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Ft. Lauderdale dredging project could open door to more, bigger yachts By Charlotte Libov
Ft. Lauderdale’s dredging project would begin at the 17th St. bridge and stretch north to Sunrise Harbor, making the ICW navigable for the largest PHOTO/LUCY REED of megayachts to reach the city’s largest marinas. infrastructure in Broward County can keep up with the size of the boats,” said Engle, who is past president of the Marine Industries Association of South Florida. “This has a huge economic
Experienced captains share tips about managing a refit One of the most challenging parts of being a megayacht captain – and the part no school trains you for – is managing a refit. So in this time of refits, we decided to ask the nine captains assembled for our monthly roundtable discussion how From the Bridge they handle refits. Lucy Chabot Reed Who decides what work gets done? How do you juggle the timing of myriad vendors? And how much of the nittygritty does the boss really want to know? “First, you make a list,” one captain
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Deep water, deep pockets
A $7.5 million dredging project is in the planning stages to deepen Ft. Lauderdale’s portion of the Intracoastal Waterway, enabling it to better accommodate more and bigger megayachts. The project will also include dredging of the Dania Cut-Off Canal and the New River, marine industry advocates say. The project is so badly needed that advocates gave up on trying to get federal money for it and instead plan to access taxpayer dollars, said Susan Engle, president of EnviroCare and a member of the Florida Inland Navigational District (FIND). Preliminary work is under way and permitting is applied for, she said, but she did not know when the real dredging work would begin. “This project is really needed so the
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said. “Are you in class? Which flag? That’s the stuff that has no leeway. You have to maintain the safety equipment and ensure the insurability of the asset. Then you talk about the rest, the paint job, the interior, all that.” 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 A20. “Our boat is totally private so we don’t have all those requirements,” another captain said. “We have instilled in the owner that the yacht has to go in for major maintenance every four years and minor maintenance every two
See BRIDGE, page A20
impact in this area. We’re the yachting capital of the world. We really should be maintaining a depth of more than
See DREDGING, page A23
TRITON SURVEY
Everyone’s talking politics. Or are they? Find out if yacht crew care about the U.S. presidential election in the C section this month.
It happens every fall. Crew come back to town and make the rounds of the crew agencies, looking for a job. Invariably, in their attempt to tell as many people as they can that they are looking for work (Triton Networking Rule No. 1), they drop me a note, too. Sometimes I know of a boat or captain looking Editor’s Notebook and pass along Lucy Chabot Reed details. More often than not, though, I’m not much help. The real pros at this will sort through resumes, credentials, references and all that and hook good people up with good boats. And then the magic kicks in. Or not. The magic, as any crew member knows, is that intangible thing that makes life on a yacht grand, or gross. It can be as small as a captain’s morning greeting (or grunt) or as large as a fellow crew member’s grooviness (or grumpiness). That’s the stuff no one but you, dear reader, has control over. And make no mistake; you have just as much of an impact on creating that magic as any boss. One thing The Triton truly can do is help get people together and watch to see if the magic sparks. (In case you haven’t noticed, we love to do that, actually.) And we’re doing exactly that Nov. 10 when The Triton hosts its first ever job and crew fair. We’ve designed the job fair part to help captains and crew find jobs and expose young adults to the yachting industry. More than a job fair, though, this event is also a crew fair. We’ve invited companies that offer goods or services to help working crew do their jobs better. Companies like florists, financial advisers, provisioners, interior suppliers and others like that that can
See JOB FAIR, page A22