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Several yacht crew have died in the past six months from accidents while under way. S/Y Essence collided with a tanker in Long Island Sound in September and sank, ending the life of Chef Gina Bortolotti. A 44-foot power catamaran ran into bad

weather and sank on delivery off the coast of Oregon in December, taking all three of its crew with her. A woman on the training ship Picton Castle was swept off deck by a wave in December and never recovered.

The deaths raise the question of whether yachts are safely manned for the journeys they are asked to complete. Whether that’s back-to-back charters in the blustery Caribbean or deliveries across the Gulf

Stream, we asked a group of captains assembled for The Triton’s monthly roundtable discussion if they thought megayachts practiced safe manning.

As always, individual comments are not attributed to any one person in particular so as to encourage frank and open discussion. The attending captains are identified in a photograph on page A18.

The conversation began by pointing out that there are many aspects to safe manning, including number of crew, hours of rest, licensing and experience.

“If you are going to talk about safe manning, you have to talk about qualifications, licensing and real qualifications” one captain said. “That’s the biggest issue facing our industry.”

And even more critical to the practical application of any rules about such things is enforcement, several captains agreed. “Until it’s enforced, it’s a subject we all dance around.”

The Bridge topic is often left purposefully vague in an

By Lucy Chabot Reed

First Mate Rob Havey has stared into the white vapor of the most damaging hurricane in U.S. history and isn’t afraid to be on a megayacht in a storm’s path again. Just don’t ask him to stay aboard for the aftermath; the 10 days he spent in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina were the scariest of his life.

“If I hadn’t had a shotgun, I would be dead now,” he said, sitting safely in Ft. Lauderdale in January. “The hurricane was not as bad as after the storm.”

Havey survived the storm, as did his charge, the 116-foot M/Y Leda, Trinity’s hull No. 1 and the personal yacht of one of the three Trinity owners. On that fateful day in August 2005, the captain was nearing the end of a two-week leave in North Carolina and the yacht had just hired a new stewardess, whom Havey encouraged to stay in her hotel

for the storm. Hurricane Katrina is classified

as the costliest storm in American history, costing more than $80 billion in damage and claiming at least 1,836 lives (more than 700 people are still missing). Like many people, Havey prepared as best he could, but few were ready for what was to come.

The day before the storm, when Katrina’s intensity finally sank in, it was too late to move the yacht or bring in reinforcements. Capt. Craig Cannon planned to come back from vacation but he would have been prevented from entering the city by then, Havey said.

“On Friday, everyone was still in denial,” he said. “By Saturday, no one could get in – and there was no way for me to get out. I just put as many lines out as I could.”

Lesson Learned: Katrina teaches tie-down techniques

The road to the Trinity yard in New Orleans the day after Katrina was impassable. (The wall at left is the levee wall.) “I will never step foot in New Orleans again,” Havey said. “I smell it and see it every day. If I have to drive to Colorado, I’m taking the long way around.” PHOTO/ROB HAVEY

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By Lucy Chabot Reed

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has created a program that may let U.S. boaters, once cleared and given a number, clear through customs and immigration by phone.

“It allows the individual not to come in for a face-to-face inspection with immigration,” said Agent Gustavo Gama, who is in charge of the Local Boater Option program at Port Everglades. “Once they’ve been identified over the phone, they are told whether to present themselves or not.”

The Local Boater Option (LBO) program can be used by any U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident. They must register for the program and are given a Boater Registration (BR) number. Registration requires proof of citizenship (a passport) and registration information about their vessel. One megayacht brought its entire crew in for numbers in late January, Gama said.

“U.S. citizens shouldn’t be treated as regular visitors when they come in,” Gama said, in explaining why the agency adopted the program. The idea actually came from suggestions from the boating public eager to ease some of the clearing-in requirements.

While having a BR number may grant

easier entry, it does not guarantee it. Mariners may still be required to present themselves, Gama said.

Capt. John Wampler, who is a contract captain and operates various vessels between Florida and the Bahamas, said he did not have to provide specific boat information in obtaining his BR number. Gama confirmed that there are no restrictions to the program based on type, size or number of vessels under a master’s command, only that the mariner be a U.S. citizen or legal resident and pass the background check.

Started in October, the program has signed nearly 2,000 boaters in Port Everglades and the Port of Miami, reducing traffic in the immigration offices, Gama said.

Obtaining a BR number takes about 15-20 minutes, according to two captains who have recently obtained one. There is no fee. Appointments are recommended and can be made in Port Everglades by calling +1-954-761-2000 or 2004.

A number obtained in Port Everglades is valid in any port of entry in Florida, Gama said. Other jurisdictions may require separate clearance numbers. Here’s the document CBP gives participants in the program:

New CBP program makes it possible to clear in by phone

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Bridge: Safe manning isultimately captain’s duty

From the Bridge

Lucy chabot Reed

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FT. LAUDERDALE – Larry Smith Electronics, a marine electronics company more than half a century old, closed its two South Florida offices on Jan. 12, surprising dozens of employees.

Two former employees said they were told the news at a company staff meeting first thing that morning.

“I knew something was going on but many of us had no idea,” one employee said. Some employees were left stranded at the office, having driven their company cars to work that day.

Several sources said the company closed because of high debt and lost investors. The company let go some employees a few months ago in an attempt to get costs under control, and several top executives who had been running the company the past few years were released a few weeks ago, according to an industry source.

LSE closed its headquarters in Riviera Beach and its office in Ft. Lauderdale. The company also has an office in Viareggio, Italy, which is open but for sale, according to Andy Gifford, the division’s managing director. Larry Smith Electronics of Europe Srl., which has 20 employees, operates under a different corporate entity, Gifford said.

“The company or investor that

purchases Larry Smith Electronics of Europe Srl., is getting the deal of the century: a company of seven years experience situated in the heart of the main Italian yacht-building region, with good relations and many ongoing contracts with yards there and elsewhere,” he said.

Larry Smith Electronics has installed electronics equipment on hundreds of yachts since its founding in New Jersey in 1955. It opened in Ft. Lauderdale in 1968 and by 1975 claimed to service more than 80 percent of yachts in Palm Beach and Ft. Lauderdale. It has worked on some of the largest and most sophisticated yachts floating today, including the 224-foot Lurssen M/Y Oasis and the 287-foot Perini Navi S/Y Maltese Falcon.

“We’re just coming off the best year we’ve ever had,” said Daryl Matfin, who was a marine sales associate with the company. “We’ve just completed some of our biggest projects, the company was making good money, we’re in a good position in the marketplace, we’ve had good boat shows.”

Matfin has joined High Seas Technology, a company owned by Pipewelders in Ft. Lauderdale.

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The more things change, the more they stay the same. Capt. Jeff Hardgrave had retaken command of M/Y Exuma C, the 112-foot

Christensen he left in September, is back aboard to oversee a yacht period in Ft. Lauderdale. Hardgrave was with the boat two years but left to be closer to home and his now-toddler-aged son, Zack, and wife.

Stewardess Becky Smith, who spent four years on the 110-foot Delta M/Y Intrepid before jumping ship to be with her man, has returned – with her man. Smith married Robert Patzner in a beachside ceremony in early January in Vero Beach, Fla. Patzner joins Intrepid as deckhand/mate. Congrats to you both.

Another M/Y Intrepid, this time the 102-foot classic Feadship, has new crew. Capt. Chris Wallace, last seen on M/Y Neenah Z, will actually be in command of this owner’s four vessels: the 70-foot schooner S/V Mistral, an 80-foot classic sportsfish, the Feadship and a 120-foot megayacht undergoing a major restoration.

“All very pretty vessels with a good owner who obviously enjoys yachts,” Wallace said.

Neenah Z’s mate, Marijke Manning, is also joining Intrepid.

Capt. Joe Schumann, who left the 105-foot Broward M/Y Contrarian after 11 years in October, has organized a classic Mercedes-Benz car show to take place March 3 during the Las Olas Spring Art Festival in Ft. Lauderdale.

Schumann owns three Mercedes-

Benzes, including a rare 1999 CL500 (one of just 19 that were imported to the states) and a 1992 500E, the only time Porsche and Mercedes-Benz collaborated on a car (pictured below).

The show is a function for Mercedes-Benz Club of America members and anyone who owns a Mercedes worth exhibiting.

Schumann expects between 50 and 100 cars, including a fleet of 10 news cars from a Ft. Lauderdale dealership, Also expected to show is the 617 hp, 208 mph SLR McLaren Super Car (worth about $500,000), and Schumann

is working with the Mercedes-Benz Classic Car Center in California to bring the 1886 steam car to the event.

Schumann is still looking for a new captain’s post, but he’s enjoying the break and indulging in his hobby.

The car show will take place on Las Olas Boulevard west of the tunnel, with proceeds to benefit the Children’s Fund of Majic 102.7FM, which will broadcast from the show from 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

For more info, e-mail [email protected] or call +1-954-297-5666.

Speaking of charities, Capt. Mark

Drewelow has started one to give back to the coastal communities he frequented after a decade as skipper of M/Y Dorothea. YachtAid Global has a network of communities, charitable organizations and contacts in Central and South America along with a list of items the communities need or volunteer labor they would benefit from.

Megayachts Twizzle, Janice of Wyoming, Ice Bear and Timoneer participated in 2006, Drewelow said. For more information, visit www.yachtaidglobal.org.

CREW COLUMN: Latitude Adjustment

Whoever said ‘you can never go back’ never worked on a yacht

Latitude adjustment

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M/Y Bella Dawn lost control of its electronic shifting in Atlantis just after Christmas and ran into two boats docked at the marina.

According to several eye witnesses, the 100-foot Benetti was pulling into the crowded marina on Dec. 27 with guests onboard when she lost electronic engine control. The engineer shifted manually to what he thought was reverse and the captain gave throttle to back down but instead the yacht shifted forward and ran her bow through the side windows of M/Y Obsidian.

Bella Dawn then drifted sideways into the 120-foot Palmer Johnson M/Y Mostro, causing some cosmetic damage. Still not under control, the yacht began drifting into M/Y Tamara K, an 82-foot Hatteras sportfish.

“I jumped into our new Nautica rigid inflatable and put the bow against the stern of Bella Dawn and pushed her back to center channel, then ran a line to the dock and helped work her to the dock,” Tamara K Capt. Rob Messenger said. “After about 15 minutes of chaos and excitement, we got her under control. No one was hurt.”

Except, possibly, a sale. The charter guests aboard were potential buyers, according to another captain who spoke with the crew. They chartered a jet and flew out after the accident.


Duty-free fuel in Malta goneMalta, Belgium and the UK were all

denied their requests in December to continue selling duty-free fuel to the recreational yachting industry. Though members of the European Union for years, each country had a temporary exception to continue selling duty-free fuel. The exemptions expired Dec. 31, 2006.

Therefore, effective Jan. 1, customs officers in those countries have had to follow E.U. regulations concerning duty-free fuel for yachts, which basically say only commercial yachts in charter are allowed duty-free fuel, said Silvio Rossi, owner of the Savona, Italy-based fuel bunkering company Rossmare International.

“As you can imagine, private yachts might need a feasible alternative and we think Tunisia – Bizerte, for example – could be a very appropriate one,” Rossi said.


Dutch flag for MCA yachts OKThe Dutch Ministry of Transport,

Public Works and Water Management has accepted the British MCA regulations for new and existing yachts, according to press reports. These primarily technical regulations apply to yachts larger than 80 feet (24m), smaller than 3,000GT and that carry no more than 12 guests.

The rules pertain to issues such as

stability and the strength of materials. “Dutch yacht builders now have the

opportunity to create MCA-accredited yachts under a Dutch flag,” said Michaël Steenhoff, manager of yacht building at the Netherlands Association for the Shipbuilding and Watersports Industries (HISWA), which has lobbied for this for years. “Until now many large yachts flew the British Ensign. The Ministry’s decision now allows for yachts that are MCA certified to sail under a Dutch flag.”

USCG finds illegal coral on boat

While conducting a random safety checks on a 23-foot recreational vessel near Crandon Park Marina in Miami, crew members from Coast Guard Station Miami Beach discovered about 350 pounds of coral. The vessel, its operator, and the coral were confiscated. It is illegal to stand on or touch any live or dead coral, the Coast Guard said in a statement. An investigation is continuing.

Study pinpoints causes of sinking

Outboard powerboats tend to sink at the dock due to poor cockpit designs that trap water, but inboard/outboard (I/O) powerboats sink because of a failure of the connection between the inboard engine and the outdrive unit, according to a study of BoatU.S. insurance claims.

“The use of bellows or boots – pleated, flexible rubber membranes – that run between the inboard engine and partially submerged outdrive to seal the transom where cables and shafts pass through have one weakness: a limited lifespan,” said Seaworthy Editor Bob Adriance, whose magazine conducted the study and printed a report in a recent issue.

Bellows should be inspected annually, and more often in hot, sunny climates, the report said.

“Any bellows that is over 5 years old is living on borrowed time,” he said. Here are the top reasons why I/O’s sink, according to the study:

At the dock:No. 1 (44 percent): Leaking bellows.

A surprising number were attributed the small shift cable bellows.

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Yacht loses control, hits two others

An electronic shifting error caused an accident that may have scuttled a possible sale involving the M/Y Bella Dawn. PHOTO COURTESY OF AN EYE WITNESS

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No. 2 (23 percent): Failed below waterline fittings, hose clamps, and melted hoses as a result of overheating.

No. 3 (15 percent): Failed above waterline fittings. Heavy rains overwhelm cockpit scuppers.

No. 4 (11 percent): Poor docking arrangements: Boats or outdrives that snag on docks.

No. 5 (6 percent): Uninstalled drainplug.

Under way:No. 1 (36 percent): Struck a

submerged object such as rock or logs.No. 2 (24 percent): Failed below

waterline fittings.No. 3 (20 percent): Leaking bellows.No. 4 (12 percent): Swamping.

Shipyard land goes up for auction

The owner of the property where the former Ft. Lauderdale Shipyard once stood is putting the property up for auction.

The minimum bid for the 11.3-acre property on the New River is $16.5 million, according to Rick Roughen, former president of the yard. A private appraisal about six months ago put the value of the property at $29 million, he said.

The property is tucked between Rolly Marine Service to the west and Cable Marine to the east. It is owned by Marina Holdings, whose principal is Jack Rodgers. Rodgers leased the property in October 2000 to Bob Wickman, who opened the shipyard in 2002. That lease expired in October 2004 and negotiations to renew it were taken to court.

In November 2004, the yard’s Syncrolift broke while hauling M/Y Sacajawea. Three months later, the yard filed for protection under federal bankruptcy laws, saying it planned to settle the lease conflict between Rodgers and Wickman and return to the business of fixing megayachts. About a month later, nearly all its employees were let go.

The auction of the property, which has a 6-acre basin, will take place on April 12 at 1 p.m. in Ft. Lauderdale. The exact location was not immediately available. Preliminary environmental assessments showed “negligible”

sediment contamination, Roughen said, and a final assessment is under way.


New USCG system in Pacific NWThe U.S. Coast Guard announced

the switch to new command, control and communications technology in January that monitors distress calls throughout Puget Sound, the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and the west coast of Washington, north of the Quinault Indian Reservation.

Rescue 21 allows the Coast Guard to monitor Digital Selective Calling (DSC) emergency transmissions. When registered with a Maritime Mobile Service Identity (MMSI) number and interfaced with a GPS receiver, a DSC distress call provides the Coast Guard a vessel’s identity and exact location.

Rescue 21 also includes advanced direction-finding capability, allowing Coast Guard watchstanders to more accurately locate the source of a VHF distress call, including hoax calls, and enhanced playback capability to better decipher garbled messages. The Disaster Recovery System (DRS) component of Rescue 21 provides voice and data connectivity if a disaster destroys existing communications infrastructure.

The system cost $730 million to create and will replace the Coast Guard’s aging National Distress and Response System, built three decades ago. Once fully implemented, the technology will cover 95,000 miles of U.S. coastline and inland waterways.

The first Rescue 21 system was commissioned in Atlantic City, N.J., in December 2005. The two initial operating capacity regions were Atlantic City and the eastern shore (Maryland, Delaware and Virginia). The first low-rate initial production (LRIP) region was in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and the Florida panhandle in May 2006. Sector St. Petersburg accepted the system in June 2006, and Seattle accepted it in December.

Rescue 21 currently covers 2,000 nautical miles of U.S. coastline.

For more information, visit www.uscg.mil/rescue21/home/index.htm.

USCG gives state power on water

The U.S. Coast Guard and the state of Massachusetts signed an agreement in late December that will give Massachusetts State Police and Environmental Police officers the authority to take enforcement actions against those suspected of violating federal safety and security zones. In the past, if a state police trooper encountered a violation of a federal

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security zone, that officer needed to call the Coast Guard, according to a story in Maritime Executive magazine.

Coast Guard and Massachusetts law enforcement officers work collaboratively on a range of maritime missions, including tanker escorts, investigations of illegal fishing practices and marine theft.

This agreement gives state officers similar enforcement authority on the water as their Coast Guard counterparts.

“With the Coast Guard’s ever-increasing maritime security responsibilities we must continue reaching across traditional agency boundaries to make our nation’s maritime domain safe and secure,” said Rear Adm. Tim Sullivan, Commander, First Coast Guard District.

New head of UK’s MCA

Peter Cardy was named the new chief executive of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency in January, succeeding John Astbury who retires from his post as acting chief in May.

According to a government statement, Cardy joins the agency following five years as chief executive of Macmillan Cancer Support, and brings to the job more than 30 years of experience in senior executive positions.

“The Maritime and Coastguard Agency has a vital role in keeping the ships and the seas of the UK safe,” Cardy said in the statement. “Shipping accounts for a huge proportion of our trade; the sea and our coasts are an essential economic resource as well as an important recreational asset. I look forward to working with all the staff of the agency, including the volunteers in the Coastguard Rescue Service, to protect the sea and all those who use it.”

Stars & Stripes breaks record

Stars & Stripes, the custom 60-foot multihull owned by Steve and Scott Liebel, broke the multihull race record in the 2007 Ft. Lauderdale to Key West

Race.Reporting maximum boat speed at

32 knots, Stars & Stripes crossed the finish line with an elapsed time of 8 hours, 31 minutes, 4 seconds to take line honors, smashing the old record of 10 hours, 11 minutes established in 2005 by Zephyr.

This year’s running of the 160-nautical mile race, which began Jan. 10, was one of the fastest, with consistent wind of 20-plus-knots the entire night. In fact, this is the third time in the past five years that a race record has been broken.

The overall IRC fleet winner, on corrected time, was Decision, the R/P 52 owned by Stephen Murray Jr., which also won the seven-boat IRC A class. The overall winner in the PHRF fleet, Dreadnought, was one of two entries from the U.S. Naval Academy and skippered by Midshipman Burchett.

The race committee awarded “Best Overall Performance” to Dreadnought. For more information about the 32nd Ft. Lauderdale to Key West Race, visit www.keywestrace.org.

S/Y Charm III wins in SXM

S/Y Charm III, owned by Richard West from Anguilla, won the second annual St. Maarten-St. Martin Classic Yacht Regatta in January. Charm III also won the first regatta. For more results, visit www.classicregatta.com.

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New head for UK maritime agency

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Massage therapist Scott Sachs knows what ails yacht crew – muscularly, that is. The former day worker has his own business treating sore muscles and performing neuromuscular therapy.

Sachs is sponsoring The Triton’s February networking social on Feb. 7 at Shirttail Charlie’s in Ft. Lauderdale. Join us at 400 S.W. Third Ave. from 6-8 p.m. for cocktails, appetizers and some great networking.

Until then, here’s a little conversation with Sachs.

Q: You also specialize in myofascial release. What’s that?

Fascia (connective tissue) is the most abundant tissue in the body, surrounding and enveloping every muscle, bone and organ. Myo- is the medical term for muscle. Myofacial release is slow, relaxing, deep stretch of the muscular and fibrous tissue that cause pain, creating higher mobility to joints and a decrease in discomfort.

Q: You used to work on yachts. Are these things that yacht crew suffer from?

Most definitely. From the restrictive sleeping quarters and cramped working conditions inside the vessel to the

traumatic injuries from working on a wet deck and ‘pulled’ backs leaning over a cap rail for dockage.

Q: What portion of your clients are yacht crew?

About 25 percent.Q: You often advise your patients to

stretch. What stretches are good for the work yacht crew do?

Every client has a specific routine catered to their individual needs.

Q: How long have you been a massage therapist?

Six years.Q: Triton Business Manager Peg

Soffen swears you’re the first therapist in 20 years to help her with neck pain. Yet, you’re pretty young. How did you learn this profession and get so good so quickly?

I found the best therapist I could and followed in his tracks before his retirement from Bodywork.

Q: You are originally from Chicago, but chose to settle in Ft. Lauderdale. Why Lauderdale?

Yachting is what brought me down here, and the climate is what’s keeping me here.

Q: What do you do for fun?Outdoor activities, like most

transplants from the north. Books and films the rest of the time.

For even more about Sachs, read our Afterlife story about him in the April 2006 edition. Visit www.megayachtnews.com and search for his name.

Massage therapist feels your pain:Sachs to sponsor networking event

Scott Sachs said that restrictive sleeping quarters, cramped working conditions and wet decks contribute to aches and pains for yacht crew.

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Trinity delivers 161-foot Imagine; shakedown set for BahamasTrinity Yachts delivered the 161-foot

(49m) tri-deck M/Y Imagine in mid-January. The yacht was en route to Ft. Lauderdale at presstime, and then is headed to the Bahamas for a shake-down cruise. She is scheduled to be in the Caribbean later this season for private sailing with the new owners, according to a statement from Trinity.

Identifiable features include slopped pilothouse windows, hidden anchor pocket, and vertical oval windows on the port and starboard sides. The master bathroom has a stained glass wall in an Art Nouveau theme and

the sky lounge includes a collection of black and white celebrity photos.

Powered by two Caterpillar 3516 B (Series II-HD) engines (at 3,384hp each at 1800 rpm) the megayacht will be capable of a maximum speed of 24 knots at trial load and a cruising speed of 22 knots. She carries a 21-foot tender

and two jet skis.Crew quarters and lounge can

accommodate up to 10. A partial-length crew passageway runs from crew quarters to guest staterooms. Forward of guest accommodations below deck are three crew cabins, each with their own bath and shower and the crew lounge. The captain’s stateroom is located aft of the pilothouse and includes a queen berth.

Viking to exhibit in-water at Miami

Viking Sport Cruisers and Viking Custom Yachts will exhibit exclusively

at this year’s Yacht & Brokerage Show from Feb. 15-19, the in-water portion of the Miami International Boat Show.

This marks Viking Custom Yacht’s debut in the Miami market. Viking Sport Cruisers is moving into the brokerage show from the Miami International Boat Show held at the Convention Center.

The Yacht & Brokerage Show, which features more than 500 luxury vessels from 30 to 160 feet, expanded north to accommodate Viking. Its 9,700-square-foot exhibit barge will feature 10 yacht models, including the world debuts of the Viking Sport Cruiser V53, the Viking Sport Cruiser 54 Flybridge, and the 108-foot Viking Custom Yacht by San Lorenzo Yachts.

According to a company statement, more than $250,000 has been invested into creating the “Viking Island” exhibit. For more information, visit www.showmanagement.com.

M/Y Teddy sells

Merle Wood & Associates announced that in the month of December it sold the 164-foot Amels M/Y Teddy and the 100-foot Azimut M/Y Island Seeker. It also added to its central listings for sale the 192-foot Lurssen M/Y Ronin, the 157-foot Christensen M/Y Barchetta, the 145-foot Christensen M/Y Primadonna, the 105-foot M/Y Xo of the Seas, the 100-foot Mangusta M/Y Useless, the 94-foot Eagle/Westport M/Y Kipany, the 95-foot Azimut M/Y Petrus, the 80-foot Grand Alaskan M/Y Dorothy Ann and the 80-foot Mangusta M/Y St.-James. The brokerage also added to its charter fleet the 100-foot Broward M/Y Beeliever and the 81-foot Cheoy Lee Equinox.

For more information, contact Peter Croke, Managing Director of Merle Wood & Associates, at +1-954-525-5111.

Elliott, Elario honored at IYC

International Yacht Collection set new sales and charter records in 2006 and gave honors to the brokers who led the way. Mark Elliott was Sales Broker of the Year and Steve Elario was Charter Broker of the Year.

New sales for 2007 include Bob McKeage’s central listing, the 154-foot Tacoma M/Y Zaza, and the 85-foot Hatteras M/Y Becky, sold by Noell Vawter. For more information, visit

www.iyc.com or call +1-954-522-2323.

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BOATS / BROKERS


“The master of a pleasure boat arriving from foreign is required to contact CBP via telephone immediately upon arrival (pursuant to 19 CFR 4.2 and 8 CFR 235.1) and make an oral declaration for themselves and all passengers on the boat concerning any goods purchased or acquired while abroad (19 CFR 148.11 and 148.12). The master is also required to report in-person at the nearest port-of-entry (POE) within 24 hours to submit the necessary documentation to verify identity and lawful immigration status (pursuant to 8 USC 1321 and 1323).

“The LBO will allow you as a participant, under certain circumstances, to telephonically report the arrival of your vessel, make customs declarations, and submit any necessary additional information, and [you] may be cleared without a face-to-face inspection. Please note that the immigration status and citizenship must be valid and participants must possess appropriate valid immigration and identity documents at all times.

“Any passengers who are onboard an arriving vessel and have not previously elected to participate in the LBO program will be required to report to

the appropriate POE for a face-to-face inspection. Although the participating master will not be required to report with the non-participant, the master is legally responsible for ensuring the non-participants present themselves to CBP for a face-to-face inspection, and failure to comply with this requirement may be subject to penalties.

“During future arrivals, the master must contact CBP immediately upon arrival and provide their BR number and may be asked to provide other identifying information. Based on the information provided, CBP will verify that the master and occupants of the vessel are LBO participants and determine whether the master’s report satisfies inspection requirements or whether further inspection is necessary. CBP reserves the right to board and inspect any small pleasure vessel and its occupants arriving from any foreign port or place and will conduct random inspections of LBO participants.”

Contact Editor Lucy Chabot Reed at [email protected] or +1-954-525-0029. To read Capt. John Wampler’s story about getting his BR number, visit www.megayachtnews.com and search for LBO.

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An industry consultation on the subject of helicopter landing areas on large commercial yachts is greeted with animated conference discussions and a sort of dignified hoopla. A new Large Commercial Yacht Code (LY3) incorporating helicopter requirements is being rushed through (so strong and pressing is the “H” appeal).

A yet-to-be-opened Isle of Man Aircraft Register clocks a good number of helicopters in a waiting list.

A new breed of specialist operator, the Helicopter Support Manager, busily carves out a corner in an industry where the yacht broker has long reigned. And punters are taking bets that the helicopter will quickly overtake the traditional ship’s boat as the “super tender” of choice for large yachts.

Those stories look like the ingredients of yet another boom, as heady as the roaring “super-to-mega” era that is still to peter out. The large yacht industry has grown mainly by developing shoots and springing suckers, but none has brought as many new challenges as the helicopter.

Have you tried ringing a yacht manager lately and noticed recoil at the mention of that chopper on a yacht’s helideck? And for a good reason: there

are manifold technical and legal things to consider at every level of a helicopter ownership program, from acquisition through integration to ongoing use.

And is the VAT (value-added tax) any less of a knotty point? Like with yachts, well-structured ownership of helicopters can save huge VAT bills on acquisition and operation.

The challenge is getting it right at every level, because although aircraft fall within the broad classification of “means of transport” for VAT purposes, they operate under technical caveats and provisions that demand caution.

Slippage at one level can cancel a previous VAT advantage. Follow-through and consistency are key.

There is every indication that 2007 will be the defining year for helicopter integration into the yachting industry. The helicopter challenge will not go away; it will have a niche seat.

Spanish anti-avoidance measures

Spain is the latest EU country to introduce a range of anti-VAT-avoidance measures.

The new rules include provisions to evaluate and tax transactions between related parties at market rates; provisions to tax the private use of business services and assets such as yachts; provisions relating to VAT grouping; and provisions making businesses that are involved in “carousel” supply chains jointly and severally liable for the VAT evaded by any fraudsters in the chain. Ayuk Ntuiabane is a director of Moore Stephens Consulting Limited, a financial services firm in the Isle of Man that handles European Union value-added-tax advice, ship ownership structuring, ship registration, crew employment and accountancy. Contact him at 44 (0)1624 662020 or through www.moorestephens.co.im.

Helicopter usage expected to soar in 2007

There is an expectation that helicopters will quickly overtake the traditional ship’s boat as the “super tender” of choice for large yachts.

PHOTO/LUCY REED

NEWS


We knew the final analysis of our survey conducted at the Ft. Lauderdale International Boat Show in October and the St. Maarten Charteryacht Exhibition in December would be heavily weighted toward the United States. Still, the numbers have been higher than we expected in most categories.

In addition to crew nationalities and gender, the survey took in some information about the 266 yachts themselves, including its flag, builder, length and number of crew.

Of the 251 yachts that answered the flag question on the survey, a full third of them fly Old Glory. While we weren’t surprised to see the red ensign in second place in the form of the Cayman Islands, the Marshall Islands’ third-place finish with about 12 percent of the yachts was a surprise. It finished ahead of the old reliable flag of St. Vincent. What happened to all the MCA boats? We know, we know, they are

all in the Med.The builder results were pretty

evenly spread between the biggies. Remember, the majority of this survey was done with the 200 megayachts at the Ft. Lauderdale show. About 20 more megayachts from the St. Maarten show were added in December. The remainder of yachts filled out the survey online.

All 266 yachts submitted their length and the majority of them fell into that comfortable 100- to 119-foot range. These are the yachts that 20 years ago were among the biggies. The next largest group surprised us; it wasn’t larger, but smaller. Nearly 20 percent of all the yachts in the survey were 80-99 feet. Despite all the hoopla around the ever-larger yachts, we can’t forget that the bread and butter of this industry continues to be these now mid-size vessels. Again, perhaps next year’s survey conducted in both Genoa and Monaco will change this.

The meat of this portion of the survey, though, was to look at just how many crew vessels of various size run with. Seventy percent of the yachts in our survey run with crews of six of fewer. Twenty percent had crews of seven to nine. Those huge, elaborate crew were as rare in this survey as huge, elaborate yachts are in the United States.

Even more interesting was the break-down of vessel size, and how many crew each sector carried. The survey question asked how many crew the vessel carried when running, not necessarily how many crew were onboard at the time of the survey (which is why these numbers don’t add up to the actual gender/nationality numbers we reported recently).

Of the 71 yachts in the range of 100-119 feet, nearly 70 percent ran with crews of four or five: 28 vessels, or 39.4 percent of the total, had four crew; 21 vessels, or 29.6 percent, had five crew. The next largest

group was the three-member crew: nine vessels or 12.7 percent.

Of the 44 yachts in the range of 120-139 feet, almost 60 percent ran with crews of five or six: 11 vessels, or 25 percent of the total, had five crew; 15 vessels, or 34.1 percent, had six. The next largest group was the larger crew of seven.

Does this mesh with what you would have thought of megayachts and their crews? Let me know what you think of this survey.

I’ll be sending an e-mail out during the first week of February with our next survey question: Do you own a home? Yes and no answers are equally valuable. Please don’t answer the survey because your answer is “no.”

To take the survey, either e-mail me at [email protected] and I’ll add you to the e-mail list, or visit www.the-triton.com/survey and answer the short, simple questions. Then watch the March issue for the results.


Triton e-survey: Vessel flag, builder, length and crew

The Triton’s monthly survey takes place through e-mail. If you would like to take part in this month’s poll, send an e-mail to Editor Lucy Chabot Reed at [email protected].

VESSEL FLAG

United States: 33.5%

Cayman Islands: 28.3%

Marshall Isl.: 12.0%

St. Vincent: 10.0%

BVI: 6.8%

Unlisted: 6.0%

Other: 9.6%

VESSEL LENGTH (FEET)

Under 80: 14.3%

80-99: 19.5%

100-119: 26.7%

120-139: 16.5%

140-159: 14.7%

160-179:

4.9%

180+:3.4%

VESSEL BUILDER

Brow

ard:

6.

5%

Other: 76.4%Feadship: 5.7%

Hatteras:

6.1%

Westport: 5.3%

NUMBER OF CREW, ALL LENGTHS

1-3: 32.0%

4-6: 38.3%

7-9: 18.4%

10-12: 7.1%

13+: 4.1%

NUMBER OF CREW, 100-119 FEET

2-3: 14.1%

4: 39.4%

5: 29.6%

6: 9.9%

7+: 7.0%


2-4: 9.1%

5: 25.0%

6: 34.1%

7: 15.9%

8+: 15.9%

YACHT CREW POLL


We knew the final analysis of our survey conducted at the Ft. Lauderdale International Boat Show in October and the St. Maarten Charteryacht Exhibition in December would be heavily weighted toward the United States. Still, the numbers have been higher than we expected in most categories.

In addition to crew nationalities and gender, the survey took in some information about the 266 yachts themselves, including its flag, builder, length and number of crew.

Of the 251 yachts that answered the flag question on the survey, a full third of them fly Old Glory. While we weren’t surprised to see the red ensign in second place in the form of the Cayman Islands, the Marshall Islands’ third-place finish with about 12 percent of the yachts was a surprise. It finished ahead of the old reliable flag of St. Vincent. What happened to all the MCA boats? We know, we know, they are

all in the Med.The builder results were pretty

evenly spread between the biggies. Remember, the majority of this survey was done with the 200 megayachts at the Ft. Lauderdale show. About 20 more megayachts from the St. Maarten show were added in December. The remainder of yachts filled out the survey online.

All 266 yachts submitted their length and the majority of them fell into that comfortable 100- to 119-foot range. These are the yachts that 20 years ago were among the biggies. The next largest group surprised us; it wasn’t larger, but smaller. Nearly 20 percent of all the yachts in the survey were 80-99 feet. Despite all the hoopla around the ever-larger yachts, we can’t forget that the bread and butter of this industry continues to be these now mid-size vessels. Again, perhaps next year’s survey conducted in both Genoa and Monaco will change this.

The meat of this portion of the survey, though, was to look at just how many crew vessels of various size run with. Seventy percent of the yachts in our survey run with crews of six of fewer. Twenty percent had crews of seven to nine. Those huge, elaborate crew were as rare in this survey as huge, elaborate yachts are in the United States.

Even more interesting was the break-down of vessel size, and how many crew each sector carried. The survey question asked how many crew the vessel carried when running, not necessarily how many crew were onboard at the time of the survey (which is why these numbers don’t add up to the actual gender/nationality numbers we reported recently).

Of the 71 yachts in the range of 100-119 feet, nearly 70 percent ran with crews of four or five: 28 vessels, or 39.4 percent of the total, had four crew; 21 vessels, or 29.6 percent, had five crew. The next largest

group was the three-member crew: nine vessels or 12.7 percent.

Of the 44 yachts in the range of 120-139 feet, almost 60 percent ran with crews of five or six: 11 vessels, or 25 percent of the total, had five crew; 15 vessels, or 34.1 percent, had six. The next largest group was the larger crew of seven.

Does this mesh with what you would have thought of megayachts and their crews? Let me know what you think of this survey.

I’ll be sending an e-mail out during the first week of February with our next survey question: Do you own a home? Yes and no answers are equally valuable. Please don’t answer the survey because your answer is “no.”

To take the survey, either e-mail me at [email protected] and I’ll add you to the e-mail list, or visit www.the-triton.com/survey and answer the short, simple questions. Then watch the March issue for the results.


Triton e-survey: Vessel flag, builder, length and crew

The Triton’s monthly survey takes place through e-mail. If you would like to take part in this month’s poll, send an e-mail to Editor Lucy Chabot Reed at [email protected].

VESSEL FLAG

United States: 33.5%

Cayman Islands: 28.3%

Marshall Isl.: 12.0%

St. Vincent: 10.0%

BVI: 6.8%

Unlisted: 6.0%

Other: 9.6%

VESSEL LENGTH (FEET)

Under 80: 14.3%

80-99: 19.5%

100-119: 26.7%

120-139: 16.5%

140-159: 14.7%

160-179:

4.9%

180+:3.4%

VESSEL BUILDER

Brow

ard:

6.

5%

Other: 76.4%Feadship: 5.7%

Hatteras:

6.1%

Westport: 5.3%

NUMBER OF CREW, ALL LENGTHS

1-3: 32.0%

4-6: 38.3%

7-9: 18.4%

10-12: 7.1%

13+: 4.1%


2-3: 14.1%

4: 39.4%

5: 29.6%

6: 9.9%

7+: 7.0%


2-4: 9.1%

5: 25.0%

6: 34.1%

7: 15.9%

8+: 15.9%

YACHT CREW POLL


effort to let the assembled captains frame the discussion. This month’s topic was proposed by a captain who questioned how charter yachts can be expected to abide by the safe manning regulations on hours of rest as put forth by the MCA’s Large Yacht Code 2: 10 hours of rest in any 24-hour period, and 77 hours of rest in any seven-day period. [See his letter on page A21.] Exceptions are permitted, as long as they are agreed upon by captain and crew and “their health and safety and the safety of the vessel is not compromised.”

On this day, however, the hours-of-rest regulations were not mentioned. These captains wanted to talk about insurance, liability and consequences.

“The insurance company doesn’t bother with enforcement until after you’ve had an accident,” a captain said. “If you go out with a vessel you know to be unsafe and something happens, you are complicit. You are acting to defraud the insurance company.”

When it came to regulations, the captains agreed they were confused

because they are riddled with exceptions or loopholes. The MCA has three levels of manning, depending on the distance a vessel is from a safe haven and her size; other flags offer no guidelines for private yachts at all. One popular yacht registry permits a yacht to flip-flop from commercial to private depending on the cruise, which puts regulations in place for the former classification, none for the latter.

One captain noted that his insurance policy dictated how many people must be on the vessel. At 112 feet, it was the captain (with no specification that he have a license) plus three when under way.

A captain on a 130-footer said his insurance required a licensed captain plus two, and did not differentiate between being at the dock and being under way.

A third recounted his experience on a 265-footer that switched its registration from commercial to private and made a trans-Atlantic crossing with 10 people.

One captain asked his colleagues point blank who is responsible for making sure crew members are

qualified, in its myriad interpretations.“So is the onus on the captain, the

insurance agency or the broker to make sure the crew is qualified?”

“It’s always the captain’s fault,” one captain replied, and they all agreed.

Save that bottom-line reality, they all agreed that as captains, trying to abide by some industry norm of safe manning was confusing. And trying to decide if megayachts practiced safe manning – our conversation on this day – was even more elusive.

“They advise that you abide by standards,” one captain said of his insurance policy. “You have no regulations on private yachts [under at least one flag], but if an accident happens, you will be held to the higher

standard.”“The more information you give

them, the less they come looking,” another said of insurers. “It’s risk mitigation. Give them everything about your handling of the yacht.”

One captain who runs a megayacht under a red flag said he e-mails his insurance broker with any question he has about a journey or staffing, “and I hope she knows.”

The conversation then skittered from the subjects of training versus experience to onboard drills. While most agreed that drills were rarely done, one captain noted that the drills on his boat were so regular – every Monday at 1 p.m. was the Man

THE BRIDGE, from page A1


Attendees of The Triton’s February Bridge luncheon were, from left, Herbert Magney of M/Y Milk & Honey, Rob Zavisza (looking), Marcel Léger of M/Y Milk & Honey, Jeff Hardgrave of M/Y Exuma C, Gunnar Watson of S/F Due Diligence, Mike McKee of a new build 87-foot Warren, Chuck Hudspeth of M/Y Via Kassablanca, Tristan Judson of M/Y Boardwalk (behind), Rick Lenardson of M/Y Maria Layne, Bruce MacBain (looking), Stan Glover of M/Y Milk & Honey, and Rocky Miller of M/Y Ibex. PHOTO/LUCY REED

Insurance company can be friend, foe in setting staffing levelsFROM THE FRONT: From the Bridge


Overboard drill – that when the captain hailed the fire alarm on a Monday at 1 p.m., the crew performed the Man Overboard rescue.

One captain was skeptical of the concern he heard in the room.

“How many insurance claims are not processed because of lack of manning?” he asked. “How big of a problem is it, really?”

Good question, everyone agreed.“Would you be at a safe level of

manning if the insurance company didn’t require you to?” another asked.

One captain said he would prefer to run with one less crew, while several others would like more. And one said it depends.

“We leave the dock intending to do one thing but the voyage always changes,” he said.

“We’re talking about insurance, and that’s cool, but we’re also talking about the safety of people,” a captain said. “That chef is dead. Those three people are dead. Laura Gainey is dead. The whole point of safe manning is keeping the crew and your guests safe.”

“But was that safe manning or bad judgment?” someone asked of the accidents at sea, and the conversation headed off into a whole new direction.

“In Laura Gainey’s situation, there were 54 people on board, 8-12 of them on watch,” said a captain who has worked on the boat. “We did regular drills, and everything was in compliance. We had all the gear you are supposed to have, but at that moment, she didn’t have it on.”

[The ship’s captain told Canadian press in January that Gainey – daughter of hockey’s Montreal Canadiens General Manager Bob Gainey – was ordered below deck just before she was hit by the wave that knocked her overboard.]

“Ultimately, it’s the captain’s responsibility, but the crew has to take some responsibility,” another captain said.

The issue of judgment was a sticky one for these captains.

“It comes down to seamanship and common sense,” one said. “If there’s a deadline and you’ve got to be somewhere, you hire someone off the dock.”

Not everyone agreed.“Sometimes you have to say no, and

the owner may not like it but you’re

protecting more than his asset, you’re protecting his liability for every life on that boat,” another captain said. “It’s like taking the keys away from your friend who’s been drinking. Do they like it? No, but you have a responsibility to take the keys away.”

“No pilot would take the kinds of risks that some of these captains take,” said a third.

A captain recounted a story of going head-to-head with the boss on a planned trip.

“One day the generator that ran the bow thruster was broken and the owner wanted to take his family out,” he began. “The day before, everything was ready to go, that generator worked; today it doesn’t.

“The owner said, ‘a real captain could take us out’ and I could have taken him out, but what if something happened? Did I take out an unseaworthy boat, knowing that that generator was down? I’ve got to prepare my testimony for court every day.

“So I suggested we launch the dinghy and take the kids water skiing,” he said. “That worked out and everyone had fun and we fixed the generator.”

One captain said whenever he is in a questionable situation, he sends the boss an e-mail detailing the issue, and copies it to the yacht’s lawyer and the insurance company.

“I applaud you for that, but you are in the minority,” another captain said.

“If you told the owner ahead of time that that’s how you plan to run this boat – not putting the vessel or crew in unnecessary danger – then he’s less inclined to disagree with you when it happens,” this captain said.

“If you told the owner that ahead of time, you’d be less inclined to get the job,” another said.

“But what you’re doing is protecting the owner,” said the first. “He doesn’t know it, but you are.”

One captain suggested that younger captains on smaller tickets are more inclined to take risks, but that the effort of earning qualifications for and obtaining his 500-ton ticket changed the game.

“With a 100-ton, do you value it as much as a 500-ton license? No,” he said. “For my 500-ton, it was brutal. I waited two years to get some of my sea time approved. And it can be taken away so easily by any bit of neglect on my part. I don’t want to lose it; it took me over 10 years to get it. These issues hit a little harder to home because it took me so long to get it.”

After several sea stories of times when captains either said yes against their better judgment or said no and paid a consequence, the conversation shifted to one of principal.

“Do we simply go along and wait for


Even safe, well-manned ships can have accidentsFROM THE FRONT: From the Bridge



This letter from a megayacht captain sparked this month’s Bridge topic. Even though attending captains took the “safe manning” topic in a different direction, this captain had an interesting commentary on hours of rest.

Dear editor,How about doing an article on how

to meet the minimum rest periods for crew and keep a charter client happy?

Unless you have a very large crew, meeting minimum 10 hours of rest on charter is almost impossible. I would like to know how others do it.

Also, shouldn’t brokers be part of the equation, since they are notorious in suggesting impossible schedules in order to sell a charter?

We all know that captains and crews work hard to please charter guests and in turn, hopefully, receive a gratuity.

Brokers are guaranteed a minimum 15 percent commission, and most do little, other than to suggest or forward the information on to a client. By having the brokers, who wrote the standardized MYBA contract, include the rest periods required by law into the written contract, it would help protect the captains and crews.

Brokers are also, many times, the ones that suggest impossible schedules to clients, especially new ones, on what the boats and crews can do to. This leaves the captain in the position of having to inform the charterer that the schedule proposed is not feasible.

Many times I have heard charter guests comment “the broker said we could do ….” Brokers promote themselves as “experts” in the industry. In most areas of the law, that also implies liability.

We all know captains, including myself, who have pushed to the extreme limits and violated the new rulings, all in order to see that the charterer enjoys their trip, and hopefully the crew receives a gratuity. Captains, with all the new regulations and crew expectations, could use a clause in the contract that would protect them.

Brokers saw fit to protect themselves, why not captains? The vague reference in the standard MYBA contract – Clause 7: Captain’s Authority – seems really to help protect everyone except the captain.

We also know the tremendous pressure captains are under to see

that the charterer is happy and the charter successful, otherwise a complaint can result in the boat and captain getting a “black name” among brokers.

We all know what lack of sleep and adequate rest does. Sooner or later, we will have a situation arise where the yacht, or heaven forbid a guest or crew member, is injured due directly to the lack of sleep and rest. It will be the captain who is liable.

Everyone, including and especially the brokers, will hide behind Clause 7 and leave the one person trying to do his/her job – and with the most responsibility – out to dry in the wind, possibly facing criminal charges.

Most megayachts do not have enough crew to run as a cruise ship, on a 24-hour schedule. The whole idea of chartering is intimacy and leisure. No schedule, relaxing. Crews often working 18-20 hours a day can hardly continue to give the level of service expected of a true megayacht.

I can remember a time when a red pennant was hoisted for crew meal time and the owners and guests knew they should not expect service

during that time. (I know I am seriously dating myself here.) It was not an unreasonable situation and part of the true yachting etiquette.

Would it not seem logical that the inclusion of an hours-of-rest clause in

the contract would help everyone? It would inform the charterer from the beginning and in the long run help crews do a much better job.

We all have heard about crew burn out after a busy charter season. Think how this might help the crew turn-over problem that is rampant in the

industry. Owners, captains and, yes, even brokers benefit from reducing this, knowing it’s the boat and crew that they are selling.

Imagine having a long-standing crew with, in the end, very happy guests. A novel idea?

A megayacht captain

Charter contracts should include an hours of rest clauseWRITE TO BE HEARD

‘Shouldn’t brokers be part of the equation since they are notorious in suggesting impossible schedules in order to sell a charter?

By having the brokers who wrote the standardized MYBA contract include the rest periods required by law into the written contract, it would help protect the captains and crews.

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Delivery crew member Tommy Kennedy washes down M/Y Bravo Zulu, the 92-foot Westship after her arrival in Ft. Lauderdale from Bermuda in January. She was off to Roscioli Yacht Center for maintenance work. PHOTO/LUCY REED

We had to run this one big because it just makes us laugh. We know running megayachts is serious business, but there is still time to have fun with new crew.

Here, a mate wrapped a green deckhand’s arms in aluminum foil and had him wave his arms on the bow.

“We told him we needed to calibrate the radars,” the captain said. “It was two months before we told him any different. He didn’t find it as funny as we did.”

No names, since it’s the fun that matters.

Do you have a favorite April Fool’s photo? Share it for a special photo page in the April issue. You could win a Triton T-shirt.

PHOTO/ANONYMOUS CAPTAIN

Capt. Dave Christman cleans the 52-foot Viking sportfish Gina Lea at Pier 66 in Ft. Lauderdale just after the new year, preparing her for a yard period to install new teak decking.

PHOTO/CAPT. TOM SERIO

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Networking Triton-style

The Triton hosted its January networking session at St. Lawrence Gallery in Ft. Lauderdale on Jan. 3.

More than 50 captains, crew and industry folks joined in the camaraderie, had a glass of wine, and enjoyed the lovely

surroundings. Above left, Capt. Patrick McLister meets Sandy Taylor, yacht manager at Northop & Johnson amid the eclectic collection.

We host networking events the first Wednesday of every month. Join us this month, Feb. 7, at Shirttail Charlie’s bar and restaurant, 400 S.W. Third Ave. in Ft. Lauderdale, from 6-8 p.m. This month’s event is sponsored by Scott Sachs of The Pain Reliever, a day worker-turned-massage therapist. (Read more about Sachs on page A10.)

See you there. PHOTOS/CAPT. TOM SERIO

Where have you and your Triton been lately? Send photos to [email protected]. If we print yours, you get a T-shirt.

Triton Spotter

David K. Reed of Hilo, Hawaii, sits outside Volcanoes National Park with his favorite nephew’s newspaper. Yes, David K. is the uncle of Triton Publisher David A. Reed. (So we cheated.)

PHOTO/STEPHEN REED

Joel Rask of Lighthouse Yacht Management maintains Intrepid, a client’s 57-foot Bertram, in anticipation of their arrival. Rask is also dock attendant at Pier 66 several days a week. PHOTO/CAPT. TOM SERIO


For whatever reason – a reason Havey still can’t articulate – he secured Leda in such a way that protected her and himself from what he estimated to be an 18- to 20-foot storm surge. Motoryachts Lady Florence (156 feet) and Zoom Zoom Zoom (161 feet) were also at the Trinity Yachts yard, which is about 50 miles from the Gulf of Mexico up the Industrial Canal and just outside Lake Pontchartrain.

Lady Florence’s crew had evacuated. Zoom Zoom Zoom had just splashed and preparing for sea trials, Havey said, so she too was without crew. Four employees of the yard volunteered to stay on board the vessels; Havey stayed alone. All three yachts were in the water but only Leda was under cover.

The storm hit late Sunday night. That day, the weather was beautiful, Havey recalled. But the water rose about a foot an hour beginning at noon, through the night and into the next day.

Instead of securing Leda in the middle of the undercover slip, Havey tied her about three quarters to the leeward (starboard) side, using most of his line to keep the megayacht about 30 feet from the windward side of the slip.

“I had been in two hurricanes the year before,” he said. “I knew if I went windward [during the storm], I would be blown off the boat. I knew where the wind was coming from. I’ve never done it this way before but I knew I couldn’t work both sides. If you have room, I swear by it.”

Being off-center like that enabled Havey to work only the leeward lines during the most vicious part of the storm. (He clocked winds of 148 mph before his equipment was ripped off in a succeeding gust.)

The winds shattered the 2-inch glass windows in the wheelhouse (Leda did not have storm panels) and made quick

work of the temporary forward doors erected in preparation for her galley refit.

She soon began taking on water. Havey had the fire system on, the bilge pumps, even the manual bilge. At the height of the storm, from about 3-6 a.m., Havey was at the end of his lines and his courage. The main salon was flooded.

“A waterfall was pouring into the guest quarters and the engine room,” he said. “At about 4 o’clock, I made peace. I was out of line and at the top of the structure. I was waiting for the building to cave in.”

Havey stood in the doorway leading out the back deck. The winds surprisingly weren’t too bad there, he said, because of the bulwarks around the stern. Being part of a main wall of the boat, Havey figured the aft doorway might protect him somewhat should the building collapse on top of him.

The winds slammed debris into Leda so ferociously that it peeled back her cap rail in places. Loose shipping containers were pushed up the canal and looked like marshmallows bobbing along.

At about 5 a.m., Havey described the rain and wind as vapor. Everything was white, what he imagines a cloud must be like, and it sounded as though a freight train were passing through the slip beside him.

But because the megayacht was still a bit off center, the overhead building’s center beam didn’t crush her. About the time there was no room left, the winds switched and the water began to recede. Havey kept himself busy during the darkest hours trying to keep up with the inflow of water and adjusting lines, only this time on the port, leeward side.

By mid-morning Monday, the storm had passed. For the first few days after the storm, the water continued to recede. It was quiet in the city, peaceful even. Leda had just come off a charter, so she still had plenty of fuel and some food in the refrigerator. With generators still operating, Havey had not only food and water but also air conditioning and precious ice.

The other yachts weren’t as well attended and their lines broke, or they pulled up pilings. In either case, they broke free and were pushed up the canal. Later, Havey described the lines around one cleat as a welded mass, so overcome by the heat of tension that

FROM THE FRONT: Lesson Learned

Securing yacht off slip’s center meant working windward linesLESSON, from page A1

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they just melted. He had to cut them with a saw.

“You’d never think a line would do that,” he said.

An elderly yard security officer and his wife stayed on Zoom Zoom Zoom. After the storm, they tried to start the generators, but engines kept quitting after just a few minutes. At one point, Havey saw smoke. He went onboard to help and popped the sea strainers.

“Oil was just dripping out of the generators,” he said. “They just kept starting them and they would quit. If people stay on board in a situation like that, they have to be trained in basic seamanship. They need to know how to work lines and what to do if the generators go down.”

Havey’s radios worked but because communications towers had been destroyed, he couldn’t communicate with the rescue workers he heard on the VHF. Within days, the place began to smell.

“The water was just dead,” he said. “All the fish were floating, the diesel, and dead bodies started floating by.”

From his perch at the yard near the I-10 bridge, Havey said he watched as first dozens then hundreds of people flowed back into the city. First on foot, some soon took over postal vehicles and began driving back and forth, carrying more residents into the city. But this wasn’t for rescue or recovery. These were looters, Havey said.

“Their desperation wasn’t for food and water,” he said. “There was plenty of that. They were carrying TVs, VCRs.”

One night a few days after the storm while Havey slept, he awoke to the sounds of someone trying to get onboard. Leda was still tied in her slip

but away from the dock. He shined a spotlight on a man as he climbed a line. Havey showed his shotgun. The man begged Havey not to shoot and retreated. But because the receding water had left everything covered in several feet of mud, it was a slow retreat.

As the sun rose that morning, Havey saw tracks all around the yard from people who had come to see what could be had. From that point on, he didn’t sleep at night.

“If you weren’t awake, they were coming onboard,” he said. “It’s like what you see in the movies.”

Havey’s shotgun only had birdshot, but the military guys who showed up to rescue the security guard and his wife from Zoom Zoom Zoom traded real ammunition for ice.

At this point, Havey decided to stay with the boat. Being “rescued” meant being taken to the Louisiana Superdome, site of more than 26,000 refugees with limited facilities and

FROM THE FRONT: Lesson Learned

Havey’s hurricane advice:n Prepare not only for the

storm but for afterward. A harbor may be blocked by damaged vessels so even though your boat survives a storm, it might not be able to set sail. “Make sure you have food and water for two weeks, and have a weapon. I owe my life to that shotgun.”n Have a fallback plan in case

you aren’t rescued. “After being in New Orleans, I know there’s no guarantee you’ll be rescued. They’re going to drop you off where they want to drop you off. You need another plan.”

Havey took this photo during the storm, the air whitened by whipping rain. The shed’s overhead beam is just above. M/Y Leda has been rebuilt and is for sale in the Miami show this month.

Basic seamanship skills keyLESSON, from page A24



something drastic to happen for the government to regulate this, or do we do it ourselves?” one captain asked.

“Whatever regulations are in place are very general,” said another. “It takes someone to die for us to change things.”

“How can we be the majority of captains that say, ‘No, I won’t tolerate this level of manning?’” the first asked.

“We have to speak with a collective voice, a united front,” another answered. “If we all join together, something is going to happen. The real implication of us speaking with a united voice is that influence can have an effect on our insurance rates.”

The skeptical captain spoke again: “A combination of all these pressures from insurance companies, associations and more regulations and the pool of owners is going to be a lot smaller,” he said. “Pretty soon we’re going to be sitting around wondering where we get our next job.”

But owners can have just as much fun in a regulated industry as in an unregulated one, several agreed.

“Did owners give up flying planes? No.”

“The consequences are different though,” a captain said. “We can get away with being out of tolerances more than they can.”

“You have to get them [owners] off the discussion of whether you can handle it,” one captain said. “If we lose engines or steering, it’s a whole different ball game. What could happen if something goes wrong?”

“I like that suggestion to go water skiing,” another said. “An alternative part of the job is occupying the owner’s time.”

So in addition to the rules on paper for some flag states and some insurance companies, these captains seemed to agree that the issue of safe manning falls to the captain and his judgment, which leaves much room for interpretation.

Perhaps someday, the accepted standard will be enforced, one captain said.

“Port states are now required to inspect a certain number of vessels,” he said. “Somewhere along the line, your number is going to get called. If you don’t meet the regulations, you may be staying put.”

The Triton hosts this roundtable discussion each month. If you make your living working as a yacht captain, licensed or not, contact Editor Lucy Chabot Reed at [email protected] for an invitation to our next monthly Bridge luncheon. This month’s will be held in Ft. Lauderdale. Space is limited.

Opposing unsafe requests together may lower insurance

supplies. Even though Havey had no idea how bad that would turn out to be, he knew that at least on Leda, he had

food, water and a shotgun.“Besides, that’s my boat,” he said.

“That’s where I lived for two and a half years. That was my home. I had food and water. I figured I’d fend for myself.”

Every morning, Havey watched hordes of people come across the I-10 to loot some more. And every evening, he’d stand watch with his gun and a spotlight. He never had to use the weapon, but he shone that light on plenty of people.

“We didn’t know if anyone knew we were alive,” he said. He found out later that the yacht’s EPIRB went off and people initially thought he was dead.

It would be 10 days before Capt. Cannon and Trinity executives could return to the yard, flying in on a private helicopter. That intervening week was, as Havey put it, hell.

“I’d do the hurricane again in a heartbeat,” he said. “The worst part was the looting. Thank God we had a shotgun on board. If we didn’t, I would have been dead.”

Contact Editor Lucy Chabot Reed at [email protected]. Have you learned a lesson that your yachting brethren could benefit from? Let us know.

LESSON, from page A25

With gun, ‘I’d fend for myself ’


FROM THE FRONT: From the Bridge


Ft. Lauderdale-based Spirit Airlines will start twice-weekly non-stop service from Ft. Lauderdale to St. Maarten on April 20. In addition, Spirit will offer connecting service from its domestic network. Subject to government approval, the new route would be served by Spirit’s new, all-Airbus fleet, the youngest in the Americas, according to a company statement. For more information, visit www.spiritair.com or call 1-800-772-7117.

New teacher at IYT

International Yacht Training in Ft. Lauderdale has hired Clive Smith to teach the following engineering courses: Approved Engine Course (AEC), MEOL, Skills Test, MCA Y4 and MCA Y3. The course schedule is available on IYT’s Web site, www.yachtmaster.com. AEC and Skills Test can be held on demand. For more info, call +1-954-779-7764 or e-mail [email protected].

GMT adds live chat

Global Marine Travel (GMT), a travel company that specializes in maritime industry air travel, has added live chat to its Web site, enabling ticket agents to communicate with customers in remote places where phone contact may be difficult or expensive but where Internet access is possible. For more information, visit www.flygmt.com.

MHG hires new CEO

Ft. Lauderdale-based MHG Marine Benefits has appointed Jacques Wulffaert as managing director of the MHG Group of companies and CEO for MHG Services. Wulffaert spent 20 years with several cruise lines. In his most recent position, he was a vice president at Celebrity Cruises. Contact Wulffaert at [email protected] or visit www.mhgmarine.com.

New posts at N&J

Northrop and Johnson’s Fort Lauderdale office has hired Brian Muston and Kurt Bosshardt to its brokerage department, Lara-Jo Lewis-Houghting to its charter marketing/management department and Jessica Chavez to its marketing department. For more information, visit www.northropandjohnson.com.

K&C environmental additions

Knight & Carver YachtCenter in San Diego has named Bob Lee its environmental/safety manager. Prior to joining the yacht repair company, Lee served for eight months as

Safety Director for Goodwill Industries. Prior to that, Lee and his wife, Mary, spent two years in China teaching

university-level English. Lee also was environmental/safety manager at Driscoll’s Boatworks in San Diego.

Knight & Carver also recently announced the formation of Yacht Entertainment Solutions, a design and installation company of full-service entertainment systems for yachts. For more information, contact Scott Macdonald at +1-619-694-9868 or [email protected].

Documentation service begins

Capt. Stephen Mort, former vice president of maritime operations and deputy commissioner of maritime affairs for the Republic of the Marshall Islands, has launched his own business, International Ship Documentation. Based in Ft. Lauderdale, the company handles all aspects of flagging a vessel, with an emphasis on the Marshall Islands and Cayman Islands. His company can also handle the closing on registration, reflagging, crew documents and safety management system (SMS) reviews. For more information, visit www.shipdocumentation.com.

Galapagos agent operates fuel ship

Sail’n Galapagos, a ship’s agent in the highly regulated archipelago off the coast of Ecuador, has added a fuel barge to its services last fall. With no docking necessary, the ship can carry 53,000 gallons of fuel. Before this, visiting yachts had to dock at the military facility at Baltro Island for fuel. For more information, visit www.sailingalapagos.com.

New Bellingham Marine Web site

Bellingham Marine has redesigned its Web site for marina industry professionals including owners, developers, boaters and media groups. Bellingham designs and builds marina construction products, including concrete floating docks and dry storage systems. Individuals can view and download brochures, read testimonials and find projects that use specific Bellingham Marine products through the company’s database of 1,100 projects. For more information, visit www.bellingham-marine.com.

Loggerhead promotes HR

Seven Kings Holdings, a South Florida marina development and holdings company, appointed Linda D. Searles to serve as vice president of operations. In this new position,

Searles will report directly the president and chief operating officer and oversee human resources. Searles has been with the company more than 12 years.

Spirit adds St. Maarten flight

Lee

Searles

BUSINESS BRIEFS


By Carol M. Bareuther

There was a time in the charter yacht industry when wooden schooners ruled. No air conditioning, no generator-run refrigerator, no on-board washer/dryer. Provisioning meant foraging for what was available such as bullfoot and chicken wings, while engine repairs equaled hoofing it into town to find one of two diesel mechanics.

At the same time, guests were like family. You ate with them, you swam with them, you took them ashore, some even helped dry dishes after dinner. Anchorages were empty. Evening entertainment was synonymous with singing seafaring songs or telling

ghost or pirate stories in the cockpit – sans, of course, the assistance of a CD player or iPod.

This slice of life, circa late 1960s/early 1970s, is what Jeanne Kuich recalled just days into 2007, a year that marks four decades since she and her husband, Mike, left their home in Fort Worth, Texas, to take up the profession of crewed-yacht chartering in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.

“Mike and I were living in Texas when we first got the idea to charter,” Kuich said.

They’d read about chartering in some of the sailing magazines, but she was a secretary at the University of Texas, he husband worked at a firm that made Flying Dutchmans, Finns and Thistles.

“We raced every weekend and wanted to move aboard a boat, but work was definitely getting in the way of our sailing,” she said.

Then, encouraged by Julie Nicholson of the famed Nicholson family that

pioneered crewed chartering in Antigua, and a Valentine’s Day trip to St. Thomas in 1967, they turned an idea from aspiration to actuality.

“Julie was one of only a handful of brokers at the time, and the only one that encouraged us, but we didn’t want to just take her word for it,” Kuich said. “So we flew down to St. Thomas to visit for ourselves. Although most of the 30 to 35 crewed yachts were out chartering, we definitely saw enough, got to speak with enough people, to know this is what we wanted to do.”

So, the Kuichs bought a 62-foot twin diesel motor sailing ketch.

“It was a clunker,” she said. “Not what we would have bought just to live on. But it had accommodations for up to six people, and that’s what was important.”

Their first trip after buying the boat in Florida was to sail up the U.S. East Coast to Newport and charter for some Texas friends who wanted to watch the 1967 America’s Cup races. The boat leaked badly and required extensive caulking.

Kuich got her sea legs cooking in the tiny forepeak galley and her menu adjusted after losing a huge platter of curried rice and pork on an ungimbaled dining table, thanks to a bit of cavernous wake.

The finale to their shakedown charter was a gale 300 miles off Newport that necessitated them calling the Coast Guard as a standby precaution and ultimately returning to shore.

Their sail to Florida was uneventful on the Intracoastal Waterway, and then it was on to St. Thomas.

The charter yacht industry in the Virgin Islands started in the mid-1950s with three boats. Rudy Thompson, one of Kuich’s contemporaries, once said that he’d sail his 40-foot catch on month or longer voyages with

See KUICH, page A29

Kuichs were in the mixas yacht charters evolved

J. Kuich

PROFILE: Kuich

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guests from St. Thomas’ Bluebeard’s Castle and Virgin Islands Hotel, and Rockefeller’s Caneel Bay Resort on St. John. The price? Four hundred dollars a week for a party of four.

While charter operators in Thompson’s day – and 10 years later when the Kuichs arrived – were mainly single guys or married couples, the guests were an eclectic group of adventurers and explorers or those who avidly read sailing magazines. For example, two of Thompson’s guests included famous author, John Steinbeck and his wife, and Dr. Robert Oppenheimer, creator of the atomic bomb.

“The charter operators back then were folks who wanted to drop out of society, not lead a conventional life, to be fancy free,” Kuich said. “All you needed to go into business was a Coast Guard captain’s license.

“St. Thomas really got its boom as a charter destination due to it being a place where you could get a fast divorce,” she said. “There would be all these newly divorced and rich women running around that the young single guys were more than willing to take out on charter.”

In this era before brokers, the only way to line up a charter was to head to the bar downtown and talk to the tourists, Kuich said.

Unlike the beautiful building and grounds of the newly opened Yacht Haven Grande marina, the Yacht Haven of nearly four decades ago merely had a T-dock, convenience store, bar, marine store, small haul out facility and laundry.

“Mike and I would go the laundry at 5 a.m. That assured we got machines,” Kuich said. “Drop it off? You’re kidding. We didn’t make enough. In fact, we usually didn’t turn a profit until November, and then it was time to plow the money back into the boat and get it gussied up for the next season. Plus, there wasn’t all that much. After all, you only changed the sheets after the guests left. Towels? Maybe a bit more often.”

One of the Kuichs’ charter couples, Charlie and Ginny Cary, opened up a bareboat business on Tortola in the 1970s. That caught on (and today is the global empire of The Moorings) and threatened crewed chartering.

“That’s what led us to organize, to start the Virgin Islands Charteryacht League,” Kuich said. “There was a man named Charlie Peet who insisted we market ourselves, print up brochures and sample menus, and become insured as well as obtain business licenses. Some of the folks were so upset by that, that their freedom from all the regulations would be taken away, that they set off cherry bombs at the

first meeting.”A change in tax laws in the 1980s

made it advantageous for mainland businessmen to own a yacht in the Virgin Islands and put it into charter. That changed the charter landscape.

“All of a sudden, there were less owner-operators and more absentee owners with paid professional crew,” said Kuich, who by this time had moved up with Mike to an 83-foot staysail schooner, Queen of Sheba. “The paid crew didn’t have an investment in their boats; it was just a job to them. They didn’t tend to hang out with our

group because our backgrounds, our motivations, were different. That’s what led to the yachting community here becoming less tight knit.” At the same time, power yachts surged in popularity and the beginnings of today’s megayacht movement began.

Kuich ended her charter yacht career four years ago. Mike, plagued by health problems, is active in the island’s community theater. Kuich still works seven days a week, only now leading historic walking tours in Charlotte Amalie and guiding kayak trips in a mangrove sanctuary on the east end of

the island.“What I would miss today is that

chartering has lost the joy of being with people,” Kuich said. “On some boats, you’re not even allowed to talk with the guests. Also, having to perform only one job; I’d be bored. When we ran our boat, I had to be able to do a bit of everything - bake bread one minute, set an anchor the next, or drive the dinghy for the water-skiers.”

Carol Bareuther is a freelance writer living in St. Thomas. Contact her through [email protected].

KUICH, from page A28

1980s tax laws spawned absentee owners, paid crewPROFILE: Kuich


I read Capt. Tom Serio’s article on analyzing onboard disasters [“Analyzing onboard disasters can help us avoid them,” January 2007, page B4] with great interest.

I was aboard the S/V Picton Castle for 15 months during her fourth world voyage from March 2005 to June 2006. I knew Laura Gainey, who joined the ship for our last leg of the circumnavigation, from Cape Town to Lunenburg, NS last spring.

While the Picton Castle is a very stout ship, built to rigorous standards by her owner and master, Capt. Daniel Moreland, and while I personally experienced almost the exact conditions during a storm off the coast of Namibia last spring, I must concur that it is very easy to become complacent and think that nothing is going to happen to me during extreme weather conditions.

One of Capt. Moreland’s objectives aboard the sail training ship, Picton Castle, is to offer trainees a taste of what it was like on the old whaling vessels, but sometimes – as during a storm – it is necessary to put away the romance of the “good ol’ days of whalers” and implement modern-day

safety equipment and procedures. More precautions can be taken

aboard that vessel to, as Capt. Serio said, reduce the level of threat and minimize the risks.

During the storm off Namibia, we were taking 30-foot seas over the galley house. The quarterdeck (20 feet above the water line) was awash, and everyone was below with all hatches and ports buttoned down. No one was on deck except for those on watch.

I was on galley that day and moving

constantly fore and aft between the galley house and the aloha deck (the weather deck). Several times, seas knocked me off my feet and I was washed into the scuppers.

Life lines were up, but no command to don PFDs or harnesses was ever given.

I encountered Capt Moreland on the weather deck that afternoon, and he was duly concerned about the conditions and our welfare. I told him that I had every confidence in the ship and his abilities to see us safely through the storm and we were delivered safely on the other side. But, as in Laura’s case, all it would have taken was an unpredictable wave and any one of us could have been taken to the deep.

Thank you for your article and providing the reality check that we all need when on the open ocean.

I hope that everyone who has read your article will take it seriously, and I hope that the officers and crew of the Picton Castle will take extra precautions in times of extreme weather.

Fair winds and following seas,Capt. Bruce D. MacBain

Ft. Lauderdale/St. Thomas, VI

Triton’s article about onboard disastersprovides reality check for all on the ocean

Working aboard the Picton Castle in 2005-06 offered the author of this letter and other crew the opportunity to see what it was like on old whaling vessels.

WWW.PICTON-CASTLE.COM

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Capt. Mark A. Cline, Mark Darley, Capt. Jake DesVergers, Marianne Gardner

Capt. David Hare, Jack Horkheimer, Chef Mary Beth Lawton Johnson, Capt. Thomas McKenzie,

Donna Mergenhagen, Capt. Justin Newcomb, Ayuk Ntuiabane, Steve Pica, Jennifer Reber,

Stephen Reed, Rossmare Intl., James Schot, Capt. Tom Serio, Chef Peter Ziegelmeier

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Thanks for printing David Allen’s very enlightening article [“The Insurance Elephant: To understand how it works, you’ve got to be able to see the complete picture,” January 2007, page A26].

I’ve known David for many years as an upstanding and trustworthy insurance broker. It’s good to hear his side of things for a change.

One rarely talks to a broker unless a) there’s been a problem and a claim needs to be made or b) payments are due. Insurance is one area that most captains don’t want to think about until they need it. David’s article was almost like a refresher course that we all should take.

There are always two sides to any story. Thanks for presenting the one that most captains aren’t familiar with but need to be.

Capt. Mac McDonald M/Y Magic

Kudos to David AllenWhat a fabulous article Allen wrote

to assist us [insurance agents] in telling them [yacht captains] not only “how it is” but “why it is” and what

they can do to assist us in doing our jobs efficiently. Sure hope he has no retirement plans anytime soon.

Dawn M. SperosYacht agent

Gowrie, Barden & Brett

Article resonates I just wanted to drop you a note to

compliment David Allen on his article. In particular, the way he articulated his frustration at being between the owner (as a client advocate) and the insurer resonated with me and I am sure most others in our business. Thanks, David, for taking the time to write a comprehensive and educational piece.

Nancy PoppeLuxury Yacht Practice

Marsh’s Private Client Services

Nationality survey must reach out Thanks for the great article on

crew nationalities [“Triton survey: What nationalities are on your boat?” December 2006, pages A16-17]. It would be very interesting to see what results you would get in a European boat show.

We have two U.S. citizens out of a

crew of 15. The rest are South African, Swedish, New Zealanders and British.

Capt. Colin Richardson,M/Y Passion

Editor’s Note: We agree. Next year, we’ll conduct this survey at the Genoa and Monaco shows as well. In the meantime, any yacht can take the survey. It takes a minute: www.the-triton.com/survey.

Curse over; use Bluetooth Jan. 14th has passed us by and it

seems that the curse has ended. As far as I can tell there were no accidents on this date here [at Lyford Cay in the Bahamas] this year.

I do have a helpful tip for others that we have been using for the last year though. Instead of using 2-way radios to communicate while docking, we use our cell phones with Bluetooth earpieces. I just call my mate on his phone; it’s a great hands-free way to communicate. No holding onto radios or having to push buttons to talk. I am sure there are others that have used this method but I am not aware of anyone publishing it.

Capt. Erik H GoodwinM/Y Madcap

I read with great interest your article “Lesson Learned” [“Lesson Learned: Withdraw entry, skip Houston,” January 2007, page A1] as I have read many similar horror stories in recent times. It seems to me that as industry leaders The Triton could do something affirmative about this.

As we all know, Jack Garofano in the Miami district office of Homeland Security has been very supportive and forthcoming on yacht issues, while strictly enforcing the law, as is his mandate. Perhaps The Triton, as an industry representative, could meet with him and get a directive issued by national headquarters, something like this:

“Directive to all stations: It has been determined that there is a recurring problem of interpretation of the law regarding the type of visa needed for yacht crew entering the United States, who are non-residents. It is hereby directed that non-residents entering the United States with a letter of employment on a yacht shall be required present a B1 visa. Upon entry, the entry shall be authorized for the time indicated in the employment letter, not to exceed the legal time limits of six months.”

This is simple and clear and then every potential employee can carry a copy of this directive with him so untrained entry officers in locations unfamiliar with this won’t get into a pissing contest with the applicant … a contest that invariably the officer always wins.

Megayacht captain

Triton should step up, find immigration solution

Insurance article required reading for captains

WRITE TO BE HEARD

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MARPOL Annex VI is an international agreement under the auspices of the United Nations for limiting air pollution by ships. Since

May 2005, the sulfur content of marine fuel can be no more than 4.5 percent.

Yachts need to ensure that they comply with and can prove compliance with Annex VI if they are purchasing

fuel for a vessel from a MARPOL-compliant flag state and/or that they are going to travel to, or may travel to, a signatory state within three years of the purchase of that fuel.

How is this accomplished? The yacht must be given a copy of the new MARPOL Bunker Delivery Notes with the required information on it. The BDNs are kept safely on board the vessel for three years after the delivery of each grade of fuel supplied.

Each product on the BDN is accompanied with an approved sample of each fuel supplied. Responsibility for provision of these samples lies with the supplier but they should be taken at the receiving yacht’s manifold by a continuous drip sampler. These samples are retained under the control of the yacht for one year. (“Under the control of the yacht” may allow for the sample to be landed and held in an office or some other suitable location.)

The samples are in addition to any commercial samples and must not

See RULES, page B5

Anti-pollution ordinance fitsfor yachts, too

Rules of the Road

Jake DesVergers

See CRICKET, page B16


Get ready for the ultimate surf-and-turf – Caribbean cruising and world-class cricket – when the International Cricket Council Cricket World Cup 2007 comes to the island chain this spring.

Concurrent with the boom in megayacht construction, marinas capable of handling large vessels and serving up first-class amenities have been built in destinations from Jamaica to Barbados. At the same time, the opportunity to host the ninth ICC CWC has seen the building

of cricket stadiums capable of holding 20,000 or more spectators.

The significance of the matches stretches beyond the stadium.

“This marks the first major world games of the modern era of complex commercial rights, security arrangements and hosting obligations to be staged in the so-called Third World,” said Chris Dehring, ICC CWC 2007 managing director and CEO.

Eight island nations are participating: Antigua, Barbados, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Kitts, St. Lucia and Trinidad.

“Only a fraction of the time that fans are in our homelands will be spent at matches,” Dehring said. “How they are greeted and treated beyond the stadium environs is as, if not more, important. This is a priceless opportunity to stamp the Caribbean’s world-class ability, determination and style indelible on the global landscape.”

Add to this a simplified entry procedure. The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has made available a special visa effective

Cricket World Cup visits CaribbeanThere will be plenty of cricket action this spring in the Beausejour Stadium near Rodney Bay.

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Captain’s Call: soft water

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After owning a Wet Spot water softening system while captain of a previous vessel and being duped by my favorite marine supplier into buying

a supposedly “superior” product, I feel gratified to have this opportunity to set the record straight. I will never connect to a shore-based water system without a Wet Spot again.

I recently took a tour of Wet Spot’s manufacturing

facility in Pompano Beach, Fla., and was impressed. The effervescent passion in owner Charlene Strauss’ eyes reflects her company’s passion for its product, and she was incredibly articulate in explaining the scientific manner in which WetSpot’s Ionic Exchange Resin keeps harsh water spots off yachts, aircraft or cars.

Hard water spots are not only unsightly, but the calcium, magnesium, iron and lime left behind can leave

permanent etched marks. These same hard water minerals, if not removed before entering a vessel’s tanks, can clog pumps, shower heads, dish washers and washing machines.

Wet Spot’s IER fills the white tube that sits on a dock next to the obligatory five micron and activated charcoal filter canisters for a vessel’s water intake. It works like a magnet to attract the calcium, magnesium and other minerals. These minerals are held until back flushed with a recharge. Now here comes the most important item in the entire process: All water softeners

must be recharged.I am always amused when I hear

deckhands whining that their water softeners don’t work, that there are still spots on the yacht’s finish. When I ask when they last recharged their white tube, I get blank looks.

Folks, you have to take the time to send pure saltwater back through the tube, thus recharging the system. This is the process that releases the minerals trapped by the IER. With a Wet Spot, this process is made brain-dead easy since a small canister that can be easily packed with water softener pellets or rock salt comes with each system.

How often do you recharge the Wet Spot tube? I watch the bubbling action when filling a bucket with fresh water after first adding a half cup of boat soap. Not much bubbling? Time for a recharge. Also, a test kit is included with each Wet Spot for a more accurate reading of the IER’s condition. On average in Ft. Lauderdale, I recharge my system every three months.

WetSpots come in three sizes: the Plus model for vessels up to 70 feet, the Heavy Duty model for up to 100 feet, and the Super model for vessels up to 200 feet.

Do not be duped by vastly inferior water softener “white tubes” being hustled in today’s market. WetSpot

has been in business 14 years. This is the company that takes great pains to continually improve the product, using only the finest in nickel-plated and marine-grade stainless steel fittings.

The Wet Spot white tube is distinctive in that it has a highly functional wheel-and-handle arrangement for ease of maneuvering from a vessel’s lazarette to the dock. The system’s exterior PVC labels are printed with UVC-protected inks and will not take on an ugly faded look as my so-called “superior” tube has.

A most impressive aspect of owning a Wet Spot is the company’s 12-year warranty. Sure, a WetSpot costs a little more, but you get what you pay for in this world. The company offers a large selection of accessories and replacement parts including dock pre-filter housings and filters.

Additionally, Wet Spot recently has brought on board the most beautiful stainless steel water softener for below-deck installations in the discriminating yacht arena. These units have their own brine tank with automatic recharging. Guests will be thrilled with the results of washing their hair with a Wet Spot water softening system.

In Ft. Lauderdale, Wet Spots are available at Boat Owner’s Warehouse and at Lewis Marine. A list of distributors is on the Wet Spot’s Web site. For more information contact Strause at 888-493-8776, [email protected] or online at www.softwetspot.com.

Capt. David Hare runs the 70-foot Delta expedition yacht M/V Thunder and is a regular contributor to The Triton. He is currently looking for a captain’s position on a yacht over 100 GRT. Contact him at [email protected]. If you have a product you’d like to see reviewed, contact Editor Lucy Chabot Reed at [email protected].

There is only one water softening system for me: WetSpot

Wet Spot water softening systems come in three sizes and work for vessels up to200 feet long. PHOTO COURTESY OF WET SPOT

Captain’s Call

DaviD Hare

PRODUCT REVIEW: Wet Spot

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By Lucy Chabot Reed

Inventor Bob Turan has done it again. The carpenter-turned-inventor has applied his portable compressed air system to yet another marine-industry use that could do away with a centuries-old way of repairing busted pipes.

Turan and his staff have created a Pipe Plug Emergency Readiness Kit outfitted with his company’s patented air supply tanks, several types of inflatable plugs and pipe wraps. While none of the technology in the kit is new, the items are for the first time being packaged together for easy use in emergencies.

The key to making it all work is Turanair System’s patented compressed air bottles. Like scuba tanks only smaller and lightweight, the air is portable. Each kit includes several sizes and types of plugs including a bypass plug that will stop a leak but still let fuel or water flow, a wrap plug for pinhole leaks, and a tube that can handle a leak in an elbow joint. He’s working to design a plug that will seal a break at the weld as well as smaller wraps for 1-inch pipes.

The plugs are made of thick neoprene/styrene butadiene rubber and have brass fittings so they won’t deteriorate or cause a spark in fuel.

The kit also includes a carbon-fiber bottle of 3,000psi compressed air, two inflators, a grounding cable kit, and other items. The kit retails for $15,000, Turan said.

The idea for the kit came to Turan after meeting with the captain and engineer of M/Y Endless Summer, a 126-foot yacht. They told Turan their

story of a busted pipe and Turan introduced the idea. The captain thought such a kit would be convenient so Turan and his staff set out to create one.

“Everyone’s got a story to tell about busted pipes,” said Turan, founder and CEO of Turanair Systems in Deerfield Beach. “The wood plugs are the only thing out there. We’re in the 21st century now and still using wood plugs; something’s wrong.”

Instead of the wooden dowels and pieces of cork that have slowed leaks since man set to sea, Turan’s kit uses inflatable plumber plugs. Combined with his portable air tanks, they can be used anywhere, even without power. The plugs can enter through the hole in a pipe or wrap around it, then inflate in a few seconds to provide a liquid- and airtight seal for fuel, water and steam pipes.

Captains and marine engineers have told Turan that part of the reason for the frequent broken pipes is that many aluminum pipes are built of aluminum from China, a lower grade of the aluminum then that from New Zealand that the industry has used for years. Now pipes are giving out in two to three years, he said.

Researching the marine market for his product, Turan said he came across a safety equipment list of dozens of items that most yachts carry, including fire extinguishers, axes, and fire alarms.

“When you review a Fire Safety Motoryacht Plan, there is no established equipment to fix or repair a broken or burst pipe,” Turan said. “People use duct tape, towels, whatever they can grab to at least slow down the leak. It’s insane. Now there is a

solution.”Turan plans to submit the kit to the

U.S. Coast Guard for approval, and he said he’s been in discussions with the U.S. Navy to carry the kits on its ships, which still carry wood plugs as well.

“I’m a carpenter, but we find ourselves in a whole new world of rescuing people and saving lives,” Turan said. “That’s why the Army and Navy are looking at us.”

After introducing a pneumatic caulking gun to the marine industry in 2005, Turan Air Systems spent most of 2006 securing patents and protecting the portable air system.

“2007 is going to be our year,” Turan said. “We plan to have 35 products by the end of the year.”

Contact Editor Lucy Chabot Reed at [email protected].

Turanair Systems is hosting a mini equipment trade show from 5-8 p.m. on Feb. 8 in its new offices at 1700 S. Powerline Road, Suite H, in Deerfield Beach. From Ft. Lauderdale, take I-95 north to Sample, then head west to Powerline and turn north. The warehouse is just past the traffic light at Green Road on the right hand side. For more information, call Turan at +1-954-428-4500, or visit www.turanairsystems.com.

A better way to plug broken pipes

“Everyone’s got a story to tell about busted pipes,” said Bob Turan, founder and CEO of Turanair Systems in Deerfield Beach. “The wood plugs are the only thing out there. We’re in the 21st century now and still using wood plugs; something’s wrong.” PHOTO/LUCY CHABOT REED

MAINTENANCE / REPAIR: Broken pipes

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Prices for low-sulfur gasoil expressed in US$ per cubic meter (1,000 liters) as of Jan. 15

Region Duty-free*/dutypaidU.S.EastCoast

Ft.Lauderdale 483/517Savannah,Ga. 517/NANewport,R.I. 470/NA

CaribbeanSt.Thomas,USVI 690/NASt.Maarten 675/NAAntigua 660/NA

NorthAtlanticBermuda(St.George’s) 780/NACapeVerde 568/NAAzores 562/NACanaryIslands 470/598

MediterraneanGibraltar 471/NABarcelona,Spain 535/1,157PalmadeMallorca,Spain 538/1,183Antibes,France 530/1,290SanRemo,Italy 645/1,483Naples,Italy 637/1,425Venice,Italy 632/1,435Corfu,Greece 792/1,307Piraeus,Greece 783/1,295Istanbul,Turkey 514/NAMalta 468/NATunis,Tunisia 557/NA

OceaniaAuckland,NewZealand 640/NASydney,Australia 606/NAFiji 568/NA

*When available according to customs.

Today’s fuel prices One year agoPrices for low-sulfur gasoil expressed in US$ per cubic meter (1,000 liters) as of Jan. 16. 2006

Region Duty-free*/dutypaidU.S.EastCoast

Ft.Lauderdale 503/539Savannah,Ga. 541/NANewport,R.I. 520/NA

CaribbeanSt.Thomas,USVI 728/NASt.Maarten 655/NAAntigua 671/NA

NorthAtlanticBermuda(St.George’s) 678/NACapeVerde 597/NAAzores 515/NACanaryIslands 530/NA

MediterraneanGibraltar 512/NABarcelona,Spain 572/1,100PalmadeMallorca,Spain NA/1,062Antibes,France 576/1,290SanRemo,Italy 676/1,387Naples,Italy 668/1,298Venice,Italy 679/1,345Corfu,Greece 630/1,182Piraeus,Greece 570/1,122Istanbul,Turkey 550/NAMalta 507/NATunis,Tunisia 522/NA

OceaniaAuckland,NewZealand 568/NASydney,Australia 576/NAFiji 550/NA

*When available according to customs.

be used except by port state control. Samples must be at least 400 ml, have a tamper-proof security seal with a unique means of identification, and must be labeled with the following information: location and method by which the sample was drawn, date of commencement of bunkering, name of bunker tanker/installation, name and IMO number of receiving vessel, signatures of both supplier’s representative and yacht’s representative, details of seal identification, and bunker grade.

The countries that are signatories to this regulation are: Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Japan, Liberia, Marshall Islands, Norway, Panama, Samoa, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom and Vanuatu. They collectively represent more than 50 percent of the gross tonnage of the world’s merchant shipping.

However, while these countries are signatory to the Convention, not all of them have enacted the legislation into their national laws. For example, the United States is still in the process of ratifying MARPOL Annex VI and codifying it into federal law. Because of this, there are unilateral actions being taken by certain states that may pose a potential conflict. California is the greatest example of this situation.

During December, the state’s Office of Administrative Law approved the California Air Resources Board’s (CARB) plan to limit the sulfur content of fuel to 0.5 percent for marine diesel oil and 1.5 percent for marine gas oil starting in January 2007. The rule applies to all vessels traveling within 24 miles (38 km) of the coast of California.

While this involves a large number of recreational vessels, the largest groups affected are commercial merchant ships. On their behalf, the Pacific Merchant Shipping Association (PMSA), an organization that represents marine-terminal operators in the United States and also foreign vessels operating in the Pacific Basin, has filed suit in the state capital

challenging CARB’s right to issue state legislation that conflicts with federal law. There are also questions over the right of California to set state limits more than 3 miles from its shores. The state believes it already has this entitlement under the Federal Clean Air Act, regardless of international law.

Despite the fact that PMSA is pursuing legal action against these decisions, it appears that they will have to take on CARB on its own. Major ship owner organizations such as Intertanko, the International Chamber of Shipping, and the International Council of Cruise Lines question the legality of the limits, but have refrained from joining the PMSA in its action.

The issue of the legality of CARB’s move is a complicated one. Capt. Joseph Angelo, a representative from Intertanko, which is the world’s largest association representing oil tanker owners, states that his organization feels the potential conflict with federal law is not clear enough to pursue a costly legal challenge.

The larger issue at hand is the absence of available fuel for purchase meeting these standards. The state government has essentially legislated a requirement before the industry is actually prepared to meet it.

And as the state of California has enacted requirements in excess of international requirements, it also wants to be recognized under those same rules. The state wishes to be approved as a Sulfur Emission Control Area (SECA) by the International Maritime Organization. Such areas must maintain fuel oil sulfur content below 1.5 percent by volume. Currently, only the North Sea and the Baltic region are recognized areas.

Capt. Jake DesVergers is president of the US Maritime Institute. A deck officer graduate of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, he previously sailed as master on merchant ships, acted as designated person for a shipping company, and served as regional manager for an international classification society. Contact him at 954-449-3444 or through www.usmaritimeinstitute.com.

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California legislators buckingslow enactment of regulation

Each product on the Bunker Delivery Notes must be accompanied with an approved sample of each fuel supplied. PHOTO/NAME

FROM THE TECH FRONT: Rules of the Road

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Mastervolt, a manufacturer of onboard power systems, has introduced a new range of sine wave inverter/charger combinations.

The MASS Combi series replaces the Dakar Combi and is available in two versions: MASS Combi 12 (24)/2000 W-120 A and MASS Combi 12 (24)/4000 W-200 A.

One of the key innovations in the new range is the application of advanced switch mode technology, the company said in a statement. This offers savings in weight and smaller unit sizes compared to low-frequency technology.

The MASS Combi has no humming transformers. The inverter delivers a sine wave output with minimal distortion and a 200 percent peak power, enabling inductive loads such as electrical motors and compressors to start smoothly, the company said.

The 3-stage PLUS battery charger is designed to operate with any battery (wet, GEL or AGM) and is fitted with a temperature sensor.

When powered by a gasoline or diesel generator, a power factor correction feature ensures charging even when the quality of the incoming power is poor.

The Combi can connect the inverter output in parallel with shore or generator power. An extended remote panel is delivered as standard (ICC panel), with the Masterlink/MICC being optional. This panel controls the entire DC system, offering amp/ hour counting and historical information.

Mastervolt moved its Maine operations to Baltimore in November and re-opened its warehouse facilities in Ft. Lauderdale at 3211 S. Andrews Ave.

For more information, visit www.

mastervolt.com or call +1-954-779-2627.

ACR to ship auto-EPIRB units

ACR Electronics, a safety and survival technologies manufacturer,

has received all international approvals to begin shipping the HydroFix, a hydrostatic release mechanism used to automatically deploy Emergency Position

Indicating Radio Beacons.The HydroFix will be shipped with

all ACR Category I EPIRBs (those beacons rated to automatically deploy and activate when in contact with water), including the GlobalFix, RapidFix and SATELLITE2 406 EPIRBs. The HydroFix will also be available as an aftermarket product as an OEM replacement and backward compatible to ACR Cat. I float-free mounting brackets.

In the event of a vessel sinking, the Hydrostatic Release Units (HRUs) senses water pressure and allows an EPIRB to be released from its protective bracket at a depth of 5 to 13 feet (1.5 to 4m).

For more information, visit ACR Electronics in Ft. Lauderdale at www.acrelectronics.com.

New outboard ultra-light, electric

Illinois-based Torqeedo has introduced the Travel 801 electric outboard engine, a high-powered, lightweight, foldable engine for tenders, dinghies and day sailors with up to 1.5 tons displacement. The company claims the engine produces the propulsive power of a 2 hp combustion outboard, but with considerably higher

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thrust and low eddy, making it twice as efficient as conventional electric outboards.

Torqeedo is first in the marine industry to use a 7.7-lb. lithium manganese battery, the company said in a statement. It can be lifted off the unit for nightly recharging. The engine can be folded down to 12.2” x 12.6” x 17.7” and packed into an included waterproof travel pack. It weighs 25.5 lbs.

Torqeedo also is first to use electronically commutated permanent-magnet excited external rotor motors (a.k.a. “torque” motors, hence the company name). It uses 12” x 10” high-performance, variable-pitch, variable-camber propellers, capable of 720 rpm at full power. The Travel 801’s input power is 800 watts. Rated power is 29.6 volts. Final charge is 33.6 volts.

Suggested retail price is $1,599. A replacement battery is available for $599. For more information, contact Torqeedo at +1-312-377-6116, [email protected] or www.torqeedo.com.

SkyMate gets NOAA OK

Marine satellite communications systems provider SkyMate has received full type approval from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration for its enhanced Vessel Monitoring System, according to a company statement.

Increasing numbers of commercial fishermen are required to install and operate tracking systems on their vessels to meet government regulations, including 1,100 reef fishermen in the Southeast who are facing a March 7 compliance deadline.

Using SkyMate’s low cost email, forms, and weather services, fishermen can now stay in touch with shore, fish more safely, and coordinate with buyers and suppliers to increase revenue and reduce costs. Grant funds for full reimbursement of the system cost are available from NOAA. SkyMate is planning to handle the paperwork so that a fisherman can have a VMS system installed with no out-of-pocket expense.

For more information, visit www.skymate.com or call +1-703-961-5800. New amp gives 400W to audio

The new ME-400 four channel marine amplifier from Poly-Planar provides 400 watts of audio

power. Crossover circuits and high pass

and low pass filters are adjustable to power subwoofer as well as standard speakers. Gold-plated connections resist corrosion, rubber mounting feet isolate vibration.

Suggested retail price is $330. For more information, visit www.polyplanar.com.

Light primer for light paint

Pettit Marine Paint has introduced Vivid White Epoxy Primer for pastel colors created from combinations of its Vivid antifouling. The primer can be used over the entire boat to protect steel, aluminum and other metals and to keep underwater metals from corroding. It also protects against the damaging effects of most industrial chemical fumes and high humidity, according to a company statement.

Vivid White Epoxy Primer retails for $79.95 for a 1-gallon kit. For more information and a formula for determining how much primer a certain boat needs, visit www.pettitpaint.com or call Pettit in New Jersey at 1-800-221-4466.

Novurania distributor of davitsNovurania of America has been

appointed the exclusive U.S. distributor for Atlas Carbon Davits.

The carbon-fiber davits manufactured in the UK are portable

and weigh 40 pounds. With optional multiple deck sockets, one davit can be positioned in different locations around a yacht.

The capacity of the davits is 1,100 pounds and they are available with mechanical and electric winch options. They can be stowed in a carrying bag when not in use.

The Atlas Davits will debut in the United States at the Novurania of America booth (E90) in the convention center at the Miami International Boat Show, Feb. 15-19. For more information, visit www.novurania.com.

New anodes protects boatsA new Maddox anode from Marina

Protection Systems has a more passive electromagnetic field to minimize wood rot and alkali attack in timber and fiberglass boats. A unique design creates four types of sacrificial corrosion at once. Trenches on the sides of the Maddox generate an acidic area for inter-granular corrosion. The anode’s surface creates a heat sink for oxidation and ridges allow for crevice corrosion. Water flow over the edge of the lip produces negative cavitation. The retail price starts at $77.50.

For more information, contact Marina Protection Systems in Australia at +61(0)438-110-764 or visit www.marinaprotection.com.au.

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NOAA gives approval to SkyMate’s Vessel Monitoring SystemTECHNOLOGY BRIEFS

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By Capt. Justin Newcomb

As captains and managers of Red Ensign yachts will doubtless be aware, the all-encompassing LY2 safety code applies to commercially operated yachts of at least 24 meters load line length but less than 3000GT. Although such yachts of at least 500GT must already be ISM Code compliant, there are Safety Management System requirements for those of less than 500GT.

Although under LY2 s.3.5, all LY1-Coded yachts have been allowed to stick to LY1 rules for certain matters, those of less than 500GT should have been in compliance with LY2 s.29.2 (Safety Management) by 1 January 2007 (under LY2 s.3.1.2, any provision expressed as ‘should’ is to be read as ‘must’).

For those remaining which aren’t yet in compliance, there’s no time to lose. Non-compliance can lead to detention under the Merchant Shipping Act 1995 s.284.

Fewer headaches, less work

In industry, good management is

seen as a prerequisite to efficiency. Greater efficiency means fewer headaches and less work.

Crucially, although there is no point reinventing the wheel, SMS procedures must be clearly drawn up for that very yacht. Some management companies have been using off-the-shelf materials to put together bulky, unworkable manuals. These are thrown aboard in an attempt to meet SMS requirements.

The crew soon lose interest, ignore them and don’t play their trump card: continual improvement.

The bare bones of the SMS cover all aspects of safety. Procedures are set out in an easy-to-follow format. Key is the overarching Health & Safety Protection Policy, which defines the owner’s policies and the individuals’ responsibilities for themselves and each other.

The Onboard Procedures cover a wide range of areas including those to ensure compliance with regulations set out in, for example, COLREGs, COSWOP and the unending flow of Flag State notices. Equipment-specific and operational procedures are also

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clearly set out. Emergency Procedures save

confusion – and lives – in all possible worst-case scenarios.

On a slightly different tangent, yachts under 400GT (without an IOPP certificate) also need an Oil Management Plan.

In turn, these bones are fleshed-out with the appropriate familiarization training, and re-familiarization at the appropriate frequency, on all the many aspects covered by the SMS. The yacht’s machinery must also be tested correctly. In as much as the whole system serves to promote as well as safeguard safety, key activities and feedback (both positive and negative) is recorded, so that weaknesses can be pinpointed and improvements made.

As with the whole system, properly planned recording becomes second nature. To bring the SMS to life, however, requires a system that is truly tailor-made, involving some objective, experienced input from outside the yacht. This applies to the three-year obligatory reviews just as much the initial implementation.

Nothing complicated

The LY2 SMS brings to mind the mystique of the ISM Code. Although it’s not that complicated, this is a point in favor of the LY2 SMS. Many of the merchant navy captains and chief engineers I studied with who work under ISM are happy to do so. In a cut-throat industry they need ISM to ensure that owners and managers do not cut corners.

Although the financial restraints with most yacht owners are not so great, the principle is much the same.

Of course, there’s stick as well as carrot. It must be pointed out that the SMS will be scrutinized during the annual code survey and any insurance underwriter may cast a close eye during their risk assessments and especially in the event of a large claim.

There is no point doing the bare minimum: a good SMS will make life much easier, but a bad one won’t. An SMS on your yacht is not just a requirement but a common sense improvement.

Which yachts exactly?

LY2 applies to motor or sailing vessels that are: at least 24m load line length or, if built before 21 July 1968, at least 150GT; less than 3000GT; in commercial use for sport or pleasure; carry no cargo; and carry 12 passengers or less.

Load line length means the distance between the foreside of the stem and either the axis of the rudder stock or a point 96 percent of the distance to the aft side of the stern. In turn, this

is measured at and along a nominal waterline lying at 85 percent of the least moulded depth of the vessel. In the case of a vessel having a rake of keel, this waterline runs parallel to the designed waterline.

Being in “commercial use for sport or pleasure” does not mean that LY2 applies to all chartered yachts, which would include most yachts that were the subject of a tax avoidance scheme and/or finance arrangements.

LY2 does not apply to yachts that are:l Used on trips for which the owner

has not received money other than contributions toward expenses, and which are owned by either:l An individual(s) and just used for

the sport or pleasure of the owner or his/her immediate family or friends of the owner, orl A company and just used for

the sport or pleasure of employees or directors or their immediate family or friends; orl Owned by a club formed for sport

or pleasure and only used by members or their immediate family.

With a good and expected working

relationship between all the parties, continuously listening to each other about how their SMS is working for them, there is no reason not to get it right. A well-designed SMS – unique to the yacht – will help, not hinder, the captain in the management of his vessel and provide a safer environment for him, the crew and guests.

Capt. Justin Newcomb is a director with the Palma-based yacht consultant company MatrixLloyd. Contact him at +34.971.72.91.98, [email protected], or online at www.matrixlloyd.com.

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SMS has to be tailor-made to each vessel to be truly effectiveSAFETY MANAGEMENT

Island Global Yachting Ltd. (IGY) announced Jan. 9 that it has acquired the Rodney Bay Marina on St. Lucia and plans to “invest substantially” in both the marina and upland facilities.

The company did note that the marina will not close during renovation and that work will not interfere with the facility’s longstanding association with the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC), the 2,700-nautical-mile voyage undertaken by more than 230 yachtsmen each year. ARC has terminated at Rodney Bay Marina for the past 16 years.

“The Rodney Bay Marina is the leading marina facility in the region and is a cornerstone in IGY’s continuing expansion in the Caribbean,” Andrew L. Farkas, CEO and founder of Island Global Yachting, said in a statement.

IGY operates luxury and megayacht marinas in St. Maarten (Simpson Bay Marina), St. Thomas (Yacht Haven Grande), Mexico and the Middle East. IGY is developing additional facilities in the Bahamas, St. Maarten, the British Virgin Islands and Dubai among other locations.

Yacht Haven Grande, which opened in December, offers berthing for yachts up to 450 feet, in-slip high-speed fueling and pump-out, upscale retail, fine and casual dining restaurants, and luxury condominium residences.

New marina in Marigot Bay opens

Doubloon Docks Limited, the UK-based developer of the exclusive Marina at Marigot Bay, St. Lucia, has set its sites on attracting megayachts by offering a host of new facilities.

The $60 million Discovery at Marigot Bay project, which boasts a 57-suite five-star hotel and spa that opened in 2006, features a 40-slip marina and a marina village complex opening this month with

an upscale restaurant, casual café, two bars, a French bakery, boutiques, supermarket, laundry and dry cleaning, tour and safari desk, art gallery, craft shop, jeweler, doctor’s surgery office, pharmacy, car rental, Internet facilities, showers and bathrooms.

Other services will include FedEx collection and delivery, spare part ordering and delivery, boat consumables supply, provisioning, flowers, airport transfers, and yacht concierge service.

The docks in the southeast corner of the bay have been extended to accommodate yachts with drafts up to 15 feet. Yachts in excess of 220 feet have comfortably docked and enjoyed such amenities as wi-fi and high-speed Internet connection, fresh water, 110v and 220v electricity with 380v (50hz) outlets, and high-speed fueling.

The completely sheltered Marigot Bay lies about 3.4 miles south-southwest of St. Lucia’s main Castries Harbor. The bay entrance is on 13º58.1’ N 61º01.8’ W. It is an official port of entry with customs and immigration.

Discovery is built on 7.3-acres of land and bay formerly occupied by a Moorings bareboat base, famously the location where the original “Dr. Doolittle” with Rex Harrison was filmed, and frequently referred to as “the most beautiful bay in the Caribbean” as dubbed by novelist James A. Michener.

– Carol M. Bareuther

Loggerhead has ‘clean marinas’ Seven Kings Holdings, a South

Florida marina development and holdings company, announced that Loggerhead Club & Marina Riviera Beach, Loggerhead Club & Marina South Lantana and Loggerhead Club & Marina Hollywood have been

Island Global buys, will upgrade St. Lucia’s Rodney Bay Marina

The Marina at Marigot Bay is boosting facilities in an attempt to attract megayachts. PHOTO/MIKAEL LAMBER

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designated as “Clean Marinas” by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Six of Loggerhead’s nine marinas have the distinction. The Clean Marina Program recognizes marinas that adopt safeguards to help keep solvents, sewage and fuel out of the water, while protecting manatees and other marine life.

“Those of us with a passion for clean water and protecting our marine habitat greatly appreciate the dedicated efforts of the DEP and their Clean Marina program,” Raymond Graziotto, COO of Jupiter-based Loggerhead Club & Marinas, said in a statement.

The Loggerhead Club & Marina brand has 1,200 “Clean Marina” slips in Florida. Other affiliated Loggerhead marinas include one in Palm Beach Gardens and one in Aventura.

For more information, visit www.loggerheadclubandmarina.com or www.skholdings.com.

Angler’s buys Bonnie’s

Anglers Avenue Marine Center has purchased Bonnie’s Ravenswood Marina in Dania Beach and plans to make “substantial improvements” to the facility, renamed Anglers Avenue Marine Center.

The marina, located on the Dania Cut-off Canal near the intersection of I-95 and Griffin Road, will continue wet and dry storage as well as lay-day storage for yard projects. It offers hauling and launching (including a new 30-ton travel lift), bottom cleaning, bottom prep and painting, underwater machinery inspection and repair, mechanical and drive line services, electrical and electronics service, AwlGrip top-side painting and hurricane storage for the 2007 season.

The marina has 120 wet slips, 90 lay-day service spaces and 185 dry storage spaces. Mean depth in the facility is 8 feet. There are fixed bridges that limit height access by water to 14 feet.

The marina has expanded its lift-well to accommodate vessels with an 18-foot beam and has added guarded security.

In the coming month, the marina plans to install new lighting, build floating docks, add premium lift slips, and erect two service buildings, according to a company statement.

Fisher Island marina adds wi-fi

Capt. Craig Jones reports in that the main marina at Fisher Island now offers free wi-fi. The antenna is located atop the dockmaster’s office and should reach “all of the main/outside/mansion marina berths.”

Have you got a marina or port update? Send it to [email protected].

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Welcome aboard photo enthusiasts. I have mentioned that photography means “painting with light,” and over the course of the last year I discussed many ways you can control light with your compact camera – its shutter, aperture and flash. The most efficient application of these controls is

determined by your knowledgeable brain when using Av, Tv, or M, that is modes that allow your input.

When you use automated modes such a “P” on your camera, you rely on the electronic brain in your camera, which you may surmise is not as discerning as your own. It will make

decisions that do not necessarily achieve the results you desire. The problems that can occur often stem from how the camera reads light.

The first step to taking any photograph with any camera in any mode is reading the light or brightness of any scene or subject. All measurements are based on 18 percent gray. There are two general

light reading methods, one being an incident reading and the other a reflective light reading.

Professional photographers often use a hand-held light meter (independent from the camera) to make incident readings. That means measuring the amount of light falling on a subject. It allows for precise measurements around the subject in the highlights and shadows for more accurate exposure settings.

Light meters built into all cameras, including our compact cameras, read reflective light or light reflecting off a subject. Turning the camera on automatically turns the meter on. If in a manual mode, you can adjust the proper exposure (via aperture and shutter settings based on the light reading); in any auto mode, the camera will adjust the proper settings.

Are the exposures always set properly by the camera in auto mode? In short … no, and here is the why. Just about every meter in a camera

takes an overall light reading, which covers the entire frame. The “frame” is the rectangular area you view either through your viewfinder or on your LCD screen to photograph.

Camera manufacturers set light meters to take an overall reading with more emphasis to read the center and bottom of the frame (see diagram), knowing that most subjects will be photographed in center frame or the most important part of a pictured landscape is what is at the lower half of the frame (not the sky). Most of the time this works, but not in every case.

Light meter readings often go wrong when taking a full length subject against a predominantly bright or dark background. For landlubbers, the best

example is a subject against a snow white background. The camera meter tells the camera brain “it’s so bright, there’s so much light” so stop down the shutter and/or aperture. The result is your subject

is significantly under-exposed and the snow is not white, but 18 percent gray.

For seafarers, the predominantly dark ocean background will have the opposite effect. The camera meter tells the camera brain “it’s dark out, open up the aperture and/or shutter,” with the result of over-exposing your subject and background.

This leads to an important aside: In digital photography, it is better to err on the side of over-exposure (as opposed to film photography where the opposite, exposing for the shadows, holds true).

There are several solutions to getting a proper exposure in situations

Make your photos 100% better instead of 18% gray

See PHOTOGRAPHY, page B15

In digital photography, it is better to err on the side of over-exposure (as opposed to film photography where the opposite holds true).

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where the camera meter is fooled by a scene to take an erroneous reading. The quickest, easiest, best solution is to check your manual to see if your camera light meter (like my compact) has a spot meter mode. When set to spot meter, the camera measures a narrow area in the center frame.

Another way that is accurate, but not very practical, is to get very close to the subject to take a reading, being careful not to stand between the light source(s) and subject.

Knowing that proper readings are based on 18 percent gray, another method I’ve used is to aim at something (under the same lighting conditions) that is equivalent to that shade of 18 percent gray, like green

grass.You can only see the result of

a reading by a +/- (over/under) numerical value (on my LCD in the upper-left corner) when you set the mode to manual. And only in this M mode can you make adjustments for the proper readings by changing the shutter and/or aperture until you have a value of “0” that will result in the right exposure settings.

Let me summarize the principle objectives of this article. Every camera has a built-in reflective light meter based on an 18 percent gray standard. It measures (reads) light reflecting off a subject.

Readings are taken in an overall pattern with extra emphasis toward the center and bottom. Spot readings of 5 to 10 degrees in center frame are also

available in many compact cameras. There are situations where a meter can be fooled to make the wrong exposure.

If you can recognize those situations you can make aperture-shutter adjustments using the M (manual) mode.

With that said, permission to come

ashore.

James Schot has been a professional photographer for 27 years and owns Schot Designer Photography. Feel free to contact him at [email protected] with photographic questions or queries for future columns.

PHOTOGRAPHY, from page B14

The quickest, easiest, best solution to getting a proper exposure in situations where the camera meter is fooled by a scene is to check your manual to see if your camera light meter has a spot meter mode. When set to spot meter, the camera measures a narrow area in the center frame. PHOTO/JAMES SCHOT

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Feb. 1 to May 15 that lets all visitors, once they have cleared immigration and customs at their first port of entry, travel freely to and within the other participating countries. Those countries include the eight where cricket matches are being played, plus Dominica and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

Most yacht crew, however, won’t need this special visa. Nationals from Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, South Africa, Spain, the Netherlands, the UK and the United States are exempt.

For more information on the visa and for an application, visit www.caricomimpacs.org. CARICOM is offering a 24-hour hotline, a three-day turn around for visas, waiving of visa fees for children under 12 and some special arrangements for emergencies.

On with the matches

The ICC CWC kicks off with an opening ceremony on March 13 at the new stadium in Trelawny, Jamaica, and ends with the finals match on April 28 at the Kensington Oval in Barbados.

Along the way, the tournament will be divided into four groups with the top two teams from each group advancing

to the Super 8 round. These eight teams will play each other in a round-robin format. The top four teams based on points will then advance to the semi-finals, with the two winners competing in the finals. Teams represent Australia, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Canada, England, India, Ireland, Kenya, New Zealand, Pakistan, Scotland, South Africa, Sri Lanka, The Netherlands, West Indies and Zimbabwe.

Following are the eight Caribbean

nations where CWC matches will be played and information for those arriving by sea: Antigua

Sir Vivian Richards Stadium is located in North Sound, midway between the capital of St. John’s and the VC Bird International Airport. While St. John’s is the deep-water and cruise ship port, most of the marinas are located on the west and to the south of the island. The closest to the stadium is Jolly Harbour Marina (268-462-6042; [email protected]; www.jollyharbourantigua.com/marina.html). There’s a megayacht terminal here that has nine berths for yachts up to 260 feet. Each slip has 50 and 60 cycle, three-phase power, water, diesel direct-fueling including duty-free fuel with 48 hours notice, on-dock direct sewage disposal, 24-hour surveillance security, telephone and cable TV.

Barbados

Barbados hosts the final match on April 28. The Kensington Oval is located on a central location of Bridgetown on Barker Street. Barbados has a deep-water harbor at Bridgetown. The Barbados Ports offer


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Group stage matches(all March 13-25)

St. KittsTrinidadSt. LuciaJamaica

Super 8 matchesAntigua (March 27-April 9)Grenada (April 10-21)Guyana (March 28-April 9)Barbados (April 11-21)

SemifinalsJamaica (April 24)St. Lucia (April 25)

FinalBarbados (April 28)

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a yacht master guide online (www.barbadosport.com) with instructions for berthing in Bridgetown as well as an online form (www.barbadosport.com/YACHT_2007_html/yacht_visit_report.htm) to facilitate yachts who wish to berth for the CWC.

The Barbados Yacht Club (246-427-1125; [email protected]; www.barbadosyachtclub.com) is located just outside Bridgetown.

The island’s main megayacht facility is on the west coast at Port St. Charles (246-419-1000 x2230; http://portstcharles.com). Facilities include six megayacht berths on the offshore breakwater that can accommodate yachts up to 250 feet. Two offshore anchoring mooring buoys can fit yachts in excess of 250 feet.

Grenada

Queen’s Park is the name of a cricket stadium complex in Grenada. It’s located on the outskirts of the capital city of St. Georges. Port George, the island’s dedicated megayacht marina, is still under construction, however there are a few other marinas such as the Grenada Yacht Club Marina (473-440-6826; [email protected]), that are near town. Others such as Clarkes Court Bay Marina (473-439-2593; [email protected]), Grenada Marine (473-443-1667; [email protected]), Spice Island Marine Services (473-444-4257/4342; [email protected]), and True Blue Bay Resort & Marina (866-3BLUEBAY; [email protected]) are on the south shore of the island.

Guyana

Providence Stadium in Guyana is on East Bank Damerara in Providence, Guyana.

Jamaica

Jamaica hosts one of the semi-final matches on April 24. Sabina Park Stadium is in Kingston. Montego Bay and Ocho Rios are the two major ports of call in Jamaica.

The closest marinas to the cricket

venue, according to Robert Bryan, executive director for Jamaica Cricket 2007, are Trelawny (876-954-3229), Montego Bay Yacht Club (876-979-8038; [email protected]), and the Royal Jamaica Yacht Club (876-924-8685; [email protected]). St. Kitts

The Warner Park Cricket Stadium in St Kitts is located in the capital, Basseterre. Basseterre has a deep-water port. In addition, mooring buoys will be established by the Marine Department of the St. Christopher Air & Sea Ports Authority in Basseterre Bay, Deep Water Harbour, Frigate Bay, Friars Bay and White House Bay, according to Unoma Allen, corporate communications manager for the St. Kitts Tourism Authority.

The Port Zante Marina (869-466-5021; [email protected]; www.portzante.com), located on Basseterre Bay, can accommodate vessels up to 70 feet and 11.5-foot draft, however its adjacent cruise ship facility is able to dock the Queen Mary II.

“Once on land, the stadium is in easy walking distance from Basseterre Bay and Port Zante,” Allen said. “Deep Water Harbour is also in walking distance, but a bit further. As for Frigate Bay, Friars Bay and White House Bay, these are located in the outskirts of Basseterre and would require transportation to and from the stadium. We would recommend that you take a taxi to the stadium initially so that you become familiar with the distance.” St. Lucia

St. Lucia is gearing up for one of the semi-finals matches on April 25. The Beausejour Stadium is located on the Windward Gros Islet, adjacent to the world-famous yachting port of Rodney Bay (758-452-0324; [email protected]; www.rodneybaymarina.com). In addition to Rodney Bay, Castries, Soufrière and Vieux Fort are the three main ports in St. Lucia.

Rodney Bay Marina can



Port St. Charles is main facility for megayachts in Barbados

Beausejour Stadium is picturesque. PHOTOS COURTESY OF CRICKET WORLD CUP SAINT LUCIA

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“We are working with sponsors to create a village-type atmosphere for party events for marina guests after the games,” Didier said. “I will extend specials on a one-on-one basis for berthing. The marina operates a taxi stand which can provide all transportation needs.”

(Rodney Bay Marina was acquired in January by Island Global Yachting, the same company that took over Yacht Haven in St. Thomas. That marina recently reopened as Yacht Haven Grande. For more, see story, page B12.)

Doubloon Docks Limited, developers of the Marina at Marigot Bay in St Lucia, has introduced a host of new facilities aimed at attracting high-end luxury superyachts to Marigot, described as the “the most beautiful bay in the Caribbean” by novelist James A. Michener.

For both the round-robin matches in March and the semifinals in April, the marina will offer a special berthing package for yachts on and off charter that includes pre-booked high-speed ferry transfer to Gros Islet on match days and a range of entertainment and cultural events over and above the normal active Marigot social scene.

In addition, on March 13 (England Day), there will be a special series of events in Marigot starting with a lecture entitled “Cricket for Baseball Players” aimed at residents of non-cricket playing nations that wish to understand the intricacies of cricket.

This is followed by an exhibition and concert at the Village Community Centre portraying the history of Marigot and presented by students from local schools. Colorful local craft vendors will line the road from the village to the bay.

On remaining non-match days, Marigot will host “Algozin La Bas,” a wet cricket tournament on the landmark Marigot Sand Spit where the

palm trees and the waters of the bay act as fielders. Mixed-gender teams of five will play the Lucia version of tip and run against a mix of local village teams, national cricket fan teams, teams from Marigot Bay businesses and teams made up from the crews of visiting yachts.

The event culminates in a semi-finals and finals day before the last match in the round robin event.

A local restaurant will sponsor each day of the event and participants and spectators will then be invited to eat at the host restaurant for the evening.

High-speed ferry, water taxi and land taxi services will be available to transport guests to other island events.

St. Vincent

The Arnos Vale Stadium is located in Arnos Vale south of the island, close to the airport and capitol city of Kingstown. Megayachts should anchor initially at the Kingstown cruise ship and ferry berth to clear with customs and immigration. Other ports of entry are Blue Lagoon and Walliabou Bay, the later the film site for Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean.

Trinidad

The Queen’s Park Oval Stadium is located in Port-of-Spain and the new Brian Lara Stadium is situated to the south of the island. Port-of-Spain is Trinidad’s major deep-water port, however most of the marinas are located to the north in Chaguaramas and oriented to smaller sail and powerboats. Check with the Trinidad and Tobago Yacht Club (868-633-7420; [email protected]; www.trinidadandtobagoyachtclub.com), located just minutes from downtown Port of Spain, or with the Yacht Services Association of Trinidad & Tobago (868-634-4938; [email protected]; www.ysatt.org) for soup-to-nuts yachting information on the island.



Cricket is a fan favorite. PHOTO COURTESY OF CRICKET WORLD CUP SAINT LUCIA

Fans to get special treatment

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Take a peek now –Saturn will not be this close until ’29By Jack Horkheimer

The most beautiful planet in the solar system, the one which we’re visiting right now with the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft, is at its closest point to Earth this year during the beginning of February. Because it’s so close, it looks bigger and brighter to both the naked eye and through a telescope than it will for all the rest of 2007.

In fact, because Saturn is slowly moving away from the Sun, it will not be this close again until 2029, so have a look now.

On Feb. 10, Saturn is officially at opposition, which means it is precisely 180 degrees opposite the Sun. All that week and the next, as the Sun sets in the west, Saturn will rise in the east and will continue to climb higher each hour. At midnight it will reach its highest point due south and then slowly descend to set in the west as the Sun rises.

Just how close is it? Well, six months from now on Aug. 21, it will be at its farthest from Earth for the year at 952 million miles away. On Feb 10, it is 190 million miles closer, only 762 million miles away, and for Saturn that’s close.

We call Saturn the second largest planet in the solar system because it is 75,000 miles wide compared to Jupiter’s 88,000-mile width. If we count Saturn’s rings, however, Saturn is twice as wide as Jupiter. And, believe it or not, its average density is less than that of water, which means if we could find a cosmic bathtub big enough Saturn would float.

So sometime early this month, get out a small telescope and take a look at Saturn. You’ll be able to see not only its big inner ring called ring b, but also its narrower outer ring, ring a, separated by the space known as Cassini’s division, named after the famous Italian astronomer for whom the Cassini-to-Saturn space craft is also named.

Valentine’s additions

Every year close to Valentine’s Day I like to show you how to find a brilliant red star I call the Valentine’s Day star. This year, we have two added cosmic attractions for Valentine’s Day night: Saturn, of course, and the super brilliant planet named for the Roman goddess of love.

Any night in the middle of February, including Valentine’s Day night, face west just after sunset and you will see the most brilliant planet of them all, 8,000-mile-wide Venus. Venus is the same size as Earth but much more

brilliant because it is completely covered by a layer of clouds, which makes it act like a giant mirror for the sunlight that bounces off it. At about 8 p.m., look due east and just above the horizon you’ll see a light not as bright as Venus. With a telescope, you’ll be able to see the loveliest planet, 75,000-mile-wide Saturn.

Then, between 8 and 9 p.m., face south and you’ll see the bright red Valentine’s Day star. Coincidentally, it

reaches its highest point above the horizon every Valentine’s week about this time. It is, in fact, the brightest red star we can see with the naked eye. It marks the shoulder star of Orion the Hunter and its name is Betelgeuse. If you’ve ever wanted

to give your loved one a really big Valentine, this is about as big as it gets. In fact if we compare Betelgeuse with our own star, our 865,000-mile-wide Sun, Betelgeuse is so humongous we could fit more than 160 million Suns inside it.

And that’s when Betelgeuse is at its smallest size because Betelgeuse changes its size regularly like a gigantic slowly pulsating Valentine heart, one that beats however only once every six years. When Betelgeuse is fully contracted at its smallest size it is a whopping 500 times the width of our Sun but when it expands to its biggest size it is a super 900 times as wide. In fact if we could place the smallest Betelgeuse where our Sun is, it would reach out past the orbits of Mercury, Venus and Earth all the way to Mars. At its largest, Betelgeuse would stretch almost all the way to Jupiter.

So there you have it. In the west the planet named for the goddess of love, in the east the exquisite Lord of the Rings, and in the south the biggest cosmic Valentine you’ll ever see, a giant red star slowly beating like a heavenly heart for the one you love.

Is this a romantic cosmos or what?

Jack Horkheimer is executive director of the Miami Museum of Science. This is the script for his weekly television show co-produced by the museum and WPBT Channel 2 in Miami. It is seen on public television stations around the world. For more information about stars, visit www.jackstargazer.com.

Sometime early this month, get out a small telescope and look at Saturn. You’ll be able to see not only its big inner ring called ring b, but also its narrower outer ring, ring a.

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Compared with its stepping-stone neighbors some 40 miles to the north, the island nation of St. Croix has always been more of an out-of-the-way cruising destination. As such, the marine scene here isn’t as big, or developed.

The southernmost and largest of the U.S. Virgin Islands, St. Croix is 7 miles wide and 28 miles long. Columbus named the island Santa Cruz when he made landfall at Salt River on his second voyage to the New World in 1493.

Over the next 500 years, seven nations owned St. Croix. You’ll see these nations’ flags symbolically hanging at several destinations on the island, including along the dock at the St. Croix Yacht Club.

The main port of entry is Christiansted, located mid-island on the north shore, and one of two main towns on the island; the other is Frederiksted to the west. Follow the marker buoys when entering the harbor as a long reef protects it. The schooner channel that runs east of the bright yellow two-story Fort Christiansvaern and Protestant Cay is about 16 feet deep. It is best to anchor northwest of the fort and southwest of little Protestant Cay.

Christiansted is a delightful study in Danish architecture. The Danes owned the island for much of the time between 1733 until 1917 when the U.S bought the Virgins. The National Park Services overseas the fort and the surrounding historic site that comprises the Steeple Building Museum, the Old Scale House, Old Customs House and Danish West Indian and Guinea Company Warehouse.

This area makes a fun walking tour, ending at one of the many bars and

restaurants along the Christiansted Boardwalk. It is here in the harbor in front of the boardwalk that the bulk of the boating action on the island takes place: day sail catamarans, dive boats, sports fishing charters and term charters as well as sailing instruction out of Jones Maritime Company, formerly the Annapolis Sailing School.

Customs and immigration offices are located at the far east of the Christiansted Harbor at Gallows Bay. You need to clear here only if you haven’t previously cleared in at Puerto Rico, St. Thomas or St. John. There is no cruising permit required, but if you decide to stay in the U.S. Virgin Islands longer than six months, you must register your vessel with the Virgin Islands Department of Planning and Natural Resources.

Mooring permits aren’t required for any public moorings. Public moorings are day use only, with a three-hour time limit, and limited to vessels 60 feet or less. The National Park Service does maintain 12 moorings (round

Christiansted harbor: central to St. Croix’s boating action. PHOTOS/DEAN BARNES

St. Croix a bit out of the way,but trip proves worthwhile

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Flags of the nations that once owned St. Croix line the dock at the St. Croix Yacht Club.

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St. Croix Marine, one of three marinas on the island, is located here in Gallows Bay. The marina offers long- and short-term dockage, fuel, ice, showers, a chandlery, and myriad marine fix-it services. Within walking distance there are several restaurants, banks, a post office, hardware store, an Internet café, and grocery store.

The two other marinas on the island are at Salt River to the west and Green Cay to the east. Salt River Marina, nestled in a dense stand of mangroves, is one of the best hurricane holes on the island. Beyond that, it’s small. Don’t consider going in there if your vessel draws more than a six feet. Services are limited, but there is dockside water and electric, fuel (which requires 24 hours notice), a small marine store, restaurant and dive shop. Nearby offshore, the Salt River Canyon rates as one of the Caribbean’s top 10 dive sites.

Green Cay Marina has 150 slips with electricity and water, along with restroom, shower, laundry and restaurant facilities. Several of the commercial boats there run day charters to Buck Island, the most popular excursion on St. Croix. You can take your own boat to Buck Island. There is a designated day anchorage at Buck’s West Beach area, plus the park service moorings.

Further east is the St. Croix Yacht Club at Teague Bay. There’s a long reef that shelters the bay, but the break

in the reef is marked with buoys. You can anchor inside the bay and dinghy up to the dock in front of the yacht club. Members of accredited yacht clubs are welcome. There are no fuel or provisioning services here, but you can get ice, take a shower, get a simple meal and leave garbage.

“We’re a small friendly yacht club who truly welcomes our visitors, whether coming to race or visiting while cruising,” said former commodore Juliet San Martin.

San Martin oversees the annual St. Croix International Regatta, held each February, and the kick-off event to the northern Caribbean’s spring regattas.

One of the biggest pluses of St. Croix for megayachts is the low fuel prices. St. Croix is home to HOVENSA, the Western Hemisphere’s largest oil refinery, on the southwest side of the island. (It is worth a drive on the Queen Mary Highway to see it.)

Diesel prices are cheaper than on St. Thomas. For example, a check of prices in late-December showed diesel selling at the pump for $2.75 at St. Croix Marine and $3.29 at American Yacht Harbor in St. Thomas. Those who want fuel even cheaper can call and get a tanker truck to bunker a volume of diesel to the docks in Gallows Bay, shaving about 40 cents a gallon off the price. The downside is that the sellers don’t take credit cards, only checks written on local banks or cash.

St. Croix has a strategic southern location and cheap fuel costs that make it a practical and pleasant stop on a southern cruise en route to St. Maarten, Antigua or further south.


ST. CROIX, from page B20

February’s St. Croix International Regatta is the kick-off event to the northern Caribbean’s spring regattas. PHOTO/DEAN BARNES

St. Thomas’ diesel almost50 cents higher in December

CRUISING GROUNDS: St. Croix

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Feb. 1-3 Seatec, the 5th Exhibition of Technologies and Subcontracting for Boat and Ship Builders, Marina di Carrara, Italy. More than 400 exhibitors registered to exhibit, mostly from Europe, +39 0585 787 963, www.sea-tec.it

Feb. 3 Yacht Engineering Forum, Italy, specifically for engineers, architects and designers on issues such as on-board noise and vibration, power forecasts, project management, and approval by shipping registries. www.sea-tec.it

Feb. 4 The National Football League’s Superbowl XLI, Miami, www.superbowl.com

Feb. 7 Networking Triton style (the first Wednesday of every month), 6-8 p.m., this time at Shirttail Charlie’s, 400 S.W. 3rd Ave., Ft. Lauderdale. Sponsored by day worker-turned physical therapist Scott Sacks of The Pain Reliever. For more details, see story page A10.

Feb. 8 The Triton’s Bridge luncheon, Ft. Lauderdale, noon. This is our monthly captains’ roundtable where we discuss the issues and trends of the industry. RSVP to Editor Lucy Reed at [email protected] or 954-525-0029. Space is

limited to eight.

Feb. 9 The Triton’s Under the Bridge luncheon for engineers, a quarterly roundtable discussion on the issues of

the day, noon, Ft. Lauderdale. RSVP to Editor Lucy Reed at [email protected] or 954-525-0029. Space is limited to eight.

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EVENT OF MONTH

Feb. 15-19, 19th annual Yacht and Brokerage Show, MiamiThis is the in-water show

held in tandem with the Miami International Boat Show. Owned by the Florida Yacht Brokers Association, the show is held in the Intracoastal Waterway from the Fontainebleau Hotel at 41st Street to the Wyndham Resort at 51st Street. More than 500 yachts are expected ranging from 30 to 160 feet. An air-conditioned floating pavilion with 30,000 square feet of space includes accessories and services from electronic manufacturers, yacht builders, designers, financial institutions and others. Free, 10 to 7 each day. Free shuttles to the show from the convention center. For a list of events during the show, including The Triton’s mixer, visit www.the-triton.com/events.

Each day during the Miami show, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., you can see more than 500 yachts. TRITON FILE PHOTO

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Feb. 11 Author Nancy J. Cohen, underwater photographer Gregory Sweeney and author Karen Keberle will be at Well Read used book store in Ft. Lauderdale to discuss and sign their books, 1-3 p.m., 1338 S.E. 17th St. Cohen writes mysteries based in Ft. Lauderdale; Sweeney and Keberle have published a book on manatees. 954-467-8878

Feb. 16 The Pineapple Cup - Montego Bay Race, an 811 nautical mile run from Ft. Lauderdale to Montego Bay, Jamaica. Among the fleet are PHRF and IRC boats up to 85 feet. Traditionally run the first week of February, the race was moved because of Superbowl XLI being played in South Florida on Feb. 4. www.montegobayrace.com

Feb. 16-20 Mardi Gras, New Orleans. One of the world’s most famous celebrations for this holiday of excess before the limits of Lent. In the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the normally two-week celebration has been shortened this year to six days. 800-672-6124, www.mardigras.com

Feb. 17-19 44th Coconut Grove (Miami) Arts Festival, one of the nation’s premier outdoor fine arts festivals. It attracts more than 150,000 people and 330 international artists and craftsmen. Tickets $5, to benefit the Coconut Grove Arts & Historical Association’s Building Fund. 305-447-0401, www.coconutgroveartsfest.com

Feb. 22-23 Maritime Security Auditor (ISPS) course, Ft. Lauderdale. Offers knowledge and understanding of the ISPS Code to allow students to conduct annually mandated internal security audits. www.usmaritimeinstitute.com, [email protected]

Feb. 25-March 1 Intermediate Marina Management course by the International Marina Institute, Olympia, Wash. Prerequisite for Advanced Marine Management course. Topics include marina law, contracts, risks and liabilities, fire- and emergency-response planning, and fuel-system management. Fees – includes lodging at the Phoenix Inn, breakfasts, lunches, and all course materials – are $1,695 for members of the Association of Marina Industries, $1,995 for non-members. www.MarinaAssociation.org, click on Training & Certification, +1-401–247–0314.

Feb 28 Major League Baseball’s spring training begins in Florida. Baltimore Orioles at Ft. Lauderdale Stadium, 954-776-1921; Florida Marlins and St. Louis Cardinals at Roger Dean Stadium in

Jupiter, 561-775-1818; New York Mets at Tradition Field in Port St. Lucie, 772-871-2115; Los Angeles Dodgers in Holman Stadium, Dodgertown, Vero Beach, 772-569-6858. www.springtrainingonline.com

March 1-2 Hurricane Preparedness Symposium, designed for marinas, yacht clubs and yards, $150 by Feb. 9; $200 after, discount for additional guests, Orlando. Organized by BoatU.S., Marine Industries Association of Forida and Marine Industries Association of South Florida. www.boatus.com/hurricanes/symposium, +1-703-461-2878 ext. 3561

MAKING PLANSMarch 14 9-noon

The Triton’s third annual U.S. customs and immigration seminar. Several high-ranking officials from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security have been invited to update yacht crew on issues important to them. Don’t wait for the story to come out in the paper. Come, and ask your questions. Then take home a business card from the officials who can help you out of a jam. U.S. Coast Guard officials have also been invited to attend. This free seminar will be held in conjunction with the 22nd annual SeaTrade Cruise Shipping Convention and the International Superyacht Symposium at the Miami Beach Convention Center. Attendees will have access to the trade show floor and discounts for the symposium. Register online at www.superyachtmiami.com, or call The Triton at +1-954-525-0029.

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Feeling guilty that the lasagna you served to crew last night wasn’t homemade but from a box? Perhaps in the morning you serve as a side item to

the crew a French toaster strudel or gourmet doughnut or pancakes from a mix. Maybe the toast served with the eggs is made of wheat flour.

Why the concern? The big hoopla is the issue of trans fats. They can kill you over time, increase

your cholesterol level and lead to heart disease, not to mention that they add weight to your frame.

Many of the everyday convenience foods we might have onboard such as snack foods, microwaveable foods, coating mixes for fish, as well as white and wheat flours contain trans fats. Trans fats are also known as partially hydrogenated vegetable oil. It is manufactured by adding hydrogen to vegetable oil. Basically it is altering food molecules.

In order to add hydrogen to oil, the processing plant has to heat it at very high temperatures such as when the oil is burned, resulting in altered food. Who do we thank for that? Well, the manufacturers cutting costs is one, the restaurant using the product and, ultimately, the consumer who consumes the product. McDonald’s is being sued for $8 million for its trans fats served. One guy actually

The cons of convenience food on board

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By Marianne Gardner

Hugging my cup of coffee in the cockpit of my 39-foot sloop, sifting the grounds from the Bodum through my teeth, I look up in the anchorage at the big, white stink-pot anchored next to me. Over the rumble of its generator I quietly curse the fumes, but my eyes can’t stray from its shiny 27-foot sportfish tender bobbing silently behind, deep sea fishing rods waiting in their rod holders, live bait well circulating quietly.

Out of nowhere, I smell fresh-baked muffins and catch a glimpse of exotic fruit platters entering the aft deck. The smells drive me below to my galley where I toast some local coconut bread over the burner of my gas stove. It comes out a little black

instead of golden brown, but the pool of soft butter (my “fridge” is out of ice) will make it palatable.

Back in my cockpit I see guests emerge from their staterooms in white terrycloth robes and settle around the aft deck table, sipping fresh-squeezed juice and chatting over the tropical flower arrangements. I add more canned milk to my coffee, fluff my life-saving cushion, and eye that toe rail I’ve been meaning to varnish.

Suddenly there’s a quick release of pressurized gas, and I look over to see a deckhand filling scuba tanks, readying them for the day’s water sports. Wake boards and water skis are loaded into the tender, along with coolers of drinks, hampers of food, and soft, fluffy towels. I pull my crusty

beach towel off the guardrail and, mopping sweat from my face, I thank Neptune I don’t have a life like that.

Or would I prefer it? I had to admit it didn’t look all that bad.

I glanced over at the deckhand loading the toys into the tender, and he seemed happy enough. The chef chatted with guests, and the smiles and laughter looked positive. It wasn’t until I looked past the smile of the stewardess that I thought I saw a glimpse of envy as she looked back at me, wrapped in my sarong, chewing on my coffee grounds.

I have now crewed on several motor yachts from 71 to 153 feet, with a crew from one to a dozen, serving up to 15 guests. I attribute a

Why cruisers make great yacht crewCruisers like the author (seen floating beside her boat in the Cayman Islands) can handle anything on their own sailboats, making them experienced and versatile additions to yachts. PHOTO COURTESY OF MARIANNE GARDNER

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For most yacht crew, the idea that their yacht could flood or sink is ridiculous. Even if they consider that it

could “in theory” happen, the belief is that it will never happen. However, history bears witness to the fact that nearly every year, somewhere in the world, a large yacht sinks.

In terms of emergency

preparation, consideration of and preparation for events where water will enter the hull (no matter how unlikely) is a must. Do all crew know the locations of all openings in the hull below the waterline? What will a crew member do if he/she discovers water filling up the yacht?

As with so many things, preparation is important. Captains should prepare simple plans that identify where all the openings below the waterline are located. On the plan should be marked what sort of cover (if any) is fitted externally to the intake. With

this information, purchase bungs of the correct size and establish training routines to exercise the crew in what to do in the event of a given scenario.

Write down instructions of what to do in the event of flooding, including situations such as the fracturing of an internal water pipe (particularly when connected to a shore-based water supply).

Portholes present another water ingress opportunity. It is important for the captain to know where and when portholes are open. At the most basic, the porthole dogs (securing mechanism) can be changed so that they can only be opened with a particular type of spanner (normally consisting of a cone with a keyway). At least, however, have a procedure for checking that portholes are closed, followed up by regular rounds whilst at sea to confirm they remain closed. Include an inspection of all seals as part of routine maintenance.

As a yacht pitches, water can occasionally collect in the bow area, particularly the chain locker. If the spurling pipe is open (which includes having the plate cover over but not sealed) water can make its way into the chain locker. If a captain is aware of the problem, the bilge pump in the chain locker can be started to keep the water ingress under control. However, if the captain is not alert to the problem and/or the rate of down flooding is greater than the pump capacity, the yacht will fight a losing battle.

A traditional method to minimize or prevent this is what is known as a “pudding” in the spurling pipe. Initially the pipe is packed solidly with rags or paper such that the level of the rags is just below the top of the spurling pipe. Cement is then floated on top to seal the rags in place and (cement being waterproof) this prevents water from going down the spurling pipe.

A modern day alternative to this is to lightly fill the spurling pipe with rags and then to use expanding polyurethane foam to seal over the top. In either case, as soon as the anchor is walked back or let go (in an emergency) the “pudding” pulls out, opening the spurling pipe up for normal operation.

Another area for consideration is whether or not the yacht has a means of detecting water in the forecastle and chain locker area when at sea. If it is not possible to check without going out on to the foredeck, it is impossible in rough weather to know what is going on forward of the collision bulkhead.

Another emergency preparedness issue is the medical locker. It is important that there is a system for checking the shelf life of medicines so that out-of-date products are replaced by the time they reach their expiry date.

Access to and control of medical supplies is also important. Generally,

there should be one person on board designated as the person responsible for dispensing from the medical locker. All medicines should be kept under lock and key with an appropriate level of security to limit access to the medical locker keys.

In the event of an accident or illness where medical attention is required, the responsible individual can dispense the medicines required, making a record of what medication is given, to whom and noting what needs to be replaced.

Using such an approach immediately gives the captain a means of control over the use of the medical locker. For minor incidents such as everyday cuts and splinters that do not need recording, the individual can self administer. Keep a first aid box in the crew mess. For more serious injuries, the requirement to ask for assistance from the person responsible starts an appropriate chain of response and record keeping.

If dangerous or prescription drugs are carried (particularly pain killers) a more strict control system may be required. Such drugs may need to be kept in a safe with appropriate restriction in place as to who has access to them.

Sometimes specialist medical equipment such as oxygen, a defibrillator or a back board/stretcher may be carried. If this is the case, it is vital that at least one crew member has received specific training in its use.

MPI Group of Surrey, England, offers a distance-learning course designed to bridge the gap between master certification and the reality of running a large yacht. The course is sponsored by the Professional Yachtsmen’s Association and Middlesex University. Course material was created by Ian Biles and future topics include the legal aspects of yacht management, interior management, chartering, repairs and security. Registration for the next course is going on this month. For more information, call +44(0)1252-732-220, visit www.mpigroup.co.uk or e-mail [email protected]. To read previous columns, visit www.MegayachtNews.com.

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Some yacht, somewhere, will sink: Are you prepared?

Up and RUnning

Ian BIles

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Many crew members will have received basic first aid training and indeed some crew might have received advanced first aid training (Ship Captain’s Medical Certification). However, whilst such training covers the use of such equipment in a generic sense, if the equipment is used “negligently” as well as causing unnecessary injury to the casualty, both the person rendering the first aid and/or the captain could find themselves liable.

Many manufacturers will supply specific training on the use of their equipment, even if this is only an hour’s familiarization. If a crew member has been given such training, even though considered basic, it is important to obtain a record from the supplier for inclusion in the individual’s training records.

If a medical incident becomes serious and/or goes wrong, the captain should be in a position to show that he/she did everything reasonably possible before the event to reduce the possibility of further injuring the casualty by giving first aid.

In some jurisdictions there is a doctrine of the “good Samaritan.” In effect this means that the person rendering first aid is held blameless by the recipient provided it can be shown that the person rendering the aid was not negligent. Having received proper training will go a long way in helping to demonstrate competence.

For many United Kingdom-registered yachts, it has become standard practice to require a medical certificate (ENG1) by each crew member. (It is debatable whether such a medical is extensive enough for the

requirements of a superyacht crew.)Many medicals rely on the

candidate telling the truth. When in an employment situation where a minor medical condition could make the difference between gaining employment or not, there can be pressure to withhold information. As part of the contract of employment, the captain should require a new crew member to provide a medical certificate (ENG1 or suitable alternative) together with a declaration from the individual of medical fitness.

Two other areas for consideration are those of HIV/AIDS and drugs/alcohol. Both subjects can be sensitive, but both require proper consideration.

As the captain is acting as the owner’s representative when engaging a crew member, notwithstanding the specific legal limitations on discrimination, the captain needs to know if the owner wants a person with HIV/AIDS or a drug habit to be present on board. The only

way to be certain of this is to test positively.

As stated, such testing can be a sensitive issue (and in some jurisdictions compulsory testing is not allowed), but this is an issue that needs clear direction and management.

Next month: Record keeping

Ian Biles is the founder of Maritime Services International, a marine surveying and consultancy business. He holds a Class I (Unlimited) Master’s certificate and developed a risk management program for large yachts for a London-based underwriter. Contact him at [email protected] or or +44-2392-524-490.

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ate there for 30 days to see what the food would do, suffering severe health consequences as a result.

Foods containing trans fats cost less. Rather than adding pricey fats such as butter, trans fats save money in the long run and making products shelf stable.

Normally used to fry foods, hydrogenated vegetable oils lower the good cholesterol level while raising the bad cholesterol level, leading to premature death from heart disease, cancer, and other diseases. About 50,000 to 75,000 Americans die each year from heart disease that could have been prevented.

Denmark thought trans fats so bad it banned them entirely in 2003. The United States is finally catching on. It is such a serious threat to our health that a ban was enacted for all of New York City’s 20,000 restaurants. This ban will take effect in June. This means no restaurant in New York City is allowed to serve any type of food that contains trans fat. Chicago is contemplating a ban as well.

What this means is that restaurants must follow a whole new strategy if they – not to mention customers – are to survive. New menus and new food items will be created. French fries will no longer be on the menu if they are cooked in hydrogenated vegetable oil. No more biscuits made with vegetable shortening, no more waffles made from mix, no more tubs of margarine served with toast at breakfast spots. Prepared salad dressings and pizza crusts will have to be reinvented like the wheel, and some desserts with whipped toppings are also on the out.

Listed at the end of this column are some foods to avoid having onboard to eliminate trans fats from your diet. I am sure your healthy crews will thank you, as well as the owner and guests who are on a heart-healthy diet or who are watching their cholesterol.

Typically, Americans eat about 5.8 grams of trans fats a day when we should be eating only 1 gram. That equates to 4.7 pounds of trans fats a year we are loading into our bodies. Pretty scary, isn’t it, when you think of it as altered food.

Manufacturers are not required to list a trans fat on a label if it is 0.5 gram or less so when checking labels, look for the word hydrogenated. It could possibly add more years to your life if you cut them out.

Instead of going for the nacho cheese dip and tortillas to snack on, reach for fresh apples, raisins, or fresh-cut vegetables such as carrots, broccoli, and cauliflower.

Instead of carbohydrates, which

ultimately play with your blood-sugar level and can raise your bad cholesterol level (LDL) while lowering your good cholesterol (HDL), choose nuts and seeds such as pumpkin seeds and sunflower seeds, which contain large amounts of unsaturated fats along with vitamins B and E. Walnuts offer omega-3 fatty acids.

The best way to eliminate trans fats from your diet is to prepare your meals from scratch. At least, cut back on processed convenience foods. Try replacing these processed, ready-to-eat foods with the real thing, real food. Foods to avoid

The bad list: white flours; sandwich spreads; junk foods;doughnuts; margarine; fake butter spreads;chips; cookies;fried foods; bottled salad dressings;non-dairy creamers;corn oil;cotton seed oil;cake;pancake or waffle mixes, and; microwavable, packaged foods.With what do you replace them?

What do we want to carry onboard to keep us going and our bodies eternally grateful to us for being so health conscious? Read on. Foods to eat

The good list: Dairy products such as eggs, cream,

milk and cheese; fish and shellfish; meat and poultry;\pods such as alfalfa sprouts, beans,

peas and peanuts; nuts and seeds; vegetables; whole grains; oils such as olive, nut seed and fish

oils.Basically, feel free to eat just about

everything that is real food. Red meat will have transfats in them but not like the kind found in processed convenience foods.

Now that you have these two lists to guide you in your efforts to reduce trans fats, you are certainly on your way to a healthier new you in the New Year. Your crew and guests will thank you. Safe travels.

Mary Beth Lawton Johnson is a certified executive pastry chef and Chef de Cuisine. A professional yacht chef since 1991, she has been chef aboard M/Y Rebecca since 1998. Visit her Web site at www.themegayachtchef.com or contact her through [email protected].

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A battle of health and wealth:trans fats bad for you but cheap

IN THE GALLEY: Culinary Waves


Recipe by Mary Beth Lawton Johnson

Photo by Jennifer Reber

This can be served any time of the year when you want something hearty but without all the fat. Turkey is healthy and tasty, too. It can be used in just about anything that calls for ground beef such as meat loaf, lasagna and spaghetti. I serve this chili with tortilla chips, low fat sour cream and reduced fat cheddar cheese.

2 tablespoons olive oil 1 small white onion, diced

2 lbs ground turkey breast 4 16 oz. cans red kidney beans, drained 6 cups tomatoes, diced 1 15 oz. can good quality tomato sauce 1 tablespoon Italian seasoning 2 teaspoons chipotle powder Salt, pepper to taste

Brown diced onion in olive oil and add

ground turkey breast. Cook until the turkey is browned through.

Add beans, tomatoes and tomatosauce and seasonings.

Simmer for 30 minutes and adjust seasonings as necessary.

Low fat sour cream and reduced fat cheddar cheese add flavor and creamy texture without eliminating healthy aspects of the dish.

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Chef Peter Ziegelmeier recently ran one of those fabulous charters and wrote in to share a recipe and photos. The New Year’s charter on the 95-foot Westship M/Y Water Gremlin was “a whole lot of fun and the temporary and permanent crew were great,” he said.

He created a word, gafoow, for any combination of hot meat or fish, skewered or not, comprising a multi-component presentation, especially some form of cold prepared or greens-type salad with a preponderance of mixed ingredients, either in classic or rustic cuts. The quantities are up to

chefs to experiment with.

Romaine lettuce, chiffonade Red and white cabbage, shredded long Boneless breast of chicken, sate cuts

Roasted garlic-sesame sauce Honey Dijon mustard White wine vinegar Mayo, Hellman’s Sesame oil Lite soy sauce (low sodium) Toasted white sesame seeds (add black

also for added contrast) Toasted wonton strips Toasted almond slivers Peanut oil Rosemary and edible floral Chives, fine dice Roasted peanuts, rough, crushed Toasted chow mein noodles Kosher salt, fresh cracked black pepper Marinate chicken, pan sear in peanut

oil, skewer, coat again with roasted garlic peanut sauce, skewer and rest.

Bake at 350 F until just carry over to doneness, snowy white in the middle.

Toast almonds and sesame seeds. Halfwill be added to the slaw dressing.

One hour before serving (to preserve contrasting crunch) mix cabbage with honey, Dijon mustard, white wine vinegar, sesame oil and a dash of lite soy, add salt and pepper to taste.

In large presentation bowl, place slaw inside, then surround by the romaine chiffonade. Place skewers around the salad, coat with sesame seeds, toasted almonds, chives, and peanuts.

Place toasted almonds, wontons, and chow mein noodles in center with rosemary sprig and edible floral.

Watch as the guests’ faces light up and serve promptly.

Chef Peter Ziegelmeier is available for freelance charter work, if anyone needs a fun, smiling chef. Contact him at [email protected].

The M/Y Water Gremlin charter crew, from left: First Mate Eric Simon, Stewardess Diannie Sevillano, Chef Peter Ziegelmeier, Chief Stewardess Claudia Jaramillo, deckhand/cook Ryan Thompson. PHOTO/CAPT. THOMAS McKENZIE

Spicy Peanut Slaw Gafoow & Garlic-Peanut-Sesame Chicken Skewers

PHOTO/PETER ZIEGELMEIER

Gafoow – good for you

IN THE GALLEY: Guest recipe


Here’s something you can take to heart this Valentine’s Day, or better yet, keep away from your heart: trans fats. You’ll find them in those commercially

baked, heart-shaped cookies and cakes as well as the everyday varieties, and also many fried foods such as doughnuts, crackers, muffins, potato chips, French fries and ingredients such as shortening and

some stick margarine.Trans fats have been big dietary

news for the past few years and are poised to stay in the media well into 2007 as everyone from Starbucks and Burger King to all the restaurants in New York City and the state of Massachusetts ban these fats in food offered for sale to the public.

Nutrition professionals have preached against eating too much fat of any kind for some time. So what are trans fats and what makes them particularly unhealthy?

Trans fats, also called partially hydrogenated or hydrogenated vegetable oil, offer no health benefits to humans, but are a boon to the food industry. Food manufacturers use them to extend the shelf life of processed baked goods and fast food. Some restaurants have relied on them for years because they are cheaper, because they recycle well for deep-fat frying, and because they add an appealing melt-in-your-mouth creamy texture to baked goods.

An analogy is the best way to explain what makes trans fats so unhealthful. Picture a chain holding a swing to a swing set. Each interwoven link is perfectly aligned to allow the physics of the swing to work properly. If one link is repositioned, a kink is formed and the swing’s trajectory changes, causing an erratic circular movement instead of a smooth back-and-forth motion.

Trans fats are that kink in the chain of fatty acids. This kink changes the structure of the fat, which in turn changes the function of the fat. Fats are usually fluid and help to make up a cell’s membrane, including cells on the artery wall. But trans fat is stiff and rigid, thus leading to a decrease in the elasticity of the artery wall and interfering with smooth blood flow.

Research has shown that trans fat’s ability to cause heart disease is more potent than saturated fat – the kind of fat found in animal foods such as red meats and cheeses. This is because trans fat increases total and LDL (bad) cholesterol levels and reduces the HDL (good) cholesterol levels.

There’s no debate, according to the Food and Drug Administration and

American Heart Association, that you should limit your trans fat intake. The best way to accomplish this is to read food labels.

The FDA required food manufacturers to list trans fats on their food labels as of January 2006. Although small amounts of trans fats occur naturally in some meat and dairy products, it’s the trans fats in processed foods that appear to be most harmful.

Look for trans fat listed directly under saturated fat on the Nutrition Facts panel. Ideally, you should avoid all trans fat. Ironically, this is one

caveat with the labeling. Trans fat that amounts to less than 0.5 grams per serving can be listed as 0 grams trans fat on the food label. Though that’s a small amount of trans fat, if you eat multiple servings of foods with less than 0.5 grams of trans fat, you could exceed recommended limits.

Also, a trans-fat-free food isn’t automatically good for you. Food manufacturers have begun substituting other ingredients for trans fats. However, some of these ingredients, such as tropical oils – coconut, palm kernel and palm oils – contain a lot of

heart unhealthy saturated fat.The AHA recommends that you

eat no more than 1 percent of your total daily calories as trans fat. If you consume 2,000 calories a day, for example, that works out to 2 grams or less of trans fat daily.

Another way to look at making sure you’re not eating too much harmful fat is to add the values of saturated and trans fat together to determine the percent daily value. Researchers suggest that the total amount of

Listen to your heart: Cut trans fats out of your diet

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NUTRITION


Most of us have at some time looked at a wine label and wondered “what is going on?” I remember being perplexed by a German label in a

restaurant in 1981. My bewilderment prompted me to read up on the subject. I was hooked on wine to the point where I eventually joined the trade.

European labels are by far the most complex. They have

evolved based on identifying the wine’s style and origin. World demand for wine has shot up and the New World wines that drove this growth focused on identifying the prime grape or the estate on which the grapes were grown.

When looking at a Californian wine, you will see that the wine is a cabernet or chardonnay and that is it made by Silver Oak or Cakebread because it says so. It is hard to find a 100 percent cabernet wine as most have to have 75 percent of the named grape to put its name on the label. It is more common to find 100 percent or pure varietal wines in Australia, New Zealand, South

America and South Africa.Californian labels can confuse with

the word meritage. This shows that the five main grapes of Bordeaux (cabernet sauvignon, merlot, petit verdot, malbec and cabernet franc) are used.

Most people want to know what grapes are in a wine. But is it helpful to know you are drinking Canaiolo (Chianti) or Picpoul (Languedoc)? Probably not, as these are lesser-known grapes. It makes sense to worry less about the grapes and focus on what European labels tell you about quality, who made it and where it is from.

In France the label normally tells you

the estate, such as Chateau Margaux in Bordeaux, or the producer, such as Vincent Girardin in Burgundy. The words Grand Vin indicate the best wine of the estate. For named producers, the label will say where a wine is from, such as the village of Meursault. The label may say if the wine is a 1er cru, Grand Cru or Premier Cru, often accompanied by a vineyard name such as les Genevrieres. Rarely and in less expensive wines the grape variety is mentioned. Finally, look for Appellation Controlee, indicating the wine is of the highest quality. Vin de Pays and VDQS are lesser levels.

In Italy, things get quite complex. In the majority of cases the origin of the wine is identified such as Barolo, Chianti or Soave. Again, grape names are often left off the label although Piedmont wines such as Dolcetto and Barbera are named after the grape. There is now a trend to add estate names to some of the finer wines.

Confused? You should be. A mark of quality in an Italian label is whether the wine is DOCG or DOC. This government-regulated quality mark attempts to assure the consumer that the wine is of the highest quality. To make things worse, some have IGT on the label (this is good, too). Do not fear seeing Vino de Tavola or table wine, as some of Italy’s greatest wines had this on the label (Sassicaia for example) until the government sorted out how to classify this great wine.

Decoding German wines is frightening. Basically, look for the letters QMP, which is the highest level. Then check for Kabinett, Spatlese, Auslese, Berenauslese and trockenberenauslese (TBA). These levels indicate the sweetness, with TBA being the sweetest and rarest of all.

Other information may include the grape variety. As the majority of German wine is Riesling, it will often say this. The estate name is usually included such, as Schloss Johannisburger. You may find the area on the label, too, such as Pfalz or Nahe along with the village such as Piesport.

Spain usually has the area on the label such as Ribera del Duero, Rioja or Priorat. Depending on the quality of the wine there may be an estate such as Marques de Murrietta mentioned, too. The tendency in Spain is to identify quality as Joven, Crianza, Reserva and Gran Reserva depending on how long the wine has been matured in oak barrels and then bottled. The Gran Reserve wines are the most prized.

Next month I will start to discuss wine regions and I will give more detail on specific labels.

Mark Darley is a managing partner at Seventh Street Wine Company in Ft. Lauderdale. Contact him at [email protected] or +1-954-522-5560.

Message on a bottle: how to decode those complex wine labels

By The glass

Mark Darley

WINE: By the Glass


lot of my success in yachting to having a solid background as a boat-bum cruising on a limited budget, believe it or not.

Sailboat cruisers possess, and later acquire, many qualities and skills that are transferable to professional yachting. Owners and captains will instantly appreciate that cruisers have a true passion for the sea and the boating life. Some crew who come from other backgrounds to work on yachts find themselves “tolerating” the sea, and find boating makes their work and lives more difficult instead of more enjoyable.

Cruisers are familiar and comfortable with the special circumstances involved in living and working on boats, such as dealing with seasickness, and they are used to the extra energy required just to be on a moving vessel.

Cruisers are flexible and versatile, two of the most valuable skills owners and captains look for when hiring crew. Anyone who can cook lunch while sailing through a gale and repair the autopilot at the same time will be a bonus to any professional crew.

In addition, cruisers are familiar with their boats, the systems and navigation. Although the systems on a megayacht are obviously larger and more complicated, they follow the same principles. Basic sailboat knowledge helps with troubleshooting, if nothing else.

I once had a tie bar that controlled the rudders on a 71-foot yacht break. I made a splint with two crescent wrenches and a Latitude 38 magazine, enabling me to steer the final 60 miles

into harbor. You won’t find that kind of quick thinking from a textbook yachty.

Many cruising couples are ideal candidates to work on smaller yachts, up to about 100 feet. A captain/engineer and cook/stewardess team is an extension of what cruisers do every day. They’re used to working and living together 24/7 and helping each other when needed.

Cruisers also make ideal job-sharing teams. More and more owners are hiring two captain/chef teams to alternate working six months on/six months off (without pay). This is perfect for cruisers as it gives them a reasonable income and allows them time off to cruise, with a job to go back to.

The plus for the owner, of course, is that every six months there is a fresh and energetic crew. The risk of high turnover of crew due to burnout is eliminated.

Now, when I suck on that Bodum coffee in the cockpit of my sailboat, I look up at the big, white beasts in a new way. I know what it’s like to work and live on motor yachts, and I also understand the envy I saw in the eyes of that stewardess so many years ago.

As a cruiser and professional yacht crew member, I have the best of both worlds.

Marianne Gardner has sailed her own and others’ boats around the world for the past 15 years. She started working on motor yachts in 2001. She and her partner, Capt. Mike McKee, alternate working on yachts and cruising on her Corbin 39 Dolphin Spirit, which now lies in Australia, awaiting the next cruise. Contact her through [email protected].

Forget ‘tolerating’ the sea,cruisers have a passion for it

The author, left, works part of the year on yachts, giving her the best of both worlds. PHOTO COURTESY OF MARIANNE GARDNER

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saturated and trans fat combined should not exceed 15 to 20 grams per day, based on a 2,000-calorie diet.

In the end, just because trans fats and saturated fats can hurt your heart almost as much as a jilted Valentine romance, all fats aren’t bad.

You need some fat in your diet for good health. Just switch to healthier

fats such as olive, peanut, flaxseed and canola oils as well as foods that contain unsaturated omega-3 fatty acids such as salmon, halibut, sardines, albacore tuna, trout, herring, walnuts, flaxseeds, shrimp, clams, cod and spinach.

Carol Bareuther is a registered dietitian and a regular contributor to The Triton. Contact her through [email protected].

NUTRITION, from page C7

Our bodies need fats – good ones

Valentine’s Day is traditionally filled with chocolates and roses. Sometimes a book of verse is chosen to acknowledge the day. William Shakespeare’s

“Sonnets” or Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “Sonnets from the Portuguese” are standard choices. “Leaves of Grass” by Walt Whitman is a choice President Clinton reportedly gave twice as a romantic token.

Any of the six novels by Jane Austen are another thoughtful token. Many generations of woman have defined their “prince” by the characteristics of heroes in Austen’s novels. Written at the turn of the 19th century, the classic love stories are full of matchmaking and mismatches, class constraints and cultural norms, parsonages and parasols. A number of the titles have been made into extravagant but forgettable period films during the last decade.

Those of us who are not dedicated Austen fans would wonder if there could be any contemporary relevance to the novels. That was my initial reaction when I read about the release of “The Jane Austen Book Club” (Penguin Group, $14) by Karen Joy Fowler. Recently I heard that the book would be a movie released in 2007, and my curiosity was piqued.

On a superficial level, the book is indeed an homage to Austen. Fowler cleverly weaves the Austen plots into a character study of six book club participants. Five women and one man in central California agree to discuss the novels of Austen.

Over the course of six months Fowler dissects contemporary relationships with humor and a sharp edge of social comment.

One of the book club members is dealing with the end of a long and seemingly wonderful marriage. “Emma” is suggested as the first book because “no one has ever read it and wished to

be married.”The first discussion (and chapter)

ends with a member’s description of how the merits of show dogs are judged. “The dog show emphasizes bloodline, appearance, and comportment, but money and breeding are never far from anyone’s mind.” Her description is equally applicable to the plot of “Emma.”

“The Jane Austen Book Club” is a quick but enjoyable read. Pleased that the producer of the upcoming film caused me to take a second look, I am convinced both Austen and Fowler are comic geniuses. Courtship and love are the stage for both authors to address the ageless issues of woman. Intimate choices, financial barriers, and dependency are the soul of the ironic prose.

“We really could not approve of someone who showed up with an obviously new book.”

If you never have or long ago read Jane Austen, the reader’s guide edition provides a short summary of each novel. The summaries are just enough for those of us who do not have well-worn copies in our bookcase to fully appreciate the parallels.

Also in the appendix are centuries of comments on Austen’s work. From Kipling to Amis and Cather to Rawling, authors and critics offer their perspective.

Those readers who do have treasured copies of Austen may enjoy other recent books that incorporate her work. “Reading Lolita Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi” includes Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” as part of the history of the underground book club.

On the opposite side of the spectrum, “Jane Austen in Boca” by Paula Marantz Cohen is a humorous parody of “Pride and Prejudice.” The romantic comedy of manners transports Austen’s themes to a South Florida setting.

Donna Mergenhagen owns Well Read, a used book store on Southeast 17th Street in Ft. Lauderdale. Contact her at 954-467-8878.

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BOOK REVIEW

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It’s that time of year again. You should have received your year-end statements from all your investments. How did you do? Are you monitoring

those investments or is someone else? Often, year-end statements get a casual review and are filed away with all your other paperwork for the year.

If you have an old 401K, SEP IRA or 403B from

a previous employer, you might want to think about rolling it over. These retirement plans typically get forgotten as most people don’t know what to do with them. For many people, it just takes too much time to do something they don’t understand. Few of us take the time to manage an old retirement investment once we leave an employer.

We’ve all heard the term “rollover.” So let’s define and describe the process of a rollover. A rollover is simply rolling your tax-qualified investment into another tax-qualified investment of your choice.

The process can be simple. If you have a financial adviser, it is a matter of signing the proper paperwork. The adviser will transfer your plan from one custodian to another. This process has no cost to you and will ensure you have no immediate tax consequences.

If you choose to do it yourself, the process will require a bit more time. Contact the custodian for the investment you want to change. They will send you the proper paperwork to do a rollover. These forms should come with instructions; if they don’t, contact the customer service department and have them walk you through it.

The next decision you must make is whether to change the type of plan you have to a traditional IRA or keep it in the same type plan. For example, if you have a 403B and you want to roll it over to another investment company, you may want to keep it labeled as a 403B and not convert it to a traditional IRA.

If you do keep it as a 403B, you retain some of the 403B benefits, for example you can typically borrow against a 403B without penalties. However, in most cases you cannot make new contributions to a 403B that has been rolled over.

Choosing the right retirement plan for an individual, small business or a self-employed person can be confusing.

There are many choices available. Some of these options are the traditional or Roth IRA, SEP IRA, a Simple IRA, profit sharing, defined benefit plans and individual 401(k)s.

If you are self employed now and have a current plan you may be able to roll another investment into your current investment.

If you are self employed and don’t have a retirement plan, while easy to establish, individual 401(k) documents are more complex than those of a SEP or Simple IRA. This generally means that a third-party provides the plan document, keeps the plan up to date, and files reports. (The good news is that the income tax savings should more than pay for the needed administration.)

As is the case with any voyage, you must plot out the solution that fits your needs. So how do you determine

which option is best for you? If you are an employee, you will have to roll your investment into a traditional IRA or similar plan mentioned above. If you are self employed, you can establish your own plan and/or roll it into your own retirement plan.

To help determine which plan would be best for you first identify how you pay yourself. If you pay yourself a large salary, then a SEP or individual 401(k) might be the best plan for you. Many people get confused regarding the amount of money you can contribute to your SEP or 401(k).

Salaries are the amount of money you receive and pay Social Security and Medicare taxes.

If you are an employee, then you have the traditional or Roth IRAs to choose from. Remember, it is based on your salary, not your income.

Start planning now. Remember, it’s your responsibility to make the decisions on your investments.

Capt. Mark A. Cline is a chartered senior financial planner and mortgage broker. He is a partner in Capital Marine Alliance in Ft. Lauderdale. Contact him at +1-954-302-2372 or through www.capitalmarinealliance.net.

Is it time for you to rollover?INVESTMENT CHECKUP

For some, managing an old retirement investment means taking too much time to do something that’s not well understood, so it’s uncommon for people to stay on top of things with former employers.

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Mark a. Cline

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Cuban Concierge. Translator/ship’s agent/expediter. Make your Cuban trip hassle free. Entry and cruising permits, provisioning, repairs, all ground transportation needs -- limo, convertibles, classics, passenger vans -- nightlife, fine dining, historical and scenic tours. Email contact information to [email protected] # 1500

The biggest yacht insurance agency in Israel and eastern med sea. more than 30 years of experience. Email us to get the best insurance. [email protected] # 1505

Marine ProfessionalsAttractive professional looking for a Personal Ass’t position within the yachting community. Very hard working and trustworthy. Available now and able to travel. Excellent resume with reference letters! Email [email protected] or cell phone 407-666-3911.Ad # 1454

Get a complete computerized inventory done for your boat. Experienced and professional. Call 954-609-9135.Ad # 1476

Fast paced, rapidly growing marine response company seeking personable, motivated Sales Rep. person neesds marine

sales experience preferably in Broward and Dade Counties. Computer knowledge necessary. Reliable transportation a must. Good benefits. Visit our website at www.towboatusftlauderdale.com to learn more about us. Fax resume to 954-783-9009 or email tinatowboatusftlauderdale.comAd # 1468

Boat Sales and Rental office, wanted Sales New and Used Power boats Rental and Brokerage. Experienced in Power Boats and can do little odd jobs. Call: (268) 462-5760Ad # 1469

Full Time Bookkeeper/Accountant and/or Yacht Administrator. Handle day-to-day bookkeeping, accounts payable & receivable, payroll, yacht accounting, etc. Great working environment, health insurance, bonuses, profit sharing, and more. Send resumes in confidence to [email protected] #1527

Full or part time Marketing Manager to handle our magazine ads, website, promotions, boat shows, event planning, etc. Great working environment for full time positions: health insurance, bonuses, profit sharing, and much more. Send resumes in confidence to [email protected] #1530

Full time Yacht Broker. Generous advertising, a support staff second to none, and a commission split that will keep you interested. If you are currently earning a good commission, then this is an excellent opportunity to expand your horizons and income. Send resumes in confidence to [email protected] #1531

Full time Charter Marketing/Management Assistant, need experience in managing a charter fleet calendar; using & updating the MYBA, Central Yacht Agent, and Charter Index websites, liaison with owners & captains of charter fleet. Lots of responsibility with wonderful benefits and work environment. Send resumes in confidence to [email protected] #1532

Marine ManagementWMG is looking for: Assistant DPA / CSO for ISM / ISPS management. Administrative Assistant for general office assistance & client services. Floor Assistant for shipping & handling. Executive Assistant for the CEO. Charter Manager/broker for Sapphire Seas charter fleet.Ad # 1481

For RentRecently modernized 3/2 proven crew house in the Citrus Isles.

South of Davie Blvd and West of SW 9th Ave. Close to shipyards by boat or road. Minutes from downtown, Himmarshee nightlife, beaches and marinas. On a canal with 45’ dock, water, electric - no fixed bridges. No live-aboards. Central galley with granite counter tops, stainless appliances gas stove and breakfast bar. Main living area is tiled with carpeted bedrooms. Central a/c, two car garage. Laundry. Rent furnished or not. Short or long term leases. Available from 1st February 2007. $1200/week $4000/month. Contact Mike on 954 873 3857.Ad # 1432

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I have a small nicely furnished bedroom available Jan 1st, 07 Rent is $500.00 per month, 1st last and security, required. The room has a TV with basic cable, you would share a bath room with me and all kitchen, laundry and common areas will be shared with one other tenant, so it is just a three person household. I am seeking a professional male 35-60, perfect for a Captain or a Mate. Located in Ft. Lauderdale off Davie Blvd and SW 4th Ave. No Drugs!! No Pets! Email or call to discuss. Marsha 954-832-0887; [email protected] # 1452

Captains exclusive 2 Bedroom 2 1/2 Bath furnished Town home in the heart of Las Olas district & Downtown. Walk to shops, restaurants, nightlife. 2 miles to beach. Corner unit with private gated patio. Tastefully furnished townhouse has fully stocked kitchen, a laundry room, large living room with wood burning fireplace, French doors lead to private patio, Skylight, Master bedroom has large walk-in shower and guest room has bath tub. Vaulted ceilings throughout. Includes; water, local phone, satellite TV, 2 parking spaces, pool right outside your door. $3,500 per month. Call 954 540 1808 or 954 547 6302Ad # 1478

Two bedroom two bath apartment in River Reach. Top floor corner unit in Gated Island community with 24 hour security close to Downtown, Las Olas, Beach, Port, Marinas,

Airport and Boatyards. 1-95 & 1-595 close by. Apt is completely remodeled including new kitchen and baths. Mexican tiled floors and new Berber Carpet in bedrooms. Washer and Dryer in unit. Nice balcony. Park, Water

and Downtown Fort Lauderdale skyline views. Many amenities, including Basic Cable and water.Jogging/Bike path. $1750 per month. Call 954 540 1808 or954 547 6302Ad # 1479

Room for rent in Pembroke Pines House. Private bath and entrance. Access to freeway, pool, parking, pet friendly. $700 per month. For more information, contact Trish at 954 438 8285.Ad # 1490

1/1 apartments for rent. Furnished and unfurnished. $900./mo. Plus utilities. Very clean and quiet, nice gardens. Two blocks from Performing Arts. Sailboat Bend Area. Contact: Russell Janzan: 954 294 9975Ad # 1470

Strout’s Point Wharf Company in South Freeport, Maine has a 130’ slip available for the 2007 summer season. $92.00 per running foot includes water and WiFi. 200 amp single phase electrical hookup is an additional $26.00 per running foot plus metering. Contact us with any questions. Web:

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Home in Crossiant Park. Great Place for Yacht Crew! Spacious, clean, long or short term.There is off street parking. Minutes to Downtown and minutes by bike or car to all Marinas. Call 954-873-5454Ad #1459

Savannah, 3 bedroom, 2 bath beautiful 2 story home. Great for crew while in the yard. Located between Thunderbolt and Global ship yards. All new furniture, beds, and kitchen. $ 3000. per month, utilities included. Contact David at 954-258-1517 or 954-564-4752.

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Beautiful, sunny 2 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom, three story town home. Constructed in 2004 with custom interior, 9’ ceilings, black granite counter tops, matching appliances and wooden blinds throughout. Pets welcome. Pool and BBQ facilities. Centered between beach marina’s and shipyards. Lowest maintenance costs in the area at $245 a month. This town home is available to the savvy investor for $434,000. All offers considered. Call Susan on 954 816 8338 to view or make me an offer now!Ad # 1431

New. Never installed. Leisure Furl - carbon fiber with aluminum rollers and fittings. Made by Martin Marine in New Zealand. 25 feet 11.5 inches long. 17.25 x 22 inches tapering to 12.5 x 16 diameter. Can be viewed in Ft. Lauderdale. Also have photos. Check ad on EBay for more info - search Leisure Furl. Asking $24500. Contact Louis Graham: 954 630-0798; [email protected] # 1436

Unusual condo with two bedrooms and two updated bathrooms. Private balcony. Skylight in living room and master bedroom. 2nd floor unit. Pool with barbeque area. Located a few blocks north of SE 17th street Causeway. Habordale school zone. Central to marinas, Ft. Lauderdale Airport and downtown. Best value east of US1 at $243,200. Phone Louis 954 701-5776.Ad # 1437

1987 Nissan Stanza, extremely clean, manual 5 speed, 5 door hatchback. Even though this car has 234k it looks like new inside. Very good on gas and reliable. Must see to appreciate. Asking $950.00 or reasonable offers. No foreign checks, cash deal. Call me at 772-215-1742Ad # 1456

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starting and deep cycle batteries available. These are durable, long-life, high-performance batteries. $100 each. Call Michael at (954) 525-2323Ad # 1477

This beautifully maintained 3 BR / 2.5 BA Bayfront Townhome located in historic Hyde Park, boasts spectacular full water views of the Bay. No association or monthly dues. The lot extends from Brevard Ave to Bayshore Blvd., custom-designed, 700 SF deck with built in bar. The home has tile flooring and French doors.Large Master Suite features own private waterview terrace. Visit us at www.tampawaterfront.org or contact Anthony Sparacino at [email protected] # 1485

EV (Eurovinil) (Crew saver in USA) FL-6 Ref: 6650162 Serial # 66940132 MSRP $3400 Hard fiberglass case 40Kg (69 x 40 x 29 cm) Certification Expired - excellent condition MAKE REASONABLE OFFER (Reply to this ad online at www.megayacht.org)Ad # 1462

Raw Water pumps (Jabsco) complete Injectors (rebuilt) 9A31 (for 8V92TI-650hp) - qty 16 pump rebuild kits & other parts (Reply to this ad online at www.megayacht.org)Ad # 1463

This spacious 3/2.5 single family home occupies 77’ of frontage on an unobstructed deep water canal seconds from Tampa Bay in Apollo Beach. Enjoy the massive tropical conservation area with no backyard neighbors. This home is an engineering marvel built above the surrounding elevation and constructed with reinforced rebar corners. This waterfront property is ideal for a midsize yacht or large sailboat. To see more details go to http://www.tampawaterfront.org.Ad#1460

Brownie AM25S, 3 scfm - 3300 psi. Great condition, but motor needs to be rebuilt or replaced. Make reasonable offer. Reply to this ad online at www.megayacht.org ad #1461.

Great 4/2home in Riverland. Beautifully kept, new everything, ready to move into, over 1/4 acre lot with tropical fruit trees, fenced for privacy, close to everything, especially the marinas.Ad # 1501

Extremely high 17th floor with downtown skyline view and lights reflecting in your unit are just amazingly breathtaking, plus a view of the lake and the Atlantic Ocean. This condo makes an income of about $24,000 - $30,000 per year verified statement. Call 315.589.9841 Ad # 1507

An amazing “move in ready” home in the Riverland Area. This a 4/2 on a HUGE corner lot! An entertaining lovers dream yard-room for many friends, food, music and parking...close to all highways, downtown, boat ramp and boat yards. Parking for your boat or RV. Tile roof, solid CB construction, landscaped yard, Privacy fencing. Call Sara Nichols, 954-854-5424& mention this ad.Ad # 1509

3/2 Key West Bungalow, Nestled on 10.84 acres in No. Florida. Surrounded by 100’s of trees, including Bamboo, Oak, Magnolia, Dogwood and Pine. Sell as is $150,000 - furnished, includes greenhouse, workshop and small one bedroom apt. Near Marianna and Florida Caverns State Park, minutes to I-10. Scenic drive to Hwy 98 & the beautiful beaches of Florida’s Panhandle. Call John 850-569-5319 or Chrystal 954-465-7020.Ad # 1529

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