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Sun & Moon Sunset: 7:34 pm; Sunrise (Saturday): 7:18 am Moonrise: 1:12 am; 67% illuminated High tides: 1:27 am; 1:40 pm Low tides: 7:42 am; 8:10 pm
Fri d ay • M a rc h 25, 2011
Weather Today: Mostly sunny, winds NNW 7 mph, high 85, 10% chance of rain, 59% humidity Tonight: Mostly clear, low 65 Tomorrow AM: Mostly sunny, high 87
Just how nautical are you and your crew mates? Find out with this little nautical trivia quiz. n What is the difference between Port State Control and Flag State Control? n What is ECDIS? n What is the name of the seaside town terrorized by the shark in Jaws? n Kilo flag means what? ANSWERS on page 2.
Things to See / Do Today, 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. History Trolley Tours, departing from the courthouse, 300 N. Dixie Highway. A 45-minute trolley tour of the 1945era of West Palm Beach. Tickets $5. Reservations recommended: 561-833-8873.
Today, 5-8 p.m. Rybovich’s Friday night crew bash at the shipyard just north of the show. Sponsored by The Triton this week.
Saturday, 8 a.m. -1 p.m. West Palm Beach GreenMarket Waterfront Commons downtown Vendors offer fruits and vegetables, tropical and native plants, freshcut flowers and artisan foods. Free parking in the Banyan Street garage until 2:00 p.m. For more information call 561-822-1515.
BACK ON THE MARKET: After a decade in private use, the 1988-built Octopussy is for sale at the Palm Beach International Boat Show. PHOTO/LUCY REED
Much-loved Octopussy up for sale By Lucy Reed Sitting solitary at the northernmost end of the Palm Beach International Boat Show sits the blue-hulled M/Y Octopussy, docked on a pier by herself, seeming a little sad. Her beloved owner passed away in January, his heirs uninterested in yachting. So she sits in a boat show for the first time in a long time. Not many people at the show could remember the last time Octopussy, a 143-foot jet-drive Heesen, appeared for sale. Veteran crew, instead, recall her stern-to in Cannes in the late 80s, racing across the Cote d’Azur in the early 90s, anchored in the Bahamas in the 2000s. Franz Huber, who served as the owner’s butler, chef and medical person
for the past 10 years, said the yacht was the owner’s private refuge, where he and his wife would spend two or three months at a time visiting the Bahamas. Huber shows the boat as though the owner, Mr. Hans Behr, were still aboard. “This is where they always had breakfast,” he said of the dining nook off the main salon. “And they would sit here looking over the sunset.” On the flybridge aft of the bridge, Huber showed the blue-and-whitestripped sun pad where Mr. Behr would lie at 2 a.m. and look at the stars. Huber brought him milk and cookies. Huber admits he’s saddened more than he expected by Mr. Behr’s death. Huber worked for the Behrs 24/7, at their home in Switzerland, at their See OCTOPUSSY, page 3
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