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Sun & Moon Sunset: 5:38 pm Moonrise: 4:42 pm; 99.4% illuminated Sunrise (Monday): 6:30 am High tides: 7:06 pm / 7:45 am (Monday) Low tides: 1:29 pm / 1:40 am (Monday)
S u n d ay • Nov. 1, 2009
Weather Today: Partly cloudy, winds E 5 mph, high 83/low 67; 59% humidity Tonight: Partly cloudy, winds ENE 6 mph, high 79/low 67 Tomorrow AM: Partly cloudy, high 83/low 68
Motion on the docks Capt. Scott Schwaner is finishing up course work next week for his 1,600-ton/3,000-ITC license. He is no longer on M/Y Brazil. Fresh to Brazil, the 40m Heesen, is Capt. Alan Tookey. if the yacht doesn’t sell, he hopes to take her into charter this winter. Tookey was captain of M/Y Southerly for 16 years before it sold last year. Now renamed Golden Compass, the yacht is preparing for a round-the-world trip.
Crew deliveries Capt. David and Jenna Clayman on M/Y Bella Bri are expecting their first baby, a boy, in February. They’ve been on the boat a year, with owners who are “the best.”
Two yachts were arrested at Pier 66 yesterday. Story, page 3.
Capt. Rowan and Jennifer Brown welcomed their daughter, Laney, into the world a week ago yesterday.
Slow rebound is an ‘opportunity’ By Lucy Chabot Reed
Time reminder You should have set your clocks back one hour when you went to sleep last night. Daylight Saving Time ends today so the sun rises an hour earlier.
Correction We mispelled the last name of Hall of Fame Dockmaster Scott Salomon. We know better. Sorry, Mr. Salomon.
To hear H. Wayne Huizenga Jr. tell it, you want to believe it. This slowdown in the yachting market is a good thing. It creates opportunities and gives us all a chance to provide the service yachting is really all about. In an easy, sympathetic voice, he had the members of the U.S. Superyacht Association wanting to believe it, too. “There are great opportunities around us, though it seems dim right
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now,” he said at the USSA’s general membership meeting yesterday morning. Huizenga is chairman of the board of Rybovich. The answer, he said, is to do a better job of making yachting an invaluable experience. “I tell my team, we’re in the entertainment business,” he said. “No one needs a megayacht. So we have to be on our game and do a better job. ... Together we can make that happen.” Read the whole story on Huizenga’s inspiring speech at www.the-triton.com.
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