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Sun & Moon Sunset: 7:35 pm; Sunrise (Mon.): 7:15 am Moonrise (Mon.): 3:36 am; 46% illuminated High tides: 3:50 pm; (Mon.) 4:36 am Low tides: 10:22 pm; (Mon.) 10:56 am
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Weather Today: Sunny, winds S 16 mph, high 90, no chance of rain, 56% humidity Tonight: Clear, low 69 Tomorrow AM: Sunny, high 87
Just how nautical are you and your crew mates? Find out with this little nautical trivia quiz. n What is a WIG vessel? n Which signal flag means “I am maneuvering with difficulty; keep clear”? n What is the White List? n What is the name of Capt. Ahab’s ship in “Moby-Dick”? ANSWERS on page 3.
Mystery solved The story behind M/Y Sailbad the Sinner VI is as good as we thought. Saturday’s Triton Today featured scoop on boat names, and no one nearby knew details of the creative moniker on the 84-foot Northcoast. Until we met Capt. Jerry McDermed. “He [the owner] had sailed badly, hit many a bridge in his day,” he said. “And she was his personal sinner.” McDermed said the couple made a deal that if she could call it Sailbad, then he could add Sinner. “They both had the most wonderful sense of humor,” McDermed said. “I worked for them for 28 years, my whole career.” They passed away during the past few years, he said, but their jokes always were give and take. “She always got called ‘sinner’, but I tell you, she was a saint,” he said. “It was a loving thing.”
HANGING AROUND: Festival Hammocks has something for crew, even if it’s just the suggestion of downtime. PHOTO/LUCY REED
Vendors offer items for work, play By Lucy Chabot Reed Boat shows are created to sell boats, of course. But there’s a whole show off the water designed to separate consumers from their money. Lest we forget, yacht crew are consumers, too. So in that regard, there are lots of booths selling all manner of items of interest to crew. The requisite sunglasses vendors are here, as are the ones selling pretty clothes. There are binoculars, jewelry, shoes and electric bikes, as well as representatives from marinas selling dockage. But scanning the exhibitors, a few stood out as interesting for yacht crew. Ted Reid has invented the DigiVac Fail-Safe Filter Alert, a sensor for clogged fuel filters that alerts a captain
or engineer before engine failure. “I’m a delivery captain and the first thing I do when I get onboard is change the filters,” he said. “There’s no way you can know what’s in the filter. The only way we have now is engine failure.” He described a common problem that his invention prevents: Taking a boat to the Bahamas, the filters newly changed, and still the engines fail halfway across. “Now you have the boss and guests mad and tired and they just want to go home,” he said. “They sell their boat and buy an RV. These people get out of yachting because they always have problems with their boats. I’ve seen it.” It’s taken Reid 12 years and two prototypes to get the unit he has for
See SHOPPING, page 3
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