UPFRONT
OPINIONS, FACTS, STORIES AND WHAT’S NEW IN THE FASCINATING WORLD OF YACHTING
YACHTIE TYPES ETO
You know the sort. He looks like he was bullied at school. He is socially awkward. His jokes sail over most people’s heads. He’s full geek. Total nerd. But if you want to know how to fix your laptop after you downloaded another virus, you better be nice to him and you better laugh at those jokes. But more importantly, he’s the only one that can get that ball game back on the TV for the Boss or manage to make all 12 guest ipads on board run independently and at a decent speed. Just interested
B1B2 VISAS With continuing issues surrounding B1B2 visas for yacht crew, this winter we saw a number of yachts head East instead of West as the Caribbean recovered.
EASTERN PROMISE SE Asia is becoming more popular with the superyacht industry, as we can see from the success of the 8th Singapore Yacht Show – more parties, more great superyacht products and gadgets, more high end sports gear and basically glamour all in one hit. We did say YACHT Show didn’t we?
when he starts telling you exactly how he fixed everything in his special techy lingo. Which nobody gets by the way…. Coding? What?
PLASTICS Getting rid or cutting down on plastic use onboard is an ever increasing subject. Yachts are introducing water machines to reduce plastic waste and giving crew reusable bottles to avoid single use plastics. Want sparkling? Get a soda stream!
MARINE MAMMALS KILLED BY PLASTIC MARINE POLLUTION IN OUR OCEANS EVERY YEAR
NAUTICAL ETYMOLOGY... HARD-UP
To put the helm hard over is to put it as far as it will go in that direction. Hard and fast describes a vessel firmly aground and unable to make progress and has come ashore to mean rigid. The term ‘Hard up in a clinch and no knife to cut the seizing’ was a sailor’s way of saying he had been overtaken by misfortune and saw no way out.
Twenty years from
now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than those you did. So throw off
the bowlines. Sail away from safe harbor. Catch the wind in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover Mark Twain
MAGNIFICIENT MARINER VASCO DA GAMA
Dom Vasco da Gama, perhaps among the most iconic names in maritime exploration, picked up where Bartolomeu Dias had left off, in an expedition that began in 1497 and took over two years. Da Gama became the first person to sail around the Cape of Good Hope to India, having been tasked by King Manuel I with finding a profitable trade route through the Indian Ocean. In doing so, the Portuguese explorer kick-started his country’s colonial expansion in Asia. The Portuguese Crown was thus plugged into the lucrative Indian spice
trade while bypassing potential hostilities. Da Gama’s voyage to India, exploring a sea passage that is still used today – has been cited as sparking global multiculturalism, and it inspired a sustained period of Portuguese empire building. The fearless and belligerent explorer died in India in 1524 after a bout of malaria.
NAUTILUS If you’re not a member then you are madder than a bag of mad things. Just because an owner might be able to ‘apparently’ afford a €20m yacht does not mean he’ll always be able to pay your wages. These things do happen…just ask the crew on Indian Empress…
..Nautilus recovered over $1m for the crew.
UK CERTIFICATION Answers regarding UK certifications, will they be recognised under EU law? Will UK nationals still be able to move through Europe freely? Will visas be required? When will we have any answers? When is all this happening? What on earth is going on?
SNOWY TIMES Winter on the Med hit us pretty hard – I mean, come on, SNOW in the South of France? How rude. Even Palma froze its bits off this Feb with the Arctic Blast hitting harder than usual. Lots of crew who swore they wanted to be Palma based all year have now realised how appealing the Caribbean season actually is…!
DIETARY REQUIREMENTS Becoming more and more prevalent onboard, not for owners or guests, they have the luxury of being able to choose to eat whatever they please, but for crew? Chefs are getting a bit fed up with catering for intolerances when they turn out to be ‘preferences’. Some have even asked for crew to provide medical certificates as proof of their allergies.
THE BAROMETER
ONBOARD | SPRING 2018 | 7
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