Triton Today FLIBS 2013 Thursday

o o o Test Your Mates Find out how nautical you and your crew mates are with this quiz. n What is the agency of the United Nations devoted to maritime affairs? n How many meters are there in a nautical mile? n What does EPIRB stand for?

ANSWERS on page 3.

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Sun & Moon Sunset: 6:39 pm; Sunrise: 7:30 am (Friday) Moonrise: 5:31 am (Friday); 8% illuminated Low tides: 12:21 pm / 12:39 am (Friday) High tides: 6:27 pm / 7:02 am (Friday)

Weather Today: Partly cloudy, windy, 20% chance of rain, high 84; winds E, 14 mph; 67% humidity Tonight: Partly cloudy, low 76 Tomorrow AM: Sunny, 10% chance of rain

Upcoming Events Today, Noon-4 p.m.

IGY offers food, music with Blue Haven Marina in Turks and Caicos. In the Builders & Designers Tent.

Tonight, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

U.S. Superyacht Association invites captains and crew for beer, wine and spirits to celebrate Halloween. In the USSA pavilion in the Yachting Tent.

Tomorrow Registration closes for National Marine Suppliers party Saturday. RSVP at nationalmarine.com/party2013.

Tomorrow, 8-10 a.m.

Derecktor Florida hosts a customer breakfast at the shipyard.

Tomorrow, 5-7 p.m.

Friends of NZ Marine host happy hour. Invite requested.

Tomorrow, 7:30 p.m.-12 a.m.

Lurssen hosts its annual bash at Birch State Park. Invitation only.

SWINGING ALONG: Preparations for the 54th annual Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show seemed to run smoothly. See more photos, pages4-5.

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Think this is late? Wait until 2015

By Dorie Cox Does it seem like the show is later this year? It is, but it will get even later.

The show has always been the last weekend of October starting on Thursday, said Carlos Vidueira. He is executive director of the Marine Industries Association of South Florida (MIASF), which owns the Ft. Lauderdale International Boat Show.

Thanks to the way the calendar falls, it’s Oct. 31. But beginning in 2015, the show will purposefully begin the first weekend in November.

“Our intention is to move the show back a week to get it out of the rainy

season,” Vidueira said.

Although this year’s show is expected to have nice weather, the previous two years were impacted by “back-to-back bad weather.”

To that end, MIASF has come to an agreement with Show Management, producers of the show, to begin opening the show a week later, which would be Nov. 5 in 2015.

Because the show impacts such a large number of people, MIASF considered several other factors before making a change.

“The Monaco show was definitely a consideration,” Vidueira said. “They See DATE, page 3

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Captains called to support ethics

By Lucy Chabot Reed Once upon a time, there was a captain who was offered 2.5 percent of the cost of a new build if he convinced his boss to use a certain shipyard.

After talking it over with his wife, the captain told his boss about the offer.

The owner sat on it to see if the yard would offer a discount. But when the owner asked, the yard said it couldn’t give a discount because the owner’s rep wanted a 2.5 percent kickback.

The owner took his business elsewhere.

Ken Hickling heard many stories like that one over the past two years as he talked ethics to anyone in the industry who would listen. At an exploratory meeting of yacht captains Monday night to discuss creating a captains association, Hickling talked about the resulting Superyacht Business Principles that the International Superyacht Society launched in May. The principles include the broad topics of professionalism, honesty, integrity and trust. That, he said, was the easy part. “It’s all very well to say kittens are nice and you should be nice to kittens,� said Hickling, who is president of ISS. “But what does it take to be good to a kitten?�

That’s what he and his committee spent the better part of the past two years figuring out. The result is the ISS document that includes 29 specific practices to help guide businesses and organizations in yachting behave in a more ethical way. Those best practices include such actions as “I will accurately represent the product or service that I offer/provide,� “All information I provide in the course of business dealings will be truthful� and “Any payments made or offered by a third party will be declared to or approved by my employer.� (To read the full list of practices, visit www. superyachtsociety.org.)

So where do captains fit in? Hickling pointed out that yacht captains are “in the best place and the absolute worst place� when it comes to these practices, and he acknowledged that

captains may have some of the toughest decisions to make when these issues come up.

The group of 12 captains talked about tips versus bribes (especially as it related to dockage in the Med) and about their interactions with sales brokers (especially during boat shows).

Trying to avoid the word transparency, Hickling noted that as long as the employer knows when money changes hands, the individual is operating with integrity. For example, the owner knows the captain is paying extra to get on the dock, and the marina owner knows the dockmaster is collecting that money. “If the owner of the marina doesn’t know about it, we should make a fuss,� he said, and encouraged captains to question those dockmasters they suspect of dubious behavior.

The goal of the ISS document, a code of ethics if you will, is not to wipe out unprofessional behavior, but to lessen it, little by little. “It’s like improving safety,� he said to the captains. “You don’t suddenly become safe tomorrow. You begin with drills and you eventually become safer.

We have to do the exact same thing with ethics.�

The principles and practices are meant to assure yacht owners and potential owners that there are those in the yachting industry who abide by ethical conduct, and that they can get value for their assets. “Villains are always going to be villains; I’m not interested in them,�

Hickling said. “And there are no enforcers. We have to start working by them, challenging the people we work with to abide by them. “It’s easy to make you all say yes,� he said. “Who thinks we should have more professionalism? More honesty? More integrity? More trust? The hard part it trying to influence somebody else. You can make a little progress toward this.�

By the way, that yard that offered the captain 2.5 percent lost the contract to build that yacht and the captain went on to do several builds with that owner.

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

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Monaco considers a move later, too DATE, from page 2 had contacted us because they want to push back a week to extend the tourist season in Monaco.”

The Antigua Charter Show was considered, too, but Vidueira said there would still be time to get to the island’s show the first week in December.

Only METS in Holland is negatively affected, he said.

“They can’t change the date of their show and there is more of a squeeze between the shows,” he said.

Dorie Cox is associate editor of Triton Today; dorie@the-triton.com. Editor Lucy Chabot Reed contributed to this report.

Recent contracted opening dates of the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show 2003: Oct. 30

2008: Oct. 30

2004: Oct. 28

2009: Oct. 29

2005: Oct. 27*

2010: Oct. 28

2006: Oct. 26

2011: Oct. 27

2007: Oct. 25

2012: Oct. 25 2013: Oct. 31

*The 2005 show actually took place Nov. 3 - Nov. 6 after Hurricane Wilma wiped out power to much of Ft. Lauderdale.

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Does drunk driving cancel coverage?

By Lucy Chabot Reed A powerboat driven by its owner who has had too much to drink hits another vessel and causes damage. One might assume insurance would cover it, but recent cases show otherwise.

When an operator is impaired, is he covered? In a 2005 case, the insurance company paid. In 2011, it didn’t.

“Insurance companies are starting to say, why am I paying for this?” said Christopher Abel, an attorney with Willcox & Savage in Virginia, during the Ft. Lauderdale Mariners Club Marine Seminar yesterday.

The debate comes in when a third party is hurt or has property damaged.

Will the drunk boat owner’s P&I coverage pay? Should it?

Two court cases exist, Abel said, one in Michigan and one in Virginia, both in 2011. In each, a victim sued the drunk

boat operator’s insurer and lost. In the Virginia case, the operator had had a bottle of banana schnapps and had smoked marijuana, said Terry Harris, senior vice president of marine claims with The Travelers Companies.

“If there’s coverage, there’s coverage,” he said. “To pay the injured third party, the first party has to be covered, too. Do we want that?”

“But what about liability and thirdparty damages?” said Carroll Carney Robertson, senior vice president of marine insurance claims for BoatUS. “The public has a reasonable expectation to deserve that.”

This issue of coverage under the illegal acts exclusion might even extend into violations of navigational rules as it applies to claims, Abel said. It will be up to the judges to ultimately decide.

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

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Answers to the quiz on page 1: n IMO, the International Maritime Organization, is the maritime agency of the U.N. n A nautical mile is 1852 meters. n EPIRB is short for emergency position-indicating radio beacon.

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