign Affairs said Canada is committed to supporting global counter-terrorism and security initiatives. The money represents the largest donation to the security fund by any member state. Canada also announced an appropriation of $1.4 billion to enhance its own national security, including $250 million to continue to improve transportation security in Canada.
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Trinidad and Tobago: Warm people, perfect anchorages By Carol Bareuther Seaside almond trees line the beachfront at Tobago’s Mount Irvine Bay. The waters are placid here, unlike Store Bay to the west where the swell can kick up from June to November. Ashore, Surfer’s Bar & Restaurant serves up fresh local fish, cold beer and live entertainment on the weekends. Fishermen sell their catch at stalls along the road, where cabs – easily distinguished from private cars by the “H” for “hire” on their license plates – pass frequently. It’s just a 10minute drive to Crown Point where you’ll find grocery stores, a gas station, laundromat, Internet café and more. We didn’t discover this perfect anchorage on our own. No, it was thanks to a little local knowledge from Scott Clarke, who keeps his own day sail catamarans, Island Girl and Natural Mystic, here. Idyllic anchorages and friendly folks are two reasons why it’s well worth a trip to Trinidad’s sister island of Tobago. The Arawaks and Caribs first inhabited this 26-mile-long by 7-milewide island. Columbus sighted it in 1498 before King James I of England claimed Tobago for his own in 1608. The first capital was at Plymouth, located on the northwest shore. You can tour the remnants of Fort St. James and from this point look back and see what an ideal harbor exists. The British, and a host of European nationalities that caused Tobago’s flag to change some 31 times in the course of two centuries, used this harbor as a main port for exportation of sugar and cocoa. Numerous plantations dotted the island during the 1700s and 1800s. Today, government officials and private businessmen alike eye Plymouth’s harbor, as well as oceanfront land near the Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago 11 00 N, 61 00 W The islands came under British control in the 19th century; independence was granted in 1962. The country is one of the most prosperous in the Caribbean thanks largely to petroleum and natural gas production and processing. Tourism, mostly in Tobago, is targeted for expansion and is growing. SOURCE: CIA The World Factbook
The author’s children, Nikki and Rian, explore one of the island’s many waterfalls. PHOTO/DEAN BARNES Hilton and land near the Bon Accord Lagoon adjacent to Store Bay, for marina development. But so far, as Kamau Akili, Tobago’s vice president of environment says, no certificate of environmental clearance has yet been filed for any marina development. The best overnight anchorages run along Tobago’s north shore and boarder the Caribbean Sea. Starting from the west, Store Bay is fairly placid from December to May. Angostura’s Sail Week is based out of this bay in May, and the Trinidad & Tobago Powerboat Association’s Carib Great Race in July ends here after making its start in Trinidad. Pigeon Point, about a mile to the east, is a picturesque anchorage with facilities such as a dock, toilets, showers and restaurant. Up the coast, Plymouth, Castara Bay and Parlatuvier are quaint anchorages. Plymouth itself is one of Tobago’s larger settlements. You can visit the ruins of
Fort James on the headland behind the village. Charlotteville, like the main port in Tobago’s capitol of Scarborough, houses a Customs and Immigration office. The Boater’s Directory, available from Boater’s Enterprise (www. boatersenterprise.com), provides information on clearance procedures plus pet quarantine facts, maps, charts, radio communications, tide tables and more for Trinidad and Tobago. Farthest west on Tobago is the settlement of Speyside. Scuba diving is exceptional off the reef here. In addition, glass-bottom boats will take you to see brain coral specimens here as large as 12 feet high and 16 feet long en route to the island of Little Tobago. This 1-mile-long island west of Speyside is also called Bird of Paradise Island after the eccentric bird lover, Sir William Ingram, who introduced two dozen pairs of Papua New Guinea’s
Birds of Paradise to the island. These exotic birds didn’t thrive in their new habitat and eventually died out. Today, Little Tobago is a bird sanctuary, home to the red-billed tropicbird, boobies, wrens and myriad hummingbirds. Guides will escort you to the top of the island for a breathtaking view. Back in Speyside, visit Jemma’s Seaview Kitchen. The dining room is built into a tree and the fare is local, heavy on the seafood. No Tobago trip is complete without a further bit of landlubbing. Guides, such as famed naturalist David Rooks and Tobago’s Darlington Chance, led us on informative hikes within the Tobago Forest Reserve. Dating to 1776, this is the oldest protected rainforest in the Western Hemisphere. Another “can’t miss” attraction is the Argyle Waterfall. Even the staunchest seafarers will love navigating the forest for a good splash in these awesome 175-foot-tall falls. Carol Bareuther is a freelance writer living in St. Thomas. Contact her through editorial@the-triton.com.
The Marina Mile 84 Association congratulates founding board members Joe Rubano, RPM Diesel; and George Irvine, PipeWelders/High Seas Technology on their 50th anniversaries in business on Marina Mile Boulevard. Executive Director, Margaret Croxton President, Bill Bigger, First Florida Commercial Vice President, Joe Rubano, RPM Diesel Treasurer, Dick Polcini, Diamond Marine C/O Margaret Croxton Enterprises 1315 S. Miami Rd., Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33316
P: 954.494.1900 • F: 954.524.1220 • croxtonma@aol.com Joe and Dolores Rubano with Broward Sheriff Ken Jenne (center) and Tony Cabrera, Marina Mile Business Park (left) at the Grand Opening of the Marina Mile Business Park
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Newport loses dining legend as Christie’s closes By Chef Peter Ziegelmeier Christie’s Restaurant has been a Newport harbor local’s spot since it opened in 1945. However, this waterfront icon is closing its doors. Originally established in New York City’s theater district and then reinvented in Newport as World War II concluded, Christie’s is losing the battle against that insatiable appetite for waterfront condos. Inside the dining room, photos of many of the famous people who visited both of the restaurant’s New York and Newport locations lined the walls. With six dining areas, three bars and a marina, Christie’s has employed more
Christie’s Restaurant did close in July, but a new bar and restaurant was scheduled to open there Aug. 9, said Peter Borden, a former yacht captain and a partner in the investment firm renovating the site. Though he could not talk in detail about the project, he noted that it will be a ‘high-end yacht facility’ that will cater to owners, their guests and crew. For marina reservations, call +1-401-848-7950. For updated information on the renovations, visit www.christiesofnewport. com or read next month’s Triton. – Editor
than 150 people in its 61 years. As Newport’s oldest waterfront restaurant, Christies has come to mean fine seafood, steaks and great entertainment for both the locals and visiting guests spanning the globe. This landmark coming to a close inspired me to pen and picture one of the final blowouts at Christie’s at the end of May 2006. What’s next after Christie’s? Condos, it is rumored, but no one has been able to supply me with any companies or names. This seemingly covert operation has the locals swarming like disappointed and soon-to-be-angry hornets. Nate and Jamie, left, commented on
the question of what is next and can it really be replaced. “They are losing out on a good thing, the warm and fuzzy, old school feeling will dissipate, but never be forgotten.” Danielle, Tarina and Jamie, below, visiting from Saugus, Mass., and celebrating a bachelorette party, all were in agreement, commenting, “Why change a great thing?” When asked why they were there, they said “your roots bring you home. And besides, it is time to celebrate love first and last in Newport.” Hoo-rah. When asked what will stick in their minds as the most memorable part of Christie’s, Samantha and Becky from Middletown, agreed: “The bands.” “Johnny Hollaran [from the featured band that evening, Those Guys] is always smiling and smoking,” Becky said. “I adore him.” Meghan commented that an institution is coming to a close. “I am very sorry to see it go, especially to condos. Very, very sad indeed.” That’s me there, smiling, happy just to be there talking to all these wonderful, fun-loving folks and enjoying what could be the last few weeks of Christie’s existence. A bartender, who asked to remain nameless, candidly said, “I am very sad it is closing. Many of the masses filtering out are completely oblivious to the Big Close, and for what, a condo project? Places for the elite. What about tourism, both local and vacationers? This is just a giant sellout.” Last call came and went, and I found a great spot to watch all the people spill out onto the long walk
A dream: Introduce some DEPDC girls to sailing CHILDREN, from page A42
Our first project was to film a documentary about the subject and and insisted on showing me around the the success of prevention programs center, which is home to more than 100 such as DEPDC. We are now seeking children like her. volunteers and donors to support a Since its start in 1987, DEPDC has scholarship program to enable children saved more than 1,000 at risk to continue their children from a life of Since 1987, education. unspeakable horror. Child sex slavery isn’t DEPDC has saved But for every child something yacht owners more than 1,000 protected, there are and charter guests children from a life want to think about countless others who aren’t as lucky. And one of unspeakable when they’re aboard a reason is the shortage vessel in horror. It costs $2 a magnificent of resources, primarily a beautiful anchorage. day ($750 a year) to I certainly didn’t. But money. When we learned when you consider that support a child at that it costs just $2 a for the price of a lobster the center. day ($750 a year) to dinner in Nantucket support a child at the or a couple rounds of center, we knew we had to get involved. drinks for the crew you can make a On returning to the United States, we profound difference in a child’s life, it’s established Friends of Thai Daughters, hard not to get involved. a 501(c)3 non-profit organization In November, I’ll return to Thailand dedicated to raising awareness and to visit the children at DEPDC before money to combat child trafficking. chartering a sailboat with friends. I
would love to be able to introduce these girls to sailing some day. Most have never even seen the ocean. Contact Jane McBride at janemcb@ friendsofthaidaughters.org or call +1339-222-1807.
up to Thames from the waterfront. Tipsy soldiers, posing ladies, cool armcrossed unawares, dozens upon dozens of altered spirits. Many other Christie’s cadets marched their final walk from a long-time favorite of Newport on Memorial Day weekend, unsuspectingly but willingly paying homage along a prime piece of waterfront property, once again blemished by the greedy. Chef Peter Ziegelmeier works aboard M/Y Been There Done That, a 100-foot Hatteras. Contact him at opistolpete@ yahoo.com.
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Child trafficking, prostitution: diseases that need to be halted By Jane McBride For those of us in the yachting industry – charterers, crews and owners alike – Thailand conjures up images of quiet anchorages, pristine beaches, and exotic restaurants. When I first arrived on a charter to Phuket, I was charmed by the gorgeous scenery and smiling faces. The longer we stayed, however, the harder it was to ignore the throng of bar girls soliciting customers on the street or the Western men with very young Thai ladies on their arms. The boat captain reminded me that these were consenting adults, however, he also described the sordid world of l To
child prostitution and how pervasive it had become. A few days later, I met Emma, an Australian who had left her job crewing to volunteer at an anti-trafficking organization in Northern Thailand. Emma told stories of families selling their children so they could buy a new motorbike and of traffickers who promise unsuspecting parents that their daughters will be maids to rich people in Bangkok. She encouraged me and my fellow charter guests to see the project, located on the Thai-Burmese border. We had already planned to tour the Golden Triangle, so agreed to visit. On our way north, we
stopped in Chiang Mai where I had the surreal experience of talking to some men about their visits to a nearby brothel. One told me matter-of-factly that he came regularly for a 10year-old girl who was the most popular child there. The girl has since died of AIDS but the image of this obese 60-year-old forcing himself on a child still haunts me today. It was all I could do not to vomit. His buddy bragged that he’d been to the brothel more than 50 times, sampling children as young as eight. He rationalized his visits, explaining that the money went to help the girls’ families. “That’s just the way it is here,” he insisted. UNICEF estimates that
view the UNICEF report on child trafficking, visit www.unicefusa.org and type “child trafficking HR 972” in the search box near the top right of the page. The report is the first item in the results. l Visit www.FriendsofThaiDaughters.org for a copy of Friends of Thai Daughters’ documentary film.
Four Thai children pose for a photo with, from left, Patty Zinkowski, co-founder of Friends of Thai Daughters, and PHOTO COURTESY OF JANE McBRIDE author Jane McBride, right. more than a million children are trafficked annually, the majority into sexual servitude and forced labor. Thailand is known as a destination country, with children from neighboring Laos, Burma and Cambodia being smuggled in to feed the appetites of pedophiles from around the world. Victims as young as five are brutalized by as many as 20 men a day.
The organization Emma told us about is the Development and Education Program for Daughters and Communities. On arriving at DEPDC, I was greeted by a sweet 8-year-old girl named Ying. An AIDS orphan, she has been living at the center for three years and couldn’t wait to show me her drawings of flowers. Desperate for attention, she clung to my arm
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Great times can be had in Cuba, but not by the Cubans It was interesting to read a crew member’s view of Cuba [“One crew member’s perspective,” page A19, July 2006]. My company holds both OFAC and BIS licenses for travel and business in Cuba. I have gone there many times aboard yachts. I have just returned from my sixth trip this year. What once was an impoverished yet beautiful island with wonderful people has turned to an angry island of repressed people, angered at their repression and lack of economic opportunities. Maybe it was always this way, but hidden from view. Today, Cuba is seething with longing for change. We had lunch at the Pain du Paris at Marina Hemingway, which is the American refuge from the angry streets of Havana. I spotted no U.S.-flagged vessels in the marina, but many boats of unusual character fill the marina, sporting flags from Germany and France. Cienfuegos is still the best Cuban port to visit, and one of the only ports that can afford megayachts safe anchorage. (Warning, though: Large yachts will have trouble making that starboard 90-degree turn in Hemingway during weather.) Club Cienfuegos is the center for boating on the south coast of Cuba. There’s good scuba just east of the harbor entrance at Playa Media Luna’s Labyrinths. A Germany-Cuba joint venture company has bareboat catamaran rentals at the club and the boats are new and well equipped. The south side of Cuba really is the best for sailing, as Cienfuegos can afford good safe haven during hurricane season. All in all, we had a great time in Cuba, but Cubans on the island are not having a good time today. El cambio es muy circa. Leonard D. Moecklin Sr. VP Export Sales Miller Farms Exports milfexcuba@earthlink.net
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Close the door on inappropriate interview clothes Capt. Rusty Allen’s article “It’s job interview, NOT a date” [ B1, July issue] was fantastic. Capt. Allen read my mind and that of every self-respecting captain. The chain needs breaking with these dilettante crew. They are interviewing for a very serious job with serious pay. No captain worth his salt should hire these types of people. If they cannot appear for the interview well presented as with any job, they do not deserve the job and are probably not capable of doing the job to a high standard. I would like to add that this is not a new problem. I was interviewing in Florida 10 years ago for three stews. Of the 12 who turned up for an interview, only one wore a dress and one a skirt. The rest stopped by on their way out somewhere else. Capt. Martyn Walker
Policy may exclude Cuba
Ms. Mona Birch has written a very comprehensive article about yachts visiting Cuba [“Embargo against Cuba bans U.S. money, not Americans,” July 2006, page A1]. Every captain and owner
considering the trip would be well-advised to review the insurance policy providing coverage for the yacht and crew. The vast majority of quality yacht policies are very specific about excluding coverage for cruising the waters of Cuba. Know before you go. David F. Allen, Sr. Vice President Alliance Marine Risk Managers Ft. Lauderdale
Russo a complete pro
I wanted to let you know about Robin Russo at Meds 4 Yachts. We had a situation on M/Y Double Haven where our medical kit had been sadly neglected, especially with the yard period, and all of our items were expired or nearly so. I asked Robin to come onboard and sort out the medical kit. She took complete control and sorted the various items, got rid of the expired medicines and completely reorganized the inventory for our specific long-range cruising needs. She was able to obtain the latest non-prescription products and also, working with a doctor, was able to
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Minimize damage from strokes A captain whose father recently had a stroke wrote in after reading the Bridge discussion about medical emergencies [“Bridge: Medical preparedness a matter of risk,” page A1] with this advice on identifying a stroke victim: Symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify, but time is of the essence. Properly identified and treated, strokes don’t have to be fatal. Left untreated, they can be. If you suspect obtain the appropriate prescription items we needed, including morphine and other heavily controlled items. The result was a cost efficient and professional service that saved us time and effort and resulted in a truly relevant medical store. Not only was the inventory appropriate and complete, but she obtained the latest fact sheets and procedures to compliment our medical library. As a result of this, she
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someone has had a stroke (perhaps they have fallen inexplicably or appear incoherent momentarily), ask the person to perform these simple tasks: l Smile. l Speak a simple sentence. For example, “It is sunny today.” l Raise both arms. If the person has trouble with any of these, get help. Another stroke indicator is if the person sticks out his/her tongue and it goes to one side. – Editor plans to offer this service to the yachting industry in Ft. Lauderdale, and I certainly feel she is able to offer a superb service to this niche market of the marine industry. It is refreshing to find someone with a totally professional approach to her task when we have found so many of the contractors we used in our long yard period were less than satisfactory. Capt. Conor Craig M/Y Double Haven Newfoundland Vol. 3, No. 5.
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