The Triton Today Sunday

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o o o Test Your Mates Check your nautical knowledge with this short quiz. n Where is the bitter end? n What are flotsam and jetsam? n What do nuns have to do with navigating?

ANSWERS on page 2.

Sun & Moon

Weather

Sunset: 6:17 pm; Sunrise (Monday): 6:53 am Moonrise: 11:32 am High tides: 2:44 pm; 3:33 am (Monday) Low tides: 9:35 pm; 10:05 am (Monday)

Today: Clear, high of 64. Gusty with winds NNW 15-20 mph.

Tonight: Clear, winds NNE 10-15 mph, low 52 Monday AM: Party cloudy, breezy, high 75

News from the show Two share ‘green’ award The Attwood Fuel Demand Valve and West Marine’s own CFA Eco Antifouling Bottom Paint were selected as “Green Product of the Year” in West Marine’s annual contest, announced Thursday at the Miami International Boat Show.

In 2011, portable fuel tanks in the U.S. must be sealed. In older engines, the pressure can cause flooding and possibly leaks when making connections. The Attwood valve allows fuel to pass only when the engine pulls fuel from the tank.

West Marine’s CFA Eco Antifouling Bottom Paint uses the new metal-free Econea biocide and a slime-fighting inhibitor for multi-season protection.

“If this paint gets adopted by the market, it will go a long way to reducing solvent emissions and marine contamination from copper,” said judge Ann Blake, an environmental and public health consultant.

The judges decided based on effectiveness, cost-competitiveness, environmental impact, degree of innovation and verification of claims.

IT’S WHAT THEY DO: The interior crew of M/Y Cortina love what they do and have fun doing it. See more photos of crew in their element on pages 6-7.

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Old yacht has style that survives

By Lucy Chabot Reed The first thing you notice as you approach M/Y www.The Next Port.com is its awkward boarding ladder, followed immediately by its awkward name.

But if you can get past that, the 47year-old Burger has a lot to show, and to teach.

The yacht appears to be the oldest megayacht in this week’s Yacht & Brokerage Show. There are other old Burgers – the 92-foot M/Y Southern Star and the 80-foot M/Y Nobility (exLad) – but they launched in 1974.

M/Y Bread, the 137-foot dark blue canoe-stern yacht that looks like it was

built in the 1920s, actually launched in 2007.

Showing the 47-year-old Burger isn’t easy. A tour begins with a nimble climb up a five-step ladder. But there are some out there who know exactly what it is and go out of their way to see it up close.

“We got a lot of people who say they always wanted to see the interior on one of these,” Capt. Steve Highfill said. “It’s a sturdy boat. I really feel safe.”

The yacht is a Sparkman & Stephens design, with an aluminum hull and a shallow draft. Burger built 28 of these

See BURGER, page 3

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Answers to the quiz on page 1: n The tail (very end) of the anchor line that is affixed to the vessel, hence the expression “to reach the bitter end”. n Flotsam is floating debris lost through some kind of accident; jetsam has been deliberately dumped or jettisoned overboard. n Nuns are cylindrical, red, unlit buoys with even numbers.

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A D V A N C E D

M A R I N E

P R O D U C T S

EXTREME FENDERS TAKE A TRIP BACK: Capt. Steve Highfill enjoys the pilothouse, now a comfortable mix of the old cabinets and varnish and new electronics.

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Some buyers seek the ‘elegant’ move her newest captain appreciates.

“Anyone who works on the boat now yachts between 1961 and 1977, the loves it,” Highfill said. majority of which are still afloat, said But the yacht still has signs of its John Todd, a broker with Burger Yacht decade. Built in an era without air Sales who has the listing. A few have a conditioning, port and starboard doors fly bridge but most were built just like to the wheelhouse have wood-framed this one: 63 feet long, cruiser screen doors to keep out style, with a pilot house. bugs, and the glass panel in The line was built to the aft door is designed to attract owners of 57-foot fold down to keep breezes wooden Chris Crafts ready to blowing. move up and into something She’s got cozy crew a bit easier to maintain, he quarters for two, with access said. to the anchor locker through “There’s a real market the crew shower. for these yachts,” Todd said.

Built in 1966, the yacht “The hulls are really efficient. launched as M/Y Lady They’re easily driven. People Evelyn and was known as recognize the characteristics.

M/Y 18-8 under the previous They were really elegant owner/operator who lived boats back then. They aboard. This is Highfill’s first survived because they had command in yachting. He a well-conceived design to spent 30 years with the U.S. begin with.”

TO CATCH A BREEZE: Screen Navy Seals before retiring doors were used pre-AC. Much of the interior has to go cruising with his wife. stayed loyal to its beginnings, One thing led to another and with varnished wood panels, cap rails he was hired to run this yacht. He’s been and pilothouse. Her main entry has with the owner now seven years. always been side-to, and remains so, Since being listed in October, the despite a massive refit in 2000 that saw yacht is a regular at the Hinckley yard in the below-deck galley moved to the Stuart, Fla. It’s listed at $895,000. main deck, the addition of a stateroom Lucy Reed is editor of The Triton. and laundry room, and a complete Comments are welcome at lucy@the-trirebuild of the the engine room. All the ton.com. wiring in the yacht was also replaced, a

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CHECKING THE TIDE: Triton Today’s Question of the Day:

Do you drink from plastic water bottles?

No - 25% Yes - 75%

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Capt. Craig Cannon M/Y Scott Free 120-foot Northcoast “Our RO doesn’t work that well, or we’d probably drink that more.”

Stew/Cook Abbi Heilig M/Y My Girl 80-foot Posillipo “I feel like it’s cleaner.

It’s already cold and it doesn’t dirty another dish that I have to wash.

We go through 2-3 cases a week.”

Mate Byron Wiswell M/Y Lady Diane II 120-foot Sovereign “I just prefer drinking that water. The other water sits in the tank.

Bottled just feels fresher and cleaner.”

Mate Lan Pepe M/Y Dreams 112-foot Westport “This is just how the boat works. But it works better on a smaller boat. On a big boat, you can’t go to the galley for a glass of water all day long.”

Last year, brokers in the Caribbean handed out stainless steel water bottles to encourage yacht crew to stop using the plastic kind. I was curious to know just how pervasive those plastic bottles are.

Turns out, pretty pervasive.

Three quarters of the crew I spoke to yesterday hydrate from plastic bottles. Their reasons are legitimate, from the convenience to the taste.

Not all yachts, it seems, have those mack daddy reverse osmosis systems.

– Photos and data/Lucy Chabot Reed Mate Phil du Toit M/Y Remember When 162’ Christensen “We use the faucet and little cups so we don’t have half bottles of water all over. I’ve worked on boats with bottles and I don’t find this inconvenient.”

Mate/Eng. Brandon Ferguson M/Y Domino 112-foot Westport “In hot weather, we drink 4-6 cases a week.

We don’t drink [the RO water]. I don’t know why. Bottled water is just easier.”

Capt. Shane Wray M/Y Alessandra III 75-foot Lazarra LSX “It’s convenient.

I do have a plastic container. If I run out of plastic water bottles, I’ll use that.”

Capt. Stephen Pepe M/Y Dreams 112-foot Westport “I won’t let my crew drink out of them. I can’t stand all that plastic. I’m not even an environmentalist. I just hate carrying all that crap to the boat.”

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AFTER HOURS: Scenes from last night’s parties

@ National Captains, crew and friends joined National Marine Suppliers at its booth last night to celebrate the Miami show.

PHOTOS/TOM SERIO

See more photos at www.the-triton.com.

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@Pioneer Linens These guys partied every night, and we finally caught up with them. Find Pioneer Linens at the west end of the vendors tent.

PHOTO/TOM SERIO

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DOING THE CREW THING, DAY 4: Masters of their domains

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esterday, we photographed crew in their natural (work) habitat, the spots on the yacht they are responsible for and, in many cases, are most proud of.

PHOTOS/TOM SERIO

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