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o o o Test Your Mates Test your mate’s nautical expertise with this question: n What is the significance of these nautical flags: Y, W and O? ANSWERS on page 2
Sun & Moon Sunset: 6:13 pm; Sunrise (Sunday): 6:56 am Moonrise (Sunday): 3:44 am; 22% illuminated Low tides (Sunday): 12:10am; 12:43am High tides: 5:35pm; 6:30am (Sunday)
Weather Today: Mainly sunny; high 71; wind NNW 10-15 mph; 0% chance of rain Tonight: Clear; low 51; winds NW 5-10 mph Tomorrow AM: Sun; high 74; winds N 10-15
Did you see that? Take this leadership lesson from Triton columnist Paul Ferdais. With crew’s focus on keeping the boat looking its best during the boat show, it’s a good time for yacht crew managers to recognize the specific tasks crew do to get it there. Recognition from their superiors does a couple of things for yacht crew. First, it reinforces what’s expected of everyone on the team. When one crew member is applauded, other team members can compare their work to the work being recognized and know if it meets the standard. The other benefit of recognizing good deeds is that it creates a spark of initiative. If you acknowledge a senior deckhand for helping to train a new deckhand, they will take the initiative to do it again. Remember, yacht crew leaders, whatever behavior you pay attention to, you will get more of. By publicly recognizing your crew for the good work they do, you’ll get domino effects well into the future. Paul Ferdais writes the Taking the Helm column each month in The Triton. A former chief officer, he is CEO of The Marine Leadership Group, which delivers leadership training workshops and coaching for crew.
USHER IN: Crew onboard M/Y Usher, a 154-foot Delta, offer a warm welcome yesterday at the 27th annual Yacht & Brokerage Show in Miami Beach. PHOTO/TOM SERIO
Recognizable old boat is still a classic By Lucy Chabot Reed While most camera lenses are focused on the shiniest new yachts at the show this week, it’s one of the oldest that has veteran yachties talking. The 122-foot M/Y Never Say Never, a 30-year-old Oceanfast, looks as cool as it did when it launched in 1985, drawing comments from people walking past and stirring up memories from those who can’t believe it’s been 30 years. “I was coming out of Nantucket as it was coming in and I remember saying, ‘Oh wow, look at that’,” said Capt. David Nichols, now a broker with IYC.
“We docked at Shooters one night, and everyone in the two adjacent restaurants stood up and applauded,” said Capt. Peter Nord, who was her first mate from late 1986 to late 1987. “She used to draw crowds when we docked in Newport and Boston, and the U.S. Coast Guard stopped us over 20 times in ’87, mostly so they could get tours.” The yacht was revolutionary when it launched, perhaps the beginning of the reason concert pianist Jon Bannenberg is so famous as a yacht designer. Built on spec by the Oceanfast shipyard
See CLASSIC, page 3
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Yacht stirs memories for early crew CLASSIC, from page 1
seemed like light speed compared to the 10- to 12-knot 100-footers of the day. It in Perth, Australia, this yacht helped drank a lot of fuel though, and smoked create Oceanfast, which gained its so much coming up to speed that I identity as the yacht was built and couldn’t see behind us for at least the launched. The yard gave Bannenberg first minute on a plane. free reign to design whatever he wanted. “She was primitive though; no bow And it was a rocketship. thruster, no stabilizers, one radar, and “Never Say Never was tied up at Pier no real navigation equipment,” Capt. 66 and Mercedes was docked at Bahia Nord remembered. Capt. Zinser said he Mar,” Northrop & Johnson broker Kevin sometimes had to drop anchor to dock. Merrigan remembered. “Both were The yacht was launched as Never revolutionary at the time. Bannenberg Say Never, but at just 112 feet (34m). was just on fire back then. According to old magazine articles, it “We were all used was extended 3m to a more classic in 1994, had a look like, well, pick helipad added in any Feadship,” he 1998, and changed said. “It was the her name a few coolest thing any of times , including us had ever seen.” Apocalypse and American car Prosper. parts dealer Gary Her latest Blonder bought owner, Victor M/Y Never Say Never’s recognizable it, and Capt. Gary Bared, bought windows. PHOTO/LUCY REED Wright took her in 2001 and command. (Wright is co-founder renamed her Never Say Never. In 2004, of Y.Co, a yacht management and he extended the aft deck to create an brokerage firm based in Monaco.) outdoor dining area, added a swim Within about a year, Wright joined platform and added a hard Bimini top. the new Feadship M/Y Confidante and Based in Coral Gables, the yacht is Capt. Bill Zinser took over, running the listed with HMY for $4.9 million. yacht up from the Caribbean for a busy Despite her now seemingly primitive charter season in New England, taking beginning, Capt. Nord said, “Still, a very guests for 45 of 50 days that summer. cool boat, thanks to Jon Bannenberg “It was fun to drive,” Capt. Zinser and a couple of Western Australian said. “It was like a spaceship.” boat builders who took a big chance And she was fast. and steered yachting in a very new “At that time, there were only four or direction. It was fun to be involved in five yachts in the world that could get the beginning of that.” up on a plane,” Capt. Nord said. “We Lucy Reed is editor of The Triton. could only do about 27 knots, but that Comments: lucy@the-triton.com.
Test Your Mates Answers to the quiz on page 1: n Y (Yankee) I am dragging my anchor. n W (Whiskey) I require medical assistance. n O (Oscar) Man overboard. Please send in your quiz questions for Triton Today to editorial@the-triton.com.
About us Triton Today Miami is published by Triton Publishing Group, parent company of The Triton. Publisher: David Reed Editorial: Lucy Chabot Reed, Dorie Cox, Tom Serio Advertising: Mike Price Production: Patty Weinert Vol. 7, No. 3. Copyright 2015, all rights reserved.
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DOING THE CREW THING, DAY 3: On the job
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WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
From around the world, crew end up at show Yachting attracts crew from all walks of life, those that start on the water and those that don’t. When those first jobs work out, the industry gets in your blood. Here’s what a few crew are up to. — Lucy Chabot Reed
Chef Noel Nugent of the 125-foot Cheoy Lee M/Y Namoh What were you doing before? I was executive chef at the Bitter End Yacht Club for two years. I spent 10 years in the West Indies, Bermuda, St. Lucia, Jamaica, St. Kitts and the BVI. How did you get into yachting? I met a lot of chefs coming in and out and they convinced me that I could make more money and have less stress in yachting. So I packed my bags and moved to Ft.
Lauderdale. I felt like I needed a change. How did you end up here? The day before I ran out of money and expected to pack up and head back, I got a call from Vareek [Capt. Vareek Breaden of M/Y Namoh]. He saw my CV and asked me to come over. I joined them for the Christmas trip. That was my probationary period. I guess I did OK because I’ve been here over a year now. It’s the best job I’ve ever had in my life. I can categorically say that. The view out my office window is great. Do you miss not having a staff to help with the cooking? I’ve had up to 80 members of staff and here it’s just me. I love it. I stand here 16 hours a day cooking and I absolutely love it. The owners are some of the loveliest people I’ve ever met in my life. Any personal news to share? My wife is having a baby in about two weeks. I just closed on a piece of property in St. Lucia. What are you really good at? Well, cooking. I’m also a hard worker. When I’m done in here, I’m out there scrubbing the deck with the guys. I’m a good team member.
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What were you doing before? I was many. Cruising the Med, especially Croatia. in Thailand on the 100-foot Broward M/Y It’s a beauty. Escape for three and a half years when it sold. (Then came home to South Florida where his wife, former yacht chef Carla Sussman, lives with their three young daughters.) How did you end up here? Classic word of mouth. I bumped into someone at the Ft. Lauderdale show in the morning, and that evening, someone called him looking for a captain and he said “Hey, I know someone.” How did you get your start in yachting? I sold my farms in South Africa and became a dive instructor in the Red Sea. Then I worked my way up from deckhand on liveaboard dive boats in the Caribbean. I moved up to captain, and then I got a job as captain of M/Y Aisling in 2004. Best yachting memory? There are so
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