S at u rd ay • Fe b. 16, 2013
o o o Test Your Mates Test your trivia skills with these nautical questions.
Sun & Moon Sunset: 6:15 pm; Sunrise (Sunday): 6:53 am Moonrise: 10:50 am High tides: 1:56 pm; 2:38 am (Sunday) Low tides: 8:41 pm; 9:07 am
Weather Today: Partly cloudy, slight chance of rain, winds NW 10-15 mph, high 81. Tonight: Breezy with winds NW 20-25, low 46 Sunday AM: Clear, breezy, high 64
n What is backwind? n What is gimballed? n What is the rhyming recipe for rum punch? ANSWERS on page 2
Things to See / Do WIPE ON, WIPE OFF: Crew spent the morning yesterday trying to dry off after a rainy night. Find out what the rain did, page 3, and see more chamois shots, pages 6-7.
Daily Happy hour with National Marine Suppliers at Ramp 14: Slip 401.
Daily Italian wine and olive oil tasting at the Overmarine Group/Mangusta barge everyday beginning at 5 p.m. Ramp 24.
Through Sunday Learn the Great Loop trip and how to avoid system failures with free seminars at TrawlerPort between ramps 3-4. Seminars every hour on the hour, 11 am-3 pm. See ad in the front of the show program.
Sunday a.m. Pioneer Linens hosts cupcakes and mimosas at Ramp 14: Yacht Pavilion 77-78 in the morning.
PHOTO/TOM SERIO
Power issues turn on generators By Lucy Chabot Reed At least a dozen large yachts have been struggling with inconsistent electrical power while docked in the Yacht & Brokerage Show this week. Problems have ranged from too few amps to too many hertz, to brownouts and blackouts. A few yachts have had electrical components destroyed from voltage spikes and surges, according to captains in the show. None of the captains, crew or brokers interviewed about the power problems wanted to be named for fear of angering Show Management, which produces the show and provides power to the yachts. But several yachts between ramps 17 and 18 have been dealing with the issues since they moved in a week ago,
having as many as five brownouts a day. At least two were on generators at midday yesterday to preserve their equipment. On docks around ramp 11, a handful of yachts were having similar problems and had turned on their generators until the problem gets resolved. “We have power, but too much; another boat had too little and had to turn the A/C off to turn the lights on,” said a mate, whose yacht was on generator power. “It’s always something.” “We need 100 amps, and we got two 50-amp cords with a Y-box to plug into,” an engineer said, adding that the breakers in the transformer pedestal
See POWER, page 3
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