Triton Today FLIBS 2013 Monday

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o o o Test Your Mates Find out how nautical you and your crew mates are with this quiz. n What does MODU stand for? n Which flag means ‘You should stop your vessel instantly”? n Which flag means “Keep clear of me, I am maneuvering with difficulty”? n What is the U flag?

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Sun & Moon

Weather

Sunset: 5:37 pm; Sunrise: 6:32 am (Tuesday) Moonrise: 7:35 am (Tuesday); 2% illuminated Low tides: 2:20 pm / 3:08 pm (Tuesday) High tides: 8:31 pm / 9:11 am (Tuesday)

Today: Partly cloudy, windy, 20% chance of rain, high 81; winds NE, 22 mph; 68% humidity Tonight: Scattered t-storms, low 75 Tomorrow AM: Cloudy, windy. 30% rain

Upcoming Events Today, 5 p.m.

Fraser Yachts Crew Network hosts an end-of-show event for the captains and crew on its yachts.

Nov. 9, 7-11 p.m.

Crew4Yachts Crew annual post-boat show party. Open to all crew. Theme is heroes vs. villians. Details at www. crew4crew.net

Nov. 16, 7 p.m.-midnight 6th annual Fort Yachtie Da International Film Festival, Cinema Paradiso, Ft. Lauderdale. Dress code is yachtie black tie. Portion of proceeds benefits the Marine Industry Cares Foundation. www.fortyachtieda.com

Nov. 20, 5:30 run, 6-8 p.m.

Triton networking (third Wednesday of the month) with a poker run and fundraiser for our scholarship fund at Broward College; ww.the-triton.com.

THE BRIGHT SIDE: As the great weather, crowds and potential buyers continued yesterday, yacht crew continued with smiles and tours. See more, pages 4-5.

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Saia joins B&B to revive charter arm

By Lucy Chabot Reed Three years after merging her charter company with a large industry brokerage house, charter specialist Jennifer Saia has started a boutique charter company under the Bartram & Brakenhoff brand, B&B Yacht Charters based in Newport.

Bartram & Brakenhoff had closed its charter arm a few years ago. The new company, which is a partnership between Saia and brokerage owner David Lacz, opened on Oct. 7.

Saia owned The Sacks Group Yachting Professionals for 17 years before merging with International Yacht Collection in 2010.

“IYC is a great company, but it’s big,” she said. “This is a much more boutique environment.”

Saia has relocated to Newport and rehired Deb McCall as executive and charter assistant. Patti Trusel will handle charter marketing from the firm’s Ft. Lauderdale office.

In discussing the move, several industry pros and captains noted that Bartram is dealing with the final stages Bartram of cancer. Expressing See B&B, page 2

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Bartram gave many captains a start B&B, from page 1 sorrow, they also shared admiration for the man they say set this industry on the right course.

“Joe is the straightest arrow in yachting,” Trusel said. “He’s not going to tell you what you want to hear, he’s going to tell you what you need to hear. You can go to the bank with what he says. No one in yachting has more integrity than Joe.” Over the past 50 years, Bartram and his partner, Bruce Brakenhoff, helped their clients find captains and crew, giving many aspiring yachties their start.

“A lot of people, captains especially, will say that Joe Bartram got me my first job,” Saia said. “They all started on 60-, 70-footers because of Joe and Bruce. Now they’re all running 200-foot yachts.”

Several captains interviewed yesterday noted how the men influenced their careers, and how Bartram’s impact in the industry will not be forgotten.

“The first time I met Joe, he knew about the previous boat I ran and he said ‘you just did a trans-Atlantic’,” said Capt. Butch Vogelsang, now on the 170foot Feadship M/Y Dream but then, fresh off a yacht he said really wasn’t meant for bluewater.

“I said I had and he said ‘I would have thought you were smarter than that’,” he said. “He knew everything. I was stupid enough to do it and Joe was right, I shouldn’t have done it.”

Jennifer Saia, left, and Patti Trusel, at the show yesterday, are reviving B&B‘s charter division. PHOTO/LUCY REED Capt. Vogelsang called Bartram part of the old school of yachting who had a way of making new acquaintances feel like friends immediately. In the early 1990s, when he and others of his time were running 75-foot Browards in New England, Bartram invited them to his house on Narragansett Bay. “Everybody went to Joe’s house for fuel, everybody,” Capt. Vogelsang said.

“Joe was the go-to guy. If you had an issue, you’d call Joe and he’d say ‘come to my house’. How’s that for service?”

Saia said she plans to continue that personal, familiar care that the Bartram & Brakenhoff brand was built on.

“The timing is right,” she said. “I want Joe to know that there is a breath of life coming into the charter side of his company.”

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

Superyacht summit on for spring

By Lucy Chabot Reed

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The U.S. Superyacht Association plans to produce a two-day seminar called the Superyacht Summit this spring.

Led by what event chairman Jim Perry called “compelling content”, the event aims to provide a different experience from existing seminars in the superyacht industry. Perry called for USSA members and others to contribute session ideas and said he’s

looking for support on the steering committee.

It will be held in West Palm Beach on March 18-19, the days immediately prior to the Palm Beach International Boat Show.

In related news, the USSA gave its first Chairman’s Award to Triton Publisher David Reed for his vision in helping get the association started seven years ago.

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

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1960 Hatteras rescued and refurbished

By Tom Serio Thanks to a recent full refurbishing as well as being rescued from a derelict lifestyle in a Panamanian creek back in 1984, the very first Hatteras yacht is back in all her glory at the Hatteras display at the show.

There’s plenty of history that goes along with M/Y Knit Wits, Hatteras’ hull No. 1.

Launched in 1960 by Hatteras founder Willis Slane, Knit Wits was named after Slane’s investors from the local textile industry in North Carolina.

This 41-footer is believed to be the first boat over 30 feet constructed of fiberglass, and her success paved the way for production fiberglass boat building in America.

Used as a Hatteras demo boat, she was sold and changed hands several times, ending up being purchased by a Panamanian in 1972. She was eventually left unattended in Panama City.

In 1984, Hatteras executives had an idea to locate and purchase Knit Wits for the company’s 25th anniversary.

Sending Curly Cook, a Hatteras employee from the beginning, to Panama to negotiate the sale, Knit Wits was shipped back to North Carolina, refurbished and used as a promo boat again.

Capt. Jimmy O’Neill, skipper and employee with the Hatterascal fleet for 10 years, discussed his time on Knit Wits.

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Capt. Jimmy O’Neill at the helm of M/Y Knit Wits yesterday.PHOTO/TOM SERIO “I took her for her first run” after being refurbished in the 1980s, he said. “And she usually followed the Hatterascal when we ran the tournaments and shows.” O’Neill delivered Knit Wits on a delivery from Miami back to New Bern, N.C. “No electronics,” he said. “Just me and my daughter.”

Versa Capital, which recently acquired the Hatteras/Cabo brands, supported the recent six-month refit of Knit Wits. Nile Mitchell, construction manager at Hatteras, said that with the new ownership comes a “new beginning, both for the company and for Knit Wits.”

Tom Serio is a freelance writer and photographer for Triton Today; editorial@the-triton.com.

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Answers to the quiz on page 1: n Mobile Offshore Drilling Units n The yellow and black L or Lima flag n The D or Delta flag n The Uniform flag means “You are running into danger”.

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DOING THE CREW THING, DAY 4: Future’s so bright Yachting’s future is so bright, crew just gotta wear shades. Well, that and busy days, long nights and the Florida sun, of course. We didn’t ask crew to take their sunnies off yesterday and they were much happier with us.

Maybe that’s because the end is near.

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It takes all kinds of people to work in yachting, those who have saltwater in their veins, those who tripped over a line somewhere along the way, and those who fell in love (with boats and/or humans).

And everyone has a story on how they started. Wandering around the show yesterday, I asked crew about their start.

Although many crew today stumble upon the industry, many of the crew I met yesterday took

matters into their own hands. After hearing about the industry, they researched it and moved to Ft. Lauderdale, determined to walk the docks until they found a job.

I was lucky enough to help a young woman get a few tours of yachts yesterday, too, and may have just tempted her enough to join the industry. Hopefully, she’ll soon have her own story to tell about how she got her start in yachting. – Lucy Reed

Chef Steven Strenkert M/Y Mea Culpa 130-foot McMullen & Wing “My first job was on a big classic schooner. I came to Ft. Lauderdale and walked the docks until I found a big boat.

That was 15 years ago, when a 120-foot boat was a big boat. I did two trans-Atlantics on that boat.�

First Mate Justin Lassetter M/Y Tenacity 94-foot Paragon “My uncle owns the yacht so I sort of got grandfathered in. After a year, I still have a lot to learn but I can see it as a career. I’ve had a lot of other jobs and this is by far the hardest.

Everything I’ve done up to now helps with my job in yachting.�

Capt. Pam Pulaski M/Y 4 Mal 87-foot Johnson “Wow, that’s a loaded question. I was working on cruise ships in 1990 when someone told me about yachts. I got a deck job and worked my way up to captain. I’m old school and I’m still working hard.�

Mate Jason Stone M/Y Continental Drifter III 124-foot Delta “I moved to Ft. Lauderdale. My first job was posted on the wall [at a crew house] so I called. It was daywork on a 120-foot schooner refit. It’s been seven years now.�

Capt. Ross De May M/Y Prestige Lady 110-foot Westship “I bought a new build to run as a B&B, but the company went under and took all my money. So I went back to work in construction, but I had my captain’s license, so the company I worked for had three yachts and I started by doing deliveries with them.

One thing lead to another ‌ it took us a year and a half to find a job, but we’re really happy with this owner.�

Stew Marta De May M/Y Prestige Lady 110-foot Westship “I blame the captain. I was a dental hygienist before I met him and fell in love. When our kids were grown, we went to work together.�

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