Triton Today Palm Beach 2014 Saturday

o o o Test Your Mates Test your mates with this nautical quiz. n What is the H nautical flag? n What is the L nautical flag? n What is the J nautical flag?

ANSWERS on page 7.

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Sun & Moon

Weather

Sunset: 7:32 pm; Sunrise (Sunday): 7:21 am Moonrise: 1:22 am (Sunday); 63% illuminated High tides: 1:43 pm; 2:31 am (Sunday) Low tides: 8:00 pm; 8:34 am (Sunday)

Today: Scattered t-storms, high 78, SSE 10-20 mph, chance of rain 80% Tonight: T-storms, low 66, SW 10-20 mph Sun. AM: Sunny, high 84, WSW 5-10 mph

Things to See / Do Today, 1-4 p.m.

Ward’s Marine Electric at booth 926A. Today learn about generator and battery products with flavor infused water, sea breeze and mojitos, Summertime Rock Band and ice sculpture demonstration.

Today, 7 p.m.

Crew Cocktails with Zeidel & Co. at booth 916 in the USSA Pavilion.

Today’s cocktail is Rum Swizzle with a drawing for a Re-sail bag.

Until March 31 Vote for your favorite tabletop setting at www.facebook.com/ topnotchtabletop.

Tomorrow, 9 a.m.

Zeidel Uniform and Nautical Apparel champagne brunch for skort design discussion.

Tomorrow, 1-4 p.m.

Ward’s Marine Electric at booth 926A. Learn about dock products, shore power converters and inverters.

A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME: Interior staff brought out their finery for the Top Notch Tabletop competition for stews in the Palm Beach International Boat Show. This is onboard M/Y Scott Free. See more tables on pages 4-5.

PHOTO/LUCY REED

Yard builds partnerships, yachts

By Lucy Chabot Reed In the past few years, there’s been a buzz coming out of Belfast, Maine.

Captains and customers keep talking about Front Street Shipyard.

And now the yard has announced plans to build a line of motoryachts to keep American yacht owners and their business here.

“One of our goals was to make the yard big enough to keep Americans home,” said JB Turner, president of Front Street Shipyard (FSS) and exhibiting at the show this week. “It’s discouraging to see Americans going to Europe to build their yachts. And what’s

even worse is they’re doing it against the euro.”

The line of yachts was created

by Setzer Yacht Architects of North Carolina as part of its New American Motoryacht series. Turner “handpicked” the models he thought would do well with his customers, specifically four models in a range from 92 feet to 135 feet (28-40m), a range Turner said is missing among U.S. builders, save Westport.

The infused-fiberglass yachts include modern commuter (28m), a raised pilothouse design (34m), an explorer design (38m) and a tri-deck version

For more news, visit www.the-triton.com

See BUZZ, page 6

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OFF THE DOCK: A few scenes from yesterday’s events

@ Ports of Cause Work doesn’t stop for crew when the show closes. M/Y Gravitas hosted a party last night for Ports of Cause, a philanthropic organization that uses the yachting industry to champion ocean advocacy.

PHOTOS/MIKE PRICE

@ Rybovich Hundreds of captains, crew and industry turned out for the annual Boatyard Bash at Rybovich shipyard just north of the show last night. With live music and a separate “crew zone” and lots of ambiance, new and old friends came together off the yacht.

PHOTOS/TOM SERIO

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ore than 20 yachts participated in Aqualuxe Outfitting’s Top Notch Tabletop competition for interior crew yesterday, dressing up interior and exterior tables with everything from crystals and cupcakes to goldfish. Voting begins today at www.facebook.com/topnotchtabletop and lasts 10 days. The winners will be announced on April 1.

PHOTOS/LUCY REED

M/Y HARMONY

M/Y ORCA EXPLORER

M/Y GRAVITAS

M/Y SNOWBIRD

M/Y ABBRACCI

M/Y J.W.

M/Y ZEEPAARD

M/Y LADY JANET

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M/Y GIGI II

M/Y REMEMBER WHEN

M/Y CHOSEN ONE

M/Y SEA JEWEL

M/Y APHRODITE

M/Y ATLANTICA

M/Y VANGO

M/Y MY CHELLE

M/Y ARIANNA

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Like Feadship, yards work together BUZZ, from page 1

APRIL 25, 2014 www.MarineIndustryCares.org

(40m). (See all the details on the yard’s Web site under the “design” tab.)

Turner has the experience to make it happen. After 12 years as an owner with Lyman-Morse Boats, growing the shipyard from 43 staff to more than 200, he said “I’m used to building yachts.”

FSS has all departments in house except “canvas and cushions,” Turner said, and 110 people on staff. He and his partners bought the land in January 2011 and officially opened the first day its 165-foot lift began to be used, that July 2.

In three years, all the sheds and buildings have been rebuilt to provide 72,555 square feet of yacht storage space and 10,320 square feet of shop space.

The yard is building a new building this year that will take its larger 485-ton hoist and the larger yachts it can carry.

Turner and his partners have created a network of builders and craftsmen

in Maine to provide an owner with options, including aluminum or steel instead of fiberglass.

“They [his partners] saw the need for a bigger yard in Maine, and they let me do my thing,” Turner said.

His relationships with these men and their companies means FSS has more power and more personnel to handle projects.

“That’s why we were able to meet our timetables and our budget right off the bat,” Turner said. “We call the other yards to send over glass guys and plumbers, and they would send them over.”

So it’s a partnership of yards, much like Feadship functions in Holland.

“It’s a pretty unique thing in the U.S.,” he said. “We should do more of it, instead of competing with each other.”

That buzz from Belfast continues.

Lucy Chabot Reed is editor of The Triton. Comments welcome: lucy@thetriton.com

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Grab a pen, it’s boat show bingo Keep this bingo game nearby today as the crowds pick up, checking to see what you find among attendees, guests, your surroundings and even your fellow crew. It’s all in good fun (and there are no prizes), so try to refrain from shouting “bingo” when you get it.

CREATED BY TEHANE BROWN; ADDITIONAL ART BY ISABELLA KLAR

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n H (Hotel) I have a pilot on board n L (Lima) In harbour: The ship is quarantined; at sea: you should stop your vessel instantly. n J (Juliet) I am on fire and have dangerous cargo on board: keep well clear of me.