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November 2012 Network with Winterfest on Nov. 7 in Ft. Lauderdale
A12 Yachting women die A stew, chef and manager found in water in Newport
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Popular captain dies, 51
Pirates, fires and floods All in a day’s work for a yacht delivery crew A14
Don’t steer that way The starboard/port issue onboard the Titanic
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Capt. Ciullo dies Worked recently as broker special projects manager B14
SINK YOUR TEETH INTO THIS
By Lucy Chabot Reed Capt. William Shannon Crook – known in the Bahama- and New England-charter circuits as Capt. Shan – died on Oct. 13 on board his command, the 88-foot M/Y Lady Victoria. He was 51. The cause of his death is uncertain, but co-workers suspect a heart attack. His sudden death has left them in shock. Capt. Crook “It’s just devastating,” said Stew/Deck Dale Owens who was delivering the yacht with Capt. Crook and discovered him in the salon. “He was very well loved. If you didn’t know him, you are probably the only person in Ft. Lauderdale who didn’t. “He’s always so calm, so nice, so
See CROOK, page A17
TRITON SURVEY
Do you feel there is a need to grow the crew sector of the industry? No – 42.1%
Yes – 57.9%
– Story, C1
Tougher equipment sinks its teeth into the Dania Cutoff Canal in South Florida in October. Limestone slowed work PHOTO/DORIE COX in September, but only until different digging equipment could be brought in.
Dania dredging clears hurdle, ahead of schedule By Dorie Cox The dredging project in the Dania Cutoff Canal near Ft. Lauderdale is proceeding faster than planned, already past Dania Cut Super Yacht Repair. In late October, the dredge
equipment moved beyond the yard, making way for the shipyard to begin plans to dredge its basin, said shipyard operations manager Jason Harrington. “The project is going well and may be completed earlier than March,” said David K. Roach, executive director of
the Florida Inland Navigation District (FIND). FIND provides the majority of money required to dredge the canal and oversees the project. The increase in depth, from about 10
See DREDGE, page A18
Every crew onboard is an untrained manager Yacht captains are ultimately responsible for managing their crew. At the same time, they expect crew to manage each other and themselves. And all of this without formal industry training for anyone. “Captains learn to drive and run a boat, but they aren’t trained to manage From the Bridge crew,” a captain said at this month’s Dorie Cox Triton Bridge luncheon. So the group discussed how it
happens that everyone works together onboard. Several in the group said many careers offer personnel management training but not yachting. “The owner employs the captain to manage, therefore he is hired to manage the people,” a captain said. “And as crew, their job is to maintain the peace,” another captain said. 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 A16. For crew to live and work together
requires a lot of management, so the group at the monthly luncheon talked about how it works. Several captains previously had exposure to professional training in non-maritime jobs. One captain had a career in finance, but his job as supervisor didn’t start well. “The boss said, ‘your staff doesn’t like you because you don’t interact with them’,” he said. There were courses in business management but not courses to manage people, he said. So, he learned by watching other managers.
See BRIDGE, page A16