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News Boating ranks in U.S. economy Recreational industry is big in nation’s gross domestic product numbers.
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Crew said their captains fell short on help, procedure, communication By Dorie Cox This is a story of two injured crew, a stew and a deckhand. Both say they left good careers in yachting because of what happened to them at the hands of fellow crew members while on the job. The stew said she was raped; the deckhand
said he was verbally and physically assaulted. Each said they haven’t talked much about what happened to them but feel that now it’s time. “I want to tell my story and make sure someone will listen because the captain didn’t,” the deckhand said by phone from his home recently. The two victims probably do not know each other; they worked on different yachts and the incidents happened years apart. But there are many similarities. Both of these victims
From the Bridge Dorie Cox
Long after a captain’s yacht job had ended, he was asked to turn over a tender log for use in a court case –but he had not kept a separate book for the yacht’s tender. That scenario was the start of the conversation with seven captains at The Triton’s From the Bridge lunch discussion last month.
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Loads of log books prove their worth in long run Log books are part of daily life in yachting, and it turns out, there are plenty of them. “We have better than 10 on board,” one captain said. The captains shouted out the names of some they use: oil record, engineering, garbage, navigation, GMDSS and radio, safety, medical, ballast, deck, security, and hours of work and rest. “There are official log books and unofficial,” a captain said. “Some of them I don’t even see. I see them on an
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annual basis, but I know they’re all getting done.” One captain was not surprised by the discussion topic of tender logs; he voluntarily keeps a separate log and said the notes prevented a legal problem for him. “We had a tender that was in lessthan-perfect condition,” he said. The motor had blown and when the crew was accused of not taking care of the
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Obituary Capt. Jim O’Neill dies at 51 Captain worked for more than 20 years aboard 107-foot Palmer Johnson S/Y Dance Smartly. 12
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