www.The-Triton.com | April 2019
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Celebrating 15 years
Obituaries
Crew leap in for unique trip to Southern Hemisphere
Yachting friends and colleagues remember longtime captains and former chief stew. 6,7,45
Agent’s Corner Heading to Europe? Get the facts on the Schengen visa.
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Crew Compass Hiring based on looks alone – it’s the ugly side of yachting. 27 By Dorie Cox The nautical charts show the glacier is “just around the corner.” So Capt. Jason Halvorsen steers the 141-foot steel hull slowly through “a ton of ice” in the southern waters of South America. The crew are on lookout. During trip preparations they researched
glaciers, but this will be their first sighting. It has been two years of hard work and more than a month of motoring at 10 knots to get M/Y Marcato, a Hike Metal explorer yacht, to the bottom of the world. Although the captain bought most all of the charts
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Lower salary beats experience in hiring captains From the Bridge Dorie Cox
With resume in hand, a discouraged yacht captain recently visited The Triton office in Fort Lauderdale. He said he could not find a job and asked if others said the same. Pointing to his experience and licenses, he wondered why he was not hired. Was it his age?
That conversation triggered this month’s Triton From the Bridge topic. What does affect which captains are hired? To learn more, we invited seven of them to lunch to talk about what they see in the large yacht sector for captains in search of work. Overall, this group is not actively looking for work, but as one captain said, boats sell, owners change and even the best jobs can end – so yes, he is always looking. Every attendee
had plenty to add to the conversation from a personal experience or that of a colleague. So instead of the original question – “Why can’t I find work?” – we held a broad discussion to isolate personal and market factors at play. There is not a simple answer. In fact, the conversation ran through nearly every aspect of the yacht industry. Following are some of the factors that affect
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News Ole Parker of Parker Yachts offers tips on maintaining remote power steering.
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