o o o Nautical Trivia 1. The running lights of a boat at night tell you three things about the vessel. What are they? 2. The modern luxury yacht market could be said to have started when?
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Sun & Moon Sunset: 19:25 Moonrise: 04:45 (Sunday morning); 6.5% illuminated Sunrise tomorrow: 07:20
S at u rd ay • S e p t. 24, 2011
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Today: Mostly sunny, high 26C Tonight: Partly cloudy; overnight low 18C Tomorrow AM: Scattered thunderstoms, warming to 26C; 40% chance of rain
(Hint: One of today’s top builders launched this vessel on spec for the U.S. market.) (Find today’s answers on the back cover.) Yesterday’s answers: 1. The yacht that beat the N.Y. Yacht Club was the 12m S/Y Australia II, Alan Bond’s syndicate. 2. A dogwatch is between 16:00 and 18:00 (the first dogwatch) or between 18:00 and 20:00 (the second).
Things to See/Do Networking When: Today, 16:00-on Where: E3 Systems booth, QS89 E3 Systems and its partners in the Darse Sud tent offer Mallorcan red wine each afternoon.
Networking When: 16:30-on Where: Antigua & Barbuda/AYSS booth, QSE6 Promoting the 50th Antigua Charter Yacht Show, the groups are serving rum punch til the rum runs out.
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GIVING BACK: First Officer Chris Lang, left, and Capt. Aaron Abramowitz of S/Y Perseus help promote yachting’s dedicated charity. PHOTO/LUCY REED
Yacht helps spread YAG mission By Lucy Chabot Reed First Officer Chris Lang of S/Y Perseus has been on a mission during the Monaco Yacht Show to give every exhibiting yacht a brochure about YachtAid Global. YAG is a San Diego-based charity started by Capt. Mark Drewelow who left M/Y Dorothea to raise his family. During a career traveling the world, he realized how often yachts stop near or sail past communities that need help. He started YAG in 2006 to use yachts to transport humanitarian and development aid such as school supplies, medical supplies and even basic playground equipment to children in villages around the world. Three dozen yachts have already
participated, including M/Y Big Fish (in the show on the Quai Chicane). Perseus hasn’t yet participated, but that doesn’t make it any less important to Lang. “We used Mark in a two-year trip in the Pacific,” Lang said. “He’s helped us so much, you can’t say no to him.” So Lang volunteered to help educate fellow crew, some of whom were put off initially, thinking he was looking for money. But YAG is funded by donors and grants; it wants yacht crew just to do what they do best: help with deliveries. “Our access to small villages and getting ashore, that’s part of our job,” Lang said. “A lot of boats said, ‘What can we do? We’re stuck in the Med.’ I just want them to be aware, so when they go
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