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HURRICANE IRMA, AN EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT

N o . 2 4 2 - O c t o b e r 2017

RICHARD MASTERS CAPTAIN OF INDUSTRY

KENNY READ NORTH SAILS INTERVIEW

DEAR ISLANDER Dear Islander, This past month has seen some of the worst weather ever recorded in several parts of the world, particularly in the Caribbean and Florida where Hurricane Irma caused widespread destruction, with the BVI’s and St Maarten suffering more than most.

The number of boats wrecked or damaged only represents a relatively small part of the overall damage compared to infrastructure and the thousands of people’s homes decimated in this huge storm.

Our hearts go out to those people, who have suffered losses. Fortunately, the damage to human life seems very small considering the size and ferocity of this category 5 hurricane. Whilst mentioning this, we shouldn’t forget the tremendous suffering in India and Bangladesh where floods have killed over 2000 people and displaced millions from their homes.

This damage is certain to have an impact on the Caribbean season, with many charters likely to be cancelled or new itineraries planned due to the massive task ahead. Images of iconic places like Bitter End Yacht club and St Maarten reduced to rubble brings home the severity of the situation and the impact it will have on their tourist industry on which they rely so heavily.

We hope to get involved with a fundraising event in the coming weeks, so keep an eye on our website and Social media for further news. I am awaiting further details.

As I write this editorial, the doors are about to open at Cannes Yachting Festival, fast becoming Europe’s

favourite Boat Show. For many marques, this is the show where they sell more boats than any other show on the planet! It is interesting to see many of the builders of the larger yachts also getting involved in the show, previously only exhibiting at Monaco. Southampton Boat Show also opens later this week, followed by Monaco Yacht Show on the 27th. We will have full reports on these shows in next month’s issue of The Islander.

Oyster’s Palma regatta kicks off later this month, with a record entry of almost 40 yachts, making it a substantial regatta once again held under the auspices of the amazing Real Club Nautico de Palma, surely one of, if not the best regatta yacht clubs in the world. WE are so lucky to have this club as our “local”!

The refit season has once again kicked off in earnest, with STP as well as other refit facilities filling up rapidly, and most contractors reporting a busy start to the yard period.

Let’s hope this continues throughout the winter.

fair winds

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EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF HURRICANE IRMA

James Rieley

Eyewitness Account of Hurricane Irma James Reiley, ex resident of Mallorca headed off earlier this year to his new home, his beloved Yacht Saphir, a 46 ft Jeanneau sloop, in Tortola BVI. He has spent a very pleasant few months at Bitter End Yacht Club on his mooring before heading off to Nanny Cay’s hurricane hole for the hurricane season. Little did he know what was about to hit.

Below is James’ account of his experience during Hurricane Irma.

04 Sept, 1132h What I find so amazing is that all the weather reports are slowly but surely categorising the Irma situation as becoming Category 4 and having it pass about only 30 miles from Tortola. Everyday a new projection comes out and the situation is shifting from grim to grimmer. I would assume that by later today, the situation will be grimmest, but that would-be kind of silly as we all know that Wednesday will be the real grimmest day.

Not even sure if these are real words. Grim, grimmey, grimmest, grimmeyerest? As I look down the docks at the boats that are here in the marina, I am pretty tripped out that not many of them seem to be getting ready for the hurricane. Having said that, I give my neighbour John seriously big points for his efforts to get ready. He has experienced hurricanes 4

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previously and he has his boat lashed eighty-five different ways and has even chucked an anchor in to help keep his bow away from anything. And if his prep-work isn’t enough, he is doing it all on his own, whilst being a Dad to a 3-yearold daughter and a 5-yearold son. Pretty impressive.

So he is one extreme. The other end of the ‘’getting ready for Irma” continuum is the seriously lackadaisical stance of so many others. If you didn’t have a computer or smartphone (which means no news or storm projections) you would swear that today was just another day in paradise. Incredible.

Maybe tomorrow (Tuesday), everyone will snap to and get cracking. Maybe.

that they would be open from 0700h to 1900h every day, regardless of a hurricane or not. I assume that means as long as the employees can actually get to the store. Time will tell on that one.

I just went for a walk to the store and I did see that almost all the second story windows in the Nanny Cay complex have their storm shutters closed and more and more boats do seem to be adding lines and are being held off their respective docks. Still, when I was in the store, I was talking to one of my buddies who works there and he said

05 Sept, 0700h I woke up this morning to the sound of rain, but after a few minutes, it was clear that this was not really Irma rain, but just tropical storm rain; i.e. another one of those 5-10 minute rain deluges that we get here at this time of the year. After that cloud continued past, the sun was there, signalling another very special day.

04 Sept, 1800h Not much to do now other than watch telly for a bit and get some sleep.

This afternoon had been pretty productive, with doing last minute checks, removing things like the stainless Dorade vents, helping Travis set lines, and potentially one of the most important things: taking lots of photos of the preparations I have made in case. Always a good thing to have in case I need to (heaven forbid) contact my insurance company.

Of course in this case, the descriptors ‘’very special’’ does mean something other than sunny-and-warm-withnice-breezes. Irma is coming later today. Last evening, after watching a movie, I was able to get online using Saphir’s network repeater to the system on shore, and was looking at information regarding hurricane rotation. Hurricane’s north of the equator all spin anticlockwise, and typically, this means that the winds to the north of a hurricane centre are worse than they are in the south. And because Irma is going to pass so close to Tortola, that could be to our advantage. “Could” being the operative word here.

It is now 1400h, and I have left Saphir and am in the hotel here at Nanny Cay. Actually, I have made three trips here, bringing over things I might need during the storm. The reason for three trips is that some of these bags were heavy and I am doing this alone, which meant two trips.

The third trip was because I felt the need to go back and check Saphir one more time.

So much for thinking that I would be safe in the hotel. The day after Irma went rummaging through, I saw some of the havoc that she had wrought. I was torn between staying in the hotel during the hurricane and leaving. I think that leaving what the best choice. This is what was left of my hotel room.

EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF HURRICANE IRMA But now I am in the hotel and am reflecting on what today has been like. It was pretty amazing to see that everyone suddenly showed-up and went to work on shuttering buildings, and lashing boats together and to the various docks here. Right now, the main centre of the marina (where Saphir is) looks like this huge spider-web, with lines going every which way securing everything before the storm hits. MLR sent me several messages during the morning, each one painting a darker and darker picture of Irma. So now she is a Category 5, which means seriously f**king big winds, and its path has again shifted a bit so now we are smack in the path of Irma. Am not overly thrilled but that is the way things have turned out.

Never having been in a huge hurricane (never having been in any hurricane to be really explicit), I have no idea what to expect. Having said that, I have, since settling into the hotel, seen all sorts of doom and gloom hurricane stories, so I guess my expectation is that it will be shit. My plan is to be here for Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and then go back to Saphir (assuming Saphir is still here and not winging her way to Miami Beach. To paraphrase an old movie, I feel like I should be standing outside, clicking my Crocs together, saying, “This sure isn’t Andratx.”

we are still on the leading edges of the rotation. Some trees have blown down already and Irma is still 8-10 hours away.

6 September, 1000h (more or less). My friends Karl and Vikki (who live in Mallorca) called, and the conversation was one of those good-newsbad-news things. The good news was that they rang and were very concerned. Very good friends. The bad news was that they had been following any information on Irma and updated me on her path and what devastation she had wrought on St Maarten on her way across the Caribbean. As we were on Facetime, I showed them live pictures from the marina, and updated them on what was going on here. They said they would put an update online as I had been receiving quite a few messages from other friends, and then they said they would ring back in a couple of hours. Not long after that, I rang MLR, and gave her the same update that I had shared with Karl and Vikki. I told her not to be scared as I had done

everything possible to prepare Saphir and was now in the relative safety of the hotel at Nanny Cay. She said she would ring back in a few hours as well.

6 September, 1130h Things here are going downhill at an alarming rate. Not only is there no electricity, the phone service has now stopped, so this means no communications with friends and family. No electricity also meant no water, as waterpumping systems would be out. No water meant, amongst other obvious things, no functioning loos.

No broadband, no way to get in touch with emergency services, no just about everything. I had, when speaking to everyone earlier and the previous day, said that if I am not in communications, the only thing to consider is that communications are all down from Irma’s intrusion on the peace and tranquillity of the BVI. No one should think, assume, or wonder if, I was unable to communicate for some other reason.

6 September, 1200h I guess

because I have never experienced a hurricane before, much less a Category 5 hurricane, I really had no expectations of what it would be like. For the first few hours after daylight began to lighten up everything, it was possible to open a window and its persianas (shutters) and see what was occurring. By noon, this option was clearly not on the table anymore. I did have my hand-held VHF radio and was monitoring some of the traffic around the marina. What I was hearing was not good, with reports of boats sustaining some damage. That wasn’t too big of a surprise, as the wind was howling louder than I had ever experienced in my entire life. Think of what it would be like standing next to one of the Rolls-Royce jet engines on a Boeing 787… and then double it or treble it. The descriptor ‘’fierce’’ does not adequately describe what the sound was like. It was unbelievably loud, which made it doubly ominous because I knew what the wind could be doing. The last time I had been able to look out the window, I had seen good-sized

Still 5 September, but now it is 1800h. I went back to check on Saphir and the wind is picking up. Nothing overly dramatic yet, but you can hear the whistling sound as the wind weaves its way around all the standing masts and shrouds. And so it begins.

6 September, 0800h So this is the day Irma is supposed to hit. I have been up since 0400h…. howling wind, onand-off buckets of rain. All the electricity failed about 0540h, and as of now the generators have still not started up. The wind is from the north, so that means that

Some of the boats that had been put on the hard in order to ride out tropical storms that do come through the Caribbean each summer. Never before has there been a hurricane as powerful and large as Irma. When the wind came pouring over the marina with the speed and intensity of a damn opening, most of the boats on the hard topped like dominoes. www.theislander.net

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EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF HURRICANE IRMA waves screaming through the marina, accompanied by dead-flat-horizontal rain.

Even though I did not feel that it was wise to try to open a window again, I was able to see a nice, constant flow of water coming in from under the balcony doors of my hotel room. And by the time I was placing every towel I had in front of the door, the doors blew open, ripping the locks off the doorframes. Right.

Time to rearrange the room a bit. I dragged the sofa, table, two loungers, and anything else that was substantial into a nice pile with the meagre hope of keeping the doors shut. I probably am misusing the words ‘meagre hope’ here…I should have said ‘absolute and depressing hopeless effort’ and the wind-speed was a function of Mother Nature, and all I had on my side was some semi-tacky rattan furniture.

Not exactly the best odds to wager on. As I scurried around looking to see what else I could use to stop the now river-like flow, I heard the roof tearing itself off. The roof of the hotel looked to be semi-corrugated sheet metal, and it was a pretty safe bet that it was only screwed or nailed to a solid wooden support system. Inside my room (I was on the second floor, the top floor of the hotel), the ceiling was a very nicely dark stained vaulted ceiling with big beams. But as soon as the sheet metal was viciously ripped from its mounting, it was clear that the gaps between the wood boards that made up the vaulted ceiling were big enough to let water through… and let water through they did. It was pretty obvious that being in the room was not a sustainable option anymore, and I retreated to the bathroom (that had a false ceiling) and tried to get cosy reclined in the bathtub. At the time, this made lots of sense, as it was undoubtedly the strongest space in the hotel room. So there I was, semi-reclined in the bath, in damp clothes due to the now incessant waterfall in the 6

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main hotel room, reading my Kindle, and monitoring what was going on with my handheld VHF. I started to hear conversations between someone named Althea (but right now am not sure that was her name), and various other people. Althea was in the shower block with several other people and was saying that they felt very safe and there was room there if anyone wanted to try to get there. Sitting in the tub, listening to the roar and knowing that the ceiling structure itself may not last too much longer, I radioed her back to say who I was, where I was, and that I was going to attempt to get to them. I packed up what I could in one briefcase; leaving the other two bags I had with me in the bathtub and went to open the door. It would not open.

The amount of air pressure doing strange things due to the circulation of Irma was incredible, and after many tugs on the handle, I managed to get the door open. That was when I first saw some of the destruction that had been going on around me. More trees down, with branches and large segments of the sheet metal roof swirling around in some post-modern dance of death. I started to re-think my plan of getting to the shower block, but as I looked back into the rest of the room, I knew it was time to go. Down along the outside hallway to the stairwell; down the stairs, which were littered with pieces of the hotel building; and around the corner. The entrance to the shower block was about 40 metres away, but it was along another exposed hallway that appeared to be an airflow chamber for horizontally beating rain, and assorted pieces of railings, sheet metal, and three branches. This was one of those terrible life decision times; you know you can’t go back (probably because it might be impossible to make it back to the room) and you know that continuing on to the shower block door is going

to be the most difficult thing I had done so far. The decision sorted itself out when it became apparent that I could not stay standing there any more as too many things were flying my way. I radioed again to say I was almost there, but all I heard in response was that the wind was too strong and they couldn’t understand what I said, but would be ready at the door in case I said I was coming. A big breath of air (hoping the breath would contain energy or adrenalin or something) and I plunged out…just as a large branch fell and blocked my path forward and backward. I turned a bit and went out from under the hallway and worked my way to the door. Three people were there and pushed the door open as I staggered in, completely soaked, quite exhausted, but alive. They immediatly lashed the door closed again and I and the other seven or eight people tried to smile as we greeted each other. The main topic of conversation in the shower block hallway revolved around when the hurricane eye would arrive. We all knew by then that Irma had shifted her path so much that we would experience some lull of the eye, but no one knew if the eye would come in right over Tortola. With reports that the eye was more than ten miles in diameter, it was possible that we would be able to tell when it was here. That happened within an hour or so.

6 September, a bit after 1300h It seemed to take place rather quickly, but upon reflection, it happened over a ten-minute period. The rain stopped going horizontally, and then the wind seemed to lessen considerably…and it became lighter. This all meant that we were either on the edge of the eye or damn near in the middle of it. Everyone in the shower block fled the dark, extremely humid environment where we had been huddled, and stepped outside. I decided I would go back up to my room on the second floor, but after

turning the corner from the shower block doors, I could see that there was no way I would be able to climb over the massive piles of debris that had jammed themselves in a small walk path. I tried to see if there was another way to reach the second floor, but I knew that the clock was ticking away, and if the eye was 10 or 12 miles in diameter, and the storm was moving at about 16 mph (which is what we had heard), then there was damn little time to faff about outside.

I returned to the shower block door and tracked down Althea. As she seemed to be the one that was de-facto in charge, I told her she needed to tell everyone what ‘the plan’ was for when the eye moved on and we were in the shit again. She agreed and did have a plan. But now there was a new problem. When the eye came over, not only did all of us that had been in the shower block go outside, everyone else that was staying in the hotel materialised at the doors to talk, share, and ask questions. Now we had a group in excess of 30 people, and when Althea made her announcement, everyone started to pile back into the shower block to wait for instructions for when we should leave.

Standing in the eye of Irma was pretty incredible. It only took a few minutes to go from roaring, f**king hell, to a very surreal calm.

The sun was out, there was only the gentlest of breezes, sensationally warm, and surrounded by downed trees, huge pieces of metal roofs, and people who were clearly shell-shocked. It was almost like Salvadore Dali painting that had come to life. And in an almost good way. But we all knew that this surreal environment would not last for more than a short time.

We also knew that when all hell broke loose again, it would be worse.

Althea’s plan was to head over to one of the condominiums and hunker down there. Her

EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF HURRICANE IRMA rationale was that when the eye would pass over, the storm surge would come flooding across the car park and it most certainly would reach the shower block. No one was keen on being stuck in a dark space with water rising incredibly quickly; especially when there was talk that the storm surge could reach over 5 or 6 feet. It was at about this point in time that I saw that people were putting on life-jackets that some had brought with them, and it was possible to hear murmuring from some that they were in fear of drowning if the surge could come pouring in. Things were going downhill. This was complicated even further when I realised that the door opened outward, and if there was a wall of water coming, it might be near impossible to even open the door to leave. I mentioned this to Althea, along with the reality that it might be better to leave before the eye was completely past. She agreed and screamed out, “That’s it, we’re going now,” and proceeded to go racing outside. I was pretty close to her as she went out, and all I was carrying was my briefcase, but it was chocker with heavy stuff, and I realised quite quickly that I would not be able to keep up with most of the people, who by now were sprinting through the puddles, desperately trying to keep up with Althea, as she was apparently the only one who knew where the condo was. Around a corner we all went, with me the only one who wasn’t running.

Believe me, if I could have run, I would have. Across a small bridge and then around another corner, and suddenly I realised that I could not see anyone in front of me from the group of pretty panic-stricken people, who were, at this point, running for their lives. I kept going, with the assumption that I would see a condo door open with someone I recognised standing there. But as I was sloshing through what was now knee-deep water rushing at me pretty quickly, and rain

Miles, demonstrating some serious leadership through communications, which was seriously appreciated by all pelting down again, even I was slowing down for fear of slipping and falling down, which would have not have been good. I came upon a group of condo gates and began to pound on each of them, yelling for Althea. At one of them, number 23 to be exact, a young man came

to the gate and tore it open and hustled me into the unit.

Quick introductions, ‘’Hi, I am James, and am sorry to barge in unannounced,’’ followed by ‘’Hi, Dylan, and this is Cami... come in. Are you okay?’ Well no, but I said was something like ‘I am fine to be out of that shit.’ Dylan explained that

they had heard my pounding just by chance because they had been on the second floor or the condo in case the flood surge came in too quickly.

We actually kept talking in their kitchen for about 15 minutes and were about to go upstairs when someone else began to pound on their

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EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF HURRICANE IRMA 6 September, 1900h I went and laid down in one of the bedrooms that Dylan and Cami said were free to use and for some time, couldn’t get this experience out of my head. Fair enough. It was beyond brutal. It wasn’t until Thursday morning that it was possible to see what Irma left in her wake.

This photo shows the absolute randomness of Irma. On the right is a massively huge catamaran that had been on the hard, sitting on her twin keels. This boat was flipped over onto the road as if it was made out of balsa wood. About thirty meters away is Captain Mulligan’s, an outside pub that has a playground for children on its grounds. The red building is a simple plywood structure with no reinforcements that kids can play in. It was completely untouched. garden gate. Dylan rushed out in the now raging torrent and two men and two women staggered in, with one of the women almost collapsing on the floor once in the condo.

She had fallen down into now more than knee-deep water and was clearly stressed.

After a few minutes, we had all retreated to the second floor and waited, but didn’t know what we were waiting for. After about 30 minutes of continual pummelling of the condo by the storm, the wind and the surge actually smashed through Dylan’s front door, making the first floor a large swimming pool in seconds. Dylan and I ventured down the stairs a bit to see if there was anything that could be done but it was clear that there was no way we would be able to keep the door closed now that the door jam looked like a pile of floating toothpicks. We went back up and re-joined the group. We all just sat there, appreciative of the fact that we had made it through the first part of the storm, but the second bit was seeming much stronger and there was little 8

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we could do about it. By this time, I had heard on my VHF of the on-going destruction at the marina, but had no reports of where Saphir was (or used to be). Dylan went down to his kitchen-in-aswimming-pool and about ten minutes later came up with cups of soup. Now just to clarify a bit here. Picture this: The front door of the condo has blown in from the wind and storm surge; there is over a foot of water covering the entire ground floor of the condo; Dylan is standing in the kitchen, in the foot of water, making soup on the gas hob.

Damn. Back to the story..

If you know me, you know I don’t do soup. Well, I never used to do soup. I ended up having two cups of soup and it was the most welcomed food I could have ever hoped for.

Good man Dylan.

6 September, 1800h (more or less) the entire hurricane time here could have been divided into three time chunks. The first was when the centre of Irma was a bit to the east of Tortola. Chunk 2 was when the eye was more or less

transiting the island; and then there was the last chunk, which was the worst. The eye was moving past, which meant the rotation of Irma would now be pummelling us with winds from the West-South-West, and after a couple of hours, from the South. This is when the storm surge was at its zenith, and when the winds seemed to have so much more power than the first chunk of Irma.

By 1800h, it sounded like things were beginning to calm a bit, but to be fair, ‘’calm a bit’’ means that now it felt like the worst hurricane ever experienced by humans.

Clearly, this is what the term ‘relative’ is all about. What we were experiencing then, ‘relative’ to what we had already experienced, didn’t seem all that bad. The reason ‘relative’ was so impactful was that by now it was pretty clear to everyone on the planet that Irma was the biggest, strongest, nastiest hurricane to have ever transited the Atlantic in recorded history.

So in layman’s terms, Irma was a real big bitch. And she sure was.

7 September, 0600h I was the first one up and whilst Dylan had told me the night before I should feel free to make something (toast, tea, whatever…they had a gas hob so it would still work), I decided I would take a little walk. Have you ever seen photos of the damage from the two atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? This is what Nanny Cay looked like. Utter devastation. I walked past the hotel where I had been staying but was more focused on the marina side of the walk path. Boats under water, boats smashed into other boats, boats upended onto the walk path. I had seen photos of things like this, but actually being here seeing them in real life was a pretty powerful experience… and not in a good way. I kept walking…well, ‘’walking’’ included climbing up over boat parts and trees that had gone down…and finally, I saw Saphir. Interestingly enough, she was still connected to the boats that were on either side of her just before the storm hit. All three of them were there…but jammed in between another twenty or thirty boats that were in various states of disrepair.

The good news was that Saphir was still floating. The bad news was that the entire super-structure of her was gone, and at this point in time, there was no way to know if she was floating on her own, or floating because she was still connected to other boats.

I could not help but believe that Saphir will be rated as a total loss.

7 September, 0900h After carrying a six-gallon floor scrubbing bucket to the part

EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF HURRICANE IRMA good idea, but I said I didn’t think I wanted to be the one to climb up, so would he do it. Brian said sure, and a few minutes later, he and a friend materialised with this huge aluminium ladder, so I led them around to the side of the hotel that my balcony was on.

A photo of some of the damage incurred by Saphir. Difficult to see at first, but very visible, is the rudder. The entire leading edge is smashed as if the boat was dragged over a very solid submerged something. The training edge of the rudder has a very large piece of it missing, as if something impacted the rudder with a massive force. I have made shedloads of photos of the damage to Saphir for my insurance company. of the Nanny Cay marina that was just constructed in the past year to fill it with water (as there is still no electricity, there is no water and in order to flush the loos, you need to fill the tanks repeatedly), I thought I would take a walk over to see if I could get into my hotel room. I had food and clothes still there. The food was something that Dylan, Cami, and I could use to stay going, and the clothes would be good to have because I was still wearing the same damp/wet/soaked (at various times during the previous day, each one of those descriptors was appropriate).

So, climbing over ripped-off tin roof sheeting, downed branches and tress, and the odd nautical bits that had made it up on the grass lawn in front of the hotel buildings, as well as the odd-chunk of miscellaneous debris, I found myself at the stairwell that would take me up to the second floor.

This stairwell contained less debris that I expected, and after making it to my room door, I tried my key card, but to no avail. There could be a bazillion reasons why it 10

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wasn’t working, and it wasn’t worth even trying to figure out what they were, so I went back downstairs. I saw a group of youngsters (okay, probably hotel guests who were in the mid-twenties, but to me, those are youngsters) and went to see how they were doing. Two of them had just married and were on their honeymoon. The new wife made some comment about ‘’some honeymoon to remember,’’ and I jumped in with “this is a good thing to remember. No matter how much you get pissed off at each other in the future, you both need to take a breath and remember that you survived Irma together, and if that can’t keep a couple together, nothing will.” Good deed done for the day. We chatted for a bit and then one of them asked which room I was in (or had been in). I said it was 212 and I was here to try to get things out of the room, but the door lock wasn’t being overly accommodating to my plans.

Brian, the newly minted husband said that he knew where there was a ladder I could use to climb up to my balcony. That seemed like a

This was one of those seminal, ‘holy shit, this storm was more powerful than anyone could have imagined’ moments. Brian scrambled up the ladder whilst I went back up through the stairwell to wait for him at my door.

When it opened, Brian had a strange look on his face, sort of a cross between pure fear and total amazement. It was because not only was the railing around the balcony missing, the entire wall and roof were missing. All that was left of my room – the room I had been trying to ride out the storm in – were two side walls, and a wall where my front door wouldn’t even open.

We both stood there for a moment, looking around what all the fluffs of pink insulation that were embedded in the remaining walls and furniture that was piled up as if it had fallen from the sky…which I guess it sort of did. I asked Brian if he was okay, because it was clear he had never seen anything like this (nor had I) and he replied with a hesitant, ‘ah, yeah, yeah I’m okay.’ I told him he could go back down to be with his wife, but he said he would wait for me, so I began to look for the bathroom. I had spent the last 30 minutes in the room sort of lying down in the bathtub, as it seemed that it would be the safest place in the entire room.

Well it was, because when I managed to bust open the bathroom door, the little space was intact and dry.

After a few choice expletives, I grabbed my rucksack and cooler bag that I had brought with me to the hotel when I checked in, and then began to empty the refrigerator, which was still closed, into

the two bags. Next it was dig through the pile and move furniture around to access the dresser where my clothes were and after grabbing my trendy straw sun hat and umbrella, we took one last look and left what remained as room 212 and both walked down the stairwell. I thanked Brian more times than I can remember and as I was walking away, I could hear him telling some of the others that had gathered around what he had seen in my room. I came back to the condo, probably a bit more shaken than I had been an hour earlier, and gave all the food to Dylan and Cami and then set out to find Saphir again.

It only took 30 minutes to find her and she was floating, albeit totally jammed between numerous other boats, with all of them showing various levels of damage. Actually, there was nothing I could do but just look at her, and that didn’t seem like it was a healthy thing to do, so I came back to the condo.

7 September, 1100h We (Dylan, Cami, and I) spent most of the rest of the day trying to sort out the condo that they are living in. It did take quite a hit from the hurricane, but all of the condos did surprisingly well compared to so many other properties here in Nanny Cay. The Condos and the new marina are only a couple of years old, and the construction methods used on them undoubtedly were different than the older units in Nanny Cay; which could have contributed to why they survived better. We can only imagine what the rest of the island looks like.

7 September, 2000h Chris and Marli, two of the (now) friends that were welcomed into the condo during the hurricane shortly after I made it in, stopped over with a group (6) bottles of Proseco.

Not wanting to alienate new friends, we went through several of them.

EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF HURRICANE IRMA 8 September, 0700h I seem to consistently be the first one up in the morning, and as I am a guest, I feel compelled to do something. Today, I wandered off to fill up our water supply. It did take three trips of hauling a very heavy water bucket, but by the time I was done, we were set for the day. And just as I was pouring the last bucket load into our hand-dandy water reservoir, there was a knock on the external gate. It was Dylan’s neighbour who, because of our bout without electricity for a couple of days, had seen quite a few packages of frozen fruit defrost. And what do would you do if that happened to you? He made several pitchers of fruit smoothies and brought one over for us. A pretty great neighbour for sure. I had one glass, and kept the rest for D and C. 8 September, 0830h I decided that I wanted to go check out Saphir again, so

walked around the complex until I found a squirrely path without huge piles of debris that I could negotiate down to the water. When I arrived, the first person I saw was my friend John, who with his two children, had been living on his boat in the marina as well.

His boat did not survive well either and he was making multiple trips from shore to his boat to empty what he could. He said that he had seen Saphir – actually he said that he had crawled over Saphir and about six other boats several times on the way to his boat. Things on Saphir were not good, and John said he would take some photos of her if I wanted. I said ‘yes please,’ and gave him my iPhone. About ten minutes later, he had reappeared and gave me the phone and a fuller description of the hits that Saphir had taken during the hurricane.

The description was not good and I asked him if he thought I could crawl over the other

boats so I could take some things off Saphir. John said, yes, and that he would help me get there. A bit later I was standing on the now completely stripped deck of my boat. No mast. No superstructure for the wind generator, solar panels, and all the antennas. A missing port. The toe-rails on both port and starboard destroyed.

The bow pulpit smashed into an almost Gordian knot looking mess. Water inside the cabin. I suppose the only good news was that she wasn’t in immediate danger of sinking. After inspecting the external parts of my seriously damaged boat, I went below.

Everything obviously tossed around. Water on the cabin sole. Water all over the navigation station. I found the missing smashed port laying on the cabin sole, along with just about everything else that had been below. I didn’t attempt to turn anything on, as I agreed with John that Saphir was most likely a total

write off. I did dig out of the mess several computers (right now my sons are wondering why I had more than one computer on Saphir…. well I have multiple computers and use them some times and it is always great to have a spare). I took a pillow out of a pillow case from the settee and chucked the computers in it and left Saphir, managing to get back to land without sliding into the (seriously polluted) harbour.

8 September, 1400h The three of us were feeling pretty rank after several days without showers, so we went over to the other side of the harbour where Chris’ (remember Chris and Marli?) boats were tied up. Chris manages a charter company and was fortunate as four of his eight boats in Nanny Cay, only three had sunk. When Chris and Marli had been over for the Proseco-fest, he had told us that if we wanted to shower, we could do so on

EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF HURRICANE IRMA one of his remaining boats.

Showering was like a gift from above, and to be clear, a gift from above was far better than an apocalyptic experience named Irma from above. Each one of us did try to be respectful and not totally drain their water system, and when we were all done and dressed again on deck, we all felt pretty good.

We then jumped into Dylan’s car and headed into Road Town. We had heard that there were functioning mobile phone towers in Road Town, and each one of us needed to talk to family and friends to let them know we did make it through the storm, which by now had been recognised by whomever measures this stuff as the biggest, nastiest, and most powerful hurricane ever to come to the Caribbean.

The ride into Road Town was an eye opener. I had seen pictures of this kind of destruction, but had never really seen it before in person.

It was, in a word, horrific.

After returning to the condo, and having…ready? More soup. Damn, I am liking soup. Damn. We then walked over to the Beach Bar, which of course didn’t even exist anymore, for a meeting called by the Manager of Nanny Cay. The turnout was pretty impressive in itself, with so many now familiar and friendly faces saying hello as we walked in and sat down.

Not only were people polite and friendly, everyone has evolved a bit and asks how you are doing. We were doing the same to them.

The sense of bonding after going through this kind of experience is pretty powerful, and I would think it is safe to say that I now have even more very special friends who I will be connected to for the rest of my life. The meeting itself dealt with weather updates – tropical storm Jose was supposed to arrive here on Saturday….tomorrow. Isn’t that special? The good news is that the latest projections show it only brushing past Tortola with Category 3 winds.

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Maria, two others (in the back) and myself, about to take off from Nanny Cay, in a photo sent to me by my friend - Peter Small who is still on Tortola…probably waiting for my return so we can solve more of the world’s problems.

Two weeks ago, we would have all been rushing around preparing for this huge storm, but now, after the evil rage of Irma, if the projections are right, this will seem like a light breeze no doubt. We heard about all the security efforts being undertaken at Nanny Cay, which were pretty impressive. After the storm, there has been a moderate level of looting in Road Town, and the management team does not want that to happen here. We also heard that the water is supposed to be functioning tomorrow, which received a substantial amount of applause.

9 September, 0700h I awoke this morning the sound of an electrical fan in the room I was using of the condo, and by this time, light was flooding through the windows. Two pretty nice signs to wake up to. One of the messages last evening at the Nanny Cay meeting was that the electricity generator for the complex would shut down at 2200h and return into service when Steve (the man responsible for infrastructure issues at Nanny Cay) would

wake up. This made perfect sense. As we are getting our power from a monster generator on the Nanny Cay grounds, it made no sense to have it running all night when we are, or should be, sleeping. Refrigerators and freezers would be fine until the system would start up again the following morning.

The part of waking to sunlight that was so good also related to something that had been talked about last evening.

This was the news about tropical storm Jose. Even though the projections are for it to pass us with a pretty wide berth, as we all learnt a few days ago, projections are not necessarily the same as reality, so a sunny morning is a good thing. We shall see later in the day where Jose really is, as we were told that we could first feel him around 1400h, with his eye swinging past around midnight. Whilst 90% of the people at the meeting were pretty relieved at this news, you never know. There are a lot of fingers crossed here at Nanny Cay. I thought it best to chip in and do something to help

out my more than generous housemates, so I went out for more loo-flushing water after having a toasted bagel and some tea. The whole thing about the reality that we need to get our own water to fill the water tanks on a loo is really pretty sad. We are sitting here in Nanny Cay, a privately owned business, and we have electricity, will soon have water, and the rest of the island has neither, and probably will not have either for weeks or more, and we think it is a hardship. Pretty shite attitude. I tend to think that going to collect water from the new marina is really just part of a nice exercise programme. End of.

9 September, 1300h The three of us headed into Road Town again today. Dylan had a meeting that he had to attend, and Cami and I just were keen on checking in with family and friends. I did managed to connect with both of my sons, Matthew and David, as well as with MLR and several special friends before we then headed back to Nanny Cay. The kids dropped me off as they were

EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF HURRICANE IRMA going out to West End to check on several friends, and I wanted to check on Saphir again. After walking in past security (we now do have a security check point to ensure that looters or potential looters cannot get into Nanny Cay), I found the spot in the marina where there is a monster-sized catamaran that is half on land and half n the water. When I was here yesterday, with John’s help, I was able to negotiate my way to Saphir. So today, I found the catamaran, and after climbing on-board the boat that was literally sitting on a 45-degree angle, I carefully walked across the deck until I could get to the next boat in the multiple-boat-path-toSaphir. Sadly, several boats had been towed away, and now it was impossible to even reach Saphir, so I had to walk back to the condo without being able to salvage anything else from my very sad boat.

9 September, 1700h There was another meeting tonight

for all the residents of Nanny Cay. Most of the topics were security, fuel, and the water situation. These people are really doing a good job of passing along communication.

Too often, organisations or groups of people don’t pass along enough information about what is going on, and because we are humans, we tend to fill in the gaps in communication –the ‘we don’t know what is going on’ – with our own hopes/ assumptions/ beliefs, usually that are well off reality.

By holding these nightly meetings, it enables us to not feel the need to fall into the rumour trap and consequently, feel that the people making decisions know what they are doing. One of the bits of information tonight was about tropical storm Jose, and I don’t think there are any of us that are overly worried now.

9 September, 1900h Several other friends of Dylan and

Cami came over to stay at the condo tonight. Two friends, Chris and Amanda, live on the island, with Chris working with Dylan. Their home was pretty much buggered in the Irma nightmare, so Dylan had said they could spend a few nights there at the condo to recharge their electronic kit and themselves. Then, just about the time that Cami had prepared another fabulous dinner, another friend stopped in and ate with us.

10 September, 0645h The electricity came on again this morning…always a blessing… but still no water. Perhaps soon. The big tiz about hurricane Jose, which was really Tropical Storm Jose, evaporated faster than food on store shelves during a looting. I slept right through the night, and this morning, the only remnant of Jose (if any at all) was a nice breeze.

This is very good for if we had tried to go through another hurricane, I am not sure that people here could have handled it.

10 September, 1230h I rang up Chris (a friend whom I met during the nightmare of Irma), and asked if he could take me in one of his tenders out to Saphir. This seems like the logical way to solve the problem of not being able to board her.

Chris, one of those over-thetop-generous-souls, said, “not a problem James. I will meet you at the bridge in 10 minutes.’’ Dylan and I walked over to the bridge and sure enough, Chris was coming toward us quite quickly. We jumped into his tender and we proceeded to track down where Saphir was. Just about halfway there, I looked up and here was Saphir coming toward us. The local salvage people were able to cut her loose from the Medusa-like tangle of shrouds, broken and downed masts, and dock lines that were still attached to the numerous boats all jammed together. I had asked them to try to move her as every day that Saphir was in the mess, the risk of her

sinking increased because boats she was connected to were slipping lower and lower in the water. If Saphir is a total write off, (which it does look like), I didn’t want it to happen because I didn’t try everything to save her. I leapt out of Chris’ tender and onto the salvage boat and we slowly plodded our way to the new marina on the other side of Nanny Cay. About 30 minutes later, Saphir was firmly tied to a new pontoon and I set out to do a more thorough inspection of how she did in the hurricane. The reality is that she did pretty damn good. The evidence of that is that she was still floating. It was also clear however, that she had more damage than I first thought, with everything topsides shredded, crushed, or gone.

Her hull is excessively beaten and abraded, and even worse, there was quite a bit of water in the bilges that won’t come out from the pumps. I think that her hull could have been holed by something, and although it might be a small hole, it must be a hole none-the-less…and holes in the hulls of sailboats are not a good thing.

I then proceeded to empty Saphir of all the bottles of water, soda, and beer so I could bring them to the condo for additional provisions for Dylan, Cami, and I. Just after unloading them all at the condo, a neighbour asked me if I could help him move a boat. I, of course, said I would help. It was a big boat and there were only the two of us doing it, but we did get if to a new location as was needed.

With some luck, my back will be pain-free again in a coupe of months.

By the time I made it back to the condo a few hours later, I was hotter and sweatier than I had been in my entire time in the BVI. Still no water in Nanny Cay, so I put on my swimmers (freshly liberated from Saphir) and went to the beach for a swim and cool down.

EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF HURRICANE IRMA 10 September, 1700h We went to the day’s update meeting and were pretty chuffed about the news. The water system is almost ready to be turned on, and we might be full service again by tomorrow. We were also told that 150 Royal Marines were now on the island, and tonight, we would have 17 of them here at Nanny Cay. The management team really appreciates all the volunteering and helping that we residents have done, and we certainly have appreciate all their efforts to help get Nanny Cay running again.

11 September, 0630h It was very surreal this morning.

There was a tension between knowing that I really need to leave Tortola, and wanting to stay and continue to help out.

The first part of the tension is pretty tangible: my home is Saphir, and whilst she is still afloat, she is not liveable now, so staying on her is not an option. Whilst Dylan and Cami have repeatedly said I can stay with them as long as I want to or need to, that really isn’t a sustainable option either. With no home/ apartment/residence of any place, continuing to be here is in reality draining resources that could be applied better someplace else. There is the entire lodging issue, but there is also the PTSD that is and will impact each of us that were here when Irma beat the crap out of the island. Living through something like this is pretty indescribable, but it will be difficult to expect that if you haven’t been through a hurricane, much less the biggest and worst Atlantic/ Caribbean hurricane of all time, that simply talking about it will make it okay. Then there is the self-imposed guilt that often strikes people who have lived through a major disaster. The guilt can strike because you don’t understand why you made it through it in more-or-less one piece when so many others were devastated, and in many cases, lost their lives.

I think the whole guilt thing contributes to people who

leave when deep down inside, they want to continue to help.

On a less deep-thinkingpsychological theme, I did go over to Saphir shortly after waking this morning. I rummaged around, trying for find more things to take off and keep, and whilst I did come back to the condo with a pillow case full of electronic things and some clothes, it really is a pretty crap feeling to know that you have to leave so much of what was important to you behind.

Especially with the knowledge that if you leave it, you will never get it back again. A surveyor has not yet come to examine Saphir, but everyone who has seen here says she is toast. I have no idea what happens to boats that have been so beaten up that they are total losses. Perhaps insurance companies sell them for parts. Perhaps they are just towed out to sea and scuttled. I really have no idea.

I might try to find out once I am out of here.

11 September, 1700 Not a lot happened today. Helped out some people with their boats; talked to quite a few new friends about the experience that we all went through; and spent some time packing…and then repacking for my departure. Supposedly there is a boat coming for me tomorrow, but I did hear that the boat has been delayed again. Just before we went over to the nightly update meeting, Dylan, who had been in Road Town talking with Virgin people. When he came home, he said that he could arrange for me to be evacuated tomorrow on a helicopter to San Juan.

Feeling pretty good about this, we walked over to the Beach Bar area where the nightly meetings are held.

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Especially when so many on the island still have no electricity, much less comms.

And whilst this news made everyone happy, what really brought a smile to our faces was the name that the WIFI coverage service has. Now what you do is turn on your phone, go to settings, go to WIFI, and look for F U IMRA. We all loved that.

Two other things happened at the meeting that made it different than the previous ones. First, a dozen Royal Marines were there. Seeing them there with us in person made us all very happy, as security on Tortola has become a serious issue.

Restoring order on the island is a crucial step in starting the rebuilding process. And having a military presence here at Nanny Cay makes us all feel more secure. The other thing that stood out was that there were not as many people at the meeting.

Quite a few people have been evacuated, which is a good thing, but also a hard thing when some of them have become friends. Apparently I am not the only one who noticed this, and there were quite a few of us who made it a point to talk to as many friends as possible, knowing that we might not see each other again for a long time.

12 September, 0600h I had been told that today was going to be the day I would

be evacuated, and truth-betold, I wasn’t feeling too good about it. Have no doubt, I knew it made all the sense in the world for me to leave, but there was that little voice inside whispering, “James, do you want to leave? Isn’t there something you can do to help fix Nanny Cay and Tortola?”

Of course the answer is yes, but with the caveat that what I can bring to help fix it all can be done remotely. Staying meant that I would just be using resources that could be used elsewhere. Today would be my last day on Tortola for a long time. Or so I thought when I awoke. I hustled over to Saphir, took some more photos, looked for a couple of things that MLR had reminded me about in a message.

12 September, 1300h My evacuation process had been arranged by Dylan. Just a note here…first he literally saves my life because he heard me pounding on his gate during the hurricane, and then through his network, he manages to arrange to get me off the island. Dylan will always be held in high regard for what he did for me. Early on, a helicopter landing area had been cleared in Nanny Cay and it was immediately across the street from the condo that Dylan and Cami were cat-sitting in. He had told me that a helicopter would land at 1330h and off I would go to San Juan. He also had said that I needed to be really sensitive about how much stuff I wanted to take with me, and I had packed accordingly. Then I repacked

better. And then repacked again, each time, taking less and less stuff. By the time it was 1300h, I was down to one small suitcase, one rucksack, and one (bulging) briefcase.

Dylan had buggered off around noon to continue his quest to save the world, so at just before 1330h, Cami and I carried all the bags out across the road to the landing zone. At 1400h, we carried it all back to the condo as no helicopter had appeared.

Dylan returned and tried to ring someone to find out what was occurring, but we could not find out what was going on. We assumed that the helicopter had to be refuelled or something. By 1430h, one of us would go outside every five minutes and scan the skies, which in hindsight seems pretty stupid as a helicopter landing across the road is pretty flippin’ noisy.

Finally, just before 1500h, Maria (the pilot for CaribbeanBuzz, came swooping in out of the sky and after helping her strap in the other two passengers, we headed for San Juan. I knew that what I would see as we headed over West End and Sopers Hole would not be pretty…and it wasn’t. Forty-five minutes later, we landed in Puerto Rico at SJU and I was on my way to a hotel room for the night with a long, desperately needed shower.

A closing note about this chapter. A seriously massive thank you to all my friends and family who have been so concerned and have worked tirelessly to keep in contact,

provided invaluable assistance when communications were total shite, and have sent me so many good thoughts and wishes. You are all appreciated. Thank you.

Now, sort of an epilogue to this chapter. Hurricane Irma has proven to be one nasty record-setting storm and its impact.

- Barometric pressure of only 914 milibars. Wind that hit Tortola was in excess of 180 miles per hour. Diameter of Irma was larger than 300 miles. Untold amount of financial damage - When I decided to move to the BVI, I sold (or gave away) everything I had in Mallorca, car, furniture, paintings…everything. My entire life and everything I owned was on Saphir and is now gone. When I left the island, everything I had left fit into one small suitcase, one rucksack, and one briefcase.

- I showed this chapter to MLR before I uploaded it and she said that she found it so very sad. She asked me why I don’t get into the sadness of the whole episode in the story… and I guess it is because it would be too difficult to write.

P.S. Sorry about the length of the chapter. I was going to say you could put the blame on Irma for my self-imposed need to write about the whole thing, but instead I will simply close with the name of the new WIFI system at Nanny Cay which sums up the feelings of all of us that were there quite appropriately…..F U IRMA.

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On September, the 9th, this message was sent out by Timothy Forderer, a yacht captain and one of YAG’s leading supporters.

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Caribbean. The Marine and Yachting Industries are in a unique position to offer aid to these isolated areas because they can quickly deploy boats to deliver needed supplies, crews to provide services and communicate needs, and logistic experts to coordinate relief aid with other voluntary organizations.

What: YachtAid Global call to action for the Marine Industry to collectively engage in relief efforts to benefit those impacted by hurricane #IRMA and #JOSE, and tropical storm #Lidia in Mexico.

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supplies, execute delivery of supplies and critical aid including water making services or make cash donations, please contact Tim Forderer with YAG: tim@yachtaidglobal.org If you know of bona-fide volunteer and charitable opportunities in affected islands, please share with YAG ASAP so we can promote.

About Yag: YachtAid Global is dedicated to providing disaster relief aid and humanitarian support to remote coastal communities.

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Over the past decade, the registered non-profit organization has delivered aid to over 20 countries in collaboration with more than 50 superyachts and approximately 400 crew, positively impacting approximately 200,000 people worldwide.

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CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY – RICHARD MASTERS other. Let’s start with the obvious – Mrs Masters.

Not only is his wife of 22 years, Justine, mother of their two children, but she’s also a partner and account manager in Master Yachts - an immediate blurring of business and privacy. We need to narrate at least a few chapters…

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Captains of Industry – Richard Masters The tale of Richard Masters’ passage from deckhand to yacht captain to captain of industry is so peppered with romance, fate and fascination that it would be a great pity not to recount it verse and chapter. Richard isn’t entirely au fait with this. He’s a man who prefers to discuss the intricacies of his business rather than the nuances of his private life, however, they’re so neatly interwoven it’s almost impossible to disentangle one from the

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As a young 20-something, South Africa-born Richard was involved in the commissioning of 49 metre sailing yacht Thalia (a large large boat back in those days) at Vitters Shipyard. Upon her launch in August 1994, she was sailed from Holland to Palma and the captain, Patrick Moussa, employed a pretty blonde Geordie as chief stewardess.

In October they set sail for the Caribbean, by February Richard and Justine had fallen in love, and by October 1995 they were married.

Now a Class IV yacht captain (Richard says it was a lot easier to achieve back in those days) he then got promoted from first mate to captain Ninemia, a 1995-launched 31 metre motoryacht also from the Vitters stable. Richard recruited his beloved as chef. Working for a Greek owner, they found themselves

based in Athens and enjoyed wedded bliss afloat until Justine fell pregnant with baby number one. She returned to the safety and comfort of Mallorca, the Island Justine had called ‘home’ since sailing there with her father in 1985.

Richard continued at the helm of Ninemia for another three years until Justine was carrying baby number two.

Richard didn’t work rotation, he was away 11 months of the year, Justine was nursing a growing bump, and a penny loudly dropped – it was time to set up roots on land. Soon after their baby daughter was born – so too was Master Yachts.

If you ask Richard what is the key to Master Yachts’ success, he’ll give you a three-pronged answer: timing, kindness and luck. The year was 2002 and the yachting industry

was on an upward trajectory.

Many wealthy individuals were considering buying and building superyachts. Boats were getting bigger and bigger and requiring more and more crew. This is where Richard’s aforementioned ‘timing’ comes in. By the time global recession hit in 2008-2009, Master Yachts had already supervised the build of ten yachts, were managing all of them, and had more than sufficient momentum to sustain the ‘flatline’.

The owner of Ninemia donated the kindness part.

When Richard told him he was leaving to start a yacht management business ashore, the Greek shipping magnate said he would help and recommend him to his friends. He requested a business plan and, having convinced him of its viability, offered Richard a year’s

CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY – RICHARD MASTERS advance to manage Ninemia’s affairs and wrote out a cheque. This act of kindness kick started Master Yachts.

The ‘luck’ was being in the right place at the right time, affording him the chance to coincide perfect timing with bighearted kindness.

In a nutshell, Richard’s business plan was to act as the owner’s representative for large new builds of 30 to 40 metres (back in those days, that was ‘large’) regardless of which shipyard they were being constructed in.

Ordinarily, the owner would ask Master Yachts to manage the first year of the yachts’ life, ironing out any warranty issues, and invariably this would just rollover from one year to the next. 80% of the vessels Master Yachts has built (21 to date) are now under its management.

What started as husband-wife garage-based business, baby bobbing about in the bouncer, is now a slick operation run by a staff of 32 from offices in Antibes, Athens, Byron Bay, Istanbul, the Isle of Man, Jersey, and the Mallorca HQ on Palma’s Paseo Marítimo.

Master Yachts is now the largest international large yacht management company in Mallorca looking after everything from 12 metre fast RIBs to 150 metre royal yachts. Richard credits much of this prosperity to his decision to headquarter in Mallorca.

“We’re very fortunate with our location, it’s very easy to find amazing people to work for us and we’re able to recruit the crème de la crème,” says Richard. “If we put feelers out for a new team member, ten CVs land on my desk within the hour. Most of our staff are highly-skilled ex captains, chief engineers, chief stewardesses, pursers, and they bring an immense amount of knowledge and first-hand experience to the table. In Mallorca there are plenty of talented crew who want to go land based – just like we did 15 years ago. Our

Polar Star - Dolphin © Stuart Boliter prominent marina-front office is a show of confidence and allegiance to this incredible island, a magnet for both cruising and refit with an extraordinarily bright future.”

looking after matters such as contracts, payroll, insurance and visas. Serendipitously Adrian and Paula were Richard and Justine’s replacements on Ninemia a decade or so prior.

team and there is no shortage of highly intelligent human resources for our Mallorca HQ – it’s a great place for skilled ex-captains and crew to live and work.”

Richard’s recruitment process has also been sprinkled with a touch of fate and luck.

The captain who introduced Richard and Justine to Thalia (and indirectly each other) joined Master Yachts in 2006 as a third partner.

Richard persuaded Patrick out of retirement and capitalised on his IT skills to build MYConnect, an online document management system giving crew and owners transparent real-time access to accounts, salaries, crew lists and so on – it’s without equal in the yacht management business.

His valuable work now done, Patrick has since managed to happily slip back into retirement.

Sticking religiously to management and supervision services in build, refit and operations, there are some tasks he’d rather leave to the others. “Brokerage, charter and recruitment – they were the three things I said Master Yachts would never do, and we never have,” continues Richard. “Everyone said we would fail. How would we possibly generate enough income stream without offering those ‘expected’ services. Well we’re doing just fine. Currently Master Yachts is one of only two large yacht management companies in the Med that don’t touch brokerage.”

In fact Richard already has his next venture lined up and ready to go – Master Asset Management. “It’s a natural evolution for us,” explains Richard. “We are already asset managers, but will now specialise in anything that moves, so that’s integrated logistics for private jets, helicopters and car fleets.

We can add all this to our management portfolio in MYConnect and handle risk, safety, accounts, payroll, varying regulations between different geographic regions, and more - just like we do with the yachts.”

Blasts from the past Adrian and wife Paula also re-entered Richard’s life to become Master Yachts colleagues.

Adrian heads up MYSafety as another partner, ensuring new builds are International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) and International Safety Management (ISM) compliant, while Paula works in crew administration

Now 47, Richard says he has “plenty of days left” in his life and certainly displays boundless energy. He estimates around 98% of his business takes place off-island and just a few days after we met he was flying to a quick face-to-face lunch meeting in San Diego, returning home via London and Dubai. “I am going to place no limits on Master Yachts’ expansion,” confirms Richard. “We have a hugely capable international

“There is no end to the number of valuable assets available to manage in the world. It’s a niche yet growing market dictated by a strong world economy headed by highly intelligent entrepreneurs. It’s a privilege to look after these entrepreneurs’ interests and Master Yachts will continue to do so with dedication and joy.” www.masteryachts.com

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NORTH SAILS INTERVIEW

Ken Read President North Sails

North Sails Interview This month we will see the start of the 2017- 2018 Volvo Ocean race from Alicante on a gruelling circumnavigation, including extended periods in the Southern Ocean, which will test the yachts equipment, especially the sails, to the limit.

We are very happy to bring you an interview with Kenny Read, President of North Sails who are exclusive sails provider to the race.

Ken Read, North Sails President (& former 2-Time VOR Skipper) Q: The North Sails Group has been deeply involved with the Volvo Ocean Race (and formerly the Whitbread Race) since the 1980s - can you give us some background on the history of the relationship and how the race and North Sails have evolved together?

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as the ultimate testing and proving ground of both our high durability products but also the interesting mix of Grand Prix race and durability products. In essence, 3Di has been the perfect product for the Volvo. Back in the 80s, into the 90s and even into the early 2000’s when film and string sails like 3DL were used, the durability part of the product certainly struggled. No one can argue that laminate sails certainly struggle in offshore environments. The constant pounding, the moving and folding, the heat and the cold and because of that inventories for the boats had lots and lots of different sails on board. Firstly, to cover the wind ranges but also they had tons of replacements to keep fast sails in one piece all the way around the world. But then we moved to the 2000’s and the introduction of 3Di and the difference has been astounding. It’s where, for the first time ever, we were able to say that the fastest sails were also the most durable sails. 3Di has simply changed the game. But we don’t stop there, we continue to evolve and push the product to new levels of both speed and durability through this Volvo. And honestly, it is a gift for North Sails to continue this sort of development in partnership with a race like this.

Q: North Sails was again selected as the Official Sailmaker for the next edition of the race. What do you see as the key factors in that decision and why is it important for North Sails?

A: I would say that proof of product is the major part in our continuing partnership.

When we were sailing the Volvo 70s for the three editions that I did, the first edition with the Volvo 70s was with the canting keels we were using 3DL sails, the second edition in 2008 was still 3DL and then the 2010 edition did a complete switch over to 3Di. That was actually a big move at the time as the product was still relatively unknown but the results were staggering. Not just to North Sails but to the sailors themselves. I remember the meeting with the Volvo team in 2008 when they asked how many mainsails I thought we could have gone round the world with and I said right there that I thought we could have done it with just one. We had done it with two but I definitely thought it was possible with one and that started the ball rolling. 3Di basically allowed for massive budget cuts and sail restrictions to happen embracing and enhancing the whole one design concept.

And that is a good thing (even

though we were making less sails) because, as a sport, we have a responsibility to make these grand prix races even more affordable to get more teams involved. So 3Di has allowed the game to modernise, to change and in my opinion all for the better.

Q: What makes the Volvo Ocean Race so unique and special, as a sporting spectacle on the water?

A: First of all its relentless, it’s ruthless, it’s brutal, it’s person against the ocean and its product against the ocean but the ocean is ruthless and has no mercy. So 3Di, and the lack of delamination in particular, has allowed teams to push the boats harder and make the spectacle even more dramatic. So it’s really the ultimate test for machine and all the products on the machine. These products have to perform, to do things that people never even dreamt that they would be able to - it’s another reason why we are so proud of 3Di and the people that design and engineer it as it has taken the spectacle and made it even crazier.

Q: As a former skipper in the race, you were one of the first adopters of 3Di from 3DL with PUMA. What were the key factors for you at the time? And what is your reaction to all the teams making it around the world in 2014-15 with only one mainsail and no sail failures?

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A: Ericsson had tried a few 3Di sails back in the early stages of the previous race (early 2008) but nobody had any understanding about the blend of materials and the engineering in them and what a game changer they would be. At that stage, the sails were made too strong and brittle so the ones Ericsson tested basically broke... But from that race to the next, the evolution of the product was on a vertical learning curve. With me having a bit of knowledge of the company, by the time the next race came about and we were having to make some big choices, I was completely comfortable making the leap and jumping in with both feet. We only made one 3DL sail as a test sail for that race, in case 3Di didn’t work early on, but at the end of the race we found that sail on the rack having never seen the light of day.

In fact it actually got sold with the boat. So 3Di worked, and the word spread really quickly amongst the fleet that we were very happy and all in.And every other team did the same thing - in the end everyone knew that 3DL was fast and a great product but that it was brittle and the durability of the laminate string sail just wasn’t up to the job. Every North boat in the 2010 race used 3Di.

a safety line on the tack and the sail just took off up the headstay at about 1,000 miles an hour in 30 knots of breeze and flogged itself right in half.

Now, we were about 2/3rds of the way to New Zealand, we were in second place and it was a really tight leg and our J2, our primary sail in that sort of condition, had just flogged itself in half. So we bear

away and get it down below and we pull out this boat building product, 5200, which is essentially boat building goop, and a few of us dove in and just started slapping it on along with pre cut pieces of 3Di cloth in our repair kit.

Within 4 hours we had the sail back together and within 15 hours we had it back out there (even though the product

needed 24 hours setting time) but we needed that sail. So we got it up, and it was nearly perfect. We even passed a boat on the final stretch and we used it quite a bit more prior to replacement. The point is, yet again the product proved itself. If you abuse it, it will eventually break as it is a soft piece of material but you can put it back together

That race was still a bit of a learning curve for 3Di, a couple of the sails were made too light for a couple of the boats but even having said that, we had only one 3Di sail failure in that race and it was a gear failure that lead to the error anyway... We had our J2 up about half way round the world on the leg from China to New Zealand.

We were steaming along in too much breeze for the sail, we threw in a couple of reefs but in one of those squalls we were holding on but we didn’t want to change jibs.

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and it still be a world class sail. And also, since then we have learnt more about the product, materials and manufacturing process that has also hugely helped the sailors work out how to get the most from these sails and make them last, and perform, on and on.

The crew sizes on any boat is now getting smaller and smaller so the ability to have fewer sails which each cover a wider range is making a significant difference to teams. On Volvo boats you can stack sails so the fewer you have the less you have to move about. So it’s a pretty nice feature that you have 4 or 5 fewer sails on board as the boats now do the race without a single back-up sail aboard. So less gear, less moving stuff around, less sail changes, less cost, less development. Sail changes are expensive in terms of miles and energy, so the less you have to do the better. For sure 3Di costs a little bit more but that is because it is worth it in so many different ways - you are hugely reducing your overall total costs, maintenance and number of people on board.

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said that with a brand new, out of the bag, 3Di and 3DL sail there is very little difference in speed. But after that first minute, you would very fast start to see the difference in stability of 3Di - the lack of stretch, give, shrinkage. So from minute one 3Di is getting faster than the laminate string sail. And then from minute 1, 10, day 2, day 15, day 60 and so on, the difference just gets bigger and bigger and the durability is uncomparable.

Q: North Sails often refer to the “Engine above Deck”.

What does this encompass (North Sails & Southern Spars) and tell us about the commitment to R&D so that NTG remains the leaders in technology and manufacturing for the Engine above Deck?

A: 3Di and North Sails are just one entity in what Terry Kohler (previous majority owner of North Sails) started calling the Engine above the Deck. And it is one of the reasons that he wanted to get into the mast business in the first place. Making and delivering sails and masts are now part of the same thing - with the software that has been developed by

these two NTG companies, it means you don’t even have to own a tape measure, let alone get it out and start using it. The software of mast bend, stability, fit, fittings etc means that mast and sail can be done as one package and if it is done properly it is perfect. So the Southern Spars and NS package that the two companies share is a godsend.

If everything fits right out of the bag then your chances of success grow astronomically and this is what this package can do.

Q: How does the work that North Sails does with the Volvo Ocean Race influence the wider product ranges for other One Design

A: We think 3Di is still in its infancy in terms of the development standpoint - the materials, layouts, engineering and the ability to adjust shapes in different conditions it is like nothing the sailing world has ever seen. The big one for me is, years ago when I was in my early days in the sailmaking business it was never the case that the faster the sail the more durable it was. I did an America’s Cup once where we were putting three races on a Jib before we threw it away. The power of the sentence: The fastest sail in the world is now the most durable sail in the world - it’s unbelievable, it’s a miracle.

It cannot be underestimated.

The benefit to sailing and to sailors, whether you are a cruiser, a performance cruiser, a racer, a performance racer or a Grand Prix racer, is unreal. We can engineer the materials, design and layout of these sails to cater to the type of sailing you are going to do. It is not a broad brush that you put over the canvas anymore - it’s customized and personalized. Its why people who are using 3Di for the first time and going to do their thing and we get notes saying: ‘Oh my goodness, thank you!

This is an amazing product.’ As a company we love that sort of feedback and it’s amazing to see the difference this product makes to so many people and their performance and enjoyment of sailing right across the spectrum.

MARINA SPOTLIGHT – RODA DE BARÀ The Costa Dorada, or Golden Coast, lies somewhere in between. Less smart than the Costa Brava, less tacky than the Costa Blanca, this 225 kilometre stretch of Mediterranean seafront is where Spanish families flock to for summer fun in the sun.

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Marina Spotlight – Roda de Barà Some Spanish Costas are undoubtedly far better known amongst the foreign bucketand-spade set than others.

While the Costa del Sol is one of the busiest holiday destinations in Europe, many would struggle to pinpoint the Costa Vasca on a map.

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With a largely tranquil atmosphere and traditionally Spanish vibe, the Costa Dorada is exalted for its long golden sand beaches (as its name suggests) washed by clear turquoise waters and backed by scented palms.

But that’s not all it has to offer. Many towns are built around a castle or fortress, encapsulating a real sense of history and culture, while the lowlands are dotted with verdant vineyards and olive and almond groves. It also plays host to theme parks PortAventura, Caribe Aquatic Park and newly-opened Ferrari Land – the latter boasting Europe’s highest and fastest rollercoaster (not many people know that). At the heart of the coast is the buzzing port city of Tarragona, home to the region’s main airport, Reus, while other notable towns include gayfriendly Sitges, the large lively resort of Salou, and fishing town Cambrils.

About 20 minutes northeast of Tarragona and an hour southwest of Barcelona lies Roda de Barà. Easily recognisable from the tenmetre-high Roman arch that stands proudly on the main road, an arch that was erected in memory of an influential Roman Senator from Tarraco, Lucius Licinius Sura, this gorgeous town has three beaches – two of which fly the coveted Blue Flag – and a nice array of nautical facilities, including the simply-named marina Roda de Barà.

Opening early 2008, but in various stages of expansion over subsequent years, marina Roda de Barà claims to be one of the most modern in Spain and the largest on the Tarragona coastline.

Counting no less than 640

MARINA SPOTLIGHT – RODA DE BARÀ moorings, from eight metres to a more-than-reasonable 45 metres in length, plus some provision up to 60 metres, the marina prides itself on having generous manoeuvring space and wide channels to enable smooth flow of traffic. Music to the ears of captains and crew.

Due to its size (191,771m² total area divided into 97,217m² ‘land’ and 94,554m² ‘water’), marina Roda de Barà has been able to create large clear defined spaces dedicated to commercial business, green zone and, of course, nauticalrelated activity.

The 7,000m² commercial space has been designed to suit the needs of the boater (as opposed to the passing tourist) with chandlers, maintenance, repair and charter businesses - plus bars and restaurants to refuel hungry sailors.

The 5,000m² green zone provides a breath of fresh air at the heart of the marina including the 3,000m² Plaza del Mar which is crisscrossed with pathways shaded by plenty of trees and fringed with parking spaces. In total the marina has 511 places to park your car (or indeed motorhome or boat trailer) of which 300 are shaded from the sunshine – a welcome treat on a hot, humid Costa Dorada summer’s day.

storage. The latter covers almost 900m² arranged on three levels and is suited to boats up to seven metres in length (about 23 feet in old money). This store has the added touch of a heli landing pad on its roof – essential for emergencies.

The shipyard weighs in at a sizeable 9,000m² and boasts a travel lift of 110 tonnes as well as a 10 tonne crane servicing the 408m² covered workshop

Moving on to nauti business, marina Roda de Barà has plenty to offer – regardless of your choice of carriage.

Dinghy sailors benefit from 1,500m² of hard standing with a handy slipway while adrenalin-junky jetski owners have 2,000m² of land-based mooring spots and a one tonne crane to hoist them into position.

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(Barcelona Airport, the second busiest in Spain and the seventh busiest in Europe, is a 40 minute drive) plus easy cruising distance to the South of France, Sardinia, Corsica and the Balearics, and Roda de Barà’s allure is clear.

building. Experienced staff (under German management) can handle everything from simple boat cleaning to more complex refits.

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Surrounded by gorgeous beaches, namely Playa Larga, Playa la Punta de la Guineu, Playa la Pelliseta and Playa Costa Dorada, and protected by the outcrop of El Roc de Sant Gaieta, marina Roda de Barà is safe, beautiful and affordable – a holy trinity in boating. Add in easy access by car, train and plane

With an office inside Roda de Barà, Marine Project Group has been appointed to look after the international marketing of the facility.

Aside from the obvious local appeal, they also see the benefit of the marina for ‘offsite berthing’. It’s no secret that the likes of Mallorca and Ibiza lack berths due to their extreme popularity, and have pricing to match that high demand. Knut Richter of Marine Project Group thinks he has the solution.

“Off-site berthing is a concept whereby the yacht has its permanent secure base in our modern marina close to Barcelona,” explains Knut.

“When the owner wishes to use it, our professional crew deliver the boat to Mallorca, or wherever, ready to sail. As the cruise draws to a close, we return the yacht to Roda de Barà. Despite the potential

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for multiple crossings, savings of up to 50% are achievable compared to a fulltime berth in Mallorca.”

So what do the captains have to say?

says Andreas John, skipper of a Bavaria 40S Cruiser. “Last July I stayed with my couple for about one week in the harbour. The service in the marina is excellent and the mooring prices compared to Mallorca are incredibly cheap. Next to the harbour are nice beaches, restaurants and, even in the summer, it never seems overcrowded in any places. The coastline is perfect for daily sailing tours.

We enjoyed it a lot. Port Roda de Barà is an ideal alternative to Mallorca.”

“I visited the marina of Roda de Barà four times this year,”

“With marina Roda de Barà you will find a secure berth

Knut also argues that all necessary maintenance and repair work can be undertaken on the mainland at reduced rates – under the close watchful eye of that German management team. Perhaps something to consider for the 2018 season.

for your vessel in a safe and secure environment,” says José Luis Piñana, skipper of Fairline Squadron 74 Nirvana.

“The port and its facilities are modern and well maintained.

Particularly noteworthy are the spacious facilities for relaxed manoeuvres. The entire team was friendly, professional and very helpful.” www.marine-project.com/en/ port-roda-de-bara

José Luis Piñana, Captain of MY Nirvana

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S/Y A Visits Palma Early September saw Sailing Yacht A come to town, so we quickly took to The Islander RIB, to take a closer look.

Ever since her launch this yacht more than any other has divided opinion on her aesthetics.

Sailing Yacht A the iconic sail-assisted motor yacht was built in Kiel by Nobiskrug for Andrey Melnichenko, a Russian gentleman at a reputed cost of almost 400 million euro. He is also the owner of Motor Yacht A, valued at around 250 million euro! She is a yacht which certainly polarises opinion on her looks, and would be better named “Marmite”!!

Designed by Phillip Starck, her sheer size and originality has been a real challenge to convention in many ways.

Upon seeing early images of this beast, I have to admit to not being a big fan, but having seen her in the flesh, close up, you can’t help but being impressed with her sheer scale and originality.

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Her propulsion consists of a variable-speed hybrid powerplant with two lineshaft controllable-pitch propellers that is sail-assisted by a three-mast fore-and-aft sailing rig. The freestanding carbon fibre rotating masts were manufactured by Magma Structures at Trafalgar Wharf, Portsmouth, UK. Doyle Sailmakers USA manufactured the three fully-automated carbon fibre/taffeta full roach sails. The furling booms were built in Valencia by Future Fibres. How often the sails will be used is open to debate!

S/Y A was delivered by Nobiskrug on February 3rd, 2017 and left Kiel on February, 5th, 2017. She exited the Baltic Sea in light mode on near-empty fuel tanks in order to clear the Drogden Strait with minimum draught.

She underwent further sea trials and the final fit-out at the Navantia shipyard in Cartagena, Spain.

She has since spent the summer touring the Mediterranean, showing off her debatable good looks!

MALLORCA YACHTING INDUSTRY NEWS be away from the breakers,” he said. The couple activated a distress beacon that sent exact details of their location by satellite to New Zealand’s ocean marine rescue centre 1,500 miles to the south.

Bobby Cooper Most of our readers, especially in Palma, will know or will have heard of Bobby Cooper, previously manager of Boatyard Palma, and subsequently Varadero Ibiza and Valencia.

Many of you will have read recently about the sad incident where Bobby Cooper and family have lost everything, when their 50 ft Catamaran hit a submerged reef in the South Pacific.

Bobby Cooper, 51, and his family were on board their 50ft catamaran, Avanti, battling 40mph winds and high waves when the vessel smashed into Beveridge Reef, 150 miles from the tiny midPacific island state of Niue.

“It was fairly interesting. We surfed onto the reef. Bit of a navigation error. It was very violent and we grounded.

We were then being hit by subsequent waves as they came over us,” Mr Cooper,

knowledgeable in arts of sailing that are being lost in time”

He said their catamaran hit the reef at 4am while his children, Lauren, 13, and Robbie, 11, were sleeping. Mr Cooper said his GPS navigation system had not picked up the reef — a submerged atoll — that lay in their path and it came as a “complete surprise”. He said he and his wife, Cheryl, scrambled to get the children from their bunks and up on deck.

With the help of the Dona Catharina’s seven crew, he has dislodged his catamaran and anchored it in calmer waters inside the lagoon at the reef.

Matt Knight who runs a surf exploration catamaran in the North Atlantic said: “By the time I was first cutting my teeth as a deckhand in the mid-1980s, Bobby was already a legend. His natural talent and quick thinking meant that he became one of the youngest skippers on the professional sailing circuit.

I worked under him in the Caribbean and later we spent months at sea together in the Red Sea & Indian Ocean, navigating through some of the most remote coral atolls in the world. Bob is the most naturally gifted sailor & skipper I have worked with and knows boats inside & out”

Bobby was a very experienced skipper, and there are very few people on the planet who know as much about boats in general as Bobby. He was travelling with his wife and two kids, aged 10 and 13.

A Crowd Funding appeal has been set up by Patrick Whetter a former Palma colleague and friend, who is also in the midst of a circumnavigation on his Cat with his wife.

“The waves were breaking over our stern. We got the kids up. We put them to the task of collecting whatever things they required and we assessed our situation,” said Mr Cooper, a highly experienced captain who has made at least 15 Atlantic crossings on yachts.

Some very well-known yachtsmen/women have given their support to Bobby: Tracey Edwards MBE said “Bobby is at the top end of the scale when it comes to sailing abilities and skills. He is one of the old school with an eye for detail, care for his boat and crew and extremely

People can donate to help get them on their feet again after their tragic loss.

from Stirling, told The Times by satellite phone from the rescue yacht.

“We realised the boat was not sinking and that the best place to be was on board. We sat it out until the waves pushed us far enough on to the reef to

The message was picked up by a 60ft New Zealandregistered sailing boat the Dona Catharina, which itself had suffered storm damage.

Amazingly, she was within two kilometres of the grounded Avanti. “If they hadn’t been there, we’d be sitting in a liferaft right now, trying to keep warm and dry,” Mr Cooper said.

The page to donate is : www. justgiving.com/crowdfunding/ patrickanna-whetter-1 Please give generously.

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Synergy Business in Santa Catalina Synergy Business was created in the spring of 2017 as a joint venture between Paul Abraham, the founder and director of Synergy Homes and Anouska Foss, the Rentals Manager and longest serving member of the Synergy Homes team.

Like most estate agencies they were sometimes offered businesses or premises to sell or rent as well as being asked by clients to find them a suitable location to start their exciting new business from. They found that due to the large volume of residential sales and rentals they didn’t have enough time to give this side of the business the attention it

clearly deserves. Therefore, due to the demand and the desire to give their clients the best service possible, Synergy Business was born as a company focussing purely on commercial sales, rentals and ‘traspasos’ (the exchange of the lease of a business or business premises). Their office is located in Calle Servet 10a in the heart of Santa Catalina opposite the restaurant Koh and just 100 metres from the Synergy Homes office.

Paul and Anouska have experience in running successful hospitality businesses both here and in the UK. Nelson Cumber is the sales representative for Synergy Business and he brings experience from a variety of sales roles in his

time here, on mainland Spain and also in the Caribbean.

a chat with Nelson or contact him with the details below.

Synergy Business have a large number of businesses and premises to offer so if you have the next big idea and are looking for a suitable place to launch it from then please feel free to drop in and have

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Kymeta & e3 Systems News Maltese Falcon Successfully Completes First-Ever Sailing Yacht Trials with Kymeta and e3 Systems Months-long sea trials on iconic sailing yacht demonstrate continuous connectivity using Kymeta KyWay™ flat panel terminals and connectivity solutions in Caribbean, across the Atlantic and in the Mediterranean Redmond, Washington-based Kymeta, Intelsat S.A. (NYSE: I)—operator of the world’s first Globalized Network, and exclusive superyacht distribution partner e3 Systems today revealed that the Maltese Falcon, the iconic 89-meter sailing vessel, has been performing the firstever sailing yacht sea trials with Kymeta communications solutions over the past four months with successful results. The Maltese Falcon, with its trial installation of Kymeta KyWay terminals, will be at the Monaco Yacht Show.

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the executive management, the Captain, and the IT manager of the Maltese Falcon to perform the months-long sea trials, which commenced in the Caribbean and are ongoing. During the trials the yacht was equipped with both single and multipleterminal configurations. Upon commercial release of yacht solutions, the terminals will be bundled with Kymeta’s KĀLO™ internet access services, powered by the IntelsatOne® Flex for Maritime service.

The trial utilized capacity on three Intelsat assets, IS-29e (Caribbean), IS-32e Wide Beam (Bermuda/Atlantic), and IS-905 (Europe).

The trial experience has proven valuable for the captain and crew of the Maltese Falcon. Captain Nikolaos Leontitsis of the Maltese Falcon said, “We were thrilled to partner with Kymeta on this sea trial because connectivity is critical on the water. Kymeta’s consistent connection allows us to maximize the use of the Falcon’s sophisticated onboard network, and to offer our guests and crew cutting edge communications and internet service together with the latest in on-demand entertainment options.”

The crew of the Maltese Falcon worked with Kymeta and e3 to adapt the installed KyWay panel throughout the trial period.

“We recently installed additional Kymeta KyWay terminals on the Maltese Falcon to enable truly global connectivity,” said Roger Horner, Managing Director at e3. “The yacht adapted very successfully from using a single KyWay terminal during the initial sea trials by moving it to avoid mast shadow. It now has four terminals for the full-scale temporary installation which addresses the mast shadow challenges while awaiting embedded installation.”

The experience, and the weather, provided the engineering teams at Kymeta and e3 with valuable insights for maritime installations before the product becomes commercially available.

“We observed that the panel remained connected regardless of sea motion, pitch and roll, and exceeded our initial expectations of the performance of the electronically-steered beam,” said Håkan Olsson, Vice President of Maritime at Kymeta. “The yacht industry can now look forward to not only the possibility, but the reality, of domeless vessels and communication capabilities we never would have thought possible even a decade ago.”

Captain Leontitsis recognized additional benefits for the future and is looking forward to further technology solutions as a result of installing Kymeta’s panels on the Maltese Falcon. “The sea trials with Kymeta aboard the Maltese Falcon offered an altogether different communications experience,” said Captain Leontitsis. “It is very exciting to work with our innovative executive management team, which selects and is able to apply the most appropriate and advanced technology on the Maltese Falcon.”

About SY Maltese Falcon The Maltese Falcon is not a classic yacht, she’s a new class of yacht. Her revolutionary sailing system—the Falcon Rig—sets a new milestone in yachting history: 3 selfstanding and rotating masts hosting 15 sails for a total sail area of 2,400 square meters (25,791 ft square), handled by the ultimate in Perini Navi Sail Control for unrivaled performance with unmatched safety and maneuverability characteristics. The iconic Maltese Falcon was built for the late Tom Perkins from whom it was purchased by Pleon Ltd, for the purpose of creating a unique chartering experience. For more information, visit symaltesefalcon.com.

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Varadero Ibiza Premieres the EMAS Badge Awarded by the Regional Ministry of Environment, Agriculture and Fisheries This accreditation is given to companies that, like Varadero Ibiza, have made a rigorous voluntary effort to involve all the areas of the company in a more environmentally friendly management system.

Being closely linked to the marine environment, the shipyard does not cease in its purpose to raise awareness among its customers by setting an example.

Varadero Ibiza has debuted the EMAS award given by the Regional Ministry of the Environment, Agriculture and Fisheries, this being an important recognition that gives the shipyard the category of an installation committed to the care of the environment.

The handing over of the

EMAS badge as a sign of its accreditation is granted to companies such as Varadero Ibiza, which have made a rigorous voluntary effort to involve all areas of the company in a more environmentally friendly management system. And because it is closely linked to the marine environment, the Ibizan shipyard par excellence does not cease in its purpose of raising awareness among its customers by setting an example and implementing different actions that promote environmental care, saving consumption and the proper management of both energy and water resources.

The quality management department of Varadero Ibiza has received this new award with great enthusiasm and with special motivation to continue working on improving environmental protection. These initiatives have been previously recognized through other certificates such as TĂœV Rheinland’s ISO 9001 quality, ISO 14001 environment and OHSAS 18001 occupational safety certificates.

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Gary Ward Marcus Reynolds Jotun Global Marketing Manager – Yachting (+34) 617 400 726 Marcus.reynolds@jotun.com (+34) 971 715 612 www.ycp.com.es

Yacht Center Palma Yacht Center Palma, your Premium Chandlery in Mallorca, is already preparing each one of its divisions for the winter season: Chandlery: A wide selection of all the products you need for safe sailing and for the maintenance of your boat. In our shops, Real Club Nautico de Palma, Club de Mar and

Son Bugadelles, you can get the best advice from our sales team.

Maintenance Service and Winter Service: Yacht Center Palma has acquired new premises in the Polygon of Son Noguera. This allows us to offer you a better service. In addition, within the complete Winter Service, we offer our customers a winterizing service so that your boat is in the best hands possible, and in perfect condition for the next season.

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Sale of boats: As an exclusive distributor of AB Inflatables, our sales department offer a wide selection of pre-owned RIBs at very competitive prices. These are models that have been on display and have received the best of care and fine-tuning. If you’re interested, contact our sales department and visit the sales team at our Son Bugadelles premises.

Also, before the end of the year we’re going to present two new models from the stupendous AB Jet range a new range of AB Inflatables with a fantastic Rotax engine that is said to be a new icon in the high-end inflatables sector.

Nautic Boutique: This June we opened our new Nautic Boutique, located next to our RCNP Chandlery store. We are the exclusive distributor of Sail Racing, a top quality brand with a great selection of technical and casual garments. We’ve also added a GoPro corner where you can find all the new models from this innovative brand as well as all the accessories that are the most useful in the nautical world.

We’re looking forward to seeing you.

Jotun Yachting Appoints Gary Ward as Fleet Area Sales Manager Jotun is pleased to announce a new addition to the Jotun Marine Yachting team of Mr. Gary Ward, taking the new position of Fleet Area Sales Manager.

This new role will focus on the superyacht fleet, offering captains and professional crew Jotun support from his base in the new Jotun offices, Palma de Mallorca.

Gary will also be coordinating together with other Jotun offices throughout the key operational superyacht industry hubs i.e. La Ciotat, France, Vaireggio, Italy.

Working together with Jotun yachting team internationally in the dedication of superyachts receiving the service they deserve.

Gary was previously part of the Jotun UK team for some years, he has a good solid coatings product knowledge, combined with past global career experience and a motivated personality, we are fully confident he will bring a new edge and passion to this business sector and the high expectations required of this industry.

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The North Dock in STP Palma – Autumn Update Visitors to the STP yard in Palma may have noticed that some ground works are going on around the North dock Marine Services building, right alongside the travel lift, and just around the corner from the main yard entrance.

The work was started in early August, but by the time you read this, the work will be completed, and the North Dock’s surroundings will be upgraded with a nice new neatly paved frontage to welcome our clients this winter.

Meanwhile as the refit / maintenance season swings into top gear, many yacht owners will be thinking about painting / coating works, both above and below the water line.

The North Dock has three

companies that specialise in carrying out professional surface preparation and paint, coatings or antifouling application: De Cabo, Servicios Nauticos Integrados Palma (SNIP), and Palmawatch. Plus two that provide access and protection services; namely, Munditubo and Undercover Solutions.

And to complete the wide choice for every kind of painting job, there is Anicla Distribuciones, a wellestablished provider of paints, coatings and ancillaries, all available from their comprehensively stocked onsite store at the North Dock.

Robert Alcina, Director of Anicla has recently announced the launch of a new line of paint finishes which are particularly suitable for topsides and superstructures exposed to the harsh marine environment.

The Protection Pro range is a two component polyester

based polyurethane which is formulated to deliver a long lasting, mirror-like, high gloss, high performing finish. The resulting cured film also has superb protection from the detrimental effects of UV (sunlight) and is resistant to fuel, oil, mild acids and detergents.

And Perfection Pro has been developed with individual customisation in mind, being available with a choice of more than 200 colours.

In fact the Perfection Pro colour availability choice is an extension of the already popular and well established Perfection Classic range, and has been developed using the internationally recognised RAL standard, thereby giving customers access to literally hundreds of colours.

Also recognising that paint formulations have to suit various application methods, the Perfection Pro finish is available with two base versions; one for applying by brush or roller, and the other specifically for application

with spray equipment.

Robert Alcina says that the revolutionary colour mixing system features concentrated dyes that combine with resins to create the Perfection Pro formulation. This means that the required shade will be mixed in a special machine onsite by a technician, instantly producing the desired colour.

Colours can be chosen from charts available at the Anicla store, or online at: www.yachtpaint.com And don’t forget that Anicla is a one-stop-shop for all the other products required to complete a painting job; from cleaning and preparation materials, to thinners, masking tapes, repair compounds, cathodic protection, and all types of application equipment such as rollers, brushes and spray guns.

You can ask Anicla Distribuciones staff at the North Dock for fully comprehensive technical data and application advice about the Perfection Pro range.

Plenty of other products, services and trade skills are available from the other companies at The North Dock other than those mentioned above: Trappmann Consulting: Interiors / Design / Upholstery / Bespoke Joinery / Interior Equipment.

IBS: Marine Electrics / Electronics specialists.

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Underway - September 2017 - AENIB Bulletin This season is becoming very positive for most parts of our industry sector. A very good example is the number of boat registrations, because in the Balearic, we occupy the 2nd position at a national level. The registrations have increased by 7,9% with respect to the previous year.

We are also noticing that the season is starting to get longer, especially this year because it started sooner than usual. Besides, we have also seen that there is more demand in the yacht sector with boats of a length between 5 and 10 meters.

We also have to mention that there has been an increase of demand in the marinas of large boats, and this increase has also benefited repair and maintenance companies.

The good progress of yachting in the Balearic is a huge benefit for all the economy: On the one hand, the public coffers and different administrations collect more taxes derived from our economic activity.

On the other hand, the number of workers increase in companies. And we do not have to forget that our workers are highly qualified professionals. In this sense, yachting is one of the few industries in the islands that unfortunately still can boast about it. However, we must have in mind that in our islands, tourism is undergoing a special phase.

We need to take into account that some traditional destinations for nautical tourists, have stopped being attractive in the Mediterranean. Some reasons are the instability in Turkey or Greece or that a multitude of sailors do not go to the French coasts because the taxes are high. What is true is that our sector is facing a very delicate moment for its future. After plenty of effort from the associations, different aspects of our legislation and taxation have been updated. Those are very positive changes, but they still aren’t enough. Another danger for the stability and the exterior opinion of our sector, comes from certain groups that follow a specific political agenda. With the excuse to preserve posidonia, they attack our sector while they ignore the evidence that wastewater emissaries pollute the sea. In short, now it is the time to support the excellent progress of our sector because, for sure, our competitors won’t stay just sitting around.

Finally, we would like to inform you about the second edition of the Nautical Charter course. It has been organized by the Spanish Maritime Institute (IME), and it will be celebrated in October in Palma. In this course, serveral known professionals of the sector will participate, and our association collaborates actively in it. We would like to remind you that, as in the previous edition, this course will offer present topics for any professional, such as business strategy and different aspects related to exploitation of boats.

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Internet of Things Alarm and Surveillance Systems Summer is coming to an end, which means it’s almost time to prepare your boat for the winter. Maintaining a high level of surveillance and maintenance on your boat is essential during months of little use: making sure the batteries are charged, resolving issues with landbased power supplies, bilge alarm and fire alarms. These are some of the checks that cannot be overlooked during the year.

Today, thanks to innovative surveillance systems, it is possible to control these elements from the comfort of our home computer, mobile phone or tablet. The package itself is easily installed and has a wide range of optional accessories, enabling you to save a lot of money and avoid nuisances. The system also has a web interface, enabling access to all settings without the need for any applications.

A sense of security at all times Knowing that your boat is under surveillance at all times will give you a sense of security. Some alarm and surveillance systems enable you to communicate with your boat at any time with

your GPS, motion sensor alarms and alerts if there is smoke or water in the bilges; the perfect way to make sure your boat is secure.

Our system can integrate with all existing boat alarm systems (Modbus, Canbus, Profibus, etc…), it is controlled independently and each morning it sends you a text message to inform you of the status of your boat. It is also able to upload to Twitter, and you can create its own private account to ensure that you always have a record of events.

The system is also capable of making phone calls when an alarm is raised – it makes the call and if it is unable to get an answer, it can store and call various phone numbers until it gets a response. The system can also receive commands via SMS if you send “help”, and it replies with all of the possible command options.

If, for example, you send “status”, it will reply with the full status of your boat at that time.

IoT Anytime, anywhere With this technology, you will be able to maintain your boat’s security, carrying out all of the necessary security checks to ensure appropriate maintenance, while being able to control it from the comfort of your own home.

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Cutting Edge Leading the way in CNC machine composites for the world’s superyacht industry Composites is number one growth area in today’s yacht construction industry. With more composite yachts than ever before, there is a growing demand for a dedicated mould producing facility to

service the superyacht refit capital of the world – Palma de Mallorca.

Innovative industry tooling & service design Cutting Edge has created a unique moulding system utilising high-quality tooling and CNC services to craft bespoke tooling to the growing composite industry in the thriving boatyards of Mallorca.

“The key advantage of working with Cutting Edge is that our moulds are designed and machined by myself – an experienced composite boatbuilder having worked in the industry for 18+ years.

In that time I have seen the good, the bad, and the down right stupid when it comes to moulds. I know which materials are best for which budget and or process and furthermore how best to split a mould for efficient lamination and concealing of construction process.”

- Bill Mattholie, Owner of Cutting Edge

address the problems of leaks caused by curved surfaces and being a small team we are able to focus on these highly detailed components to create water tight, reliable, and aesthetically pleasing products.

In addition, Cutting Edge has also designed an innovative and efficient process for supplying bespoke, fitted helm consoles and other modular composite products for the world’s 5000+ superyachts.

Various types of mould materials will always be in stock for fast turnaround of projects.

Custom consoles and more Working with the needs of the Captain / project manager to specific measurements and blueprints provided, Cutting Edge manufactures unique composite parts to fit seamlessly into the design of the yacht: • Helm stations • Rig fittings • Fairings • Moulded parts such as jib track plinths, hatch surrounds, custom fit shower trays, etc.

Attention to detail We can design, mould, and engrave to the highest quality.

We design our own hinges to

Crafting the product with precision Cutting Edge has a 3-axis machine built for the purpose of producing moulds for short series of parts from various tooling boards as well as MDF. With a working area of: Y 2500 X 1350 Z 400.

From small moulds to simply save on man hours while increasing quality and accuracy, to large moulds for bow/keel changes or Bimini and everything in-between.

Unrivalled expediency The team at Cutting Edge are well respected in Palma de Mallorca meaning they have easy access to high-security marinas and close working relationships with the various trades servicing the yachts.

At Cutting Edge we see a different way of producing helm consoles, rig fittings and more. As the area to be fitted to is laser scanned and the part then constructed off site, there is minimal onsite work.

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By Tim Moss Engineering Instructor, Bluewater Yachting Carey Secrett Marketing & Development Manager Professional Yachting Association +33 (0) 4 93 34 91 16 www.pya.org

The Small Vessel Engineering Structure Implementation It has been a while since MIN 524 heralded the arrival of the new Small Vessel Engineering structure and understandably, many questions have been asked by both existing and prospective engineers in the Superyacht industry. At Bluewater Yachting we have fielded many questions and the aim of this update is to clarify a few points that are not obvious in the MIN and hopefully put people on the right track for promotion and recognition.

The MCA should always be consulted on an individual basis for the definitive answer to your own circumstances and previous experience.

Candidates are reminded that the PYA is a great source of help in verifying your sea time and making a case for accreditation of prior learning and experience, but in the end the MCA decide.

Bearing in mind the new structure had to satisfy all sectors of the Small Vessel community - Fishing Vessels, Yachts, Tugs, Workboats, Standby, Seismic Survey, Oceanographic Research

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Vessels and Government Patrol Vessels, along with the constraints of STCW, the overall outcome has served to benefit the yacht engineer in many ways.

Existing Yacht Engineers For existing engineers, you can keep your current CoC for as long as you like, but it will retain its current limitations.

If you are mid-training you will have to continue in the current system as you cannot mix and match the current Yacht (Y) and the new Small Vessel (S.V.) courses and exams. You can only convert a CoC. The current Y courses and exams are planned to run until 2021. The new S.V. courses and exams will be delivered

by Bluewater from September 2017 onwards.

If you already hold a Y engineering CoC, you can easily transfer it to the new system by following one of the routes shown in MIN 524. The MCA have made the following routes available: So why bother to convert your Yacht CoC to the new Small Vessel CoC? Advantages: Moving up the ladder once in the new system is faster in most cases and the new S.V. courses and exams are more relevant.

A summary of the advantages of converting your CoC are as follows: 1. Y2 Advanced Hotel Services has been removed from the New S.V. syllabus, so for current Y3 CoC holders,

transferring to the new S.V Chief Engineer 9000 kW is quicker and cheaper (conversion C page 21, MIN 524).

2. A fast track route now exists (conversion (A3) page 20, MIN 524) from S.V. Second Engineer to S.V. Chief Engineer 9000 kW 3000GT. 3. There are no offshore mileage limitations for the new Small Vessel CoC’s, unlike the current complex manning scales system.

4. The new S.V. CoC’s are Interchangeable with other Small Vessel Sectors such as Fishing Vessels, Yachts, Tugs, Workboats, Standby, Seismic Survey, Oceanographic Research Vessels and Government Patrol Vessels.

5. The new S.V. CoC should be recognised by all STCW signatory nations.

6. Each sea service day underway will count as 1.5 days whilst holding an S.V. CoC for Yachts only.

7. There are new routes to the Merchant Navy higher power tickets routes 11 - 11.4 on pages 30 and 31 of MIN 524.

CREW MATTERS For those starting in the industry (or not yet Y4) You may recall in the new experienced seafarer route shown on page 34 of the MIN, that the existing AEC and a new 1 week course AEC 2 is the start point for all new engineers to the structure (unless exempt

by MCA through previous experience). If you have already undertaken AEC 1 you do not need to do it again.

The skills test and MEOL(Y) have been absorbed into the new S.V. syllabus and a 2-week workshop module to gain the Second Engineer CoC. Some student engineers already part way through their

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initial training may still want to do MEOL(Y) and the skills test this year or next to get a job or gain experience.

The new structure from Zero to Hero The new courses will be available after the summer for you to work through to Second Engineer quicker than the existing route and with the following benefits: 1. The new S.V. courses and exams have been redesigned to suit candidates from small vessels, rather than from Large Ship or Merchant Navy backgrounds and are therefore more relevant.

2. The routes to promotion are quicker in the new structure. 36m to Second Engineer instead of 42m to Y4.

3. The infamous Auxiliaries course has been split into 2 parts, reducing the volume of the syllabus where Part 2 will be undertaken at the higher level CoC (limited Chief 500GT) (Old Y3).

4. The new Auxiliary Equipment 1 course syllabus has been further reduced by transferring Clutches and Gearboxes to S.V. Marine Diesels.

5. The mandatory Training Record Book will improve training standards and aid proof of experience and actual sea service days.

This should be available from the MCA soon.

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Leadership Top Tips – From Great Business Leaders While many people start out in their careers with clear goals and aspirations, many more evolve into new roles and find themselves in positions where they are expected to motivate and lead others. Not because they are naturally great leaders or motivators, but more often because they are competent and reliable staff.

So how do you make the shift from follower to leader.

Simon Senik’s view is that leadership is a learnable and practice-able skill and great leaders never stop learning.

“Act like a student. Not like an expert.” (Simon Senik – British-American author, motivational speaker and marketing consultant). Sinek compares leading to being a parent, stating that you’ll never be an expert parent, but you keep practicing every day in the hope that you’ll get better!

We have compiled 10 top tips from business leaders and advisors that may help you when you are trying to get the best out of your crew or unsure of the best way to

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handle a situation. Have a read through, and we hope that by using one of these top tips you will overcome the challenge and grow as a leader.

Never forget your responsibility – you are the caregiver of the people you lead. “Think of leadership as a responsibility as much as an opportunity, effective leaders understand that they are responsible for everyone that they are leading.” Michael Talve – Founder of The Expert Institute. The key here is in the word caregiver, the attitude with which you lead others is paramount.

“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” Jack Welch, CEO and Author.

There are a few senior crew who resist passing on their knowledge, for fear of losing their position. However, the leaders admired and respected the most (and work hardest for) are those who share their experiences and want to support you to become the best you can be.

In the words of Sir Richard Branson CEO “Train people well enough so that they can leave, treat them well enough so that they don’t want to”.

“Be honest and candid while still maintaining your employees’ self-esteem.” Jeff Miller, Director of Learning & Performance. Stand in the

other person’s shoes before you deliver your message and ensure it lands with the “right” intention.

Show gratitude. “Never underestimate the importance of the words ‘please’ and ‘thank you’. Using them demonstrates a level of respect that people desire and appreciate, which can help build trust.” Michael Timmes – consultant, author and speaker. Just because it’s someone’s job, doesn’t mean we cannot treat them with courtesy and respect.

Be a confident leader, not an arrogant leader “Confident leaders lead through values, vision and vulnerability.

Arrogant leaders lead through fear, blame and ego.” Troy Hazard TV host & businessman. Listen to your people, be empathetic and understand their views. You never know they may have a better idea!

Find great people, then leave them to get on with the job. “The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.” Theodore Roosevelt – US President “Repeat the words, ‘it’s not about me!’ every day, multiple times a day. Don’t make your leadership about being in charge, being right, getting promoted or looking the best.” Jeff Harmon – Author. His view is that leadership is about the purpose and vision of

the business and serving the people you lead.

“The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It’s got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.” Reverend Theodore Hesburgh. If you want to unite your crew and departments, you need a single vision for the yacht that everyone buys into. If two departments’ priorities come into conflict you can revisit your vision and answer the question, what should we do to strive towards the vision?

“Authentic leadership is revealed in the alignment of what you think, what you say and what you do.”

Michael Holland - Consultant and Author. People can see through “fake”, be honest with yourself and your crew.

It’s not about sharing your deepest secrets, but it is about leading with integrity and being true to both yourself and those around you.

Impact Crew specialises in developing Superyacht leaders, whether through individualised coaching or on board workshops for your senior crew. Give Impact Crew a call and explore the many different ways we can support you as you grow in your leadership role.

CREW MATTERS to be an afterthought is: “Who is going to crew all these yachts?”

It’s easier and faster to build a yacht than a quality Pocket Superyacht crew member.

So we are looking for new blood! If you are passionate about both sailing (motor or sail), enjoy looking after people, hospitality-wise and have professional yachting experience one way or another, we need to hear from you!

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Pocket Superyachts are Highly Important for the Whole Industry My visit to the 2017 Cannes Boatshow can be categorised as a success. I considered myself very lucky that my hairdesser had availability when I walked in without appointment the day before flying to the Cote d’Azur.

Because, madre mia, the waterfront avenue Le Croisette is a very dolce vita affair! Looking at all the people in the ridiculously long entrance queue (due to a poorly organised security check) one could assume that the show was welcoming a

• Sales of new and used tenders • Full service & technical support • Collection and delivery

serious clientele. On day 4 of the show, the head of sales of a very successful Pocket Superyacht brand whispered to me in French that they sold 2 yachts during the show. I spoke to a lot of sales representatives and brokers.

They all had one or three prospects in the pipeline.

And most importantly, they seemed relieved to learn about Invisible Crew’s services! Really, relieved! One of them looked like he had been waiting for me his whole life! That made me chuckle.

Every healthy business is based on an ideal, a vision.

Ours is to create worry-free Pocket Superyacht owners.

The industry (yards, brokers, crew,…) cannot afford to have owners disillusioned, or worse, aggravated with their ownership experience. Yet this happens so often. I started Invisible Crew after meeting two owners who sold their yacht within 2 years after investing over 2 million Euros “in the industry” and were never coming back.

If owners are ill-informed they will believe that they can

simply manage the yacht on their own.

The first thing an owner needs is someone experienced enough to select the right crew for them. But for Pocket Superyachts, simple crew selection is not enough. It is an entry-level market for both crew and owners, so there is generally a lack in experience from both sides (vrew and owner). Under the right guidance, and we have proven this, crews who take full command of a yacht for the first time in their careers can be highly successful.

If the owners are truly worry-free, they might start dreaming of bigger boats. As an extreme example one of my clients bought a Jeanneau 64 while he was dreaming of an Oyster 885… he ended up buying an Oyster 125! Equally, crew need to start somewhere before they take the helm of a +100ft yacht. So bottomline is that the Pocket Superyachts are important for the industry and we have to look after these owners the best we can!

But they are absolutely right to be concerned. Established brands seem to be selling with relative ease. New brands in the 50ft to 80ft range are popping up left, right and centre. And existing brands that used to build yachts up to 50ft are now offering larger yachts. And the question that remains, and often seems

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Compatible with all watercooled exhaust systems, this essential safety product ensures users are made aware of exhaust overheat situations thus protecting the crew from potential injury and the exhaust system, engine and vessel from expensive thermal damage.

• The new system incorporates touch screen control, a test facility and a warning alarm should the control circuit be compromised. For ease of installation and to provide an aesthetically pleasing appearance the display control unit is a standard 52mm diameter gauge.

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• The new Portorosa base in Sicily, is Sunsail’s fifth location in the Tyrrhenian Sea. The temperate weather and mild winds of north-east Sicily make the base a great starting point for tours of the Sicilian coast, or voyages north around the remarkable, UNESCOprotected Aeolian Islands.

• The collection of dramatic islands and volcanoes that rise theatrically from the sea take their name from Aeolus, god of the winds, who tends to smile on this slice of Italy.

The cruising grounds blend chic ports of call, like Panarea, with the quiet ambience of islands off the tourist track such as Salina.

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• Set to launch in Spring 2018, the Targa 43 OPEN express cruiser is set to become the spiritual successor to the original, and phenomenally popular, Targa 43 with almost 300 produced by Fairline between 1997-2005 – a model which remains highly sought after in the brokerage market.

• This sleek and stylish cruiser is emphasised by an eyecatching, tapered hull window that accentuates the dynamic character of this sporty Targa model. Taking inspiration from Alberto Mancini’s design of the recently launched Targa 63 GTO, the Targa 43 OPEN features the leading edge styling that is synonymous with Mancini and this new age of Fairline Yachts.

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The bag offers great versatility with multiple compartments and conversion between bag and backpack. The bag is designed from a water resistant main fabric, with an external pocket with zip and internal pocket, with top carry straps and removable padded shoulder straps for the ultimate comfort. All packable in an external wash bag.

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MARINE INDUSTRY NEWS mechanical (generators), electrical (battery bank) and heat (residual energy). The technology is the result of AMELS’ 18-month research programme which provided a solid analytical basis for potential operating cost savings of €100,000 or more a year. It offers faster Return on Investment and lower Total Cost of Ownership as well as reducing the impact on the environment.

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Amels 188 Superyacht Sold with Fast Delivery in Less Than a Year Dutch luxury yacht builder AMELS is proud to confirm the sale of the first 57.70-metre AMELS 188 from the Limited Editions range. The new Tim Heywood design – the first to feature the AMELS Hybrid Switchboard with battery power – will be delivered in less than a year in the summer of 2018 with a stunning and innovative interior design by Reymond Langton.

The Buyer was represented by Ben Young of SYM Superyacht Management. The SYM team will also supervise the custom outfitting of the innovative yacht according to the Owner’s requirements at the AMELS yard in the Netherlands.

“The AMELS 188 is a high volume yacht, she has very spacious interiors with 970 Gross Tonnage,” comments AMELS Commercial Director Rose Damen. “Plus, she has a big Beach Club and the Owners Suite folding balcony is quite spectacular. She also has a unique character that personifies Tim Heywood’s signature lines with athletic, powerful forms. We’re very much looking forward to handing her over to her Owner and seeing her on the water next year.”

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with the very high levels of comfort and the low noise and vibrations that Limited Editions yachts are renowned for. The first AMELS 188 is expected to cruise worldwide, so the high autonomy and service levels were an important factor, as was the full displacement seakeeping performance.

AMELS has been part of DAMEN since 1991. DAMEN operates 33 shipyards around the world and has delivered more than 6,000 vessels.

Chairman Kommer Damen introduced the Limited Editions approach to yacht building at AMELS, which has now sold more than 30 Limited Editions superyachts from 55 to 83 metres in length.

“The AMELS 188 is a great example of the synergy between AMELS and DAMEN,” says Roland Briene, DAMEN Sales Director. “It shows how the Limited Editions range benefits clients by not only leveraging the group’s global financial strength for fast delivery and smooth production, but also thanks to the know-how within DAMEN. Our DAMEN Research department has a huge amount of expertise in hybrid power solutions as well as seakeeping performance.”

The AMELS Hybrid Switchboard is the technical core of the futuristic AMELS 188, working invisibly in the background to combine three energy sources:

55m Steel Hulled Fast Displacement Laurentia is Delivered!

Heesen Yachts is proud to announce the delivery of YN 17755, formerly known as Project Alida. Her new Owners christened her Laurentia.

Laurentia combines efficiency, performance and style in a design package of 740GT, with elegant yet muscular clean lines by Omega Architects.

This steel-hulled motor yacht sets a new standard in superyacht performance.

During the sea trials, which were held in the North Sea at the beginning of August in moderate sea conditions, Laurentia exceeded her contractual speed and reached a top speed of 16.6 knots. The vessel proved to be highly responsive, accepting steering commands immediately. The use of large rudders in conjunction with a powerful steering unit makes for a very quick reaction, as

does the high pitch of the propellers. The overall effect instils great confidence in the captain when maneuvering in strong wind conditions.

The Owner appointed Ramon Alonso at RADYCA, a Miami-based design firm, to create an interior design that promotes luxury, relaxation and entertainment throughout the yacht.

“The objective was to create a clean and simple, yet sophisticated, interior that evokes tranquility in a relaxed and elegant atmosphere,” comments Alonso. A consistent use of neutral hues is found in open-grain white oak and different tones of wengé, taupe and grey leathers, wool carpets, and light textured suedes. White Arabescato and Grecale brown marble slabs emphasize the purity of the design. The loose furniture was carefully selected from various European and American brands and each piece was customized to fit perfectly and adapt to the interior scheme.

Hand-stitched leather panels and accents play in contrast with the light suedes and dark wengé wood in different tones and finishes.

Laurentia is a fantastic new addition to the fast growing Heesen fleet and will turn heads wherever she cruises!

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I had been predicting that things would quieten down in July and I was proved wrong. August has also surprised with another very busy month, for what is usually a quiet period historically. Due to the unusually low figure in July, I was expecting August’s number of vessels reduced in price to increase, so we should not be surprised to see this rise.

Continuing the good news from last month, the total market of vessels that have seen a reduction in their asking prices at one time or another, since being offered for sale, has beaten the recent plateau and fallen for the second time this year. This genuinely gives continued grounds for further optimism about the health of the market and can be clearly seen in the chart above. This data was helped by another strong month of sales. The sales data for August has surprised as much as last month; it is excellent.

The numbers for August are very close to July, aside from the contraction in the 40m-50m bracket. July and August 2017 have been stronger than any comparable summer since the crisis began by a considerable amount and I am delighted to say that we at Bluewater have again contributed to this tally. The USA has increased its share of the total from 28% in July to 45% in August. Looking at the relationship of completions that had also been reduced in price at some point, the data is not as good as July. 10% had been reduced in the last quarter, 27% in the last six months and 50% since being offered for sale at one time or another. Five sailing vessels were sold in August, with all less than 30m in length. Looking at the newcomers to the market during August, patterns are holding and an increase was forecast, but it is worth bearing in mind that August 2015 was a one-off, as can be seen on the following chart:

The USA share of the newcomers has increased from 40% in July to 49% in August. Only three sailing vessels came onto the market and all were less than 31m; their overall share of the total market is slightly down, at just over 14%. With the Med charter season coming to a close and a pool of 231 vessels available in the 30-45m segment in the West Mediterranean, the numbers now show this beyond doubt.

Where 3% had no bookings for the remainder of the season at the beginning of August, that number now increases to 48% today. As always, I would like to thank you for taking the time to read this and please do not hesitate to let me know if you need any assistance or advice into any facet of yachting.

All figures are given in good faith, but Bluewater Yachting and The Islander take no responsibility for any error.

This is all driven by boatshow season, the ending of the cruising season and aside from August 2015, last month’s figure is pretty much in line with historical. It is worth noting that nearly 25% of these reductions came from vessels that have only been on the market for six months or less. What continues to surprise is that the USA is still accounting for over 50% of these reductions; it had 58% of reductions this month, just up from 56% in July and 58% in June. Sailing vessel price reductions have increased from 14% in July to 25% in August; half were 20-30m and the balance were 30m-40m.

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Rugged seaworthy steel motor yachts are still the mainstay of the Dutch boatbuilding output, and these along with the popular day boat known in the Netherlands as a ‘Sloep’ were very much in evidence at the show. Although both are very obviously being adapted to appeal to the younger buyer with bright vivid hull colours, hi-tech extras, sleeker more streamlined profiles, and some fitted with the latest hybrid propulsion packages.

HISWA Amsterdam ‘In-Water’ Boat Show Review In its final year at the Amsterdam Marina site where it has been held since 2012, the HISWA floating boat show flirted with the famously changeable (read unreliable) Dutch weather as usual.

Next year the show moves about 40km to the North of the present location to Lelystad, where it will be staged at the Batavia Haven Event Marina, situated alongside the massive Ijsselmeer inland lake.

HISWA say that the decision to move the show follows a comprehensive review, which focused on keeping the show positioned as the largest in-water boat show in Northern Europe.

This year’s event held from 29th August to 3rd September

was faced with some particularly squally, cloudy and sometimes very wet conditions, but with enough reasonably dry days, particular over the final weekend, to bring out the punters in their thousands.

As usual they would not have been disappointed if they wanted to see the latest in what the vibrant and varied Dutch boat building industry has to offer. Over 250 boats were on display, with around 70 of them having their first showing in public.

International boat builders were also well-represented, particularly in the sailing yacht area, with premier showings from the likes of Beneteau, Hallberg Rassy, Hanse and Solaris to name a few.

Plus there were150 exhibitors in a covered tented area, offering everything from sailing clothes to navigation electronics and more.

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HISWA’s ‘Welcome to the Water’ promotional campaign was really in evidence at the Show, with a nice friendly convivial atmosphere; a positive step towards attracting newcomers to take up boating and a wide variety of water sports activities, in a country that has an abundance of excellent facilities for them.

Youngsters and newcomers to boating were encouraged to take to the water in a variety of ways. A particularly popular attraction was an M32 one-design performance catamaran, which was zipping around in full view of the show, expertly handled by volunteers from Sailing Team NL. They said afterwards, that they had a great week, sailing with a lot of enthusiastic people onboard, including children with their parents, and even some grandfathers!

We couldn’t possibly view every boat, but we did take the opportunity to have a

good look on-board the new Hartman Livingstone, a 24 metre classically designed Superyacht. A chance not to be missed, as she was having her global premier at the HISWA show, and we were cordially invited onboard by Hartman’s publicity manager Anco Kok. The Livingstone 24 is the first superyacht in Hartman Yachts’ classic range, and according to Anco Kok it was based on a design envisioned by the yard’s owner, who has had the first yacht built for his own use. The name of the series is homage to the Scottish missionary and explorer Dr David Livingstone, who sailed the first steel boat ever built, the steam launch Ma Robert, during his Zambezi expedition of 1858-1862.

At 23.99 metres, with a profile reminiscent of an old-school luxury ocean liner, the yacht has a full displacement hull and an aluminium superstructure. Her distinctive retro appearance is inspired by classic gentlemen’s yachts of the 1930s, and enhanced with state-of-the-art Dutch design and technology, giving her an ingenious minimalist look & feel. This design brief was skilfully realised by the designers Niels van Oostenbrugge and Albert Abma of Sheerline.

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not have been the case if we had left the contamination in the tank!

What Have They Done to Our Diesel?

Anyway, in talking to Kees and Ely I discovered that they had really developed a lot of expertise about diesel contamination, based on practical experience and real life testing on their own boats, combined with a lot of detailed research. Much of this they have written about in advisory documents (in Dutch), and they have agreed for me to share some of it here on the METSTRADE Community.

A tank of worms!

Last winter I did the same thing that I (and many others) have always done, and filled my boat’s fuel tanks to the top with 400 litres of diesel before winterising the boat in November.

In the spring I also did what I always do, and opened the ball valve at the bottom of the fuel tank, intending to drain off a few litres until clear/ clean diesel comes out. But this time, I was horrified to see that brown curly worms were coming from the bottom of the tank, and after a minute or so, the ball valve clogged solid and no more diesel would flow out!

Having read all about the increase in diesel bug problems in recent years, I decided it was a job for experts. So I contacted the Dutch company Mobiel Tank Cleaning, run by Kees Kingma and his wife Elly Strik.

They did a great job of emptying and cleaning the tank, recycling the entire contents through multiple filters, and put it all back in the tank treated with a ’shock dose’ of biocide additive.

They also had to cut a hole in the tank top for access, and fitted it with a bolted hatch for easier inspection and cleaning in future.

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Diesel fuel changes to improve the environment.

This new ULSD diesel fuel is clearly formulated differently to the blends we were all used to several years ago, and unfortunatly for the typical boat owner it does come with some problems. Chiefly this manifests itself as water, mould and bacteria growth in the tank becoming much more commonly found.

Apparantly a large percentage of the call-outs by the leisure marine breakdown service (KNRM) in the Netherlands, finds that the engine failure is due to blockage of the injectors by these contaminants which cannot be dealt with by the inline filters.

In the European Union, the standards for composition of fuel and emissions are increasingly being tightened for all vehicles. Since January 1, 2015 a new standard named Euro 6 has applied, and this specifies maximum amounts for emission levels from vehicles. The current diesel is the ULSD type Ultralow-sulfur (sulfur) diesel with the code EN590. This standard prescribes the composition of the fuel, and it neccesitates that a 3.5% to 7% of biofuels (Fame) must be added.

“It is therefore necessary to give more attention than ever to the control of the boat’s diesel tank “ says Kees Kingma of Mobiel Tank Cleaning.

These changes are obviously intended to reduce the environmental impact, and at the same time to create the perfect fuel for all vehicles and engines that have a fast turnaround, such as trucks, industrial engines and the current diesel cars. Also this ULSD diesel is necessary for the currently used commonrail diesel engines.

And if you leave the boat unused for a longer period such as over the winter, its better to leave the tank empty! Kees says, “the old mantra of ‘the tank should be full’ is still stubbornly observed by many, who think that this will work to prevent condensation and bacteria growth.” But, he says that the current (bio) diesel is only good for storage over a few months, and not a few years as the previous formulations were. This means that the

The problems for boat engines and their fuel storage conditions.

How to prevent or minimise these problems?

One way is to obtain your fuel always at a large gas station where refueling is done in higher volumes, you can also do this along the road in a car pumping station with jerry cans and a siphon to prevent spillage.

smallest amount of water in the tank will quickly encourage bacteria growth, and become a problem in the tank and motor, and this is especially a risk for the injection pump.

A last word of advice from Kees Kingsma: “Personally, I empty the fuel tanks of my boat every autumn and make them clean and free of solids.

After that I put in a few litres of gasoline. I do this because gasoline evaporates in case of frost, and also ensures that tanks only breath to the outside. This prevents water from entering the tanks. I also partially close the tank ventilation with a selfassembled tap. In the spring I drain out the gasoline from the tank, and then fill with fresh diesel.

“Since I have done this over several years, I have no water or contamination in my fuel tanks!”

This is a personal story, with advice from experts…not from me! It is also translated from Dutch, so I hope that it’s as accurate as possible.

Do you have any experiences (similar or not) with diesel fuel, that you would like to share with the Community?

Is this just another step towards the eventual replacement of internal combustion engines in leisure boats, and hastening the coming of more electric propulsion concepts?

What do you think? Please do leave us your comments at the METSTRADE Online Community. You can access this article, and its comment box via: goo.gl/JojXZm.

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MARINE INDUSTRY NEWS will go smoothly from that point on. We also have the flexibility to continue engaging with their ideas as a design develops: Samaya, for instance, grew by some five metres over the early months.

This is the only way to ensure a truly bespoke motoryacht.”

The owner of Samaya was hugely involved throughout the project, taking part in regular monthly meetings that lasted several days. This process ultimately led to a superyacht that is meticulously based on the client’s personality and the desires of the family. Their ultimate goal is to explore the underwater world in safety and comfort while contributing towards the conservation of the oceans and the wonderful but vulnerable species contained within.

While occasionally diving directly off the stern, the occupants will make lots of trips to outlying reefs using Samaya’s 8.8-metre and 7.2-metre tenders. Decked out in the same colours as the mothership and customdesigned for purpose, these large tenders are housed in a dedicated garage in the main deck and launched via convenient large doors.

The Ultimate Diving Buddy: Feadship Samaya Ready to Explore the World’s Oceans Feadship has launched the 69-metre Samaya, a pure custom Feadship designed for luxurious diving expeditions around the world. The brief called for a yacht capable of remaining autonomous for long periods while exploring uncharted areas.

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first agreement, itself reached after only three days of meetings.

“After joining us at the 2014 Monaco show, the client came straight to the Netherlands with Joshua Lee from Lee Marine to see our facilities on the Sunday after the event and discuss a high-speed motoryacht with a large open sun deck,” remembers Feadship director Bas Nederpelt. “They then spent Monday and Tuesday with the in-house design

and naval architect team at Feadship De Voogt translating the client’s fascinating ideas into the initial design. After several design iterations a Letter of Intent was signed on the Tuesday evening.

“This is the clearest possible example of how Feadship can embark on a project guided solely by the inspiration of a client and our unrivalled experience. Confident of the stellar reputation of the Feadship yards, owners can rest assured that everything

Lots of thought has also been given to the divers’ return to the yacht. The main deck aft features a bespoke flatbottomed plunge pool which will be filled with hot water to speed up post-dive recovery from the coldness of the depths. In a similar vein, all luxury areas on the yacht can be heated up to 30 °C rather than the normal 25 °C mark.

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Oyster 835

Oyster 895

Announcing the New Oyster 835 and Oyster 895 Designed to replace the successful Oyster 825 and 885 – 17 of which have been sold, the new Oyster 835 and 895 include features from the development of both the larger Oyster 118 (2 sold) and the smaller models – the Oyster 565, 595, 675, and 745 – 16 of which have been sold.

Starting with the design of the Oyster 745 in late 2014, Oyster has been quietly refining its entire range.

More sophisticated design and technology has been used to incorporate infused internal structures and carbon-fibre in key areas of framing and bulkheads; across the range the composite hulls and decks now have a more selective distribution of weight and strength.

This higher level of engineering for the Oyster 745 was then continued in

turn with the structure of the Oyster 118, the 675, the 565 & 595 and now the new Oyster 835 and 895. Designed using Det Norske Veritas/GL rules, Oyster has also been working with Lloyds Register of Shipping to both gather their technical input and to help them develop more appropriate classification standards for this type of composite yacht.

As part of our continued efforts to remain the UK’s No.1 yacht builder of choice for ocean cruising yachts, we have extended our warranty terms across the Oyster range and are pleased to confirm that we now offer a five year structural warranty, supported by a two year general warranty.

The design signature of the Oyster 835 and 895 includes the deck, transom rake and window lines to match both the smaller and larger yachts.

These two new yachts include

upgraded systems developed for the flagship Oyster 118.

For example, the standard specification now includes a captive reel mainsheet system and an anchor-rocker system on the bow prodder for easier handling of large anchors.

Other anchor options include a stylish below deck storage system with an ‘anchor thrower arm’.

Carbon masts are standard, as are North Sails and a high basic specification ensures that these two new models provide the Superyacht experience comfortably below the MCA 24 metre Large Yacht Code – thus are designed for the owner who also wishes to consider chartering his/ her yacht to efficiently offset running costs.

For both the Oyster 835 and 895 there is a Raised Deck (RD) option, increasing the superstructure height by ~300mm and providing options for a high-level saloon seating and dining area.

These two new Oyster yachts are built for comfortable world cruising with interior layout options for three or four owner and guest cabins sleeping up to 8 on-board in great luxury supported by ‘Silver Service’ facilities for two, three or four crew.

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confirm Oyster’s position as the ‘go-to’ builder for the best series-built Superyachts for ocean cruising that you can buy between 80-120ft.

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Princess to Invest £100m Over Five Years A £100m investment in new products and facilities was announced by Princess Yachts at the Cannes Yachting Festival today. The UK builder also said it is expecting “significant profits” in 2018.

Antony Sheriff, executive chairman, said: “Our shareholders (LVMH) have agreed to fund a new investment plan of £100m.

Our financial strength is increasing and we are now trading profitably. We will break even this year and make significant profits next year,” he told IBI. Princess Yachts employs 2,500 people at its facilities in Plymouth, which means that over the past year the yard has expanded its workforce by some 400 people as the volume of orders increases.

Sheriff commented: “We have a full order book for this year and we are nearly

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full for 2018. Our forward orders run well into 2019 and this year we will build 230 boats. The value of boats in build and ordered is approaching £750m.”

In a move to enhance its product delivery to customers, Princess has launched ‘Princess Lifeline’ which with one call provides access to experts who can help owners with any problems they might be experiencing.

These include medical, safety and security issues. Sheriff indicated: “This is one of a number of new services that we will be launching.”

As part of Princess’s strategic plan, nine models will be unveiled between the start of 2017 and the end of 2018. At Cannes, Princess has globally launched the all-new Princess 62, which is leading the company’s show display which also includes its ‘M’ class 35m (115ft) which is lying off the port.

Hurricane Irma Destroys Marinas and Ports in the Caribbean Hurricane Irma devastated several Caribbean islands, including Barbuda, Saint Martin and the British Virgin Islands for several days from 6th September and as I write this on the 9th September anther hurricane, Jose, is following close behind. It has destroyed marinas and port facilities as its 185mph winds make their way northward towards south Florida. Nine people are reported to have died.

According to the prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda, around 95% of the buildings in Barbuda have been damaged. Prime Minister Gaston Browne said the island was now “barely inhabitable” and estimated it would cost US$100m to rebuild.

Saint Martin’s ports have also been decimated by the storm, according to news reports.

The airport tower on the French side of the island has

collapsed, while its harbour facilities have been destroyed.

That means that no ships can come in with supplies. Reports online said that Dutch defence aircraft are flying to the island to assess the best way to open a direct route from the Dutch island of Curacao to move supplies to Saint Martin.

Tortola in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) has also been hit badly. Photos show buildings in Road Town looking as though they have been bombed out. The capital’s landmark building, Scotia Bank, has been completely destroyed. The “hurricane hole” at Paraqita Bay, where charter fleets from The Moorings MarineMax and others are based, was also badly damaged. Photos on social media show dozens of boats piled on top of each other in a corner of the marina. Other images of another BVI marina are filled with half-sunken vessels.

MARINE INDUSTRY NEWS jet propelled tenders. Our ambition with the latest additions to our range was to create a boat that isn’t just a functional load carrier, but enhances the yacht ownership experience on every level.

“These unique jets offer expert sea-keeping ability and manoeuvrability, allowing owners to explore remote coastlines, as well as providing endless hours of water-sports fun for the whole family.

Above all, the Sportjets embody our core purpose to provide effortless passenger transport and we hope our global audience enjoys our latest offering.”

Williams Jet Tenders Sportjet 395

Thanks to the compact yet powerful BRP Rotax ACE 903 engine, Williams has been able to re-imagine the layout possible for a 3.4m tender.

Creating a well-balanced, smooth running, mid-engined boat that has the capacity to move all guests onboard the parent yacht in a comfortable, dry fashion.

A large focus in the development of the Sportjet 345 and 395 was placed on making the tender easier to use in the real-world environment. The addition of an optional removable boarding pole removes the

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Williams Jet Tenders Expand High-Performance Sportjet Range Williams Jet Tenders has revealed its hotly anticipated new product offering, introducing the Sportjet 345 and Sportjet 395 at a world premiere to audiences at Cannes Yachting Festival. The new high-performance, highspeed, products were created following a strict design brief based on years of customer and OEM feedback, gathered at boat shows around the world.

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with the hallmark Williams performance and handling characteristics its customers demand, while developing a sociable layout that positions the helm at the centre of the boat, leaving a flexible seating arrangement to carry more passengers than the equivalent Turbojet - no small task.

Commenting on the expansion of the range, Mathew Hornsby, Sales Director at Williams Jet Tenders, commented: “We are delighted to reveal our new Sportjet 345 and Sportjet 395 models, which take inspiration from the original Williams product, the Turbojet, which quickly became the industry benchmark for the best in

awkward process of boarding the tender from a moving bathing platform, providing a fixed contact point at chest height to move smoothly from yacht to tender. The flip up footrest and wash-deflector on the bathing platform allows passengers to make use of the rear facing seats, while having the security of an angled surface to brace their feet against, enhancing the feeling of safety onboard.

Small details like the height of the helm foot-rail have been designed with minute precision to ensure owners feel just as secure in the tender barefoot as when driving to dinner in your favourite deck shoes. The focus on small details results in a tender that becomes effortless to use, with key features which are based on 12 years of constant, non-stop product development, driven by customer feedback.

The revolutionary Sportjet 345 and 395 will be premiered at Cannes Yachting Festival and Southampton Boat Show this year. For those interested, Williams is urging people to visit their nearest dealer and take one out for a spin – they promise you won’t be disappointed.

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REGATTA NEWS XIV Copa del Rey – Panerai Vela Clasica Menorca 29th August – 2 September 2017 Strong Winds and Big Seas at this Boutique Regatta in Mahon – Photography © Martinezstudio Sailing in Menorca over the first weekend in September was wet, wild and windy. The event that is sponsored every second year by luxury yacht maker Panerai is hosted at the Club Maritimo in the pretty Port of Mahon on the East coast of the island.

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The conditions challenged the yachts and the results were certainly a big talking point. The playing field for the mid to end of season events has shifted and it will be an exciting time to follow the circuit as the fleet juggle for podium position and Panerai watches over the next month.

The laid back social scene in Menorca is always a hot favorite with the owners and crew. Visits to the famous cave nightclub, the white beaches, après sailing San Miguels and of course drinking refreshingly cool pomada, the local lemon and gin drink which has a certain kick.

The Results for the class winners overall were: Hallowe’en Cippino Linnet Ardi Calima

Big Boats Vintage Marconi Vintage Gaff Classics Spirit of Tradition

Pictured here are the winners each presented with a watch.

Pictured from left to right: Hallowe’en (Inigo Strez), Calima (Alejandro Guasch), Ardi (Fabio Conti), Cippino II (Martin Billoch) with the Director General of Panerai Spain and Portugal Mario Gimenez.

Corsica Classic 2017 27th August – 3rd September Rally 4th – 10th September Photography © Philippe Azara The 8th edition of Corsica Classic took place in the more undiscovered regions of the Mediterranean. Husband and wife team Thibault Assante and his wife Katia show us how its done by organising a two week long event that is built around fantastic sailing and privileged social experiences. The regatta is hosted under the patronage of the Yacht Club of France and is the only regatta to sail over a weeklong event along the Corsican coastline.

The fleet of 27 yachts ranged from several yachts under 10 metres to the mighty Fife Cambria of 23 metres who joined for 3 of the four stages.

This year included new destinations along the Corsican coast and

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participants enjoyed luxury lifestyle and local entertainment as they hopped between ports from Ajaccio on the West Coast to Saint Florent in the North.

Looking for something a little different? I challenge you to consider cruising a little out of your usual comfort of the well-trodden route along the Cote d’Azur and stretch further afield to the hidden jewel of the Mediterranean that is Corsica Classic.

“Despite the aura of wealth and pedigree, the mood here is not elitist. Billionaire or bowman, both are united in a shared enthusiasm for ocean racing.” The Telegraph The results for the class winners overall were: Serenade Vintage Marconi Aigu Blu Classic Marconi Hanni 2 Spirit of Tradition Don’t Miss a Beat or a Bulletin!

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CALIMA wins the Spirit of Tradition Class Mahon

CIPPINO II winner of the Vintage Marconi Class Mahon

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Winner of The Dorade Trophy Corsica Classic SY Serenade

Serenade , 1st in Vintage Marconi Corsica Classic

A special evening at Murtoli during Corsica Classic

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ARCADIA , 2nd in the classic marconi class Corsica Classic

ARCADIA , 2nd in the classic marconi class Corsica Classic

REGATTA NEWS championship, just one point ahead of Proteus. Bella Mente and Cannonball were third and fourth placed, just two points behind. Momo was also declared winner of the 2017 Maxi72 Class and bestplaced yacht owned by a YCCS member.

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Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup Porto Cervo, Italy: Saturday was the final day of racing in the 28th edition of the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup organized by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda in collaboration with Title Sponsor Rolex and the International Maxi Association.

Winners of the respective Classes are Momo (Maxi 72), Ribelle (Supermaxi), Highland Fling XI (Maxi), Galateia (Wally), Jethou (Mini Maxi R), Supernikka (Mini Maxi RC1) and H2O (Mini Maxi RC2).

The final day of racing saw the Maxi72 and Mini Maxi Racers do two windwardleeward races while the rest of the fleet did a coastal race along the Arcipelago di La Maddalena. Breezes from the northwest building to 14 knots gradually came up against winds from the southeast. A dead zone formed between these two fronts and the Race Committee chose to shorten the course and end the day’s racing off Capo d’Orso.

Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup also included the Maxi72 World Championship and competition was fierce. By the end of the event the German team aboard Momo won the

In the prestigious Supermaxi Class, the 33m Ribelle had already won numerically by the end of yesterday’s races.

Nevertheless, her team gave it their all again today and placed second.

The Maxi Class saw YCCS member Sir Irvine Laidlaw’s Highland Fling XI edge out Nefertiti, second overall after placing first in the last two day’s races. Rambler 88, with AC vet Brad Butterworth as tactician, placed second.

The Wally fleet was most numerous and saw the Wallycento Galateia won handsomely over Nahita and Lyra. Sir Peter Ogden’s Jethou won in the Mini Maxi Racing Class, placing first every day and beating Spectre and Lucky, who finished in second and third places respectively, tied for points.

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Emirates Team New Zealand Confirm High Performance Monohull for AC36 Emirates Team New Zealand can confirm Patrizio Bertelli’s suggestion today that the next America’s Cup will be sailed in high performance monohull yachts.

Currently there are a team of designers, lead by Emirates Team New Zealand Design Coordinator Dan Bernasconi working on various exciting monohull concepts which will eventually help shape the AC36 Class Rule.

Emirates Team New Zealand have been consulting with a number of potential challengers and there is an overall desire to have a spectacular monohull yacht that will be exciting to match race, but also one that the public and sailors can relate to as a sail boat that really challenges a full crew of professional yachtsman around the race track.

Further details of the Protocol for the 36th America’s Cup will be announced at the end of the month.

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J- Class World Championships The original America’s Cup class returned to its home of Newport, RI after 87 years last month to compete for the inaugural J-Class World Championship. The fleet, competitors and shore teams hosted by the New York Yacht Club at Harbour Court received a tremendous welcome. Local yacht club members volunteered their support boats and even the ‘gas station’ manager engaged in lively banter about the daily results. The AC was back where it belonged in US eyes.

In the Thirties the races were held at the mouth of Narragansett Bay, off Newport. From 1930 to 1937 the AC course stretched some thirty miles. In 1958, when the era of the 12 Meters began the course was shortened

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to twenty four. This year the racing comprised two-mile windward/leewards plus a harbour course.

Fog hung heavy on Newport Bay and out on Narragansett Bay for the opening day of play. As the six J-Class yachts aimed for the windward mark some three miles offshore an armada of spectator boats exacerbated the already white –capped seaway. This event had been long awaited.

Early drama rewarded the hungry spectator fleet. Going into the first start Ranger shut Velsheda out and with nowhere to go the latter ‘dinged’ the committee vessel leaving a fair chunk of fairing behind.

Hanuman led out of the harbor and around the mark closely followed by Palma based Svea, back after losing her forestay in Bermuda. A tight battle ensued sweeping down the harbor. It was a stunning spectacle. AC veterans Peter Isler, Tom

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Whidden and tactician Francesco de Angelis took Svea into the lead, hugging the iconic Castle Hill before a bad gybe lost valuable seconds and relinquishing the lead. A close procession of five yachts raced north against the ebb, funnelling dramatically under the iconic suspension bridge. Hanuman carrying an symmetric kite was able to hold off the competition gaining a length on each gybe to close the door on Svea and the procession behind claiming first blood. Lionheart had taken a flyer and lost ground but clawed her way back after a huge tack lift to finish third. The crowds lining the shore and on the water were treated to a tremendous spectacle of close gybing up the harbor.

On day two the fleet was kept out of the harbor racing windward/leewards a couple of miles offshore. In its second season Topaz, helmed by Palma Superyacht Cup regular Peter Holmberg, won the first

windward/leeward race on corrected. It held off Velsheda by just seven seconds, while Lionheart’s margin for third over Hanuman was just two seconds. These boats continued to illustrate how close and thrilling racing is within the J-Class. In the second race Hanuman broke clear of Velsheda which was overlapped with her at the first windward mark and gradually eked out a lead to finish a minute and 17 seconds ahead of the regatta’s sole ‘original’ J Class.

Hanuman skippered by Newport based Ken Read and brother Brad in the afterguard represented the city. Understandably expectations ran high backed by most of the Newport residents. A complete new rig and sails for this season illustrated how hungry the team was for a local win.

With on-the-water umpires mimicking the 52 Super Series format mistakes were immediately dealt with.

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Counting three third places after two days Lionheart was prowling, poised only three points behind regatta leader Hanuman going into races 4 and 5 of the championship.

The Palma based blackhulled Super J won the first windward/leeward and then battled to third place in a second race which saw Hanuman dramatically penalised during the top mark approach of the second beat.

She was handed a penalty for tacking too close to Svea’s transom and completed a turn metres from the Windward mark. These boats were being thrown around the course like dinghies and flipped round as though on a dime.

Day four dawned and the regular northerly morning breeze kept the fleet under postponement like sprung coils. As is the norm the breeze died out before the sw’erly sea breeze filtered in. A cautious PRO rolled the dice and lost out on the penultimate day as the new

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breeze failed to kick in. A delay on shore was followed by delay of another three and a half hours on the water.

Seasoned AC competitor and on-the-water commentator Andy Green entertained the fleet and its audience with animated nautical commentary. A modest six knots encouraged a start gun followed by a shortened two lap course in which Ranger slid across the finish line a second ahead of Lionheart.

Ranger put their first win of the regatta on their fast improving scoreline but their delta over second placed Lionheart was down to just one second. And the margin between Svea in third and fourth placed Velsheda was also one second.

The final day was again delayed. A healthy spectator fleet encouraged a start out on the bay. In the light airs Hanuman claimed her third bullet of the event but finished the bridesmaid on corrected handing the overall

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regatta win to Lionheart after a final result of second on the water. Ranger completed the world championship podium clinching third overall. They had a close match with the newer Topaz both vying for third. Thursday’s mistake cost Hanuman’s resulting fifth place the championship and Kohler Cup silverware in the no discard series. This mirrors their mistake made at the final race of the Bermudan event which again handed the trophy to Lionheart.

With two overall wins in Bermuda under the Lionheart team’s belts it was pleasing to witness an owner/driver scoring a triple crown.

In all four of the six yachts claimed a race. Conversely, Lionheart did not take a single scalp but kept its heels clean notching up second and third places to average out the overall win. The team headed up by seven-times VOR/ Whitbread skipper Bouwe Bekking has been a close-knit group for more than three

seasons. “I said before the championship that if we could finish top three in every race we would most likely win and it has worked out. We always started clean and we could always – except in one race – could sail our own course..” He continued: ““It is a special title, one for the owner who gives us so much confidence in ourselves and who gives us carte blanche in how we set the boat up and how we sail. It is great for him now that he lifts the trophy today.”

The Kohler Cup has been introduced to sustain a racing circuit for the J-Class. With seven yachts on the starting line at the America’s Cup in Bermuda earlier this year and potential for more an annual season is being encouraged.

The Kohler Cup circuit will continue to gain momentum next season with four more events including Palma’s Superyacht Cup featuring as second on the calendar.

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The 2018 season will consist of the following events: • St Barth’s Bucket, Caribbean • Superyacht Cup, Palma • Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, Porto Cervo • Les Voiles de St Tropez, France The Kohler Cup Scoring System: • The Kohler Cup presented

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J Class Association and North Sails Announce Details for 2018 Kohler Cup Following the success of the first ever J Class overall season championship, the inaugural 2017 Kohler Cup, the J Class Association and North Sails are proud to announce the 2018 Kohler Cup schedule. The 2018 Cup will be comprised of a total of four events as opposed to just three in 2017. The other notable difference is for the upcoming year events will be weighted equally, with boats that take part in all four events able to discard their worst result.

The Kohler Cup is the first ever season-long points championship for the fleet, aimed at promoting and enhancing the racing for the celebrated world-class fleet of J Class yachts.

• Each boat will receive point(s) equal to the number of boats she beat, plus one point. The end season score will be the sum of all the points of the individual races • The J Class yacht with the highest number of cumulative points wins the Kohler Cup Each event has the same coefficient • Points will be calculated on the final scores at the end of each event • J Class yachts not entering an event or a race will be scored with zero (0) points Only J Class yachts participating at least in three (3) events will be eligible to compete for the seasonal Kohler Cup • Yachts competing in all four (4) events drop their worst score prior to final tally • In case of a tie, the better position in the final event will determine who breaks the tie on top

REGATTA NEWS the race,” said Sinclair.

“People know me from the America’s Cup, but most of my experience is offshore. I’ve raced onboard Leopard, and did a couple of legs with Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing in the last race. I’m looking forward to getting back offshore.

“We have a really strong team, and get along well. We need to see how the first leg goes and we’ll get an idea quickly of which teams are going to be the strongest – but anything can happen during the race, and one thing’s for sure, it’s going to be close.”

MAPFRE Complete 2017-18 Squad - Signing Another America’s Cup Race The Spanish team presented their star-studded line-up at an event in Sanxenxo, and announced a last-minute addition – Oracle Team USA athlete Louis Sinclair.

MAPFRE have completed their squad for the 2017-18 edition of the Volvo Ocean Race with a presentation in Sanxenxo, Spain, and announced a last minute addition – America’s Cup sailor Louis Sinclair.

The Antiguan athlete, whose signing was announced at the event at the Real Club Nautico de Sanxenxo on Thursday, joins a team led by skipper Xabi Fernández and featuring six nationalities.

Fernández, who himself is making his fifth appearance in the race, is joined by watch leaders Pablo Arrarte and Rob Greenhalgh; navigator Joan Vila; Antonio ‘Ñeti’ CuervasMons, Willy Altadill, Sophie Ciszek, Tamara Echegoyen, Neal McDonald, and America’s Cup winner Blair Tuke – who could become the first sailor in history to win the Triple Crown.

“This time the race returns to its Southern Ocean roots, and that is a great incentive for us – as sailors, we like it very much,” said Xabi.

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“The Southern Ocean is always dangerous, and it’s necessary to retain a balance between pushing and being conservative, but this time we will have extra incentive to push as hard as we can because these legs and the transatlantic score double points.”

Having stepped onboard winning boat Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing during the 2014-15 edition, Sinclair is no stranger to the Volvo Ocean Race – and since the end of that successful campaign he has played a key part in Oracle Team USA’s defence of the America’s Cup. “It feels great to join the team, I’ve only been with them for one week, but i t’s a really easy going team, easy to get along with, and I think we’ll do well during

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Speaking at the event, he said: “The number one objective of this team is to finish the round the world race bringing our crew back safely and, if possible, to finish ahead of our rivals.

“As I always say to Xabi, there is always a small chance that we will not win the Volvo Ocean Race, but what we are certain of is that we will leave the name of Spain and the name of MAPFRE in very high esteem.”

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Volvo Ocean Race campaign put together by Pedro Campos, MAPFRE could become the first ever Spanish winner of the race in 2017-18, and begins the edition as one of the pre-race favourites for the trophy.

Campos, who first challenged for the Volvo Ocean Race title with movistar in 2005-06, and has returned for every edition since with Spanish campaigns Telefónica Blue and Telefónica Black in 2008-09, Team Telefónica in 2001-12 and MAPFRE’s first tilt at the trophy in 2014-15.

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The Barcelona Boat Show 2017 is Ready to Put Up the ‘Sold Out’ Sign With less than a month to go before the event (11-15 October), the Barcelona International Boat Show will be boasting full occupancy with 100% of the anticipated exhibition space already sold.

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Now in its fifty-sixth edition, the show will occupy a gross area of more than 54,000 square metres between the wharves of España and La Fusta in Port Vell, and continues to grow in terms of both exhibitor numbers and boats on show in the floating and land-based exhibition areas. In total, around 700 boats will be on display, featuring some of the top names in the sector.

The excellent rate of sales has enabled the show to put up the ‘sold out’ sign already,

underlining its position as the leading showcase for the sports and recreational sailing industry in Spain. This year the event organised by Fira de Barcelona will exceed 270 exhibitors, including the leading companies in the national and international nautical world such as Beneteau, Jeanneau, CNBLagoon, Marina Estrella, Sunseeker, Touron, Yamaha and Zodiac.

The space set aside for the floating exhibition will be packed to the gunnels with more than 170 sailboats and

motorboats over 8 metres long, the most notable feature this year being the range of catamarans, with more than 20 on show.

Meanwhile, on land there will be more than 600 smaller boats and dinghies on display, as well as the latest in electronics, paints, sails, trailers and services. All in all, the International Boat Show will be showcasing around 700 boats in its exhibition areas.

According to the director of the Barcelona International Boat Show, Jordi Freixas, ’the

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interest and response from exhibitors points to greater optimism in the sector and will mean that once again we will have an outstanding nautical offering, which along with all the other activities we are organising will make the Boat Show the key meeting place for doing business, discovering the latest products and sharing our passion for the sea.’ In this respect, the fifty-sixth edition of the show will be putting a bigger emphasis than ever on its professional side, with the organisation of the first Professional Meetings. An agenda of meetings between exhibitors and visitors, who will have a space in which to make contacts and offer their products and services with the aim of opening up new markets and sourcing new partners. To date, more than 200 people have signed up. In addition the second edition of the Seminars for Entrepreneurs and Startups is being held, which now extends to every day of the show, with around twenty companies taking part.

Standout products include a

nautical services app, a portal for booking rental boats, a lightweight kayak that can be dismantled, and even magnetised tableware for worry-free sailing.

A burgeoning sector The 2017 edition of the Barcelona Boat Show comes at a happy moment for the sector after all the difficulties of the recent economic crisis.

According to figures from the National Association of Nautical Enterprises (ANEN), in the first eight months of the year recreational boat registrations rose by 9.7% compared to the same period last year. The biggest growth in boat registrations compared to the previous year is the segment of boats longer than 12 metres, which has grown by 50% on average. Catalonia continues to lead the market with an upturn of 17.64%.

Rentals have consolidated their rising trend with an increase of 23.5%, with Catalonia at the top (+25.23%), followed by the Balearic Islands (+25.02%) and the Valencian Community (+16.85%).

AROUND THE REGIONS BARCELONA Tamim Hamad Al-Kawari, Chief Executive Officer of QInvest, said: “We are very pleased to be [leading the new] ownership of One Ocean Port Vell. As one of the most prestigious marinas in the region, situated in one of Europe’s leading cities, we are confident about its prospects for the future.”

Craig Cowie, Head of Real Estate Investment & Advisory at QInvest added:

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Barcelona Marina Port Vell is Sold QInvest LLC and its joint venture investment partner take ownership of leading marina in Barcelona to support its continued growth.

• Ownership follows an agreement reached amongst all parties.

• QInvest and its partner have supported the asset for a number of years, and remain committed to providing continued support as the owners of the asset.

• Reinforces the strong links established between

Spain and Qatar, built over many years.

QInvest LLC, Qatar’s leading investment bank [and one of the Gulf Co-operation Council’s most prominent financial institutions] announced today that it has, through its wholly-owned subsidiary BOH LLC and in conjunction with its partner, a regulated investment fund beneficially owned by the Vagit Alekperov family, have become the new owners of OneOcean Port Vell, the superyacht marina in Barcelona, Spain. This follows an agreement reached with the current owner, Salamanca Group, the privately-held Merchant Banking business that has developed OneOcean Port Vell and transformed it into the leading marina

in Barcelona. Salamanca Group identified it was now appropriate to bring in strategic owners that have the profile and local presence in Barcelona to invest in and further develop such a distinguishing hallmark of the city.

In this regard, QInvest has an extensive and successful investment track record in the real estate and infrastructure sectors in Barcelona. A dedicated team combining the expertise of both joint venture partners will be focused on managing and overseeing the growth of OneOcean Port Vell, to maintain and enhance its positioning within the European superyacht marina market.

“This is a good asset which we have supported for a number of years. Following its extensive re-development in recent years, OneOcean Port Vell now has significant potential for growth and we are committed to working hand-in-hand with the regulatory authorities (including the Barcelona Port Authority), the wider local community and all other stakeholders to support its continued development and success.”

This announcement follows on from a number of investments QInvest has made in Europe across multiple asset classes and geographies.

Paul Cook, General Manager of OneOcean Port Vell said: “This is excellent news for OneOcean Port Vell. The vision of the new board will allow us to build on and consolidate the marina as a leading winter home port and summer destination for superyachts”.

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Buying a Yacht Buying a yacht is generally a big financial commitment for most people. Ensuring that you sell or buy successfully requires a little effort on your part.

Let’s start with the physical yacht itself. There are four really important things that you need to ensure as part of a purchase or sale: 1) Integrity of the hull and deck.

2) The state of the engine(s).

3) The state of the rigging.

4) The state of the sails.

Many buyers abdicate responsibility for these four key points and engage a surveyor to give them a condition report. If you really want to extract value from a survey then the surveyor needs to be directed and that means doing a thorough initial inspection yourself before handing over to a professional surveyor.

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maintained sea cocks. How many buyers lift up the cabin sole and check that all the sea cocks operate correctly and that the hoses are not perished? Too few in my opinion! Ask the vendor to tell you when was the last time the boat was out of the water, what hull maintenance was carried out in the last two years, why? Ask the vendor to tell you if the yacht has ever been grounded or involved in an accident.

You do not need to go out on a sea trial to know that an engine is sound. Run it, look at it, listen to it, look at the exhaust fumes put it into gear against secure berthing lines and let it run up to operating temperature. Ask impertinent questions about the maintenance regime.

Look at the rigging is there any sign of corrosion or cracking? Are the chain plates securely anchored? When was the standing rigging last renewed?

In the case of the sails make sure you know what’s in the sail wardrobe. Examine the fabric. Is the stitching sound?

UV radiation damages sail fabric especially the stitching, use your own eyes.

I do not value a boat by the marine electronics installed aboard. This can be changed relatively easily. The inexorable price/performance improvement of marine electronics in recent years and the ability of yachtsmen

to buy their kit in tax free locations like Gibraltar lower its importance in any buying decision.

Finally examine the safety gear and make a list of what is in date and what needs to be replaced.

Do all of this BEFORE making an offer and before you engage in survey costs.

So what do you need a surveyor for? A surveyor needs to be directed to find genuine “material defects”.

A surveyor’s report padded out with photographs, telling you what model winches are installed or stating the obvious copied from the broker’s yacht listing is as useful as a chocolate watch!

If you’ve inspected the boat yourself you’ll know all about the safety equipment and all the other kit installed on the vessel. You don’t need a surveyor to tell you there are four out of date fire extinguishers on the boat! A

Then there is documentation to consider. A good broker will ensure that there is clear title to the vessel. If the vessel has been sold within the previous five years you will want the vendor to produce the previous Bill of Sale because the yacht registry will require it. What is the VAT status of the vessel? Can the vendor produce documentary evidence of payment of VAT? Does the vessel meet the EU RCD (Recreational Craft Directive)? Look for a CE certificate or a plaque stating CE compliance somewhere in the cockpit.

If you find this daunting you shouldn’t, it’s all commonsense. Boatshed Gibraltar is there to help guide you through the whole transaction and beyond making sure not only that you acquire a sound yacht but that you have a berth, insurance and a professional skipper (if you need one) to introduce you to handling your new vessel.

AROUND THE REGIONS MALTA won the Rolex Middle Sea Race on board a Beneteau 40.7 and Alegre claimed line honours.

In 2009, Andres Soriano on board Alegre re visited Malta for the second time in a row and claimed overall handicap in IRC. Line honours went to Mike Slade on board his super maxi “Icap Leopard”.

2010 saw the maxi yacht “Esimit Europa” take line honours over “Icap Leopard” whilst the IRC Overall went to “Lucky” from the USA.

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The Rolex Middle Sea Race The Rolex Middle Sea Race is a highly rated offshore classic, often mentioned in the same breath as the Rolex Fastnet, The Rolex Sydney - Hobart and Newport-Bermuda as a “must do” race. The Royal Malta Yacht Club and the Royal Ocean Racing Club co-founded the race in 1968 and 2016 will be the 37th Edition. Save for a break between 1984 and 1995 the event has been run annually initially attracting 25 -30 yachts, however in recent years, the number of entries has risen sharply to 122 boats thanks to a new Organising Committee who managed to bring Rolex on board as title sponsor for the Middle Sea Race.

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The race is a true challenge to skippers and crews who have to be at their very best to cope with the often changeable and demanding conditions. Equally, the race is blessed with unsurpassed scenery with its course, taking competitors close to a number of islands, which form marks of the course. Ted Turner described the MSR as “the most beautiful race course in the world”.

Apart from Turner, famous competitors have included Eric Tabarly, Cino Ricci, Herbert von Karajan, Jim Dolan, Sir Chay Blyth and Sir Francis Chichester (fresh from his round the world adventure). High profile boats from the world’s top designers take part, most in pursuit of

line honours and the record competing yachts include the extreme Open 60s, Riviera di Rimini and Shining; the maxis, Mistress Quickly, Zephyrus IV and Sagamore; and the pocket rockets such as the 41-foot J-125 Strait Dealer and the DK46, Fidessa Fastwave.

In 2006, Mike Sanderson and Seb Josse on board ABN Amro, winner of the Volvo Ocean Race, the super Maxis; Alfa Romeo and Maximus and the 2006 Rolex Middle Sea Race overall winner, Hasso Plattner on board his MaxZ86, Morning Glory.

George David on board Rambler (ex Alfa Romeo) managed a new course record in 2007 and in 2008, Thierry Bouchard on Spirit of Ad Hoc

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The Esimit Europa team were to win Line Honours again in 2011. The Maltese boat Artie was the overall winner of the IRC category and the Rolex Middle Sea Race Trophy.

In 2012 the Slovenian Maxi Esimit Europa II returned to claim line Honours once again but the Rolex Middle Sea Race Trophy for first overall in IRC was won by the South African yacht Hi Fidelity. The overall winner in ORC was Optimum 3 Aspida from Greece.

Kristina Plattner with Morning Glory was to take line honours in 2013. The overall the winner in IRC was Michele Galli with B2 while Johann Killinger on Emma won in the ORC. In 2014 Esimit Europa were in first to win Line Honours, whilst Maltese J/122 boat Artie was the overall winner of the IRC Category and the Rolex Middle Sea Race Trophy for the second time.

MALTA AROUND THE REGIONS The largest number of entries was 122 established in 2014.

2015 has been even more interesting in the fact that the fleet was more varied, with the fleet consisting of different kind of boats from the big, professionally crewed boats to smaller yachts with Corinthian sailors as well as two big multihulls, both from the United States. One of these was Lloyd Thornburg’s Phaedo3, which recently set a new world record in the Fastnet course, completing it in 27 hours and 34 minutes. Phaedo3 claimed multihull line honours. The other multihull was Peter Aschenbrenner’s 63’ Trimaran Paradox which has recorded speeds of over 35knots in big seas during Atlantic crossings.

2016 will be remembered as a race of multiple dimensions.

Recipient of the Rolex Chronometer and Rolex Middle Sea Race trophy as Overall Winner was Vincenzo Onorato’s Italian Cookson 50 Mascalzone Latino. Sweet success having lost out by just nine seconds the year before.

George David’s Rambler 88 from the United States took Monohull Line Honours for the second year in a row and Giovanni Soldini’s Italian Multi70 Maserati won the Multihull class setting a new race record in this category.

In the Multihull Class all eyes were on the contest between Lloyd Thornburg’s American MOD70 Phaedo^3 and Maserati. Maserati arrived in Malta with structural

damage and could not use its full foiling package whilst Phaedo^3 appeared to hold an advantage and confirmed this by taking the lead right from the start as Maserati took a more conservative approach to exiting Grand Harbour. Phaedo^3 appeared unassailable but a catastrophic error in navigation resulted in Phaedo^3 being denied the honour of smashing their own record.

The 2017 Rolex Middle Sea Race will start on Saturday 21st October 2017.

Course Map The Rolex Middle Sea Race

course is 608 nautical miles long and is sailed anticlockwise. Starting from the Grand Harbour, Valletta, beneath Fort St Angelo and the Saluting Battery in Valletta, the fleet head north along the eastern coasts of Sicily up towards the Straits of Messina. Mt Etna is usually visible on the fleets port side, billowing ashes and lava throughout the night. Once through the Straits, the course leads north to the Aeolian Islands and the active volcano of Stromboli where the yachts turn west to the Egadi Islands.

to port the Island of Sicily, the Aeolian Islands (including Strombolicchio), the Egadi Islands (except Marettimo Island), Pantelleria and Lampedusa Islands, through the South Comino Channel, keeping Malta to starboard, to the finish line in Marsamxett Harbour. The Islands of Ustica, Linosa and Lampione are not marks of the course.

The length of the course is approximately 606 nautical miles. The Course Record, established by “Rambler” in 2007, is 1day, 23hours, 55mins 3secs.

Passing between Marettimo and Favignana the crews head south towards the island of Lampedusa leaving Pantelleria to port.

Preceeding the Rolex Middle Sea Race itself is one shorter coastal race: The Malta Rolex Cup will be awarded to the overall winner on corrected time.

Once past Lampedusa the fleet turns northeast on the final leg towards the South Comino Channel and the finish at Marsamxett Harbour.

En route the crews take in an amazing diversity of landscape and sea conditions, all of which combine to create the attraction and challenge of the race.

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The Rolex Middle Sea Race Starting from Grand Harbour, boats will sail a course leaving

Rolex Coastal Race Depending on the weather, the race will begin in Marsamxett Harbour, head towards the Island of Gozo and return past Comino.

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Deckers Antibes The Summer Season has flown by, we can’t believe it’s already October!

We had lots of fun at Cannes Yachting Festival last month - you may have spotted Jess and Kate dressed to impress in our elegant Exclusive dresses.

It was great to mingle with clients and to see all the boats in their pride and glory, the crew have been working hard on all Season.

You may spot a few classic collectors cars whizzing by on the Promenade in Nice this month. Not to worry, they will probably be a part of the ‘Prom du cœur’ - a charity event organized by the Nice Automobile Club. The Club allows you the chance to rent a unique collector’s car to drive on the Prom, raising money for children suffering with cancer. For more details check out their website: http://www.promducoeur.fr/ For those who enjoy working up a sweat, the annual ‘Bigreen VTT’ bike trail will be taking place this year in the hills behind Grasse. Starting from Saint Vallier, the riders will need to reach the stadium of the Paoute in Grasse via several marked trails. These trails will sometimes cross or blend – so up to you to decide 94

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on the route according to your form and your motivation! You can find more info & sign up online: http://www.ucc-sportevent. com/bigreen-grasse/ This month we’ll be looking out for the Cogs 4 Cancer riders, arriving back to Antibes after an amazing 1400km ride which started in London! Let’s celebrate their achievement together at the ride afterparty at “The View”, Juan les Pins Saturday 14th of October.

To grab yourself a ticket, or for more info on how to support this impressive charity go to: http://cogs4cancer.org Another event to add to this month’s social calendar is Colgan’s Brewery’s ‘Fete de la Biere’ in Mougins. In partnership with Currencies Direct, Blue Square and the Mougins Council, Colgan’s Brewery presents the Mougins Beer Festival featuring live music, beer, wine, a large variety of food trucks and stalls, kids activities, beer and wine bar and food hall under tents. Live music featuring the headline talents of Blah Blah, with U - tribute U2, Back in Town - Thin Lizzy tribute, 4 Horsemen - Metallica tribute, plus more!!!! Check out the Facebook page for more info: https://www.facebook.com/ colgansbrewery/

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Big warm seas, consistent trade winds, challenging round the buoys racing and the best shoreside parties in the Caribbean sum up the phenomenon that is Antigua Sailing Week. Preceded by an optional race, the Peters & May Round Antigua Race featuring 52 nm of perfect pre-ASW tune up for new teams, followed by five days of racing off Antigua’s south coast and interrupted by a beach day, this is a regatta not to miss.

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Racing, Sport Boat, Cruising, Multihull, Bareboat and Club Class. Daily prize givings at Antigua Yacht Club are legendary as is the final awards party hosted in historic UNESCO-accredited Nelson’s Dockyard.

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Interview By: Kate Tarratt Cross Go with the Glow kate@gowiththeglow.com

Stew of the Month – Tamzin Gennissen What did you do before yachting, and how did your yachting career first begin?

Just before I started the Yachting industry, I was a dinghy sailing instructor at Sail Africa which is a nonprofit organisation in Durban, South Africa whose objective is to provide skill training and personal development through sail training to the youth. I used to sail the regattas in Durban and one of the skippers I crewed for was a part share owner of a catamaran which was in Turkey at that time, he offered me the job on the catamaran and the rest is history.

Being Deck Stew must be quite demanding, do you ever wish your role wasn’t split?

It does get tricky trying to

keep track of everything happening in both departments. The hardest part is when both departments want your assistance at the same time, it feels as if they have put you in one of those ancient torture devices where they pull you from either arm in the opposite direction.

However, being the deck/stew is great in the sense that it can offer you the opportunity to learn the most from each department. I get to be on deck off charter and am only interior on charter and once a week if time allows I get down and dirty in the engine room.

What has been your favourite boat you’ve worked on, and why?

SY Singularity for various reasons, look her up online and anybody who enjoys sailing will understand.

What are the best and worst parts about working onboard?

The best parts are the ability to broaden your mind, getting to know people from all over the world, the crew banter, having the opportunity to go hiking in Vermont, Rock Climbing in Mallorca or kite surfing in Antigua. The hardest part is making sure you make time for yourself and get your own space.

How do you keep sane on charter?

Do I? If I get the time, I enjoy editing my photos which I post to instagram, tamz_inite.

What are your best strategies for spoiling charter guests?

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This one is a win win. I enjoy taking photos and guests love photos of their holidays, thus I take plenty throughout the trip and send it to them at the end.

What’s the coolest thing you have done for guests?

Set up a BBQ dinner with a fire on the beach.

What is your signature cocktail?

Nutribullet smoothie with a touch of chia seeds, the owner and his guests only drink wine.

What is your favourite yachting destination?

At this point in time, Turkey and Greece.

If you owned a superyacht, what would you do differently?

Move crew cabins aft, talk to chefs about a galley layout that works, have logically placed scupper drains and sockets and an engine room where the engineer does not need to break every bone in his/her body in order to check the oil.

What is your on-board pet hate?

When people don’t understand personal space barriers and stand right on top of you.

What career achievement are you most proud of?

Getting my Yachtmaster Ocean.

Best housekeeping tip?

When doing the cabins, make the bed first. It makes the cabin look 90% finished and you will feel like you have accomplished something before you have even started.

Tell us about your funniest embarrassing moment on board.

Getting auctioned off for a blind date while we were crossing the Atlantic. The boys on another yacht had to answer questions asked by my crew and I had to choose the boy according to their answers. On the day of the blind date, the chef had me wear a belt with a lock attached and the Captain interrogated the brave soul to no end.

What’s your favourite adventure in Mallorca?

Hiking and rock climbing all over the island, my second favourite spot is Tijuana near Cala Santanyi.

If you could give your 20yr old self one piece of advice, what would it be?

Tackle challenges with more confidence! Trying is better than being too scared to try for fear of failing.

What’s your plan for the future?

To find the equation to the answer of life (42)

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How did you know it was time for you to make the move to land?

I knew it was time when I started thinking about having my own family and so that is what I did.

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From Ship to Shore – Katia Peysson How long did you work in yachting? Can you tell me about your yachting career – highlights, low points?

I worked in yachting for about 4 years. Mostly I was full time on boats but some years I just did day work for part of the year. I started my career on motor boats but finished on sailing boats, which I loved. I was a hard worker and very meticulous but when I started my career I was hopeless with the laundry and managed to recolour almost a whole set of new uniforms! Needless to say, the captain was not impressed but I got up to speed fast after that. I must say that the whole yachting experience was a highlight but if I had to pick a low point, I would pick something crew related. Sometimes on the

What was the most difficult thing about the transition?

The transition was really very easy for me. I was asked if I could help out at the Boss’s villa in GSTAAD. This became my first job on land after my time on boats and I really enjoyed it.

What was the best thing about it?

After GSTAAD I moved to Antibes, which was a bit more challenging as I was quite lonely to begin with but I liked the stability of being in one place and not having to travel all the time. At first I hated the winters in Antibes but then I grew to love them. I think this was the best bit!

What do you miss most about yachting?

I really miss the feeling when you leave the port at the beginning of the season, especially if it’s in the spring time. I always remember thinking how fresh the air was and how clean the water was.

I’d love to experience that feeling again.

What do you do now?

After I settled in Antibes, I became a florist. I started working with plants because my partner and his father were both gardeners.

They saw I was taking an interest in all the plants and so suggested I take a horticultural course and this is what I did. I loved doing what I was doing and I was grateful for my yachting experience because it toughened me up.

Being a florist is hard work but I managed well because I was already used to hard work from the boats. Unfortunately, it was hard to make ends meet so I also started helping my friend to manage villas in

the busy seasons. Now I am thinking about my next move because I actually stopped working both jobs to take care of my children. They are a bit older now and so I am feeling ready to complete my horticultural studies and find my passion again.

Do you have any advice for fellow yachties about going land-based?

I definitely do. My advice is to look for a good “transitional” job and they do exist. The way I transitioned worked well for me so consider your exit strategy carefully if you are planning to move ashore.

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Pick of the Month Stewardess’ Pick of the Month from: Rialto Living - Our favourite lifestyle store in PalmaWhen planning an event, the venue is – unsurprisingly – one of the first things that pops into your mind, as it sets the scene for the entire evening. If you’re looking for someplace close-by and extraordinary, whether this is because the boss wants to invite his family and friends for an exclusive meal ashore or you’re searching for somewhere to celebrate a regatta win, look no further than Rialto Living. Shoppinghaven Rialto Living boasts a beautiful indoor and outdoor area and both will definitely give everyone something to talk about.

Perhaps you have already glimpsed Rialto Living’s spacious second floor terrace which features luscious palm trees, and a stunning view of Palma’s pretty old town?

This stylish, sunny terrace complements a quaint oldworld indoor area which simply oozes character and charm. Both spaces are available for rent and can

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accommodate a wide variety of events, ranging from intimate sit-down dinners to full-blown cocktail parties for an entire race-crew. Moreish canapés, chilled drinks or a delectable four-course meal can be thoughtfully prepared

by Rialto Living’s kitchen dream-team and enjoyed either indoors while admiring giant-sized vintage maps or outside under a canopy of sparkling stars with a soft, cooling breeze to boot.

With a picture-perfect roof top terrace, delightful dining room and Rialto Living’s cooking virtuosos taking care of all the marvellous catering, all you and your guests have to do is turn up, relax and enjoy!

Rialto Living, conveniently located on Calle Sant Feliu 3, is just a stone’s throw away from Palma’s STP and sells a wide selection of eye-catching super yacht must-haves. Have a snoop around and see for yourself. And if you make a purchase don’t forget to flash your STP (or other) entry card so you can relax in their leafy, oasis-like café and sip on a complimentary ‘cafe con leche’ before you head back to the boat.

As another summer season draws to an end Delicioso launch their Autumn Crew Food Menu. This is by far their most popular menu and is always well received by the yachts and offices alike.

Perfect for yard periods or for any of you when ‘Chef’ takes some well-deserved leave.

Your food can be delivered straight to your boat or office at a pre-arranged time.

The menu features plenty of healthy choices and lighter options as well as all the favourites. Their chef has added some tasty options new for this year including Chicken Chimichurri Burritos, Macaroni & Cheese and a Smokey Braised Beef Goulash. Each main dish is available with a range of accompaniments to provide a balanced meal.

They also offer a daily freshly made sandwich option or you can combine a sandwich and a fresh menu choice for a daily meal deal. Any special dietary needs can also be catered for.

For more details and the full menu options check out the Delicioso web site: www.deli-delicioso.com Delicious Food Delivered the Delicioso Way

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So Hot Right Now….

It’s probably fair to say that when we think of Mexican cuisine, we can’t think much further than Tacos, Guacamole and chili con carne. The chances are that we also think that Mexican restaurants are all the same and a little bit boring, but nothing could be further from the truth. Over the last few years’ Mexican food has become the hottest ticket in town and Spain now boasts two amazing Michelin starred Mexican restaurants that are reinterpreting Mexican flavours and wowing customers who are lucky enough to get a table.

Punto MX became the first Mexican restaurant to be awarded a Michelin star in Madrid and was quickly followed by Hoja Santa in Barcelona. Both restaurants are mixing modern and ancient techniques to produce

authentic flavours that might include delicious dishes such as Braised duck enchilada with pumpkin seed green salsa or Almadraba red tuna tacos with Serrano chilies and true lime salsa.

spice grinder and pulse until coarsely crushed. Store in an airtight container.

I must admit that I’m not the most knowledgeable person on Mexican food but I do love a making a good Taco from time to time. I also really enjoy making Enchiladas or Mole. If you want something simple then try this delicious red pepper soup. The Mexican spice mixture is also a great addition to all Mexican inspired dishes.

Cooking time: 25 mins Prep time: 15 mins

Mexican Spice mix 2 teaspoon smoked paprika 4 tablespoons black peppercorns 4 tablespoons dried oregano 4 tablespoons ground cumin.

2 tablespoon chipotle chilli powder 2 tablespoon garlic powder 1 teaspoon salt Add all the ingredients to the

Mexican spiced red pepper & tomato soup with avocado & coriander yoghurt

Ingredients: serves 6-8 60ml olive oil 1 onion, finely chopped 2 red peppers, seeded and finely chopped 1 red chilli, seeded and finely chopped 400g peeled tomatoes, deseeded and chopped 1.5L vegetable stock 2tbsp Mexican spice mix Juice of 1 lemon Seasoning Avocado & coriander yoghurt 360g plain low fat yoghurt

2 avocados, peeled & stoned 1 garlic clove, peeled 1 teaspoon salt A small bunch fresh cilantro leaves, chopped Juice of one lime Place all the ingredients in a food processor and blend to a puree.

For the soup; Heat the olive oil in a large saucepan. Sweat the onions, red peppers, red chilli and Mexican spices over a gentle heat for 2-3 minutes.

Add the tomatoes and cook for a further 10 minutes.

Add the vegetable stock and simmer for 6-8 minutes.

Carefully pour the soup mixture into a food processor and blend to a purée. Pass the soup through a fine sieve and season to taste. Serve with avocado-coriander yoghurt and sprinkle with Mexican spices.

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Galley Goddess I dare you to suggest to an Italian that other cuisines in the world produce excellent cuisine. Chance has it you’ll experience of a bit of annoyingly frustrating verbal ping pong that would run sorta like this........

“I really love Thai food” “Maybe, but nothing is as good as Italian food” “Yes, but Thai food is also delicious, it’s my favourite, you’d like it” “There is no better food than Italian food” “Have you ever tried Thai food?”

“I don’t have to try Thai food.

I know Italian food is the best in the world” “But Thai food is really delicious” “Not as delicious as Italian” And, dear Islanders, they would be so utterly right.

Ahhhh, the Italians, with their incomparable love of pasta, exaggerated hand movements and loud speaking

voices, this inordinately proud race also generously gave us Chianti, the statue of David and risotto. Oh, and western civilisation. Risotto is one of those dishes that can strike fear into the heart of the most adventurous, well, maybe not if you are under 5ft, wear black and are someones Nonna. It possesses everything I love most about Italian food, cleverly combining the most basic of ingredients that, with a little bit of patience and a pinch of skill can unveil a supermodel capable of giving you an enormous culinary orgasm. Oh, calm my beating heart...... One of the great glories of Italian cuisine, describing risotto as a rice stew is technically correct, but certainly a firm slap in the face to any self respecting Italian. Risotto´s seductive appeal is that it simultaneously encompasses two seemingly opposite irresistible textures, creamy and al dente. The fact that this dish is time consuming, chockablock full of calories

But, dear friends, a little secret........ making risotto is actually easy, it just requires attention, sort of like a high maintenance diva. Simplicity at its best......going into the pot initially starting out as Susan Boyle to slowly kaleidoscope into Jennifer Lopez. An excellent stock is mandatary as is the stirring for what sometimes may feel like bloody eternity. But, the good thing about all that stirring is that it only requires one hand, so what do you do with your other hand? Why put a glass of wine in it of course. A little nugget of advice handed down to me over the years by an excellent Italian chef is, first and foremost - basically don’t f#*k with what is pure and holy.........time honoured recipes are not to be polluted with substitutes, pasta must never be cut with a knife, cheese and seafood; the two must never meet even over the most casual of plates and for heavens sake, don’t mortally offend the Italians by putting pineapple on a pizza.

And finally there’s nothing that can compare to the intensely satisfying plop as it lands on your warmed plate.

Yes, warmed - you’ll have the Mafia knocking on your door if you miss this important step as I will have informed them.

You can nurse your carpel tunnel after the applause from your guests has finally quietened down.

Bold and Brassy Red Wine, Mushroom and Thyme Risotto 2 tablespoons extra virgin oil 3 cloves garlic, chopped finely 1 medium red onion, chopped 350 grams portobello mushrooms, sliced half a cup of mixed dried mushrooms 1/4 cup fresh thyme 3 squeezes of lemon 2 cups arborio rice 1 cup red wine 7 cups good quality vegetable or chicken stock 1/2 cup parmesan cheese 2 tablespoons butter 1 bloody great big dollop of mascarpone cheese Heat your olive oil in a large saucepan over medium heat and add your garlic and onion, saute until the onion is translucent. With boiling water, soak the dried mushies in a small bowl for 15minutes.

Add your mushrooms in batches along with salt and pepper and saute until soft and golden. Throw in the thyme and give that lemon a good squeeze. Take out a few of the pan-fried mushrooms and reserve for garnish. Strain the dried mushrooms, chop them up finely and add them to the mixture. Don’t throw out the liquid!! Add the rice to the saucepan and fry for a minute or two until any liquid is absorbed. Now add the red

wine to the pan and deglaze, scraping off on burnt or crispy bits off the bottom of the pan.

Cook, stirring frequently until rice has absorbed all stock. epeat this, adding 1 cup of warm stock and letting the rice absorb it in between additions. Don’t forget to use the reserved liquid from the mushrooms. Continue until you have used roughly 6 cups of caldo and when the rice is al dente. Taste the rice, it should have a slight bite to it and not be mushy. Take the risotto off the heat and stir in the butter and parmesan cheese until they are both melted into the risotto. Plop the mascarpone cheese in and swirl around until incorporated. To serve, top with fresh thyme, reserved mushrooms and shavings of parmesan.

Magnifico!!

Lemon Risotto 6 cups chicken caldo 3 and a half tablespoons butter 1 & 1/2 tablespoons olive oil 2 shallots, chopped 2 cups arborio rice 1/2 cup dry white wine 1 cup freshly grated parmasano reggiano 2 tablespoons chopped parsley 2 tablespoons lemon juice 4 teaspoons grated lemon peel

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Pop your caldo in a large saucepan over a medium heat and bring to simmer, reduce heat to low and keep warm.

Meanwhile, melt 1 and a half tablespoons butter with the oil in a heavy large saucepan over medium heat. Fling your shallots in there and saute until tender. Add your rice and stir frantically for one minute and splash that wine in and stir until evaporated, about 30 seconds.........the aroma will make your head spin..... Add 1 and a half cups of the caldo; simmer until absorbed, stirring frequently.

Add the remaining caldo 1/2 cup at a time, allowing the caldo to be absorbed before adding more and stirring frequently until rice is creamy and tender, about 35 minutes. Blend in cheese and remaining two tablespoons butter. Stir in parsley, lemon juice and peel. Finally season your risotto with salt and pepper. Be adventurous and team this elegant and classy risotto with asparagus or salmon.

4 cups risotto 4 eggs diced pieces of Taleggio cheese 1 and a half cups breadcrumbs oil for frying Firstly, make sure your risotto is cold and that any veg is finely chopped! Line a plastic container with baking paper.

Whisk the eggs together, then stir them into the risotto. Add 1 cup breadcrumbs and stir.

You want the mixture to be sticky, but not wet, add more breadcrumbs if it is a trifle wet. Then take a mozzarella ball and a generous spoonful of risotto and form a ball of risotto around the mozzarella.

Your arancini will be about the size of golf balls. Place on the baking paper using more paper to separate the layers.

Keep doing this until all the

risotto has be used up. Pop them into the fridge for at least an hour. Pour the 1/2 cup of breadcrumbs in a bowl and stack paper towels on a tray and keep near the stove.

Heat 2 and a half cm of oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Roll the arancini in the breadcrumbs, then use a slotted spoon to lower them into the oil. Cook 3 - 4 at a time. Fry them until golden brown then, using a slotted spoon, remove them from the oil and drain them on the paper towel.

So, off with you then, go, I can hear Dean Martin’s `Thats Amore´ or is that just in my head..........

Bon Appetito!

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Arancini Assuming that you have leftover risotto, I thought I’d just add this little gem on the end. Always a bonus re-invent leftovers and not to throw food away.

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VIP Service School It is October, the Mediterranean season is almost over and training courses are getting booked up. VIP Service School are busy with our GUEST Program courses and working hard to ensure that the training fits the needs of the yachts. This is why we are keen to connect with the ones who really know what is needed for the interior department and how best training courses can be improved.

This month we introduce our VIP Captains Club – a once a month open evening for Captains to come along and see what VIP Service School are offering in terms of interior training and to have a chance to make an input by offering their opinion on how the training can be improved.

We want to connect with those who are making the decisions and trying to fulfil the expectations of the owners.

For our first VIP Captain’s Club we will be holding a wine tasting and food pairing event. Our guest presenter is Xavier Borràs of Mallorcària which is located near to Plaza Santa Eulalia in Palma. Xavier is a native of Mallorca, has several years of experience in the wine industry and has constant direct contact with the main producers of the Island. He is a very interesting person, with a wealth of knowledge in all wines which he is is very passionate about.

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Mallorca for the Captains to taste and will be introducing his own brand of wine knowledge and enthusiasm.

He is also available to do wine tastings for owners and guests, either onboard or at his Bodega in Palma.

In addition, Katy Rosales of The Galley Club will be offering a selection of canapés to compliment each of the wines offered by Xavier and whetting your appetite for more of the amazing cuisine that is available to us here in Palma.

Why not come and join us on Tuesday, October 10th from 17.30pm to 20.30pm to sample some delicious wine and food as well as discuss the interior training needs from your perspective.

Captains should register their attendance by emailing us at info@vipserviceschool.com giving us your name, yacht name and contact number.

We have a limited capacity so register soon.

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yacht cookery course Fish and seafood Canapes Thai fish Rice workshop Ceviche, tartar and carpaccio Barista course Introduction to Sous vide cooking Peti four Tapas gourmet How to make vegan milk Healthy sweet (gluten, sugar and dairy free)

Delicioso Launch New Fresh Crew Food Menu Each week in October For example: w/c 2nd Freshly prepared menu, including all the accompaniments, delivered directly to your yacht

Chicken, Smoked Bacon, Leek & Chickpea Cassoulet Buttered New Potatoes & Fresh Vegetables Roasted Mediterranean Vegetable Lasagne Served with a Mixed Salad, Crusty Bread & Aioli (V) Smokey Braised Beef Goulash, served with Rosemary Roasted Baby Potatoes and Buttered Cabbage Potato topped Cod, Smoked Haddock & Prawn Pie Broccoli Florets & Garden Peas with a Lemon & Chive Butter Mild Chicken & Mushroom Korma cooked in Coconut Milk Served with Basmati Rice & Naan Bread Warm Roasted Mediterranean Vegetable & Cous Cous Salad Topped with Feta Cheese served with Crusty Bread & Aioli (V) Only €12.00 per Person Plus, Autumn Frozen Lazy Gourmet Specials Available Too Fruity Lamb Tagine Chicken Tikka Masala Beef Lasagne Fisherman’s Pie Thai Green Chicken Curry Salmon Fishcakes

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If Sardinia Can Do It …

The first winds of Autumn always bring with them a tidal wave of extra marine waste that gets dumped onto the shores of Mallorca. This trash, 80 per cent of which is plastic, emanates from all the countries bordering the Mediterranean and beyond,

but it is almost certainly not from Sardinia.

The Italian island, so similar to our own that we even share a local language, has won the 2017 European Zero Waste crown. As far as this Aussie is concerned, that’s a huge gauntlet to throw down!

Sardinia has mass tourism, 2000 kilometers of sandy beaches and all the problems inherent in being a remote island location. How have they

managed to do it?

What the Sardinians have done is precisely what Asociación Ondine has been preaching since its inception: cleaning up our world and protecting our seas doesn’t begin with the money you spend, but with the people you inspire.

The Sards motivated their population to recognise what was happening in their community and, in addition to

a giant Dos Manos clean-up operation, the island began a door-to-door separate refuse collection service where each municipality was either punished or rewarded for the amount of waste generated.

This stick and carrot approach fired up every town and city’s competitive spirit. The tourist locations were drawn into the local one-upmanship, and within two years 206 of the 377 municipalities were recycling more than 65 per cent of all waste, and 47 of them recycle more than 75 per cent.

Imagine what the same spirit could produce on Mallorca and the other Balearic Islands!

We wouldn’t lose any more of the coveted EU Blue Flags for beach cleanliness!

Great results like these demand a multi-pronged approach which starts with local residents, but also includes tourists and the yachting community. It takes everyone to get excited about cutting waste to arrive at awesome results.

We can do better than this.

So, how can the yachts get proactive and aim for zero waste?

Apart from needing a genius to design a sustainable alternative to shrink wrap winterising, there are plenty of other ways that yachts can cut their harmful waste generation.

Asociación Ondine´s Partners Programme offers support to yachts and businesses that are committed to going single-use-plastic-free. When Partners achieve their targets they are awarded a Certificate of Recognition and promoted through AO’s events and media channels. They are also given continuous support and booster sessions to stay single-use-plastic-free.

effort to say “NO” to plastic, which leads to a snowball effect. If a tourist island a couple of days sail away from our own can clean up its act so thoroughly, I’m certain we can do it too. Imagine the clear turquoise waters we would swim and dive in, the clean countryside we would trek through, our island would begin to breathe again. Surely it’s worth the effort.

Prime ways to reduce plastic use aboard yachts include: • Installing an electrokinetic attraction submicron filter between the boat’s water tanks and a galley tap to give perfect drinking water and eliminate the need for plastic bottles (add a mineraliser as well if you wish).

• Replace plastic straws, cups, ear-buds, plates, cutlery etc with sustainable alternatives.

• Ensure cleaning cloths, crew uniforms, table linen etc are pure cotton or natural fibres that are not mixed with any synthetic materials.

• Replace cling-film use with fridge boxes or bees-wax wraps.

• Avoid take-away and supermarket food that involves single-use-plastic wrapping wherever possible.

• Bulk buy shampoo, toiletries, shower gel, cleaning products etc to ensure the fewest bottles are used.

• Be aware of the types of signage, paints and varnishes used and their possible impact on the marine environment.

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HEALTH & WELLNESS is given directly in to a vein (intra-venous). This more dilute mixture is useful when smaller doses of adrenaline are being used.

The routes to give adrenaline – intramuscular and intravenous injections

By Dr S Briggs Amanda : (+34) 674 707 796 For more information, visit: www.resus.org.uk www.ilcor.org

Using Adrenaline (Epinephrine) Adrenaline is a natural substance that occurs in the bodies of all humans, and it is also made as a medicine.

Its official name was recently changed to ‘Epinephrine’ but many Doctors and other health care professionals still refer to it as ‘adrenaline’.

Everything in medicine has a benefit, and also a risk. The same applies to adrenaline.

It can be very useful, and lifesaving, but used in the wrong way, it can be extremely harmful, even lethal.

Adrenaline is used in many different ways in medicine.

Outside hospital, such as on boats, adrenaline is used as an emergency treatment for two conditions: cardiopulmonary arrest (cardiac arrest) and anaphylaxis (extreme allergic

reactions). This article concerns mostly the use of adrenaline in treating anaphylaxis.

How to give adrenaline – the types of Injecting device Adrenaline can be given using an ‘auto-injector’ (the general name for injectors such as ‘Epipens’ or ‘Emerades’), as an injection directly in to a muscle (intra-muscular). This type of injection is usually concentrated adrenaline, so is a small volume (about one millilitre or less).

An alternative to autoinjectors is to draw up a dose of adrenaline from a glass vial (ampoule) using a syringe and needle – an easy thing to do, but it does need at a bit of familiarity with the process.

This type of injection is usually also concentrated adrenaline (so a small volume of about one millilitre or less) and is usually given intra-muscularly.

The other type of injection of adrenaline is from a larger 10ml pre-filled syringe, often used in states of cardiac arrest by doctors in hospital, and by paramedics. This injection

This is important.

Intramuscular injections cause a slow rise of adrenaline in the circulation, whereas an intravenous injection causes a very rapid rise in adrenaline levels in the circulation.

If an intramuscular injection is given in to a vein by accident, it can prove fatal to the patient. All the adrenaline will arrive at the heart in one go, potentially causing it to stop.

The other problem is that if an intramuscular injection is given in to the fat layer below the skin, it will just stay there and not go in to the general circulation. Therefore it will not do the job its supposed to do, and the patient will not get the benefit.

On a boat, the most likely problem to be treated with adrenaline is anaphylaxis, and the route used would be intramuscular.

To avoid injecting in to the fat layer rather than the underlying muscle, it’s important the auto-injector has a long needle, and there is evidence to suggest that shorter needles are more likely to be ineffective in injecting adrenaline to where it is needed.

Which muscle to inject in to may also be important.

Certainly the gluteus muscle (the bottom!) has a significant amount of fat covering it, as may the thigh muscles. However, the upper shoulder may not have such a substantial fat layer, and also provides quite easy access.

So the upper shoulder may be quicker to access, and also prove to be more effective in making sure the adrenaline reaches the central circulation.

How much adrenaline to give In anaphylaxis, the amount of adrenaline to give is related to the size of the patient.

• For children under 20kg body mass (under 6 years old), the dose is 0.15 milligrams.

• For children between a body mass of 20kg and 30kg (6 – 12 years old), the dose is 0.3 milligrams.

• For larger children and adults with a greater body mass that 30kg (over 12 years old), the dose is 0.5 milligrams.

Some makes of auto-injector include all three amounts of adrenaline and this is a distinct advantage.

Repeat injections may be required every ten to fifteen minutes if there is no improvement or symptoms persist. So more adrenaline injections may be required.

Auto-injectors vs manual draw-up adrenaline.

There are advantages and

disadvantages to both autoinjectors, and the manual draw-up of adrenaline in to a syringe from a glass vial. Here is a brief summary: Auto-injectors Advantages: • Relatively easy to use and quick • Dose is in the syringe ready to go – reduces the risk of mistakes in drawing up Auto-injectors Disadvantages: • Once used, it cannot be used again for repeat dosing • Very expensive • Short shelf-life – so needs to be replaced often as they go out of date

of auto-injectors, covering the three doses mentioned above, especially if there are children on-board.

Also carry a back-up supply of adrenaline in glass vials (ampoules) for manual drawup in case it is required.

Make sure the auto-injectors have long needles so that injections do not end up in fat but go in to muscle, where the adrenaline may do some good.

Keep your training up to date.

Manual draw-up Advantages: • Much more adrenaline can be carried in a compact space, so repeat dosing can be achieved if necessary • Cheaper than auto-injectors • Generally longer shelf-life than auto-injectors Manual draw-up Disadvantages: • Requires more training to use reliably • More potential for mistakes in dosing than auto-injectors Our recommendations First of all, prevention is better than cure.

Find out if any of the crew or guests have a medical history of anaphylaxis, and make sure they stay clear of known triggers.

Be prepared – if anyone does have a history of anaphylaxis, make sure there is adrenaline in the medical kit, and that you know how to use it.

Consider carrying a selection

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HEALTH & WELLNESS skin cells. By eliminating refined sugars, often hidden in packaged food (even organic products) and processed simple carbohydrates such as white bread and pasta, you promote healthy collagen production and healthy looking skin.

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least 10 billion per capsule. I can advise you individually for the optimum dosage and diet.

Fermented foods like kefir, kimchi, sauerkraut and kombucha support your microbiome too.

Skin Health, It Comes From Deep Within……..

Good fats

Having just attended a conference in London on “Gut Health” a focus was on our good gut bacteria – known as micro flora or microbiome, not just affecting your digestion, but your immune system, allergies, your brain and our largest organ the skin.

Skin problems like acne, eczema, psoriasis, premature wrinkles and rosacea may be caused by imbalances in the microbiome, Improvement in the balance of the microbiome, digestive healing, elimination of processed foods and reduction in stress may all help to restore this balance and improve skin health. Take a good quality multi-strain probiotic – at

Omega 3 fats support the flexibility and hydration of the skin cells, and are antiinflammatory, helping in inflammatory skin conditions.

However, our average western diet is much higher in the pro-inflammatory fats. Help correct your balance by including high omega 3 foods in your diet: wild oily fish, flaxseed, and avocado.

Ditch the sugar Refined sugars and simple carbohydrates promote the production of Advanced Glycation End Products, shortened quite aptly to AGEs. These AGEs make collagen inflexible and create free radical damage to the

Antioxidants (polyphenols) are so important. Eating a diet rich in a rainbow of seasonal vegetables and fruits can help to nourish the body and protect against free radical damage. Vitamin D, the sunshine vitamin, is especially important for skin health, so getting some moderate sun exposure will be beneficial.

Vitamin A (retinol) rich foods: Carrots, squash, broccoli, sweet potatoes, tomatoes (lycopene), kale, mangoes, oranges, goji, sea buckthorn berries, (omega 7), collards, cantaloupe, peaches and apricots.

Vitamin E rich foods: Sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, almonds, kiwi, spinach, oats, asparagus, salmon, fish-liver oil.

Vitamin C rich foods: Pomegranate, berries, currants, citrus fruits, peppers, parsley, pineapple, kale, rocket, spinach, bok choy, watercress, kiwi, papaya.

Spices and herbs rich in polyphenols: clove, cinnamon, oregano, turmeric, cumin, parsley, basil, curry powder, mustard seed, ginger, pepper, chili powder,

paprika, garlic, coriander, onion and cardamom. sage, thyme, marjoram, tarragon, peppermint, oregano, savory, basil and dill.

Nuts: pecans, walnuts, hazelnuts, pistachio, almonds, cashew nuts, macadamia nuts.

Water Remember to keep hydrated throughout the year, we are all pretty good at drinking water in the hot weather, but as it cools down drink fresh herbal teas, warm water with lemon and vegetable juices, not just your favourite brew!

Stress Yes as always that old chestnut, try to balance your work/life pattern, autumn weather is a great time to walk, or start those yoga classes you have been talking about all summer. Catch up on your beauty sleep too.

As well as addressing skin from within, the skin is our largest living organ with functions include elimination of toxins, UV protection and absorption of nutrients. So chemicals applied to the skin, through the use of creams and make up, can be absorbed into the blood stream therefore, using only natural skincare products makes sense too. I am a huge fan of RIngana.com, contact me if you would like to test any of the products.

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HEALTH & WELLNESS associated with a wellbalanced vegan or raw foods life style are undeniable and countless studies show that a well-planned, nutritious plant based life style is also associated with a lower risk of obesity, diabetes, cancer, arthrosis and a long etc.

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How Risky Can Your Food Be? VegetarianVegan Ideas Most people’s thoughts surrounding “risky behavior” are focused on actions related to drugs, and sex. But did you ever think about the fact that the foods you eat every day can be risky, too -- especially if you choose to take on a new dietary regimen without consulting a specialist and without doing enough research first. if you consider that nutrient deficiencies can cause a host of negative side effects that can range from obesity to decline in brain function and much more, the answer could be “very risky.” If you’re like a high percent of the population that is becoming more aware, your new “trend” may be to go meat-free. The now recognized health benefits

People automatically associate a vegetarian, vegan or raw food diet with health, but in reality, just eliminating meat and dairy from the diet is not a ticket to good health.

In fact, it’s just as easy to be an unhealthy vegetarian/ vegan as it is to be an unhealthy omnivore. The real benefits are seen when meat and/or dairy are replaced with more fruits, vegetables, beans, sprouts, nuts and seeds and a good supply of super foods.

Vitamin deficiencies can easily occur in a poorly-planned vegan diet, particularly vitamin B12. A recent study showed that B12 deficiency is fairly prevalent among the vegetarian population. A longterm deficiency can ultimately cause irreversible nerve damage. Avoiding deficiencies may be easy as doing your homework. Becoming a vegan after watching a couple of videos on line is not what I recommend. Search for a reliable source when you’re looking for diet advice, or consult your physician or registered dietitian, and some one that “walks her talk”.

eliminate meat and dairy from their diet and fill up on chips, cookies and soy made new foods due to the fact that they don’t know what else to eat.

The problem is, processed foods don’t add any healthy nutrients to your body, it’s just another form of worthless fuel and put you at risk for chronic health conditions.

If you enjoy snacking often, try to tone down the chips and cookies and choose vegan soy free dips and select more nutrient-rich foods. Getting variety in your diet is key. Focus on getting adequate protein (nuts, seeds, legumes), calcium (dark and leafy greens, kale, broccoli), iron (dried legumes and lentils), vitamin B12 supplements, vitamin D (midday sunlight and supplements) and plenty of fruits and vegetables carrots and nut based pates, wholegrain crackers with hummus, or almonds and walnuts.

I frequently come across vegan-junkies -- those who

This month I will leave you with this nut/seed based pate

that I just love to bits!

Sunflower Almond Pate 1 Cup Sunflower Seeds (Soaked) 1/2Cup Almonds (Soaked) 1 ½ Stalks Of Celery Chopped 2/3 Cup Red Bell Chopped 2/3 Cup Stems Brocoli 1 Clove Garlic 1 Tablespoon Paprika 1 Teaspoon Onion Powder 1 Tablespoon Brags O Namashoyu 1/ Cup Fresh Parsley Chopped Mix all in a food processor.

Mix in parsley by hand.

Can be used to make dehydrated crakers or to stuff vegetables.

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Get Fit Now! The secret to increased productivity is to take some down time. Sometimes you just need to take yourself away from what you normally do to regain clarity. In today’s world that moves so quickly where we are always available with text messages, Facebook, emails, mobile phones‌ it does you good to get away.

All the wi-fi whizzing around, the fast pace of life we live these days, where we try to pack so much into a day.

When was the last time you actually took time out for you? Took time to stop and appreciate the moment. The beauty of the day?

Many people struggle to lose weight and get fit as a result of the constant stresses of everyday life dragging them down. Their bodies are clogged up with chemicals from processed foods, air pollution, toxins in packaging and first world inventions.

LED lighting and modern technology rays disturbing your circadian rhythms, or maybe its travel or family pressures or working late at work?

Everyone needs to re-set, take some time out and then bounce back ten times stronger.

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Perhaps you would like to organise a bespoke weekend for your crew filled with adventurous fun activities?

Perhaps a weekend of detox?

Or maybe you want to get away from the crew and spoil yourself?

Mallorca is the ideal place to get yourself outside into the fresh air and enjoy yourself: being active but being wowed by nature. Paddle boarding across Caribbean

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style beaches, kayaking into hidden caves that open up into incredible locations where you feel you are in a fantasy movie. Swimming in crystal clear waters, hiking the Tramontana to cliff top villages, cycling quiet local roads that wind their way through Mediterranean paradise, mountain biking across tracks you never would find on your own, waking up every day to your exercise of choice or maybe just some gentle meditation.

This island has so much to offer from canyoning to cliff scaling, wine tasting or just some escapism to be somewhere you can lose yourself- or even find yourself again!

Be looked after, treat yourself and have fun doing it. You deserve it!!

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Sciatica Sciatica is the term used to describe a radiating pain down the back of the leg which can range from the buttock all the way to the foot.

Sciatica is caused by a pinch or irritation of the nerve, most frequently at root where the nerve emerges from the spinal cord.

sciatic nerve root irritation, perhaps the most common and best known is a herniation of the intervertebral disc, aka a slipped disc. This is where the jelly-like interior of the disc bulges against the outer casing of the disc which then puts pressure on the nerve root.

Other causes of sciatica include: • Osteophytes encroaching on the nerve root (osteophytes are small bony spurs which grow around the edge of joints affected by arthritis) • Spinal stenosis, which is a narrowing of the gap between the vertebrae and can cause compression on the nerve root.

• Growths such as a spinal tumour can also compromise the nerve root.

• Spondylolysthesis is when a vertebra slips forward over the one below. So this can also narrow the small gap where the nerve root

and needles or numbness, checking reflexes and looking for any sign of muscle weakness. Assessment of the lumbo-sacral spìne will also be required even though not everyone suffering from sciatica also suffers from low back pain. Passive straight leg raise and “slump test” as demonstrated in the diagram below are not only tests to confirm sciatica but can also be used as part of the treatment. A positive slump test is when the patient is able to straighten the leg of the unaffected (good side) but is unable to do so on the affected side. There will also be pain felt in the buttock of the affected side and, in more severe cases, may even bring on tingling or numbness in the foot.

Slump Test

Pain can be felt at any point along the length of the sciatic nerve and is often most intense where the nerve bifurcates particularly in the buttock and back of the thigh.

There are many causes of

Physiotherapy assessment will include mapping the distribution of the pain, pins

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Vertebral mobilisations and passive stretching techniques are used to help reduce the compression on the nerve root and improve the range of movement of the spine to avoid a recurrence of the sciatica. Core strengthening and postural exercises will also help to protect against further compression.

Mild cases of sciatica caused by an awkward lift or poor posture will often resolve themselves with rest and analgesics. Sitting for long periods can exacerbate the pain whereas a gentle walk will often reduce sciatic symptoms.

If treatment is not successful then an MRI scan may be needed for a more in depth diagnosis, for example in the case of a ruptured disc or tumour when surgery might need to be taken into consideration.

Diagnosis As there are so many possible causes of sciatica it is important to get the correct diagnosis particularly if the problem keeps recurring.

interferential diathermy or Tens. These are both forms of electrical therapy which are painless and used to reduce the irritability of the nerve.

Treatment The first aim of treatment is to reduce the pain. Your doctor may prescribe antiinflammatories or painkillers.

If the symptoms persist and do not respond to treatment then a steroid infiltration (injection) may be suggested.

Physiotherapy treatment will also address the pain using

Also important to mention is a rare yet severe condition which could be mistaken for sciatica. This is called Cauda Equina Syndrome and is characterised by tingling or numbness in the pelvic floor and between the buttocks, sciatic type symptoms down both legs and there may also be incontinence of faeces or loss of bladder control. In this case immediate medical attention should be sought.

LEGAL & FINANCIAL NEWS To state the obvious, in any country, there are an awful lot of public sector workers, and even with the modern trend of outsourcing as much as possible to the private sector, the figure still remains about 20% of the total population, by the time you remove kids, pensioners and the unemployed from the equation it leaves you with a relatively small percentage of the population to pay for it all.

Public sector pay rises are, in short awfully expensive.

Phil D. Coffers The Islander Economics Correspondent

The Credit Crunch Decade It’s 10 years since the credit crunch took the world economy out at the knees.

You will not need to be reminded of the resulting brutal austerity measures introduced across the world.

Most countries opted to freeze the pay rises of their public sector workers, while the private sector got itself back on it’s feet. It was a logical, and fair thing to do at the time. Interest rates were at historic all time lows, inflation was close to zero, or even negative around the world, and to ask a private sector that had seen pay cuts and rocketing unemployment to continue to fund inflation busting pay rises for millions was never going to play well for the economy, or in the ballot box.

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A decade on however many of these pay restraints are still in place. With inflation building steadily, chipping away at the real value of salaries, interest rates about to start climbing again, and prosperity of the private sector on the increase there is more than a little unrest and growing calls for restraint to be ended with above inflation pay rises. In the UK right now it is hitting the headlines with health workers and police threatening illegal strike action for the first time in living memory. It plays well in the media too. Who wouldn’t begrudge a few extra percent to a hard working nurse, teacher, firefighter or police officer? Already some of the most poorly paid members of society, in perception at least. This is also fueling a recruitment crisis as potential staff are shunning the public sector and heading for the private instead. A little look at the maths tells a different story however.

In many countries (Specifically Spain and the UK researched for this article) the perception of poorly paid workers is exactly that, at least by comparison. Immediately after recession a decade ago, public sector pay was considerably higher on average than their private sector counterparts, hence the justification for the cap, and in the intervening period private pay has grown to narrow the gap considerably, but crucially the gap still remains. The public sector, on average, get paid more, but also have shorter working hours, more time off, paid overtime, greater job security, and a more generous, and secure pension schemes.

So if you want to increase public sector pay, who is going to foot the bill? It’s a familiar story, everybody wants better public services, and almost everybody thinks that somebody else should pay for it. The ‘rich’ are the usual targets, but when you

start defining who is, and who isn’t rich, you tend to find out that there isn’t as many rich people as you had thought.

For instance, if you added 10% to the tax bill of everyone in the UK earning over 150 thousand a year you net just enough to pay NHS workers an extra 1% more, a less than inflation pay rise for only one group of private sector workers. The reality is that pay rises would have to be funded by chunky tax increases for the middle classes. These days, in most countries the mere hint of a middle class tax rise anywhere in an election cycle is political suicide, the truth is that governments have become habituated to public sector pay freezes over the last decade, it has become the ‘new normal’ for our leaders and taxpayers.

Politically it is a tightrope, keep the pay freeze in place and be perceived as heartless by many voters, or put taxes up to pay for it, and alienate the population who has to foot the bill. It’s a numbers game.

A decade on, the truth is that for much of the population in both the public and private sectors, very little seems to have changed very much for a great many people.

LEGAL & FINANCIAL NEWS investigate and prosecute illegal actions and/or liabilities for accidents, complaints of workplace harassment, payment of indemnity and compensations etc.; even in extreme cases crew members have to suffer unpaid wages, confiscation of passports, injuries and intimidation. The claims are difficult to launch because there are always several jurisdictions operating in each case, the intervention of insurance companies and it is quite common – easier, quicker and more effective - to reach extrajudicial agreements with intervention of Maritime Lawyers acting on behalf the owner and the employee.

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Superyachts and Labour Conditions Maritime navigation is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world and a superyacht is not different. The lack of national regulations and the use of so-called flags of convenience causes that some employees work quite often too many hours and under not in acceptable conditions corresponding to the 21st century.

The number of superyachts is increasing rapidly in the last years and according to recent statistics there are more than 33.000 crew members are

employed in the global fleet, which has grown 77% in less than a decade. Although the unions and seafarers associations celebrate the increase in employment and acknowledged that there are many owners who are responsible for the workers, one survey carried out on different crews by the Seafarers International Research Centre of the University of Cardiff (SIRC), found that 75% of the crew is concerned about occupational safety and more than 40% have suffered harassment.

All Seafarers should know that they are under the protection of the 2006 Maritime Labour Convention, MLC - approved by the International Labour Organization in 2006 entered in force the 20th of August 2013, and ratified by 84 of its 185 member states - which stablishes the

requirements for employment contracts, hours and working conditions to try to create the appropriate legal basis within the relationships between jurisdictions, agents and companies dedicated to the management of superyacht, and the correspondent inspections and surveys.

The MLC 2006 makes it compulsory for all ships included in the scope of the MLC 2006, ie ships of 500 GT gross tonnage and upwards destined to international maritime transport or with the same tonnage flying flag of a Member and operating from a port, or between ports, of another country, to be in possession of a Maritime Labour Certificate and a Maritime Labour Declaration, that are normally surveyed at Port State Control (in Spain carried out by the Inspectors of the Capitanía Marítima).

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LEGAL & FINANCIAL NEWS: ADVERTISING FEATURE will be required from April 2018 under the government’s automatic enrolment rules.

Saving enough for retirement can often seem impossible to those burdened with student debt, especially in light of the problem of lower incomes failing to rise in line with the cost of living. However, research suggests that, with the right interventions, there is scope to change behaviour.

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St. James’s Place Wealth Management Thinking ahead Experts say one of the biggest barriers to saving for our retirement is the inability to picture ourselves in the future.

Several years ago, a study published in the Journal of Marketing Research explored the reasons why Americans were failing to save enough for retirement. The study concluded that, aside from the financial barriers they face, it was because they felt disconnected from the individuals they would be in the future .1

themselves as today only with more money and nicer cars,” she says.

But when she asks them to conceive a much older version of themselves, they find it much harder. “At 70 or 80 there’s no image at all – they can’t picture themselves at that point in life.”

This disconnect perhaps goes some way to explain why, in the UK, only 35% of 25–34-year-olds have thought about how many years of retirement they might need to fund. Just over half of those aged 35–44 have done so; 2 which is still a worryingly low proportion, given that retirement is a less distant proposition.

The report suggests that, to those estranged from their future selves, saving for retirement is like a choice between spending money today or giving it to a stranger years from now. “At the extreme, with a total lack of psychological connectedness, one’s future self might seem like a different person altogether,” it says.

A lack of forward planning is especially concerning, given longevity estimates. Today, a 65-year-old male can expect to live for another 18.5 years and a 65-year-old woman 20.9 years. 3 Given that younger generations are expected to live for longer, a significant portion could find their retirement savings stretched to breaking point. The quarter of working-age adults who expect to retire earlier than 65 4 will need to save even harder.

Laura Carstensen, coresearcher and founding director of the Stanford Center on Longevity, recruited undergraduates to take part in the study. “I ask the students to envision themselves at age 30 and they can do that very easily – they imagine

To achieve a comfortable retirement, a leading think tank suggests that those of working age put aside 18% of their income each year. 5 This is well above the average, and much higher than the 5% minimum total pension contribution that

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Researchers at the Stanford Center on Longevity hypothesised that if people could be made to feel more connected with a vividly imagined future self, they should be motivated to save more.

They conducted an experiment that allowed some participants to interact with a virtual reality representation of their body and face as it will approximately look in the future, complete with wrinkles, jowls and grey hair.

Study participants were then asked a series of questions about finances and retirement. Those who had seen their older selves answered that they were willing to put more money into long-term savings than those in the control group.

“Students who had interacted with their older avatars allocated twice as much money to their retirement savings as those students who had interacted with an avatar the same age as they are today,” says Carstensen.

The study makes for fascinating reading and represents the first demonstration of an intervention in which people can be encouraged to make more future-oriented choices.

Carstensen hopes that a cultural shift towards longterm thinking would make our future selves much happier.

“When people can really connect to themselves and

say, ‘That person at 70 – that’s me’ – actually, they tend to want to take care of that person more.”

The value of an investment with St. James’s Place will be directly linked to the performance of the funds you select and the value can therefore go down as well as up. You may get back less than you invested.

1 H. Ersner-Hershfield, J.N. Bailenson and L.L. Carstensen, Feeling more connected to your future self: Using immersive virtual reality to increase retirement saving, May 2008.

2, 4 Office for National Statistics, Early indicator estimates from the Wealth and Assets Survey: attitudes towards saving for retirement, credit commitments and debt burden, July 2016 to Dec 2016, June 2017 3 Office for National Statistics, National Life Tables: United Kingdom, September 2016.

4 See above 5 International Longevity Centre – UK, The Global Savings Gap, June 2017.

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MALLORCA LIFESTYLE to wish him a belated happy birthday, I invited him to fly out to Palma to stay on the boat with me at the end of my working season. I met him at the airport and then surprised him by handing him the rental keys to a 1974 Triumph TR6 convertible....’Eliza what have you done?!’

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Roadtrip Mallorca For yacht crew, living and working at sea, it is often difficult to attend family affairs, birthdays, weddings etc… But as friends and family begin to understand your unpredictable lifestyle, a table place is always set for you, just in case you manage to catch a flight and make it at the last minute. Typically, you rsvp, I ‘might’ be able to make it...but it is always heavily dependent on the weather, arrival/departure of the boss, last minute change in the boat itinerary; you always end up cutting it fine. But, if by some miracle you make it to the event, having conquered airport check-ins and security, long flights and connections, taxis and trains, there is something special about that knock on the door, still in your ’foulies’, bag slung over shoulder with hair covered in salt!

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We spent the weekend cruising the western mountain range of Majorca, winding through the valleys and woodlands; the incredible escalating views, hidden Spanish coastal towns, nature reserves and secret beaches.

Every day we kept driving until sunset.

We started our trip by driving into Santa Catalina for a spoiling breakfast at a small café called Fibonacci.

We enjoyed the delights of freshly baked croissants and squeezed orange juice.

I couldn’t leave without a walk through Santa Catalina’s flourishing market hall; a place I am lucky enough to visit regularly when provisioning the boat. I never get tired of visiting its beautifully stacked fruit and vegetable stalls, the array of giant Mediterranean fish, the rows of Serrano ham that are carefully sliced and carved and the indulgent display of cheeses.

With a road map on my knee,, we drove North West from Palma, towards the mountains. We decided initially to drive to Valdemossa - an elegant Spanish town that is hidden amongst the muddled mountainous landscape. Parking is always a mission - especially during the summer season, requiring patience as we explored all the back streets to find a spot. Handbrake on, we left the car and walked fifteen minutes back into town. I led Dad to the beautiful stone balcony, via the historic town’s cobbled streets, that offers a striking view of the valley leading to the Mediterranean Sea. After a Cafe con Leche to get the ball rolling again, we returned to the car. On

MALLORCA LIFESTYLE route we came across the local market situated in an emptied car park. The smell of roasted hazelnuts, fresh hams, cheeses and leather enticed us to wander amongst the maze of small stalls. It was too difficult to resist roasted tomatoes on toast crowned with Joselito ham!

Back on the road, we gradually climbed higher up the mountains. On every hairpin bend, we cast a glimpse back over the panoramic landscape that became more dramatic at each turn. Then the view became hidden as we disappeared into the thick woods. Flashes of sun hit the car through gaps in the trees. Suddenly the forest fell back behind us and the throaty growl of the TR6’s engine echoed through the dark tunnel we drove through that calved through the mountainside. Daylight appeared at the end and, as we left the echo behind us, we were treated to a magnificent 180 degree panorama of the open sea.

Deia; the next enchanting town that is perched in a ravine at the foot of the Teix mountain watches over the view of the Mediterranean waters below. We could see a cove at the bottom of the cliffs where turquoise waters lap the shingle beach. I caught glimpses of cobbled streets and elegant restaurants, cafes and bars amongst the traditional Spanish villas. The TR6, the landscape and the sunshine...both Dad and I sat speechless as we curved around the bay.

slopping mountainside. At the bottom of this valley, there is a beautiful cove, a hidden beach and an incredible gorge. Despite the number of tourists flocking here on buses to view the stunning scenery, it is still a spectacular place.

On the return drive back up the mountain, we enjoyed the roaring sound of the engine on every gear change as the sound echoed up the mountainsides.

As light started to disappear and the fuel gauge lit up, we left the mountains and joined the motorway that lead us south, back to Palma. It was a day that I am sure neither Dad nor I will forget. A fantastic weekend, sharing my new world and home away from home with my Dad!

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MALLORCA LIFESTYLE getting busier, there are more Captains and crew needing rental apartments and houses for the time that they are out of the water, racing in regattas, coming to the Island to do courses, or wanting to spend the winter months with their feet firmly on the ground.

Spain Rentals manage sixty plus properties of a high standard, they are fully equipped, many have high speed fibre optic internet and are located walking distance to the shipyards. They are happy give advice and help to make the stay as easy as possible, from recommending banks, restaurants, gyms etc. to things to do or places to visit on the Island. has recently been expanded to accommodate more staff.

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Homes for Captains and Crew Salvador Luque has been in Real Estate for 30 years, and has accumulated a wealth of knowledge working with clients of all nationalities, he has helped many crew buy property and find mortgages, he understands the transient life style of yachties, after all he is married to one! He started Spain Rentals about seven years ago, the business has steadily grown each year, the sales department Mallorca Next Properties runs from the same office which

Sharon, his wife has been working on yachts as chief stewardess for 25 years, many people have difficulties to find something shore based after moving away from yachting, for her it was a natural progression to move into the business which was getting busier and needed to employ someone in a management role. Sharon concentrates on the Rentals side of the business, after so many years in yachting she knows what is needed, and in most cases at short notice.

Summers are hectic with vacation properties, they have a varied portfolio of frontline villas, countryside fincas, village houses and large estates. Some of these attract a discerning clientele and like yacht guests, many people have special requests, some properties are ideal locations for weddings and events so a full concierge service is offered if needed.

Claudia and Camilla also work in the office keeping on top of administration and accounting. The laws in Mallorca are constantly changing especially at the moment regarding rental properties, so it is important to be up to date, and able to give clients and owners the correct information.

There is a behind the scenes team of cleaners and maintenance staff, it is important that the properties are sparkling clean and welcoming, it has taken years to find electricians, plumbers, builders and service repair that are trustworthy and do a good job, usually at short notice. You can always guarantee that if a pipe is going to burst, or an aircon machine break down it is going to be on a weekend or public holiday!

Spain Rentals is a family business with the office in Carrer Conquistador, central Palma between the Born and Plaza Cort. You can call in during office hours to discuss renting or buying with one of the team, or contact by email or telephone.

Mallorca has become one of the leading places in the Mediterranean for refit and repair, the shipyards are

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The Boathouse It Does What It Says on the Can I’m sure you’ve all heard the old saying” It does what it says on the can”! Well here at The Boathouse, we do just that! Casual dockside dining and bringing people together is what we’re all about and this summer has been no exception. We’ve been packed with events of all types and sizes, both private and corporate, from breakfast meetings and cocktails in the chill –out to BBQ’s, buffets and gourmet dinners but whatever the occasion, they all chose us for the same reason – they want a gathering place that is ‘nice and casual but with good food’. Not normally an easy combination to find so when you throw in a great view, beautiful boats and easy parking, it’s no surprise we’ve been so busy with events this year. A big thank you to Cristina, our events manager for dealing with every client personally and our team, for working together to ensure each event runs smoothly and going out of their way to make sure each host gets exactly what they want. So if you’re already thinking about your Christmas Bash - give us a call!!

Great Gatherings ….

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and some great efforts were submitted but the winner of our coveted Prawn Star Title was Twinky Starfish, aka Karen Guthrie on holiday with her book club from Ireland.

Our local entry Pinky Starfish was unfortunately pipped at the post through audience participation - well the fact that this book club could probably persuade you to read almost anything definitely helped sway the vote!!

MCW event but don’t forget you can see a range of classic cars every Wednesday night down at the Boathouse, so be sure to drop in and see some of these stunning cars owned by the eclectic members of the Car Clubs in Mallorca.

Our 2017 Prawn Star winner Twinky Starfish.

Club menu is a combination of our old favourites with some new dishes to satisfy those of you craving something a little healthier. Our new Boathouse Bites menu, ordered at the bar and served daily 4 to 7 pm is proving to be a hit, offering a selection of tapas styled portions from our new appetisers. Come on down with “your crew” and order 8 small plates to share and we will throw in a free bottle of house wine.

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Top 10 Names 1.Polly Bottlenose 2. Pinky Starfish 3. Twinky Starfish 4. Smokey Turtle 5. Sammy Seaslug 6. Marla Crabs 7. Hamsta Headsucker 8. Skippy Razorclam 9. Nibbles Nemo 10. Charlie Seahorse Later in the month we were happy to award the Boathouse trophy to the winner of the Mallorca Sight Seeing Drive at this year’s Mallorca Classic Week by Port Adriano. In its second year, drivers of classic cars and motorbikes were invited to tour around this stunning island, kicking off with a welcome BBQ and registration at The Boathouse.

We look forward to next year’s

Coming Up on October 14th is an event not to be missed - It’s our 4th South Africans in Mallorca Day bringing together the many Saffas now living here on the island.

In collaboration with El Toro Foods and Britvid, it’s a chance to fill your faces with Biltong and Boerie, peppermint crisps and rusks and wash it down with a Sparletta Cream Soda, Savannah Cider and hopefully a Castle or two! World of Wine will be onboard with some new South African wines to taste alongside our resident tongmaster who will be grilling up a storm on the braai. Live music and of course the best dressed SAFFA competition will add to the fun so bring all your mates (non-SA welcome too!) and enjoy a brilliant day for all the family.

Good news.... while you’re busy enjoying all our new dishes you’ll be even more pleased to hear that the new online crew card program is up and running so now every time you spend, you could be earning points to redeem discounts off your next bill.

So if you havent already registered, get signed up and start benefitting from all the goodies it has to offer.

Well that about wraps it up for me this month. Welcome back to everyone coming in to the shipyards and Good Luck to all taking part in the Pinmar Golf this year.

Great Food Of course, a great gathering wouldn’t be complete without great food and thanks to our Head Chef Michail Tsigaras and his team they have managed to produce miracles out of our tiny kitchen, Honestly, I’ve seen bigger galleys on 40M Yachts!!

Angelique from Galleytek will vouch for this as she has been a great help in upgrading our ovens and equipment this year to improve our quality and efficiencies before introducing our new menus. Which I’m happy to say have been well received. The new Breakfast

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Small Island, Big Contrasts Where does your mind take you when you close your eyes

and dream? Do you picture yourself with the wind in your hair, warm sand between your toes and a breeze of salty sea?

Maybe your imagination takes you straight into the big city life, surrounded by people to meet, things to do and places to explore. Or maybe you are dreaming about tranquility and stillness and your mind wanders off to a place where life moves slowly, with no stress nor obligations.

Depending on who you ask, relaxation can mean so many different things.

Most people who are about to buy a home in Mallorca have a pretty clear picture of what they want and what feels best for them; city, beach or village. Though the island is quite small, the contrasts are large and the possibilities are many. Some find their home somewhere along Mallorca’s beautiful coastline, others fall in love Palma’s vibrant city pulse, and more people are discovering the charming old villages and the island’s quiet, beautiful countryside.

If the plan is to get yourself a second home on our beautiful island, you might need to think more about the amenities you need in your everyday life, but if you are looking for a holiday home and hoping to visit Mallorca to spend some relaxing days, perhaps all you need is a lovely setting that makes your heart happy.

So, do you see your days by a glittering sea and swaying palm trees, with museum visits and cocktails on a rooftop, or perhaps with a cup of coffee on a small square in the sunshine, surrounded by majestic mountains?

It is important to feel where you belong. But best of all, no matter where that might be, you are never far away from everything else. There are not many places where you are so lucky, that you actually do not even have to choose.

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MALLORCA LIFESTYLE marathon.. There is also a 21.1km run, 10km run and a 5km run which allows everyone to be involved.

Nearly 2500 competitors are expected to attend the LCW with approximately 1000 athletes attempting to receive the Long Course Weekend medal, which entails completing all three of the longest distances.

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Racquets & Bikes in Mallorca October & November are great months for events in Mallorca…. Whether it is biking, running, swimming or tennis!

Legends Cup, an ATP Champions Tour Event, Peguera-Mallorca Challenge, Masters sporting, Long Course Weekend & TT4500 are five that I love… but there are many more to consider… for biking see the federation website www.webfcib.es and for other sporting events to participate in, check out Elite Chip www.elitechip.net Peguera-Mallorca Challenge www.challenge-mallorca.com 2017 is The Challenge Peguera-Mallorca’s fourth edition. This is a half Ironman

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triathlon comprising of a 1.9km swim, 90km bike and 21.1km run. Set on a beautiful sandy beach, the swim is a fairly calm one in nice surroundings and on the bike, you head inland & uphill to es Capdellà. The run is along the boulevard of Peguera, where, the public tend to come out and cheer you home.

Masters sporting www.vueltamallorca.com/ semana-masters Based in Alcudia, the 4 stage event is one of the most competitive Masters series around - it is a serious race! With age categories 30, 40, 50, 60yrs, the start/ finish varies each day, with variations to each of the routes. Stage 1 is a 16km repeated circuit in CALA D’OR. Stage 2 starts & finishes outside RESTAURANTE TOLO’S in PORT DE POLLENÇA, Stage 3 is a very short TT starting & finishing outside PRO CYCLE HIRE and Stage 4 is another

long day starting & finishing at PLAYA DE MURO. Long Course Weekend www.lcwmallorca.com Based in Alcúdia, this unique event lasts three days at the start of November – the perfect way to end your season of racing. This fun inclusive format is ideal for clubs, training groups and families to come along and enjoy the benefits of training and racing together. To kickoff the weekend on Friday evening, the Long Course athletes have The Swim to complete – a 3.8km open water swim. The Swim also has a 1.9km swim, 1.5km swim and 750m, swim all to correspond with triathlons most popular distances. On Saturday the attention turns to The Sportive, and 172km of undulating countryside that also incorporates 86km, distance to attract athletes of all abilities. To finish the weekend, the athletes will complete The Run – a 42.2km

Last year this event did not run. This year the event is registered with the cycling federation, but there is little or no advertising online… so keep your eyes peeled…. In 2015, I rode the longer course & it was great fun. Steve my cycling buddy, obviously opted for the shorter route.

He claimed the longer route “Finisher T-Shirt”, blagged it to his wife & spent a few more hours soaking up the post ride hospitality. Now a planned for a few weeks later in the calendar, it is still one to watch out for… There are two courses both starting from Port de Pollença. The TT4500 is 223km and 4500m vertical is the one to sign up for. It heads through the mountains, along the backbone of the island, through Soller and down to Andratx. Then inland, climbing to Galilea, down to Puigpunyent and then up over Es Grau. After the ride through Esporles, the next challenge is the Coll de Soller & the longest climb on the island - 14km of Puigmajor.

MALLORCA LIFESTYLE Legends Cup Tennis, an ATP Champions Tour Event www.legendscuppalma.com This is my favourite event of the year and it’s not even on a bike! Where the stylish party atmosphere of Palma Sport & Tennis Club meets the experience and competitive nature of seniors tennis…

2017 is the 3rd edition of the 4 day tournament and it seems to get better and better each year. The post tennis event on the Saturday last year was a highly charged, relay race in the swimming pool, with all the players clothed in old school striped bathing costumes. I seem to remember that Tim Henman & Alex Corretja came out on top - but it was all bit of a Estrella Haze. This year I believe there is a band with some of the players strutting their stuff!

The event is an ATP Champions Tour event and runs each evening, from Thursday-Sunday. The first 3 evenings are round robins, with the finals on the Sunday (starting a bit earlier). Each day starts with the two singles matches and concludes with the very entertaining doubles match. The players mingle with the spectators, the action is close up on the centre court and people stream in from Santa Catalina to take a peak to see what is happening. You don’t need be an avid tennis fan to enjoy the evening, it really is a great event for anyone who loves a party and a bit of competition.

Nine legends will play a part over the four days. Each player must have been either a world #1, a Grand Slam finalist, or a singles player in a winning Davis Cup team. This year’s players include Carlos Moyá, Àlex Corretja, Mats Wilander, Fernando González, Thomas Enqvist, Henri LeConte, Tim Henman, Mark Philippoussis and Mikael Pernfors… I can’t wait to see the speed of Philippoussis’s serve!

Tickets can be purchased online as well as at Hotel Portixol, Calle Sirena 27 or at Palma Sport & Tennis Club, Calle Joan Maria Thomás 4, Palma..

From a cycling perspective - life is great! The days are cooler and energy is focused on getting the most out of the Tramuntana mountains before the temperature drops and the roads get too slippery. It is then that you turn to the flatter lands, exposed climbs and your mountain bike!

Diary dates for events i n Mallorca 13-15th Oct Campionat d’Espanya de Pista (Palma Arena) 14th Oct Puegera-Mallorca Challenge 16th Oct Copa de Europa Master 17-20th Oct Challenge Volta a Mallorca Master 3-5th Nov Long Course Weekend 19th Nov Transtamuntana 4500

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Restuarant Review: 800 Celsius Steak House, Sangrías & Tapas Bar C/ Blanquerna 17, Palma (+34) 971 943 540 Located on C/ Blanquerna in the heart of Palma, just off the Avenidas, this new restaurant occupies a large corner plot with plenty of inside and outside seating, as well as “at the bar” space, where you can enjoy their take on Tapas. The inside of the building isn’t quite finished yet, but will provide a great busy atmosphere, with eight different flavours of Sangria served at its own dedicated bar space.

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study of the area’s eateries before deciding upon the Cadiz twist on traditional tapas. The menu offers just about every type of tapas you can think of, but with a definite emphasis on quality Uruguayan meats and Burgers. These are cooked on their new 800 degree celcius grill, a new way of ensuring the juices and flavours stay within the meats, and reducing cooking time to just a couple of minutes for a typical steak.

On our visit, we asked for a mix of tapas and a selection of meats.

We started with a typical Andalucian Gaspazcho, which was lovely and fresh and well chilled.

This was followed by a huge plate of mixed fish, including Boquerones, Chiperones, Calamares Romana, Fish tortilla, Tempura prawns, and an item we didn’t recognise and Laura refused to tell us until after we had eaten them !!! They turned out to be Jellyfish in a Tempura type batter. They were tasty, very fishy but I couldn’t have eaten a full plate of them!!

James Hollister is the new chef, and with his Gordon Ramsay training, standards are sure to be kept high.

James has cooked in Thailand, Brazil USA, as well as in top notch UK restaurants, and is This was followed by three bringing vast experience to his types of perfectly cooked new home in Palma. beef: Solomillo, Entrecote

and Chuleton (T-Bone) They were all outstanding meats and cooked to perfection.

Feeling pretty stuffed by this stage, we were then faced with three versions of their speciality burgers, American, with a BBQ sauce, Mexican, with guacamole, and Japanese with a hoisin sauce (my favourite)! Each of them were simply delicious, but we could only manage a half each by this stage! We were well and truly beaten!!

All this was washed down with a Ribera del Duero Red wine, “Resalso”, a very inexpensive but wholehearted red.

Needless to say, we couldn’t manage a dessert, that will have to wait for next time!!

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Restuarant Review: A Ma Maison Calle Soler, 18A Santa Catalina, Palma (+34) 971 91 96 97 Enter as strangers; leave as friends – nothing could be truer!

Nestled in the heart of Santa Catalina on Carrer de Soler is A ma Maison. Unassuming from the outside, once you step foot inside you are struck by the atmosphere of warmth and homeliness and are quickly welcomed in to the fold. Most of the customers are locals, be they Mallorquian or the more international ex-pat crowd and you are unlikely to find someone who has only been once as since opening six years ago A ma Maison has become a perennial favourite.

Saloua, a native of Tunisia, but now a lover and permanent resident of Mallorca can think of nowhere better to be.

Cutting her teeth in yachting, and at one point with her own French restaurant in London, she has now found her home here. Having fallen in love with the island whilst on a yacht trip as a stewardess she returned on a holiday nine years ago, which she says has still yet to end. A chance meeting on a plane and a mutual love of food, led Saloua and her business partner to find premises and open A ma

Maison. Giving birth to the concept of cordon bleu food served in the setting of your home.

There is only one sitting per lunch and dinner service because here you are meant to take your time. Time to enjoy the company, the atmosphere and most importantly the food. Every dish is served with fresh ingredients and made to order. Talking to Saloua about her influences it is clear that they come from all over. Having lived in the US, UK, Switzerland, France and around the Mediterranean, Saloua’s style of cuisine doesn’t have a specific heritage but is based on a love of flavour, texture and most importantly, excitement when it comes to food.

On the night that we ate I chose to start with the Mille Feuille of Fois Gras with apple from the specials board and my partner in crime for the night and photographer extraordinaire, Anouska, chose the Homemade Salmon Gravelax. Both dishes exceeded any expectations we may have had. The pure freshness of the marinated salmon was lit up with the popping colour of the vivid pink peppercorns which burst with flavour. The Fois Gras was silky smooth and cooked to perfection and the richness was perfectly offset by the tartness of the apples.

Already we were impressed.

Saloua came to inform us that the next course would take some time to prepare and were we okay to wait, as this is part of the experience at A Ma Maison. And it was lovely.

We had time to talk about the starters, to contemplate the next course and most importantly, to catch up about friends and family. It is glorious to not feel rushed in a restaurant.

Once the world was set to rights our mains arrived, along with a fabulous bottle of Chateau Mourges du Gres.

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€15 to €42, with whites and rosès running up to the €26 mark. For my main course I had chosen the Roasted Rack of Lamb with Shallots and Lavender and Anouska had gone with the Crispy Leg of Duck with an Orange sauce, flambé with Cointreau. Both dishes were exquisite. To say that Saloua’s lamb rack beats pretty much any that I have found here on the island may prove contentious, but I challenge anyone else to bring together the textures, flavours and all round juiciness required to make me want to immediately order it again.

There is something truly special about A ma Maison and this is no more apparent than in the way that Saloua celebrates Christmas. A ma Maison is the only Santa Catalina restaurant to be open on Christmas day and, as far as we know, Saloua is the only official scooter riding Mrs Claus on the island. Saloua opens her doors to those that have reservations at two in the afternoon and all guests share large tables bringing friends, family, strangers and staff members together to enjoy a secret four course Christmas lunch that carries on in to the early hours of the morning.

Each and every one of us arrives here on the island in a different way. Maybe it’s with crew, perhaps a loved one or family. Maybe you’ve just found your way here accidentally and are just starting your story. The one thing that is guaranteed is that if you are a stranger in need of a friend then look no further than Saloua’s A ma Maison.

A ma Maison is closed Sunday and Monday and is open for lunch from 1-3pm and for dinner from 7:30-11pm for the rest of the week.

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FOR SALE For Sale: Freehold commercial premises old town Palma 5 mins STP. 50 sq mt fully reformed.

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For Sale: 2,3 m carbon fiber yacht gangway. 700,- Euro o.n.o. (new 1.500,- ). 609 672 344” For Sale: Ceramic coated original set of Mercruiser exhaust manifold and elbow kit. New unused, still in original packaging.

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For Sale: Car for Sale. Opel Corsa 2001 Automatic/tiptronic.

Great runabout - 1500€. Alan Muir 637 692 016. alan@ beaumontproprties.com

For Sale: Rib nautica 5.2m yamaha 115 hp 2013 engine hours 717 new tubes 2013 loads of extras ski pole vhf bathing ladder etc ex yacht tender well maintained. Owner bought bigger rib. 12000€. 626 765 876.

For Sale: 49er for sale. Hullnr: 322 / ISAF. 2 Genackers,beach trolly. Boat is rigged up and ready to sail in CNA Arenal. 3000 € / Negotiable, pictures can be sent Contact Thomas 666 978 700.

For Sale: Liferaft 8 person Plastimar Ocean 9650 last serviced march 2016, offers over 300€. Paul on 619 405 255.

For Sale: 2 x Jet Skis in very good condition. Fully serviced and overhauled engines. Well maintained Seadoo RXT for 5450€ and Yamaha Jet 2450€ negotiable. Serious buyers please PM. Derek 655 444 687.

For Sale: Mercury 4.3m Ocean Runner RIB with Mercury EFI 30hp outboard. Good yacht tender or fast runabout. New June 2015 - motor under 3-year transferable warranty. 10 year Hypalon warranty on tubes. Oars, battery, fuel tank, navigation light etc. Cost 10,000 US$ new. €4,000 or best offer. In STP for viewing.

Guy +44 7444 295 894 guy.oury@rocketmail.com

For Sale: Mini Transat 6.5 Carbon/Epoxy Proto type Recent refit by BMComposites, new engine, electrics, sails.

Perfect for 2 handed sailing in Mallorca. 14,000 euro. Ono mark@bmcomposites.com

MISCELLANEOUS For Sale: Beneteau First Class 8 1988. Length: 8m. Lifting Keel.

Large sun awning. Deck shower.

Swim ladder. 2 main sails, 2 jobs and a spinnaker. Sleeps 4. Spanish flag. Suzuki 4 stroke. €4000.

Contact Sam: 628 414 880 samdrew23@hotmail.com

Wanted: Old small wooden boats. Don’t have to be sea worthy! Also old buoys and life rings. Please call Deborah 699 569 934.

Wanted: Spinnaker or whisker pole for Beneteau 473. Around 5.5metres- Tel: 622 633 028 Go Sailing: How would you like to join in with the Flying Fifteen fleet in Mallorca. Exhilarating dinghy sailing in the safety of a keel boat. Come and join our racing fleets in Pollensa and Palma. Buy a boat, come and crew or borrow our club boat to give it a try! Great for all ages 18 - 80. You’ll never regret it. Interested? Drop me a mail at michael@ffast.org and we’ll arrange something.

For Sale: Hobie cat FX ONE, 17 foot. Very little use. 2008. Ready to sail. Main, jib and genaker.

Covers. Beach trolley and road trolley. All in immaculate condition. 6000€. More details call Justo 606 374 421.

If you consider you can HELP FUNDACION JOYRON to HELP THE BALEARIC CHILDREN IN NEED, be it by a financial donation, (we are approved to issue tax deductible donation certificates if desired), or by giving time to assist us, in the organisation of fund raising events, in order bring levels of joy, provide degrees of comfort and essential support to the children in need, please contact us.

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Ronald: 608 531 211 - info@joyronfoundation.org - www.joyronfoundation.org

CLASSIFIEDS JOBS / EMPLOYMENT Job Vacancy: Mallorca based marine welding and fabricating company working within the super yacht industry has an opening for an experienced Naval Architect/Marine Engineer. The job will involve making detailed auto cad drawings of works for production and for estimates.

Pricing these estimates. Liasing with staff and clients in the manufacture process. Essential requirements: Experience and a good practical understanding of boat construction.and the processes relating to metal fabrication in the marine sector.

Have proficient skill level with 2D & 3D software AutoCAD. Versatile to work on several projects in a short period of time.

Able to demonstrate an ability to visualise ideas from verbal or written instruction. Complete fabrication drawings and detailed technical drawings, to assist production. Strong shop floor man management and leadership skills will be required. A good level of English and Spanish are required. If you would like to be considered, please send your CV to info@linksmarine.es and we will be in touch.

Castello. Role includes checking stock in and out, delivering stock and liaising with suppliers. Must have reasonable level of Spanish and driving licence. Please contact info@bmcomposites.com Job Vacancy: Looking for a charismatic Foreman for our busy metalwork/nautical welding and fabrication company in Palma de Mallorca. The job would include public relations, communicating with clients, creating working drawings, pricing and quality control. You should have a background in structural marine engineering, preferably from within the yachting industry.

The ability to design is required.

Knowledge of Autocad and welding experience would be advantageous but not essential.

English as a native tongue and good Spanish are absolutely required. Ideal for an ex-captain/ enginner looking for a job onshore. Contact +34 646 281 532 or send CVs to info@ rubendonaquewelding.com

Job Vacancy: Oyster Yachts Palma de Mallorca. Freelance/ autonomo shipwright required for refit work, September to December. Please contact Elvira at Oyster Yachts. +34 971 287 474

Job Vacancy: Yacht Center Palma is looking for expierenced Sales Persons for their shops in Palma, Santa Ponsa & Alcudia, preferably with yacht experience. Duties including attending and advising customers, sales promotion & making orders. Smart appearance & good manner. Good standard of English & Spanish necessary. Yearround contract with excellent terms & conditions. Apply to katharina@ycp.com.es

Job Vacancy: BM Composites are looking to employ a storeman to work in our workshop in Son

Job Vacancy: Senior Diesel Engineer: To strengthen our enthusiastic team of specialists,

we are looking for a Senior Diesel Engineer. Candidates should be experienced with trouble shooting, maintenance and installation of marine generators & propulsion systems. Electrical knowledge on AC/DC systems would be an additional value.

English speaking is required. palma@cornelisjongkind.nl Seeking Position: Chef available for onshore crew chef/replacement /or offshore based in Palma, lots of experience & references available. Charlotte: 699 378 942 stonecharlotte@hotmail.com.

Job Vacancy: English All-rounder for customer attention. Technical & Spanish Knowledge preferred.

A bit of sales skills, technical knowledge, IT user knowledge and if possible sea trial etc. oliver@fjordyachts.de or info@mariventyachts.com Job Vacancy: We currently have vacancies for Marine Electricians preferably with yacht experience.

Good written and spoken English essential. We also accept applicants with autonomo status.

Apply at: info@etechyachting.com

FOR RENT For Rent: Casa del Roble in Calle Catalunya, next to Paseo Mallorca, central Palma. 100m2 shop/commercial premises in busy street with large picture window. Newly tiled and excellent decorative order.

8,000 euros for shop ready which includes new lighting and electrics, 3 air conditioning units and air conditioning curtain, disabled ramp, store room with shelving, cloakroom, 2 lit external signs, alarm, fire extinguishers, till and fridge etc. This includes passing over the engineers report which is expensive and time consuming in itself etc. Conforms to all new regulations. Rent 1300 euros pcm. Please contact us for more information on 689407094 or info@casadelroble.eu or visit us Mon-Fri between 10.00 – 14.00.

For Rent: Mooring Santa Ponsa Marina. 7 metres x 2 metres.

300 euros on yearly basis per month. 400 euros for summer months only. Tel. 608 630 448.

For Rent: Palma Marine Hub: Co-working office spaces for rent. 158 SQM office in Marivent with a shared kitchen, bathroom, meeting room and lift. Spacious, air conditioned offices. Monthly rental includes all bills and high speed internet Free parking on the road. Please contact Melanie Winters for more information: +34 646 897378.

For Rent: Commercial Premises 200 square mt2, ground floor, 80mt from Club de Mar, completely renovated, two bathrooms, private parking to the rear, 1.800,00€ per month.

Tel: 609 614 215.

For Rent: Offices / Retail Space to Rent. Commercial premises for rent in Port Calanova. A total of 300 square mt2, divisible, are available for rental purposes and ideal for commercial offices or shops. The marina, with 174 berths, is running an extensive upgrade of all facilities and services with an ample onsite car parking and watersports activities all year round. For further information please contact: comercial@portcalanova.com

For Rent: Club De Mar Medical.

English speaking GP Practice in Porto Pi. Our main client base is the yachting community and our goal is to build a one-stopshop pre hospital care facility.

Within our office suite, we have 3 practice rooms to rent, from €650.00 pcm ono. Please contact us for more information on: 639 949 125.

Room Wanted: Close to Porto Pi for female (non drinker/ non smoker) reception teacher (5 nights a week, term time).

Very clean/tidy. Ideal for family requiring baby sitter/help with homework or someone needing a house sitter. anita@ casadelroble.eu Tel:689 407 094.

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CLASSIFIEDS - BALEARIC BOATS FOR SALE X-Yachts X6 2016 2,400,000 € VAT Paid

This X6 is a luxurious and powerful performance cruiser. Designed with shorthanded sailing in mind and built to the highest standards.

The sleek decks, furling boom, high performance sails, ample tender garage, beamy cockpit and the fully packed pedestals are just a few stunning key features. Impressively equipped, only privately used and in immaculate condition. Spanish matriculation tax paid as well. Contact us for the detailed spec list and/or view our comprehensive photo album on: www.whitesyachts.com.

Uniesse 58 2010 595,000 € VAT Paid Lying Mallorca This exquisitely customised Uniesse 58 was built in 2010 and is powered by twin Caterpillar C18 1015 hp engines. Her luxurious layout features 3 spacious double cabins (Master Stateroom, VIP and a Twin Cabin, each with an en-suite bathroom) and additional crew accommodation. She is high specification and is equipped with a bow thruster, stern thruster, air conditioning system, generator, SAT TV system, Opacmare crane, Opacmare passarelle, full Raymarine navigation equipment and features elegant upholstery throughout her interior and exterior. Seriously for sale. Viewing highly recommended.

Club Nautico Santa Ponsa T. +34 971 695 738 M. +34 629 748 477 E. sales@leisure-marine.com W. www.leisure-marine.com Take advantage of Sea Ray’s new Open Horizons savings opportunity!

This summer let Sea Ray put you at the helm of your own destiny.

DUE TO UNPRECEDENTED SALES AND DEMAND WE NEED MORE BOATS URGENTLY TO SELL. WE HAVE MANY BUYERS WAITING TO SPEND THEIR MONEY!!

2016 Bavaria S33HT Ex Demo sold as New 183,650 € Excl. VAT Fitted with 2 X D3-220 12V; Electrical Trim tabs, Bow Thruster, Grey hull ,Refrigerator in cockpit,Teak cockpit floor, Extended bathing platform with teak cockpit grill, Cockpit upholstery upgrade, Galvanised delta anchor & chain, Oceanline flooring throughout, Classic Mahogany internal wood finish, Fusion Marine Audio System, TV aerial, Garmin 300i VHF with AIS, & antifouling Fantastic saving on New Plus much more. Please contact Jason on 634 336 110 or email Jason@clippermarinemallorca.com.

Princess 72 2014 1,900,000 € VAT Paid

Very low hours; immaculate with full med spec inc HT, zero speed stabilizer and water maker. Jump the 2 year wait for a new build and get an as new boat for a fraction of the price!

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CLASSIFIEDS - BALEARIC BOATS FOR SALE Benetteau Sense 43 2011 185,000 € VAT Paid Beneteau Sense 43, built in 2011 for the present owner and always professionally maintained. Sensation trim level with Easy Docking Pack and thoughtful additions to the standard yacht, such as aft fairleads for Mediterranean berthing, active radar reflector, extra anchor and easily stowable passarelle. A yacht kept in perfect condition with all the usual new boat teething problems sorted. Personally inspected and highly recommended. Available at the end of the season, but inspection before this can be arranged.

FRUITION II Nautor’s Swan 112 German Frers design LOA 34,34m 112’ 2002 4,900,000 €

Joost Goverts Broker joost.goverts@northropandjohnson.com Edificio Dux - Calle Porto Pi 4, 1ª Palma De Mallorca, 07015 T. +34 971 707 900 F. +34 971 707 775 +34 627 947 160 www.northropandjohnson.com

FRUITION II combines a racing performance yacht with world-class comfort and opulence. She offers luxury accommodation for six to eight guests, and carries a crew of up to 5 in separate quarters. She has a unique pilot house which is curvy and swept back with great views and lots of light. Very well maintained, she has always been active on the race circuit, winning many podium places and races.

Great charter yacht potential.

Beneteau Oceanis 523 2005 New listing, price to be arranged

+34 971 67 63 92 mallorca@sunbirdyachts.eu www.sunbirdyachts.eu Puerto Portals, Local 10 - Mallorca Beneteau Brokerage Specialists

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Simon Crutchley: +34 656 949 244

Beneteau Oceanis 523, 2005, blue hull, teak decks. Yanmar 100hp diesel engine, bow thruster, generator, in-mast furling. Sleeps 6 in 3 double cabins, all en-suite. Crew cabin forward with double and facilities. Alcantara upholstery, cherry joinery, Raymarine nav gear, new TV and DVD, new Honda dinghy. Well-equipped and currently lying Sweden. New listing, price to be arranged.

Benetti Sail Division 82 RPH 2004 1,625,000 € VAT Paid Benetti Sail Division 82 RPH, 2004, which benefitted from a refit in 2011/12, including new hull colour. Steel hull, aluminium superstructure. Twin MAN 440hp diesel engine, bow thruster, stabilisers, 2 x generators, air conditioning, watermaker and more.

Sleeps 8 guests, all en-suite. Crew area for 3 in 2 cabins. Maintained by full time crew, presents very well. Lying Montenegro, and priced at 1,625,000 euros Tax paid.

Full Condition Surveys Damage Surveys MCA Code Compliance Tonnage Measurement Valuations for Insurance or Finance Sea Trials New Build and Refit Supervision

Bernard Merryweather

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Independent Yacht Surveys (+34) 616 757 920 // survey@bernardmerryweather.com // ww.bernardmerryweather.com

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