TT FLIBS 2012 Saturday

o o o Test Your Mates Find out how nautical you and your crew mates are with this quiz. n The turning circle of a vessel is the path followed by which?

The center of gravity; the outermost part of the vessel while making the circle; the bow; the tipping center. n Which spice has been clinically proven to be twice as effective as Dramamine in fighting motion sickness? Turmeric; ginger; cumin; cayenne pepper?

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Sunset: 6:42 pm; Sunrise: 7:27 am (Sunday) Moonrise: 5:21 pm; 92% illuminated High tides: 7:44 pm / 8:16 am (Sunday) Low tides: 1:57 pm / 2:13 am (Sunday)

BY THE BOOK: Capt. David Clarke of the 240-foot M/Y Laurel doesn’t mind all the paperwork onboard; and now neither will you.

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Captain gives all his ‘secrets’ away

By Lucy Chabot Reed

MIASF Industry Appreciation party aboard the Aqualounge, M/V Floridian Princess, B/C dock.

Tonight, 7pm-1am Yachtoberfest, National Marine Supplier’s 8th annual boat show party, at Dania Jai Alai. Invitations required:

Monday, 6pm PYA regional meeting, introducing the new interior GUEST curriculum., at Bimini Boatyard. Includes napkinfolding competition; winner gets an ICT barista course.

Monday, 7:30pm 2012 Perseus Award and showing of the IMAX film “The Last Reef: Cities Beneath the Sea”. Invitation only.

Weather

Today: 20% chance of rain, high 87; 60% humidity; winds from WNW at 24 mph Tonight: Winds from WNW at 18; low 68 Tomorrow AM: Partly cloudy, no rain, high 83

Professional yacht crew can do many things. Besides crossing oceans and plotting courses without signposts, they keep a floating city operational. Being good at it takes years of experience and study.

But even the best mariners dread the paperwork.

A veteran yacht captain who has a knack for policies and procedures has created a Web site to share not only his knowledge of more than 20 years in yachting, but also his tried-and-true documents.

Capt. David Clarke of the 240foot (73m) M/Y Laurel has launched Superyacht Operating Systems (www. superyachtos.com). It includes more than 250 documents with everything

from a six-paragraph crew nondisclosure agreement to a 52-page deck department inventory spreadsheet.

There are crew familiarization procedures, safety drill schedules, monthly safety inspection checklists and pre-guest arrival checklists for three different departments.

All are available to anyone who can use them, for free.

“It’s a place for guys with no experience on a 30m or a 50m to get experience and to be successful,” Clarke said. “We need them to be successful.

We all want owners to have a good time on their yachts. Owners who don’t have a good time because of a bad experience or a bad captain get out of yachting, and they tell their friends not

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Cool giveaways worthy of your time Companies around the show hold raffles to get new customers. Several of these may be of interest to crew. n FCI Watermakers will raffle an iPad to eligible participants who visit its booth (441-442). FCI Watermakers offers a line of framed and modular watermakers, including the FCI Neptune Wall Mount system, which is less than a foot in depth. (www. fciwatermakers.com) n Bradford Marine raffles off a haul out and bottom job every year. This year, its added a prize for the captain, too: a new iPad. Deadline to enter is Monday at 5 p.m. The vessel can’t be larger than 140 feet. Stop by the yard’s booth in the Yacht Builders tent, booth 624-625 or fill out an entry form at

www.bradford-marine.com. One entry per vessel. Sponsored by Interlux Yacht Paint. n West Marine is having a raffle every day at its booth, No. 179, in the 100-200 tent. A winner will be drawn each day at 5 p.m. Prizes include: today, a Lowrance HDS-7 Gen2 Touch, a touch screen display for fish finding (value of $1,549.99); tomorrow, a FLIR handheld night vision thermal imager ($1,999.99); and Monday, a Go Pro camera ($299.99). n Though there’s no raffle here, the info sounds interesting. Every day at 11am, 2pm and 5pm, Phantom Services will offer yacht security and anti-piracy systems demos aboard M/Y Phantom, a 62-foot Azimut, F/G Dock 16.�

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Users can share documents, too to bother getting in.�

The documents are searchable by topic or department and can be downloaded as Excel spreadsheets or Word documents. Captains and crew then can customize them to meet the operational needs of their vessel. “We get them 80 percent of the way there instead of having to start at zero,�

Clarke said. “I want to share these with individual crew to make the industry better, more efficient, more functional and better documented.�

It took Clarke about eight months to accumulate the documents – and de-Laurel-ize them, he said – to launch the site, which went live yesterday. Crew on Laurel helped pull it all together, including the chief officer, the chief engineer and his wife, former purser Jodi, who contributed most of the interior and personnel documents. “I developed these systems with

the people I’ve worked with, and we tweaked them through just making the boat run better,� he said.

He hopes users will share their operational documents, too, to create a library of tools where efficiency is the goal. “It starts to build a little community of people who are willing to open up their playbook,� Clarke said. “Up to now, we hold these cards close to our vest. I don’t think that’s good for any of us. We all hire crew, do heads and beds, serve, do passage planning, bunker. We all do the same things. “And the guys who struggle with a part of it know there’s a more professional way. They just don’t know how to get there. “For someone coming into the industry, it’ll have all the knowledge they need to be successful in their career on a yacht.

Lucy Chabot Reed is editor of Triton Today, lucy@the-triton.com.

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DOING THE CREW THING, DAY 2: Dodging raindrops, welcoming guests Surprising to crew and reporters alike, the crowds did come to the boat show yesterday, despite continued rain and more than a gentle breeze. Many crew were so busy giving tours or cleaning that we could only grab them working. We were able to coax a few, though, to share some smiles.

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CHECKING THE TIDE: Do you get seasick?

Not surprising, most superyacht crew do not get seasick, as a rule. Even though they don’t usually get sick, more than a few admitted to succombing in extreme circumstances. (We counted those guys among the “no� answers.) – Dorie Cox Stew Rosa Ramirez M/Y Bri 141-foot Christensen “Yes, in the past in rough seas. I take Bonine pills.�

Mate Ryan McFadden M/Y Chosen One 120 Intermarine “Never, even eight years in the Navy. We would torture people.

We carried a garbage bag and just kept tying it off after each sick person.�

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Mark Rose-Innes M/Y Far Horizon 95 Cheoy Lee “No. For others, we shout and tell them to stop. Give them two Sturgeron and put them under the couch cushions.�

Mate Adrian Foulkes M/Y Unforgettable 100-foot Inace “If you spend enough time at sea, you get sick. There’s a wave out there for everyone. The best cure is to sit under a tree.�

Mate Jake Griffith 125-foot Northcoast “I have definitely been seasick. No stabilizers and no A/C in the crew quarters. If you haven’t been sick, you haven’t been to sea.

Fingers crossed for the future.�

Yes – 23.8%

No – 76.2%

Capt. Woody Kitney M/Y Trevia 112-foot Broward “Everyone gets sick.

To prevent, don’t drink too much, keep active and keep your mind off it. It has to do with how you feel, what you’re eating and drinking.�

Capt. Ross DeMay M/Y Prestige Lady 110-foot Westship “Yes, I get seasick when others get sick and with diesel fumes.

But then I throw up one time and I’m good to go.�

Chief Stew Jennifer Fallon M/Y Missing Link 112-foot Westport “Very rarely. I eat tons of oyster crackers; that seems to help me.

It could be mental, I’m not sure.�

2nd Eng. Robin Friaz M/Y Just Enough 140-foot custom “No. What’s that?

Really, I did once.

Everyone does.�

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Madison Glass M/Y Adventure Us 82-foot Hargrave “No, I’m part Norwegian. The rougher, the better; when-you-open-thecabinet-and-the-chinais-broken rough.�

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OFF THE DOCK: Some of the parties that have happened so far

@ Lurssen Hundreds of guests enjoyed Lurssen’s annual beach bash last night at the state park near the show, despite wet and windy weather most of the day.

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@ Dockwise Dockwise Yacht Transport, Owen Doyle Provisions and Global Marine Travel hosted a party last night at the Antique Car Museum.

It was prawns and Packards all night.

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@ Cable Cable Marine celebrated 35 years in business with a party at the show on Thursday night.

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PLOTTING A COURSE: Where in the world is our yacht captain?

Pull out those nav apps and find out where our captain is standing.

E-mail us your answer and one lucky winner each day will receive a dome magnifier, perfect for when you have to use paper charts.

At the end of it all, one winner chosen at random from all our respondents will win a Leatherman.

E-mail us at editorial @ the-triton.com.

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