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o o o Test Your Mates Yacht crew are renowned world travelers and usually in-sync with times around the globe. If it is noon at the Palm Beach boat show, what time is it in: Barcelona, Dubai, Vancouver, Tokyo, Sydney, Rio de Janeiro, Galapagos Islands, Anchorage (Alaska)? ANSWERS on page 2
Sun & Moon Sunset: 7:33 pm; Sunrise (Sunday): 7:19 am Moonrise: 4:15 pm High tides: 6:34 pm; 7:02 am (Sunday) Low tides: 12:33 pm; 12:54 am (Sunday)
Weather Today: Partly cloudy, breezy, chance of rain 20%, wind S 10-20 mph, high 79 Tonight: Cloudy, low 72, wind SSW 10-15 Sunday AM: Cloudy, chance of rain, high 82
Things to See / Do Today, 1-4 p.m. Daily events with Ward’s Marine Electric (booth 926A, near the Clematis Street entrance). Today it’s steel drum music, a kids “mad scientist” display, and the flair bar.
Today, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Cocktail party hosted by Zeidel uniform company at the U.S. Superyacht pavilion.
Tomorrow, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Daily events with Ward’s Marine Electric (booth 926A, near the Clematis Street entrance).
Tomorrow, 8 p.m. - ? Zeidel’s Last Blast Crew Party, Monarchy Night Club, 221 Clematis St. Stop by Zeidel’s booth 916 for a VIP wristband for free entry, food and drinks.
WHAT A DIFFERENCE A YEAR MAKES: At this time last year, Stew Gestel Kuyler worked on a brand new motoryacht. Being on the 1958 M/Y Montrevel keeps her busy polishing brass. “It’s quite lovely,” she said. PHOTO/LUCY REED
Show’s oldest yachts shine By Lucy Chabot Reed Surrounded by big white boats at the Palm Beach International Boat Show sit a few unusual vessels, partly because of their hulls, mostly because of their age. It’s hard to miss the 121-foot (37m) M/Y Montrevel, with her riveted steel hull. Built in 1958 as an expedition vessel, it was refit in 2001 as a personal yacht. “It’s a lovely boat to entertain on,” said Stew Gestel Kuyler, pointing out two large teak tables that fold out to make one on the upper aft deck. The yacht can accommodate 10 guests. The yacht is home-ported in Monaco and includes the Monaco Yacht Club burgee painted on its stack. The crew,
led by Capt. Sannoch Clark, cruised the Bahamas with the owner before heading to the show. “It’s a very heavy boat,” Clark said. “She has variable pitch props; she doesn’t like to stop. She bites in and keeps on going.” Find Montrevel in the YachtZoo display. She’s listed at $5.4 million. At the south end of the show in the Bartram & Brakenhoff display is M/Y Enticer, the oldest yacht in the show. Built in 1935 as a private yacht, the 85foot vessel is a wooden-hulled Mathis Trumpy. She immediately stands out, covered in varnish and sporting all the classic lines of these pre-war vessels. The yacht
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Test Your Mates According to www.timeanddate.com, if it is noon in West Palm Beach, the time is: n Barcelona 5 pm (GMT +1 hour) n Dubai 8 pm (GMT +4 hours) n Vancouver 9 am (GMT -7 hours) n Tokyo 1 am (GMT +9 hours) n Sydney 3 am (GMT +11 hours) n Rio de Janeiro 1 pm (GMT -3 hours) n Galapagos Islands 10 am (GMT -6 hours)
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PERIOD PIECE: McMillen Yachts paintakingly finds, restores and/or molds parts from the era to keep its fleet of yachts looking as original as possible. But modern safety equipment must also find a place. PHOTO/LUCY REED
McMillen finds, saves wooden boats OLD BOATS, from page 1 had a structural renovation by Brooklin Boat Yard in Maine in 2001 and a refit in 2010 by McMillen Yachts in Rhode Island. McMillen has created a fleet of prewar wooden yachts, often salvaged from certain loss, by finding like-minded history and yachting buffs willing to invest time and money in their rebirth. Enticer is owned by eight partners in a fractional ownership program. “There are no basketball players here,” said Todd Jarem, manager of restoration at McMillen Yachts. “These owners get into it and they know they have to wait. It’s a wooden boat. Whatever they put in, they know they’re going to have to put in a little more.” The company has restored 15 such boats thus far, including M/Y Freedom, the 104-foot sister-ship to the former presidential yacht M/Y Sequoia. Freedom, also a Mathis Trumpy but build in 1926, was saved from a river with holes in her hull. “For 20 years, he [owner Earl McMillen] has been finding wooden yachts in horrendous shape and getting a conglomerate of owners to finance the refit,” Jarem said. The company takes pains to find original or period-specific hardware
and parts to keep the appearance of the yacht as authentic as possible. “But under the skin, they have to be reliable and safe,” Jarem said as he raised the master bed. Tucked underneath was the gyro stabilizer. The yacht is long and narrow, which makes it efficient in the water, but it’s also three decks high and that makes it tipsy. Fin stabilizers wouldn’t work with the shallow-draft hull (plus, who wants to put holes in a wooden hull?) so engineers worked out a way to make the gyro stabilizer work. “It’s completely transformed the usability of the boat,” said Jarem, who detailed trips to Nantucket and around Newport with nary a glass sliding about. “But we’re not going to take her out in a storm, still.” McMillen has never done a boat show before, though Bartram & Brakenhoff is no stranger to pre-war wooden vessels. It showed the oldest yacht in the show last year, too: the 92foot M/Y Innisfail. And that’s the fun of a boat show, to see all the newest in the industry, sure, but to see the unexpected, too. And besides, Enticer has a couple ownership slots available. Lucy Chabot Reed is editor of The Triton. Comments welcome: lucy@thetriton.com
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acht crew are proud of the vessels they help maintain and of the work they do onboard. So we thought it would be fun to see them in their element, surrounded by the equipment and materials they work with every day. Thanks to all the crew who played along with us yesterday at the show. We like to call this collage Masters of Their Domains. PHOTOS/TOM SERIO
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CHECKING THE TIDE: Triton Today’s Question of the Day: Relax – 24%
When you have time off, what is your favorite thing to do? With spring break looming and people around the world making plans for summer holidays, we got thinking about time off and wondered how yacht crew spend that time. I would have guessed they’d want to get as far away from the sea and traveling as possible. Perhaps find mountains or big cities. Maybe just the couch. Not so much. Yachties love to travel, which is likely why they got into this industry in the first place. So when they get time off, it’s a pretty good guess they’ll hit the road (or the trail or an airplane). Equally common is the practice of their favorite sport. Whether it’s golf, surfing or cycling, yachties go exercise.
And then there’s a whole group of crew who just want to stop and rest a while, doing nothing (often on the beach) or catching up with friends and family. Only one crew admitted that they like to party in their down time. But we’re sure there are more of you out there. – Data compiled by Lucy Chabot Reed
Deck/Stew Morgan Sachs M/Y Blind Date 134-foot Lurssen “Believe it or not, I go traveling. I like to go camping, in the U.S.”
Mate Carlos Acosta M/Y Copasetic 141-foot Hite Metals “I grew up in the mountains and I work on the water; I like to visit cities. I went to Amsterdam last year.”
Capt. Marcel DeLorm M/Y Hope 90-foot Palmer Johnson “Just sit on the beach, take a minute, decompress. You see it differently when you’re not working.” Mate FC Lubbe M/Y Impulsive 82-foot Sunseeker “Surf. I go home to South Africa, or to Indonesia, Bali. I just did it in December.”
Deckhand Jake Keller M/Y Mary Alice II 130-foot Westport “I go home and hang out with friends, see the significant other.”
Sports – 29%
Visit family, friends – 17%
Travel – 29%
Chief Eng. Maurice White M/Y Golden Compass 151-foot Picchiotti “Depends on how much time off I get. If I have a month, I’ll travel to new places, adventure places, Peru, Macchu Picchu, places like that. It’s my favorite pasttime. It’s why I do this job.” Capt. Kay Marschke M/Y Dancing Milly 92-foot Argos “I guess I work out. I have an Ironman coming up in June.”
Deckhand Christopher Horn M/Y Tranquility 130-foot Hatteras “I go to the beach. It’s nice to be on the water; it’s better to be in the water.”
Deckhand Jared Reichbaum M/Y Diamonds are Forever 201-foot Benetti “I’m a photographer so I like to travel, to all the places I haven’t been yet.” Eng. Bill Tedcastle M/Y Aghassi 145-foot Christensen “Go out on my own boat and go fishing.”
Mate Justin Parkins M/Y Aghassi 145-foot Christensen “Golf. I’ll golf anywhere. We used to golf after work.”
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OFF THE DOCK: A few scenes from events last night
@ Boat Show Boat show participants and guests gathered last night for the AIM Media Palm Beach Pig Roast. PHOTOS/TOM SERIO
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@ Rybovich Crew got away from the show to network with the folks at Rybovich at the shipyard. PHOTOS/DAVID REED
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@ Camper On the docks beside its assortment of yachts on display, Camper & Nicholsons hosted a private party last night for its clients and guests. PHOTO/TOM SERIO