Triton Today FLIBS 2013 Saturday

o o o Test Your Mates Quiz your mates: n What is a rogue knot? n What is a semidurnal tide? n What does the Papa flag mean?

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Sun & Moon

Sunset: 6:38 pm; Sunrise: 6:31 am (Sunday) Moonrise: 6:32 am (Sunday); 0% illuminated Low tides: 1:49 pm / 2:06 am (Sunday) High tides: 7:58 pm / 7:36 am (Sunday)

Weather

Today: Partly cloudy, windy, 20% rain chance, high 87; winds SSW, 12 mph; 69% humidity Tonight: Isolated t-storms, 30% rain, low 69 Sunday AM: Partly cloudy, 20% rain chance

Don’t forget Tonight, 2 a.m.

Daylight saving time ends, so set your clocks back one hour. Check that your technology is set to adjust automatically.

Upcoming Events Today, 3:05-5 p.m.

USSA Pavilion hosts “Cafecito 305.”

Have a sweet treat and a cup of joe.

Tonight, 7 p.m. - 1 a.m.

National Marine Suppliers party.

“Yachts and yachts of pink” theme for breast cancer awareness.

Tomorrow, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

PYA and ICT on interior training and GUEST. Brunch at Bimini Boatyard.

RSVP to +1 954-779-7764.

Tomorrow, 3-6 p.m.

Marine Industries Association of South Florida’s Party In Paradise.

Benefits the MICF. At the Aqualounge.

Tomorrow, 6:30 p.m.

Luke Brown and YPY christen the Freedom Waters Foundation Deck Boat. Las Olas Marina B Dock.

THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT: Yacht crew take pride in their jobs. See photos from the engine room to the bridge at yesterday’s show.

PHOTO/TOM SERIO

Crew makes filming the show fun

By Lucy Chabot Reed Television crews were back on the docks this year, not only showcasing some of the spectacular vessels on display but also talking to yacht crew about their jobs.

A reporter/editor, producers and photographers with CNBC’s Inside Wealth team are making live reports daily from the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show, showing off the prettiest interiors, newest technology and latest gadgets.

Wealth Editor Robert Frank has also taken time to talk to crew about

everything from the long hours to the sometimes monotonous duties and the reality that while they get to travel the world, sometimes they only get to see it from a porthole.

“We want to give a realistic view of working on a yacht,” Frank said.

And as they hauled equipment aboard and set up temporary sets on deck, Frank said the working crew really impressed them.

“What makes this so enjoyable for us a crew has been working with the yacht crew,” he said. “Every single crew member has been so patient with us; I

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TAKE ONE: Photographer Gerard Miller takes B-roll footage of the show from the sundeck of the 150-foot Trinity M/Y Encore. The CNBC team visited several yachts in the IYC display yesterday, including M/Y Carpe Diem and M/Y Blind Date.

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Goal is to beat misconceptions TELEVISION, from page 1

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can’t thank them enough. To me, that’s what makes coming back to the boat show each year so enjoyable.”

Frank was working on a piece about yacht crew in an effort to make it clear that crewing on a yacht is hard work with long hours and not a lot of swimming off the bow with a beer in hand.

But the backdrop to all that is the misconception most Americans have about yachts. Yes, they are lovely, and yes, they are expensive. But they are more than a wealthy person’s toy. To many of us in the industry, they are the source of our livelihoods. They are an economic engine to more than 100,000 workers in South Florida alone.

With a segment on the network’s Squawk Box show yesterday morning, Trinity Yachts was able to briefly make that point, and point out it hurts the working class when politicians take out their fiscal frustrations on those who have money to spend.

“This whole political climate where the rich guy is the bad guy, stopping him from building a yacht is not going to hurt him,” said Billy Smith, vice president of Trinity. “He’ll just go to Europe to build it. Now, is he going there because of some perceived quality or is he going there to stay under the radar?”

The industry knows how this feels.

But companies such as Trinity wish

politicians didn’t have such short memories.

“We went through this with the luxury tax” in the early 1990s, Smith said. “Did it hurt the rich guys? No.” And then he ticked off a number of American builders who are no longer in business.

“That’s typical of politicians,” he said.

“They went after rich guys and ended up losing 10,000 blue-collar workers their jobs. These rich people create jobs.

“You want to redistribute wealth?

Build a yacht and run it for five years,” he said. “That will redistribute wealth much more efficiently than giving it to the federal government to use on a program nobody wants.”

Frank’s stories about the wealthy and their toys make for great video.

Who doesn’t want to see the bright yellow submarine, wonder at the latest technology and grow envious over the retractable television at the foot of the master bed?

But he’s also reporting on the industry that these toys create. Frank said the network is working on a primetime show for wealthy habits including real estate, collectable cars, and jets as well as yachts.

“For us, it makes sense,” he said.

“CNBC has a wealthy audience. We can talk to our audience about yachting without giving the misconceptions.”

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

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@ NZ Marine Marine businesses from New Zealand gathered north of the equator for happy hour last night.

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@ CNI Turn on the bubble machine, it was the Camper and Nicholsons International party on the dock last night.

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@ Ferretti Crowds gathered at the Ferritti Group’s party on the docks last night at the show.

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@ Lurssen Ooompa, it was Oktoberfest at Lurssen’s annual boat show party at Hugh Taylor Birch State Park last night.

PHOTO/MIKE PRICE

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Test Your Mates Answers to the quiz on page 1: n A seaman’s name for a reef knot tied upside down. n A tide with two equal daily highwaters and lowwaters. n Papa flag means I am about to sail.

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DOING THE CREW THING, DAY 2: On the job above deck and below From topside, to the bridge, through the galley and down to the engine room, crew at the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show prove they are masters of their domain.

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CHECKING THE TIDE: What’s your favorite onboard snack?

Today’s question of the day took a simple, somewhat silly tone. We were curious to learn what crew nibbled on throughout the day. Was it a favorite childhood snack like fluffernutter? Or something more exotic that the chef dreamed up?

When we dream up these questions, we have an idea what crew will say, so we’re interested to see if the results validate our impressions. (Take yesterday, for example. We bet each other that crew were very active on Twitter.

Turns out, they aren’t.)

Today, we thought crew would follow stereotypical preferences Mate Sue Aydin M/Y Trading Places IV 130-foot Westport “Ruffles. I’m not a sweets girl. I go for the salty things.�

Mate Ben Longworth M/Y Lionwind 155-foot Feadship “I try not to eat a lot of snacks, but when I do, I lean toward salty.�

Mate/Eng. Sebastien Lafaille M/Y Star Sapphire 117-foot Bilgin “Peanut M&Ms are my favorite.�

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2d Stew Ashton Whiteley M/Y Finish Line 120-foot Trinity “Roast beef roll ups with spinach and mayo.

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for snacks. Women would turn to chocolate, men to potato chips.

Talk about swimming against the tide. We were wrong. All the women we talked to opted for savory snacks: nuts, chips, meats and cheese.

Most of the men tended to grab something sweet, or mostly sweet, including candy bars and fruit salad.

And forget about childhood favorites or unique chef-created concoctions. Today’s crew reached for Snicker’s bars, gummy bears, potato chips, pretzels. Just one crew member mentioned a homeland favorite, South Africa’s biltong.

– Lucy Chabot Reed Bosun Lourens Rossouw M/Y Odyssey 134-foot Feadship “Twix, or yogurt pretzels. Another crew member got me started on them.�

Stew Lesley Call M/Y Antonia II 105-foot Azimut “Salami and cheese on crackers.�

Chief Eng. Tim Parker-Eaton S/Y Salute 184-foot Perini Navi “Snicker’s bars. It’s just right with the peanuts.

Not too sweet but gives us energy.�

Chief Stew Kasey Smith M/Y Finish Line 120-foot Trinity “... or ranch, depending on what mood we’re in.�

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