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Ian RomanInternational Yachting Photographer Profile

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Simon & The Team

Dear Islander,

The year seems to be flying by already, aided by some fabulous recent weather we have experienced, unlike our friends and families in the UK, who have been experiencing horrendous conditions. The hour for summer time is added on at the end of this month, which I always think is the springboard for the season and springtime. Time to get out on the water again!

Judging by the amount of calls and enquiries we have received here at The Islander this past month from new advertisers and readers, it certainly seems like the season is gathering momentum, and I am reliably informed that space for this year’s Palma Superyacht Show and Palma Boat Show is virtually sold out. The venue will be hugely enhanced this year by the completion of the Moll Vell Marina, which plays host to a large part of the show. The building work will be completed and the new services including bars and restaurants will be opening in time for the show.

It is also nice to hear of new businesses setting up within our industry of which there are several here in Palma of late. We wish all of them well and hope they are able to make a success of their new adventure.

This month’s big news is the potential oil and gas exploration in our local water’s, which could spell an environmental disaster for hundreds of species of sea life in the Med. You can read more inside this issue on the detail, but suffice to say there has been plenty of opposition to the plans shown by local individuals, groups, and celebrities who reside in these shores, all throwing their weight behind the protests, including Asociacion Ondine who organised a collection of objection forms last month. Let’s hope sense prevails, but with the Spanish tax office needing to top up its coffers, it’s by no means certain that the work will be stopped.

On a brighter note, the year is promising to be a vintage one for regattas and the chance to witness the magnificent J Class yachts racing in our midst again this year . They will be racing in May out of Mahon, as part of the Wally regatta, in June as part of The Superyacht Cup, here in Palma and in September as part of Les Voiles in St Tropez.

Local Charter companies are reporting an increase in bookings so far this year, which bodes well for all of us. We really do have some of the best cruising grounds in the world here in the Balearics and Western Med, so let’s hope the bookings continue flooding in.

Fair Winds

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Ian Roman [email protected](+44) 7909 713 943www.ianroman.com

Enjoy the read and his images.Originally our family lived on the edge of the Peak District on the outskirts of Sheffield. It was only at the age of fifteen when my father’s job took us to the East Coast that I was introduced in any meaningful sense so the sea. I joined the Walton and Frinton Yacht club, and after mastering Mirrors, Wayfarersand similar sturdy, but low performance dinghy’s I started crewing in a variety of cruiser racers in the hugely popular East Anglian Offshore Racing Association series, at the time when no one would think twice about rocking up at Harwich on a Friday evening to compete in an overnight race to Lowestoft!

When I left home for university I fell among the dinghy crowd

We are very fortunate here at The Islander to have been granted an exclusive insight into the life of Ian Roman, one of the top International yachting professional photographers on the planet. Ian is a true perfec-tionist, who is at the top of his profession, and his work is truly extraordinary. He is also a very modest and unassuming person,not a prima dona that’s for sure! Alongside this article we are very privileged to have been able to include several examples of Ian’s work

Ian’s photographs from last year’s Palma Superyacht Cup were the catalyst which encouraged me to contact Ian to see if he was willing to partake in an article for The Islander. Fortunately for us, he agreed!

and before long found myself crewing an International 14. At the time the boat was ground breaking, with its twin trapeze’s and asymmetric spinnaker it was in a league of its own -this was 1988, there was no 49er, RS800 or foiling Moth, this was the only boat that flew. In 1988 Olympic training was much less intense than it is now, and the International 14 found itself to be the boat of choice for some of the best sailors of the time, including Neal McDonald, Ian Walker, Adrian Stead and Roger Yeoman. This was the class where I made some long lasting friendships.

In early 2003 I was based in New York and took a trip to New Zealand to see the 31st Americas Cup and visit some of

my International 14 friends who were now sailing with GBR Chal-lenge. In preparation for the trip I visited one of the World’s finest camera stores B&H (in NY) and bought the state of the art Canon D30 slr camera ( 3.1 mega pixel sensor) and a Canon 70-200 IS f2.8 lens. While on the trip I was lucky enough to be introduced to the photogra-pher Thierry Martinez who at the time was workingfor Alinghi as their team photographer. Seeing some of Thierry’s stunning images opened my eyes as to what an amazing subject these magnifi-cent boats made.

On returning to New York I realised that having the right camera didn’t make me a photographer, so I enrolled on the New York Institute of Photography photographic course. This was a correspond-ence course that introduced me to some photographic styles and techniques, and gave me a solid foundation on how to use my camera.

On returning to the UK I would regularly travel down to the Solent and photograph whatever racing was taking place. And for the first time I would find myself sailing on boats, seeing all these incred-ible sights, and wishing that I had my camera with me to capture them. This led me to photograph more and sail less!

In 2006 I travelled to Ibiza to photograph the TP52 Breitling Med Cup, I had no accreditation


Palma Superyacht Cup 2013

Palma Superyacht Cup 2013 470 Class Olympic medal Race 2012


and couldn’t get access to the media centre or the media boats, but I was fortunate that a friend of mine, Stuart Robinson was campaigning “Santa Ana” and he was kind enough to allow me onto his tender to photograph the racing. At the top mark Santa Ana was well down the fleet, the leaders were all powering down the run, “Santa Ana” was on the port lay line, and “Bribon” with the King of Spain on board was on the starboard lay line, as they converged it became apparent they were on a collision course and “Santa Ana” smacked broadside into “Bribon”. All the media boats were halfway down the run. I was the only photographer who had captured the collision, and not just once, I had a series of seven images! I was suddenly invited into the media centre, my images were distributed around the world, and shown continually for 24 hours on Spanish TV news channels.

In 2007 the 32nd Americas Cup was being held in Valencia. I still had a full time job in London but I was regularly submitting my images to yachting maga-zines and websites, this enabled me to become accredited to photograph the 32nd Cup, I regularly travelled to Valencia on a Thursday evening returning early on a Monday morning.

In 2008 I took the plunge, gave up my job in London and dedicated myself developing a full time career in marine photography. I was lucky to

secure the job as the number 2 photographer on the TP52 AUDI Med Cup series. Since then I have been fortunate to work on some amazing projects includ-ing the Volvo Ocean Race, the World Match Racing Tour, and the 2012 London Olympics.

Often, I’m asked what my favourite location is, and that is a difficult question to answer; the weather, the boats, the people all contribute to making a venue special. I was asked to photograph the J Class yachts at last year’s SuperYacht Cup in Palma. I have had many experiences of being on Palma Bay in light winds and mirror calm seas, and I remember thinking that I wish I’d been able to photograph them during the St Barth’s Bucket. On day

one of racing we had 20+ knots of breeze and a 1.5m swell, I came away with some of my best images of the year!

Other favourites, Cape Town, Marseilles, Auckland, Cartagena. All these places (and more) can be a spectacular backdrop.

In an article such as this I must mention all the help and support I have to enable me to take my images. I work as part of a team, there are people who organise the boat and helicopter hire, and the people who drive/fly them, the personnel within the teams who make sure that the sailors turn up at the appointed time wearing the right gear. These are the people enable me to

do my job, a couple of name checks: Adela Gonzalez, Thierry Leygnac and my good friend Mark Covell.

Mark has a silver medal from the Sydney Olympics, he is every inch of six foot seven, and tips the scales at just under twenty stone. He is also one of the best photo rib drivers I know. Because of Mark’s huge physical presence (and even larger personality) anyone who sees our rib parked in the strangest of places, shrugs and thinks, nothing to worry about, Mark knows what he’s doing…I have lost count of the number of spinnakers that have drifted over the top of my head, or the times that boats have swept past inches away from our rib!

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Ian Percy & Andrew “Bart” Simpson Olympic Silver Medallists 2012 Palma Superyacht Cup 2013

Fraser Yachts Announces the Latest News on its Caribbean and Mediterranean Charter Fleet.

Fraser Yachts have announced the latest news on their yacht charter fleet; luxury yachts available for private charter in the Caribbean and the Mediterranean. The superyachts available for charter include M/Y BIG EAGLE, M/Y CROWNED EAGLE, M/Y JAGUAR and M/Y EXUMA.

The 52m M/Y BIG EAGLE, built by Mie Zosen, has a large upper deck which can accommodate parties of 100 guests in port; perfect for corporate events at the Cannes Film Festival and the Monaco Grand Prix in 2014. Her A/V system is state-of-the-art and she is fully equipped with water and sports toys. Accommodation consists of six staterooms for 12 guests

onboard. Currently in the Caribbean this exceptional megayacht is available for a spe-cial winter 2014 charter price of $ 130,000 per week.

Also announced is the success of the 43m custom superyacht M/Y CROWNED EAGLE at the Antigua Charter Show. Built in 2007 by Richmond Yachts, CROWNED EAGLE is the perfect combination of performance and luxury and can comfortably accommodate up to 12 guests in six staterooms. The accomplished crew received several awards at the Antigua Charter Yacht Show, including first place for the Concours de Chef. With impressive leisure and entertainment facilities she is the ideal charter yacht for socialising and entertaining with family and friends in the Caribbean this winter or for the Mediterranean season.

M/Y JAGUAR is another impressive yacht available for charter in the Caribbean throughout the winter season and which will be returning to the Western Med for the summer. This 56m displacement yacht accommodates 12 guests in six staterooms and is in top condition. She benefits from an excellent chef, who produced one of the most popular lunches at the Antigua Charter Yacht Show in 2013. Chef David Keates specialises in mouth-watering creations, focusing on originality, extraor-dinary flavours and beautiful presentation.

M/Y EXUMA is a superyacht offering luxury yacht charters to alternative destinations. The 50m superyacht will be offering charters in Malaysia, Thai-land, and the much-publicised destination Myanmar until April 2014. She will then journey to Indonesia in May until late sum-mer and then head to the Sey-chelles from October to early December. She accommodates

nine guests in four double state-rooms and one twin room. The revolutionary EXUMA is ideal for adventures and has a great array of water toys, including an amphibious jeep.

For more information about chartering any of these yachts, please contact [email protected]

If you would like high-res pho-tography or further information about any of the Fraser Yachts charter boats, please contact Lisa Peck at Fraser Yachts.

Fraser Yachts is the world’s leading, full-service yachting company, and provides a profes-sional team of yachting experts ready to support, advise and to assist you in every aspect of superyacht charter, luxury yacht sales, yacht ownership and day-to-day operation. Visit their website at www.fraseryachts.com for further information.

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Dovaston Crew Show April 25th

As the days start to lengthen we are reminded that spring is just around the corner and the 2014 yachting season is set to get under way. April 25th sees the fifth annual Crew Show taking place at Mood Beach Club in Portals and dovaston Crew are inviting local businesses to become involved. “The yachting sector provides a fantastic market opportunity for local retailers” says Phil Edwards CEO. “Yachts in port or readying for their summer charters need provisions, everything from food to linens, soaps to ropes, in short, everything needed to ensure the comfort of the owners and guests. The crew show is the only show targeted at the people making those purchasing decisions, the crew themselves. If they are new to Mallorca, or even new to the boat they may not be familiar with the retailers or yacht support services that are available locally and struggle to find quality goods. At the crew show we aim to close the gap and give crew the chance to really appreciate the alternative

to buying off the internet by showing what’s on offer in the region”.

If you have a quality product or service you would like to showcase then the Crew Show demonstrates great value for money, small stand s at €180 plus IVA and large stands at €360 plus IVA. Always a sell out the show is fantastically popular with crew with over 800 attendees last year. In addition the show starts with a business to business lunch for the exhibitors which provides a fantastic networking opportuni-ty; tickets for lunch are provided with the stand. Space is always limited so if you are interested reserve your spot now by contacting [email protected] or [email protected] Full details about the show together with all prices and sponsorship opportunities can be found on the crew show website, www.crewshow.com

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Come fly with us! New Year’s Day - Pollensa

Five boats turned out for the traditional New Year’s bash.

We started the 2 races just after 14:00, which gave the crews a little more time to recover from the night before. The wind was very, very light, which forced us to shorten the course that had originally been planned to have the first finish line in the bay of Formentor and then back through the channel between Hotel Formentor and Isla Formentor. So we moved the first finish line to the little bay behind the lighthouse of Avanzada, where the very hard More information at: http://flyingfifteen.mallorcaservice.de

sailors had a beer and the others a coffee or tea. The race back to the harbour was sailed in the same light and shifting winds.

We celebrated the prize giving in front of our boats. Knowing that all participants are good sailors and all boats are in best condition, it was determined that the winners in these light conditions must have had a weight advantage. To compen-sate this for the next races, all prizes were “body builders” like chips for 3rd place, German dark beer for 2nd and dried fruit for the winners.

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The Marina Ibiza Royal Cup is establishing itself as part of the TP52 Super Series international race circuit

Marina Ibiza is to host the TP52 Super Series race for the second year running thanks to last year’s successful experience 17th to 21 st September 2014.

The Marina and the Organizers have signed a three-year agreement with the main aim of sharing the race with Ibiza town through a more social format that is open to the general public

The big news is that the Marina Ibiza Royal Cup will be the last event on the international circuit, so Ibiza will bring the race season to a close and the grand prix awards gala will be held here

Ibiza, 12 February 2014. Marina Ibiza is to host the Marina Ibiza Royal Cup again after signing a three-year agreement of intention with the 52 Super Series Organizers. In the words of its manager, this return to the island has come about thanks to the warm reception that the marina gave all its participants and to the good time had by all the crews last year, when the race was held in local waters for the first time.

The forthcoming race, which Marina Ibiza is already busy organizing, will have two novel features. One is that the Marina Ibiza Royal Cup will be the last event on the international circuit; therefore two sets of trophies will be awarded here. And the big party to round off this prestigious circuit will be held here.

Top competitors and yachts which have already made a name for themselves in the yachting world will sail once more in Ibizan and Formentera waters to vie for the title of best of the season. The atmosphere is going to be electric, since the crews will already have raced hard at Key West, Miami, Capri, Porto Cervo and Palma de Mallorca, amongst other places, and will be sailing into Ibiza ready to give their all to win the much-prized trophy.

Another novel feature is the

plan to make this event enjoyable for the whole of Ibiza town, and thus awaken people’s sporting spirit and interest in the races, by inviting sailors to follow the races while on the sea and people in the streets to get to know them better on dry land, for which purpose the crews will be positioned in a new spot on one of the marina’s main pontoons. Access and people’s view of the yachts will be enhanced, and there will be a palpable spirit of friendly rivalry – and fun too – amongst the competing crews.

The Institutions’ support has been immensely valuable for bringing this event back to Ibiza town and making it more open to the townspeople. From the outset, Marina Ibiza has received unstinting cooperation and a magnificent show of support and interest in the event; so it hopes that over the next three years the popularityof sailing and the sea in our island will steadily rise.

At present Marina Ibiza is putting together a programme of sporting and social activitiesfor during the race, so as to have several things going on at the same time, and thereby involve in some way everyone who loves the sea.

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From the Alps – Micheal Clough reports that FF 3432 Extrasen-soryperception is almost back in fighting trim after an ‘an-nee horribilus’ as our gracious Majesty would say. The unfor-tunate port starboard incident was repaired very satisfactorily and the beloved editor of the Islander was absolved of all blame, even if he was teased for a week or two for just being in the wrong place!

Two weeks after the repair was finished Mother Nature then tore through the boatyard at 60 knots and decided that ESP was once again to be the recipient of malicious damage. She was upended and her mast was snapped in two and damage to the rudder and foredeck was sustained.

What would we do without the magician Miquel Clamor in Puerto Pollensa? He has just returned her to the fleet looking better than ever. Her replacement mast is waiting to be put in place and she got a new cover for Christmas. She is ready for someone to buy and sail in the European Champion-ships, to be held in Pollensa bay in September.

Further exciting news is that at the Worlds in Hong Kong last November the decision was made to give the organisation of the next Worlds to France. They are to be in Hyeres, which is fantastic for us here on Mal-lorca. We shall have two major championships in the Med. in less than a year and only three hundred miles apart. We look forward to welcoming any new members to our fleet to join in the fun and get down to some serious racing.

Coming up:March 16 Winter series race 3 RCNPP (Pollensa)March 29 VII Trofeu sa Lliga 2 CNCG (Palma) September 14-19 European Championships (Pollensa)

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‘Bart’s Bash’ takes place at 11:00 BST on Sunday 21st Sep.www.bartsbash.co.uk

Simpson’s name.Jez Payne from ‘The Bart Project’ commented “It is one of those ideas that has huge potential to be a major, major event that absolutely honours the core of what Andrew was about”.If you are the right person to sign your club up then please email [email protected]. An event briefing for clubs & competitors is going to be launched on the 1st of February and there will be further dates when more event details will be published in the run up to Bart’s Bash.

Barts Bash Palma???

Here at The Islander we are trying to ascertain what is happening locally as regards participation in the inaugural “Barts Bash” this September.

What is Bart’s Bash?

The Andrew Simpson SailingFoundation is planning a monster sized attempt to set a new Guinness World Record for ‘The Largest Sailing Event in the World’, which we are calling ‘Bart’s Bash’!

The idea is to have a mass participation club race across the UK and the whole World. We know that pretty much every club has a race on Sunday morning, with all kinds of boats taking part, the goal is to get everyone participating together to create one big event race. If we can get hundreds of clubs taking part, with just their normal sailors racing on the water, we will generate thousands of Guinness World Record Holders in Andrew ‘Bart’

Club Nautico de Arenal 400th Club to Sign Up.

Organisers of Bart’s Bash announced the sign up of the 400th sailing club yesterday, only two months after the initial announcement of the event. At

a sign up rate that continues to match just short of 7 clubs a day worldwide, the World Record attempt is on track to easily become the largest sailing event ever on the planet.Messages from some of the biggest names in the sailing world continue to be sent through to the Bart’s Bash organising team. ‘What a fantastic idea,’ said New Zealander Sir Russell Coutts KNZM CBE, a 5 times America’s Cup winner, Olympic Gold medallist and previous ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year. ‘It’s for a great cause and I think everyone’s going to have a great time.’ As a parting thought, he added: ‘It’s going to be interest-ing to see who the winner is!’

The Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club provided a milestone break-through at 300 clubs and then, just before the 2 month mark it was the turn of Club Nautic Arenal from Mallorca, Spain to push the entries through the

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400 club marker. Albert Vadell, speaking on behalf of C N Arenal said ‘This is a great intiative and CN Arenal wouldn’t miss it for the world. So we’re ready to go and make it happen!’

Anthony Day, Rear Commodore for the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club said, “We at RHKYC are proud to be involved and are much looking forward to help-ing build a fitting tribute to a truly remarkable sailor and an ambassador for the sport.”

Organisers of the event continue to send their thanks out to people all around the world who are showing their support and sharing the word. In order to support discussion and enable greater networking for sailors and all those inter-ested in sailing, an online forum centred around the record attempt has also been launched and can be found at www.thebartproject.com/forum

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Oracle Team News

The America’s Cup winner, ORACLE TEAM USA, has announced its design team for the 35th America’s Cup.

The design team features 11 Americans, as ORACLE TEAM USA looks towards homegrown design and engineering expertise to successfully defend the next America’s Cup.

“We’ve collected a talented group of designers for this campaign and a majority of them are American,” said Grant Simmer, who returns as General Manager of ORACLE TEAM USA. “We have a good mix of experience and expertise across the disciplines where we think the design challenge for this next America’s Cup will be contested.”

Among the returnees from previous campaigns, wing design manager Scott Ferguson (USA) is back for a third successive America’s Cup with ORACLE TEAM USA. A collegiate All-American sailor, Ferguson has 30 years of design experi-ence and is an expert in masts, spars, and now wing sails.

“It’s exciting to be back and

trying for three in a row with ORACLE TEAM USA,” Ferguson said. “We know this is going to be a big challenge as the competition is always getting better. We’ll be working to a new class rule again with more constraints, but there should be a plenty of scope forinnovation.”

Among those new to the team are Len Imas (USA) and Hal Youngren (USA), who worked with Team New Zealand during the previous Cup, contributing to the design of a Kiwi boat that came within one race of winning it all.

“It’s still amazing to think that the final was so close, and that it all came down to one last race,” Imas said. “Now, it’s great to sit down with these guys, learn what they were thinking and to start work again with the new team.”

The ORACLE TEAM USA design team met as a group for the first time in San Francisco this week and is eagerly awaiting the release of the new America’s Cup Class Rule next month.

“In many ways, the release of the design rule is the starting gun for the 35th America’s

Cup,” said Simmer. “From that moment on, the clock is ticking towards the start of race one, and time which is your most precious currency in these campaigns, starts to get spent. We need to be ready to work from day one and spend our time wisely.”

The ORACLE TEAM USA design team for the 35th America’s Cup:

Paul Bieker (USA), Dimitri Despierres (FRA), Len Imas (USA), Hal Youngren (USA), Aaron Perry (USA), Bryan Baker (USA), Juan Vila (ESP), Scott Ferguson (USA), Christophe Elberding (GER), Thomas Hann (GER), Steven Roberts (FRA), Jose Luis Vela (ESP), Tom Speer (USA), Eric Jolley (USA), Andrew Gaynor (USA), Ian Burns (AUS), JB Braun (USA), Kurt Jordan (USA)

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Myba Partnership Agreement Signifies Backing from theIndustry’s Leading Association

Taking place between 30th April and 4th May, the second edition of the Palma Superyacht Show will benefit from further growth and investment, not least through the signing of a joint partnership agreement with MYBA The Worldwide Yachting Association.

No stranger to assisting industry-centric events with 30 years experience; one aspect of MYBA’s financial investment, for example, will help keep down the cost of registration fees for participating yachts and brokers.

Summarising the MYBA’s involvement, President, Toby Maclaurin said “The agreement

with MYBA is to help secure the future of the Show for the industry, so that it continues to be run competitively by the industry, for the benefit of the whole industry.”

Perfectly timed at the beginning of the season, this year’s show has extended berthing capacity in Palma’s Old Port area, meaning the likelihood is that up to 65 participating yachts of minimum length 24m – an expected increase of 50% upon last year - will be offered for advance sale and/or charter, in readiness for the season ahead.

Shore-side exhibitors whose main business is within the large yacht market, will benefit from networking opportunitieswith participating brokers and captains, combined with Majorca’s renowned ability to attract an affluent, international yachting clientele at this most pleasant time of the year.

Anticipating the improvements, Northrop & Johnson, Broker/

Director, Simon Turner, said “We were pleased with the atmosphere at last year’s show and unlike others, Palma Superyacht is unique by way of an approximate 50:50 motor to sail ratio, likewise, charter has a stronger influence here.”

Planning to launch new, game changing, communications technologies and services at the show, e3 Managing Director,Roger Horner, said “After developing e3 around the world over the last 18 years, we are thrilled to be able to support a truly international, in-water, Superyacht Show where it should be here in Palma.”

To ensure the highest standardof participating yachts and management companies, Palma Superyacht Show is open, principally, to MYBA member & YACHTFOLIO subscribing companies, whose main business is with yachts above 24 metres. Non-members are equally welcome to apply,although acceptance will be

Leading Shipyards Show Support With Platinum Partnership

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debut in Palma. The newcomers include two stunning launches from Vitters Shipyard, the 46m sloop Ganesha designed by Dubois and the 33m bright green hulled Inoui designed by Briand. Both owners are veteran Superyacht Cup participants with their previous yachts and will be returning from the Caribbean with their new boats tuned and tested ready for Palma. Another first time entrant is the Royal Huisman built sloop Twizzle (Dubois

Yacht Design) which at 57m is the largest yacht to register so far. Holland Jachtbouw will be represented by the exceptional J Class Rainbow (Dykstra & Partners) as well as the 43m ketch This is Us (Hoek Design). The winner of the J Class 2013, Hanuman, built by Royal Huis-man has recently confirmed she plans to be back to defend her title, the competition amongst the famous five is likely to be the closest seen yet.The location of the regatta

village will be greatly enhanced this year as the newly reformed Muelle Viejo and Moll Vell Marina will be completed. The deck terraces and restaurants of the new building adjacent to the SYC dock will provide spectators with prime views of the event village and the superyacht fleet. The Superyacht Cup is one of the few regattas on the circuit to have such a convenient, central city location with a huge range of hotels, restaurants, shopping

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and first class service facilities within walking distance as well as being only 15 minutes from an international airport, all adding to making team logistics easier. The Bay of Palma provides the perfect sailing arena with typical Mediter-ranean afternoon sea breeze conditions, warm turquoise waters and the backdrop of the Cathedral, City and Tramuntana mountain range in the distance.


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The Connected Car

Having satellite Internet built-in on your new car might not be as far fetched as it sounds. UIEvolution, provider of connected services platforms, is working with Kymeta to integrate its meta-materials based antenna into cars, as we are doing in the super yacht market. The partnership was announced at CES 2014, and since then the companies have begun working together to provide a new connectivity solution, which will create the means for cars to access the Internet more easily.

Currently UIEvolution uses 4G LTE services to deliver content to cars. “We know that while LTE is fast, there are going to be inefficiencies in the ability to service rural areas” said Chris Ruff, CEO of UIEvolution. “The car is going to be connected,” he said. “Nearly every major automotive manufacturer has announced some sort of connected services platform, and for the most part, they are moving from an option to a standard feature. That’s not 100% yet, and it certainly skews more heavily to industrialized countries like the United States, but the trends are all there. I think we’re at the very early stages right now.”

From our discussions with Kymeta, they plan to drop software, firmware and map updates to cars from the sky continuously to keep all of the one hundred plus processors found in today’s car electroni-cally up to date in preparation for the future “driverless car”! Adding Kymeta’s antennas to vehicles will provide satellite-

based connectivity to larger areas while making use of less bandwidth than LTE.

BBC’s Services on Astra move to a new satellite

As some of you may by now be aware, there have been recent changes to BBC’s services on Sky and Freesat which have been carried on six transpond-ers on satellites operated by SES Astra located at 28.2°East. In February 2012, one of these satellites (Astra 2D) was retired and BBC services moved to a new temporary home on Astra 1N. Astra 1N is shortly to be moved to its permanent position at 19°East, so the affected BBC services have transferred to a new permanent home on Astra 2E (28.2°East). This change took place on Thursday 6th February, and ITV and Channel 4 followed suit soon after.

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How has this affected your viewing?

Astra 2E and 2F now have slightly tighter and more powerful coverage, which means that UK households should get a slightly stronger signal. However, the overspill of the BBC’s services will be reduced, so viewers outside the UK will find it even harder to receive them. Freeview channels only are affected – your subscription channels remain unchanged.

What can you do if you are outside the UK?

There are various steps that can be taken to improve your viewing.

1. Try the various regional channels from 950 onwards as some are stronger than others. I have heard that BBC TWO for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are stronger.

2. Install a bigger satellite dish.

3. If you have a good internet connection, you can watch freeview channels (including BBC) live on www.filmon.com. 4. Explore the best of British TV

Last week, my colleague Tony Holland and I attended the Global VSAT Forum (GVF) in London, where we had been asked to do a presentation on the current and future state of play in super yacht commu-nications to a wide audience including satellite companies, representatives from the aircraft industry, and other maritime sectors, such as merchant, passenger and offshore. It was a fascinating couple of days, and we left with the distinct impres-sion that the communications technology which we are offer-ing to super yachts is well ahead of all other sectors.

The Connected Aircraft

We have all got used to switching off all our electronic communication devices during flights, and indeed this some-times gives a welcome respite from being constantly “on call”. However, some airlines have recently introduced Wi-Fi, and we are about to see a huge growth in these services over the next few years. At the end of 2012, of the 30,000 commercial aircraft, 2,600 were connected of which only 940 were connected by satellite and the others from the ground. At that time, 56 airlines provided connectivity and the average price for Internet on-board was $12. There was only a 5% take-up, as the service was so slow. This is all about to change with connectivity provided by satellites with much higher bandwidths. As Nick Burrett of SES said, “It is expected to be the same price as an appallingcup of coffee on EasyJet, so which would you prefer to

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Mobile World Congress 2014 (MWC)

Later this month the world’s biggest mobile event, the MWC, opens its doors again in Barcelona. The e3 team will be attending to explore the future technology and current improvements and additions to existing technology. So what do we expect to be the main highlights this year?

The first area showcased will be the Connected City. This is the area where we can go and explore how mobile will be embedded in the many devices that will make an impact on our lives. We expect to see connected cars, connected health monitors and connected utility meters.

The event will itself be connected with its own NFC ecosystem where visitors can go around the show with their NFC enabled smart phones to download information, presentations and videos at 61 “tap and go posts” positioned around the venue. They will also have an NFC entry badge that can be downloaded onto your smartphone that can then be used for fast track entry into the event but also at bars and restaurants.

There are a number of keynote presentations which this year includes Mark Zuckerberg,

CEO of Facebook, and Ginny Rometty, CEO of IBM, talking about the implications of mobile and the cloud.

The big themes for MWC predicted by the wider industry analysts are 4K and entertain-ment, increasing the resolution and streaming of entertain-ment, wearable technology (such as health monitors and fitness bands), low end of the market smart phones and the move to ecosystems. One of the analysts says it’s no longer just about devices, it’s now about the complete experience within an ecosystem such as those being developed by Google and Microsoft.

4G-LTE news

Further to my report last month about the blistering speeds experienced on 4G LTE on the new Vodafone Spain network, we are experiencing a rapid migration by yachts to 4G-LTE.

In the world’s most advanced mobile markets it is driving a surge in data usage, with 4G users typically consuming twice as much data per month as other users.

However a word of warning please be aware that due to the wide range of frequency bands in use worldwide the equip-ment and antennas need to be carefully specified.

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child labour. John was visiting the area as a part of an International Institute of Ma-rine Surveyors conference in November 2013.

As you will see from the images, it’s a huge operation stretching along a 10 km length of beach, where each “yard” is basically a 100 mtr stretch of sand! There are more than 100 recycling yards along this stretch of coast, all seemingly fully occupied!!

John was fortunate to meet the CEO of Dolphin Trade International, the first man to start this industry here in 1983. He explained that he is one of around only 12 cash ship buyers in the world, and he was the first person to bring a vessel to Alang 30 years ago. At that time, there was abso-lutely nothing there, just a bare

Not many people will know of Alang in India. It’s situatedaround 200 miles north of Mumbai, on the north west coast of the Indian Ocean, and is famous for just one thing; Ship Recycling. It’s the place which some of you will have seen on TV or the web where they drive ships up on to the beach, literally, to be broken down and recycled.

When Palma yacht surveyor, John Walker, told me a few months ago that he was to visit there, I was fascinated to know more about the place and how the industry originated in such an unknown location. I had seen a few reports on the web which were, to say the least, not very complimentary about issues such as human rights, health and safety, environmental pollution and exploitation of

beach. It took him and his team 12 months to dispose of a 2000 TLW ship, his first job. Nowa-days that same ship would take just 21 days to complete! Since then, his company has recycled over 350 ships, some of them amongst the largest ships ever built. He also runs a steel plant close by to the beach, a natural by-product of the recycling business.

John was fascinated, and indeed very pleasantly surprised to hear of the high standards to which his, and other similar businesses work to. It would be fair to say that John was anticipating a chaotic scene, with scant regard for safety, pollution and organisation. The opposite was the case. In fact the workers all wore hard hats, boots, gloves, overalls and goggles when required and the teams looked well organised, efficient and motivated. There was absolutely no evidence of under aged or abused workers. Each yard has a safety officer who is very serious about his responsibilities, and is well trained.

ISO 30000 is the standard of most of the yards. The state certifies that the vessel is fit for disposal. Very strict rules are enforced to minimise any environmental impact. Most of the fuel and any other hazardous liquids are removed from the vessel before the ship is beached. All employees must go through a thorough training procedure, normally a visually based programme, as many of them are illiterate, before they

are allowed to work in the yard. The yard has not suffered a single death in over 8 years, and very few serious injuries, which is quite remarkable for such a seemingly dangerous industry. Hazardous materials, such as batteries, must go to official government recycling sites for disposal, their workers are not allowed to touch them. The owners and operators of these yards welcome safety and anti-pollution controls, as they see them as being ultimately good for both the shipyard and India as a whole.

The methods used here are of course very labour intensive, a resource they are not short of. Allied to this is a resourcefulattitude to the jobs in hand. Once a ship is driven up the beach, the work starts. The first job is to fit an access ladder on to the ship, as they don’t tend to have doors at sea level !Holes are then made in the bow sections so that chains can be fed through the hull to pull the vessel higher up the beach. This is done with petrol driven windlasses somehow anchored into the sand. The flat bottomed ships are easier to drag up the beach than the V- hulls of course, and this is all built into the price offered to the ship owner when the deal is struck.

The steel hulls are then dismantled bit by bit, with cutting teams attacking the hull, initially cutting truck sized sections, and then into smaller sections for ease of handling. The amount and the type of steel used to construct the vessel is a large factor in the ship’s value. Large single items

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from on board are removed from the ship by attaching a heavy steel cable from the ship to the beach, and zip wiring them off the vessel. To John’s amazement, he saw a heavy electric motor be removed in this fashion! The yard were, at that time, working on a vesselwhich was originally the Exxon Valdes, which was later converted into a bulk carrier after the tragic accident it suffered as a tanker. They had also recently dismantled the largest ship ever built, the Knock Nevis, at 657,000 tons! The proprietor commented that they preferred working on tankers and cargo ships rather than liners due to the fact that liners have much more lining, contain much more plastics and are divided up into lots of small spaces, as well as having up to 1000 smoke detectors, which are radioactive, thus making it a much lengthier and more hazardous process to dismantle.

Behind the beach, a whole town has built up on the back of the ship recycling business, with shops stocking masses of the removed items from the ships. There are whole streets selling just about anything you could imagine belonging to a ship. There are whole streets just selling electronic instruments. Another selling safety equip-ment, another selling sextants and barometers etc etc interestingly though John commented that the prices were not particularly cheap. When he was haggling to buy some items and the store-keeper gave him a price, John

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In summary, John found an industry much more sophisti-cated than he was expecting, manned by a happy workforce, who were clearly well disci-plined in their work practices. The owners and managers of the yards are clearly very well educated, environmentally responsible and highly safety conscious individuals, who have built up a huge industry in just 30 years, providing employment for thousands of individuals. The past reputation of Alang and its industry have been dispelled from John’s mind. He has now seen how ships are born, how they operate and ultimately how many of them are laid to rest. With the useful (economic) life of the ship over, the components are “donated” to the next project. That “project” may require parts for an engine, steel for the next shipbuild or even teak for a yacht deck. That’s what ship recycling is about. It should be said that this type of ship breaking operation is being replicated in Turkey, Bangladesh and Pakistan where the same standards of ethics and professionalism cannot be verified to the same extent as Alang.


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We expect this to be a sell out. Space is limited, so book your place as soon as possible. An agenda is available from the Dovaston team.

MLC Course

With the ratification of the Maritime Labour Convention 2006, any yachts that charter are subject to the new regulations and must show compliance to achieve their MLC certificate. Port state inspectors will expect to see standard documentation correctly completed. To aid captains, senior officers and management companies who may be unfamiliar with the process, Nautilus International and leading crew agents Dovaston Crew will be hosting a two day MLC course in Palma. The dates for the course are 5th & 6th May. (Venue to be confirmed). The course tutors are ILO accredited representa-tives with experience in the yacht sector. The course objective is Implementation of MLC 2006 from the perspective of a non certified ship, and will include debate about deficien-cies and issues post MLC go live. The course will help navigate through a complex subject and dispel the many myths that have arisen around yachts and their inclusion in the regulations.

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STP participates in an interesting workshop on the outlook for sailing held by the Balearic Islands Government at Palma de Mallorca Chamber of Commerce

• The workshop, entitled “The yacht registration tax: giving a lift to the recreational sailing sector by doing away with it”, was very well attended

• Amongst the speakers was Patrick Reynés, who described how important the sailing sec-tor is to the Balearic Islands’ economy and its future prospects, and how he hoped that this opportunity to turn the islands into a prime location for yacht chartering would not be allowed to slip away under pressure from taxation

• The speakers were all in

agreement about the Balearic Islands’ great yacht-chartering potential and about the positive results of the initiatives already taken, though much remains to be done in order to put the islands on the map for prospective visitors

• More than anything else, concern was expressed duringthe afternoon about the increase in the 0 Rate, and both the Government and the Chamber of Commerce vowed to try and get it taken away

Patrick Reynés, manager of Marina Port de Mallorca and Managing Director of STP, took part yesterday in a workshop held by the Government at the Chamber of Commerce to analyse the yacht-chartering sector after the removal of the registration tax on these craft.

These sessions were chaired by the President of the Balearic Islands Government, José Ramón Bauzá, who was joined by the Minister of Tourism, the Minister of the Economy, the Director-General of Ports, the President of the Chamber of Commerce, the Director-General for Institutional Relations and the manager of Balearic Islands Ports.

Besides Patrick Reynés, the line-up of speakers included Patricia Bullock, Marta Iglesias, Antonio Zaforteza, Miguel Angel Serra and León von Ondarza, all of them great experts in the sector.

Reynés and the other speakerswere all of one mind about

one thing: the Balearic Islands have extraordinary potential and masses of appeal for the chartering sector and could generate substantial economic growth within all aspects of recreational sailing (moorings and services). The removal of the registration tax promises to be the start of a pleasing upward trend; however, the most important thing is to keep the momentum going and to take good care of the thousand or so craft of over 24 metres LOA which come here in search of a chartering spot in the Mediterranean, so as to keep them coming.

President José Ramón Bauzá expressed his support for the rebellion against the increase in the famous 0 Rate, since it only places the dampers on the natural growth that the Balearic Islands should be experiencing in the Mediterranean following the removal of the registration tax.

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I have been rather quiet during the past few weeks, simply because an additional amend-ment to the law was issued at the end of December last year which will also have a significant effect on the EU Charter Sector in Spain and we have been analysing the exact interpreta-tion and its’ effect.

Unfortunately, there has been a lot of confusion created as a result of a lack of reliable information and I have there-fore decided to issue a brief resume of the true situation as it is at this moment – pending full confirmation:-

1. The legislation concerning the first modification of the Matriculation Tax on charter yachts in Spain was formally issued in October 2013. This modification removes the 15 meter limit for exemption from the tax for all charter yachts operating in Spain – thereby allowing all charter yachts to claim exemption, providing they are correctly registered for tax purposes; have all the relevant documents available relating to flagging and commercial operations and also on the condition that no private use is allowed at all, especially by the registered or beneficial owner.

2. An additional amendment to the law was issued at the end of December last year which will also have a significant effect on

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However, it is rather complex and I have been waiting for the exact interpretation of this amendment to be confirmed by the Spanish Tax Specialists within the legal firm Garrigues, (www.garrigues.com) who have invested so much time into analysing and dealing with this situation on our behalf both here in Palma and on a National level in Madrid.

ANEN (Spanish National Nautical Trade Association), along with the previously mentioned legal team had a meeting last Thursday in Madrid at the very highest level and we are now waiting to receive binding opinion from the Government as to exactly how this new law will be applied.

In general, the condition relating to EU, non-Spanish charter yachts that no private use is allowed in order to claim total exemption from Matriculation Tax has been lift-ed. From what we understand, if the owner wants to use the yacht for his own personal use, 3 months of charter are allowed before a percentage of the matriculation tax has to be paid. The amount will be calculated in proportion to the amount of commercial use carried out.

This looks like further good news for non-Spanish charter yachts wanting to charter in Spain, but it is vital that we clarify the conditions before we proceed.

We are therefore looking into

receiving the required binding opinion from National level some time during next month, March.

More good news is that I was invited to speak last week at a meeting organised by the Balearic Government at the Palma Chamber of Commerce, on the subject of the potential of both economic growth and increase in jobs as a result of the modifications to the Matriculation Tax legislation and its effect on the Large Yacht Sector.

Along with many VIPs, the President of the Balearic Islands and two of his Ministers spoke and made it clear that the Balearic Government publicly confirmed their recognition of the potential which the Large Yacht Sector offers both to the economy and the labour market in Spain and have expressed their intention to assist us in any way possible.

Yacht Center Palma Expands shop RCNP

Yacht Center Palma, situated in the Real Club Nautico de Palma has recently expanded its space nearly to double its surface area. It has expanded on a second floor and an adjacent room. In total over 100 square meters at their disposal that allows them to display more stock and make a more transparent space. Besides electronics, clothing and equipment for sailing, Yacht Center Palma specializes in inflatable boats.

In this new space, they are taking the opportunity to offer high quality products from brands like Waeco, Vetus, Blue Sea Systems and of course the pneumatic AB Inflatables with its unparalleled commitment to quality and top value . For larger boats, engines and equipment, the company has its Marine Super Store in the area Son Bugadellas in Santa Ponsa.

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RSB is keeping it up in STP

Last week was a record week for RSB Rigging Solutions, who stepped three big rigs in two days; the first being 50m Ketch by Perini Navi, Is A Rose, closely followed by the graceful 34m sloop, Nephele.

The week begun with the final prep and build of the rigs, gearing up to the project completions. The re-step of the rigs had to be perfectly timed with the unsettled weather conditions. The riggers had two tempestuous weather windows so were up against the clock to ensure all the prep and build was in place in order to finish in time.

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RSB Rigging Solutions, launched in 2005, provide a complete service for the maintenance, repair and replacement of standing and running rigging and also have completed a large number of composite rigging retrofits. In the last three years RSB have extended more into the motor yacht market and have been involved with a number of mega-yachts building mooring and toe lines, tender lifting systems, as well as external access systems for wash downs. RSB Rigging Solutions can provide you with an efficient and professional service package for all your rigging needs.

AENIB Update - Letter from the president - February 2014

Within short, we´ll celebrate one of the association´s most expected events: the Annual General Meeting. We are work-

ing very hard to make it a very special evening where we can catch up with all of you in a friendly and relaxed atmos-phere. Otherwise, this past month has been quite agitated. We´ll analyze the most impor-tant news in continuation.

We are fast approaching the Annual General Meeting of the association. We have been working painstakingly and with enthusiasm for some time already to make it a magnificent event. Internally it is an oc-casion of great importance, therefore we hope to be able to count on your participation. During the Assembly we´ll ex-plain to you all the actions that we have carried out throughout the year, as you – the nauti-cal entrepreneurs, are the real motor of all our achievements, which have not been few. We will also give details of the future actions, which have been planned with one thing in mind: to help the nautical sector of the Balearic Islands to con-tinue prospering. And we will of course pay tribute to those companies and entities that have been prominent either by their trajectory or by their com-mitment to the nautical sector. In the next few days we´ll send you all the information regard-ing the Assembly, and hope that you will get as inspired as we are!

Few days ago we were stunned to receive the news about a llaüt that was burned on a bonfire in Manacor during the celebrations of Sant Antoni. A deplorable act that shows once again how poorly the

Balearic maritime heritage is known. Our community needs a maritime museum in Mallorca to safeguard this important part of our history and to show it to the society. The sea is part of our identity, but it seems like the majority is living with their back turned to it. In our opinion this cannot continue. As we explained, together with the principal organizations of the sector in a statement publicized by the local media, our commu-nity cannot continue a moment longer without an institution that looks after the protection, conservation and diffusion of the culture of the sea.

We received recently the rec-reational yacht market report, which is regularly published by ANEN based on official data. The report shows a continued negative tendency, although there is also a positive piece of information for the Balearic Islands: we are in the first place on the national ranking with a market share of 12,35% of the total, ahead of Madrid and Barcelona. In AENIB we believe that this downward tendency in registration numbers will turn for the better when the law changes and new fiscal regulations come into force. We believe that the modernization of the law of navigation, the simplification of the nautical qualifications and the exemp-tion of the matriculation tax on charter yachts will be the pillars that will support the recovery of the nautical sector. It is worth remembering that our associa-tion has actively participated in these achievements, either un-der own flag or through ANEN.

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Seven months before the people of Scotland are asked the seemingly simple question“Should Scotland be an independent country? yes/no” it seems to be getting more complex by the day as the posturing and posing rachet up and it becomes more difficult to find the facts amongst the fighting talk.

It is a big question that the Scots are being asked, the biggest they will face in hundreds of years, and their answer will shape not only Scotland, but the remainder of the United Kingdom for many generations to come. It is vital that their decision is based on reasoned analysis of the options open to them, not on Mel Gibson’s ‘freedom’ speech from Braveheart. But the SNP are selling the Scots short in leaving many of the most important questions unan-swered as the clock ticks down toward decision day.

It is far from clear what

currency a newly independent Scotland will be using. Salmond and the SNP are unequivocal on the issue. They will continue to use the pound sterling in exactly the way they are doing now. They claim, with some justification that it is just as much Scotland’s currency as it is for the rest of the UK. The problem is, that it just won’t work. As is abundantly clear with the Eurozone, if you are going to have a single currency serving multiple countries, you must therefore surrender control of your interest rates, and currency supply to a body, over which you have control. In short, it is like sitting in the driving seat of a car, and hand-ing the steering wheel over to somebody, who may not want to go in the same direction as you. If they were to share, and participate democratically in the economic decisions, this would require a major rewrite of the UK constitution to allow a ‘foreign’ country a say in UK policy, and in any case, they would always be outvoted by the more populous remainder of the union. It isn’t going to happen, and the Conservatives, Labour, the Liberal Democrats, the civil service and Mark Carney, the governor of the

Bank of England said so in one clear voice last month. Salmond’s retort was that they were all ganging up to bully the Scottish people with rhetoric into a ‘no’ vote. This may be partially true, but it certainly does not explain away the blatant impossibilities of sharing the pound. One alternative is that scotland just continues to use the pound anyway, effectively without the consent of Westminster and Threadneedle Street.

This is at least a possibility, but would leave the Scots with even less control over their currency, and therefore financial stability.

The third option, is no less plausible or palatable. For many years the SNP were pro Euro should they gain independ-ence. A lot has happened to the Euro since then, and not much of it was positive. They have quietly dropped this idea on the grounds that linking independ-ence to joining the basket case that is the single currency may result in a short sharp ‘no’. If Salmond were to open up this avenue as the shared sterling route appears to be barred, he will find it no less easy. He has always maintained that an

independent Scotland would seamlessly continue her membership of the EU, and Eurozone if they so desire. Not so says Jose Manuel Barosso, head of the European commission. They would be treated as a new country, and would be required to reapply. That application would need unanimous approval of existing members, and guess who would oppose it?, Spanish PM MarianoRajoy for one, who is keen to use this as an example to dampen ambitions of independence of the Catalan thorn in his side.

So the reading between the lines, Salmond and the SNP can’t tell you with any authority that they will have the pound, the Euro, or anything else. The message appears to be ‘just vote yes, and we can figure it all out after’. It’s like jumping out of a plane and figuring out how to make a parachute on the way down. Whether you are a ‘yes’, or a ‘no’, a Scot or not, you will have an opinion. This is a once in a lifetime question, and a very important one, the SNP owe it to the Scots to give them a defined and credible

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STRAIGHT TALK ON THE DOSH



Marine Reserves

Marine conservation will only truly succeed when it becomes profitable! A very sad but very true fact!

The most obvious option we have here in the Balearic Islands to increase profits and to protect the marine environment is through properly managed Marine Reserves. Sustainability of environment and economy go hand in hand when marine reserves are involved, as it has been demonstrated in different parts of the world.

Simply stated, a marine reserve is an area of the sea with fixed boundaries where fishing is banned or heavily restricted as well as other restrictions on

human activities. Giving whole environments the ability to grow and prosper.

The Balearic Islands has a total of 7 locally managed marine reserves, 5 of them here in Mallorca. Cabrera is a Marine National park so is not included in that total but from a protection point of view we have 8 different marine protected areas in the Balearics.

This network of 7 marine reserves covers 490 km2. The Cabrera National Park covers other 87 km2. This means that nearly 20% of the Balearic coastal waters are protected!

With the above figures we can safely say that the Balearic Islands network of Marine Protected Areas represents around 60% of all Spanish Mediterranean protected areas, hence we are already playing a leading role in this area for Spain. However, this is on paper only. The reality is that here in Mallorca currently our marine reserves are not sufficiently policed hence illegal fishing is ripe and our fish stocks are being damaged within these protected areas.

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Marine reserves, without proper policing or monitoring, are not the solution to our balance between a sustainable environment and sustainable economy. The wheels are in motion to find solutions for this, I cant say too much yet but what I can say is I know the path has been set!

What are the benefits of marine reserves?• Protect biodiversity• Increased biomass of fish stocks within the reserves• Spillover• Increased tourism

The local artisanal fishing community would benefit hugely from local marine

reserves that are managed and policed properly. Spillover is a term used to describe the fish stocks that populate areas outside the reserves bounda-ries due to the saturation of the reserve itself with these species, as well as the fact that larger fish produce more eggs which have a greater chance of being dispersed outside the MPA. Hence commercial fishing around these areas becomes sustainable and not the cause of the reduction of fish stocks like we have today!

Since arriving to Mallorca 4 years ago I have heard very sad stories from traditional fishing families that have now stopped fishing commercially because it is simply not profitable enough. It is mathematically impossible to continue the way we are when it comes to removing fish from the sea!

What about the rest of our nautical community? How do we benefit financially?

With the Matriculation tax now amended in a way which should increase the number of charter vessels here in the Balearics, I would like to think that taking charter guests for a snorkel or a dive within a local marine reserve would be one of the headlining in water activities to

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be offered. In fact, through my experience of rendezvous diving with international charter guests here in Mallorca I have seen first hand the huge benefits this has given to their whole experience. I have also heard it directly from the guests themselves. I asked one of my clients what he had heard about diving in the Mediterranean, his response was not exactly positive. After two dives in a local marine reserve I asked him what his thoughts were about the Mediterranean now, after he and his family had all enjoyed the dives. “I am coming back!” was his response and said with a huge smile on his face! One example of the benefits of adding the underwater dimension to international charter guest’s experiences.

We are not in the Coral Sea and most people understand this, but what we can offer through healthy marine ecosystems and a 5 star service are memories that last a lifetime and hence return visits and a lifetime of recommendations to visit the Balearic Islands.

With global awareness of marine related issues at its highest, adding healthy marine reserves to our tourist attractions will add a new

dimension to the traditional tourism we have today here in the Balearic Islands of the all inclusive holidaymaker. We will actually be attracting tourists that wish to spend their money outside of their hotels, which in turn will benefit small to medium size businesses that offer nature related tours and experiences as well as the auxiliary businesses that are involved in this market.

Oil prospecting in the Balearic Islands will make the local government very little money, however, well managed marine reserves through taxes, fines for people doing the wrong thing and increased numbers of spending tourists will generate the local government much more revenue for a much longer time. It really is a no brainer!

Asociacion Ondine has a Marine Reserve public awareness campaign in the pipeline, with the surprisingly limited knowledge our local community has regarding Balearic Marine Reserves I think this campaign is well over due and desperately needed.

For more information on Balearic Marine reserves visit our website:www.AsociacionOndine.org/marine-reserves


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put your dive skills and training to the test. Many yachts these days have scuba gear onboard for recreational use (not just for cleaning the hull and props). At yacht shows, yachts open the Lazarette and proudly display an array of watersport equipment, almost always with scuba gear on show.

The question is, how prepared are you or the yacht to conduct diving? Can you answer the following questions:

- Is there a Manual of Operations for conducting diving with structure and safety in mind? - Do you know how to maintain gear?- Are you able to assess the preparedness of a guest to go diving? - Do you have the correct safety first aid gear to support a Tender dive trip?- Do you have qualified crew

Scuba Diving onboard Superyachts – Are you prepared?

Over the last few issues I have focused on different types of training courses for adults and children, ranging from entry level Open Water Diver to Specialties to Instructor. I hope this has inspired you to give diving a try or to build on your experience to make you a more capable diver allowing you to practice more advanced levels of diving.

I’d like to focus on diving onboard as a crew member. Hopefully you may have the opportunity to develop your diving passion further with owners and guests, especially if you are cruising such glori-ous locations as the Caribbean, Indian Ocean or the Pacific and

members onboard to supervise and guide dives?

Captains, if you cannot answer all these questions with a positive ‘YES’ then your yacht, should you wish to conduct diving activities, is an strong candidate for our Yacht Scuba Safety (YSS) programme. YSS is customised specifically to prepare Superyachts for divingby providing training and consultation for development of a dedicated ‘Dive Team’ within the crew and establishment of Operations Standards.

We advocate a very high standard of safety to conduct superyacht diving and prepare you for all contingencies (emergencies, dive location advisories and provision of dive professionals). This naturallyextends to a general safety standard for supervising all watersport activities. One obvious and direct factor is

having qualified and experi-enced dive crew. At a minimum we recommend crew members should be Rescue Diver trained to be part of a Dive Team, preferably a Divemaster or Instructor.

Often times, a solution is found by conducting rendezvous diving, whereby the yacht organises with a local dive operator and their guides to take guests diving. But how reputable is the dive op and are they capable of delivering a 5 Star service the same as provided onboard. Why not use the dive gear onboard already, that’s what it’s there for, and engage the crew to be part of the fun!

For high profile and serious charter yachts or private yachts with owners who love to dive, we can assist with setting up an onboard PADI dive centre to enhance the Dive Operations programme. What could be more luxurious then chartering a yacht in the Maldives with its own private Dive Centre and dive professionals as part of the crew? Essentially, a private livaboard of the highest calibre.

If you want to conduct diving from your superyacht, I urge you to give serious considera-tion to installing a Dive Operations standard of the calibre set by our unique and exclusive programme to enrich your yacht activities and offerings. Should you choose to, we are the highly experi-enced experts to help you.

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Wet and Windy

The wind had been blowing consistently, in the same direction, all week, and the Bay of Palma was peppered with white horses (let’s call it a moderate 4 on the Douglas Sea Scale) i.e. no good for SUP. So we headed north to Bonaire, the posh part of Port Alcudia, to escape the waves. The plan worked in the sense that the sea was far less lumpy, but was flawed in the sense that 25 knot (46 kph) gusts were still whistling around our ears. This was going to be ‘interesting’.

“When you stand up your body will act like a sail, and if you’re not careful you’ll end up 60km away in Menorca,” said instructor Eugenio (www.bellini.es) to the assembled crowd, a crowd that consisted of two beginners (one aged 15), two experienced, one not so sure, and a final two who’d retreated to the car with OK! magazine. “Stay close to the shore and

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stay close to me, if you all go scudding off in different directions and need rescuing, I can’t be in six places at once.” (I noticed the 15-year-old’s mother make the sign of the cross at this point.) We’d driven so far (in Mallorca terms), we couldn’t back out now, the wetsuits went on.

By a stroke of luck, 100 metres west of our Cocodrilo car park meeting point, there was a horseshoe-shaped bay that not only offered a degree of protection from the elements, but also a beautiful Balearic backdrop to die for – turquoise waters, distant mountains and a carpet of spring wild flowers at shoreline. What we were about to do may not have been pretty, but the scenery sure was.

Within moments Eugenio’s “body will act like a sail” comment came into play, I have never experienced anything like it. Having made a group decision to put the escapade down as a ‘practice’ rather than a ‘tour’, the deal was to

and felt compelled to repeat our usual winter lunacy by abandoning wetsuits at the end for an immune system-activat-ing swim. I suspect the shore-side spectators felt secretly smug that they’d stayed snug and dry and the 15-year-old’s mother was able to breathe a sigh of relief when her daughter was delivered safely onto the sand, injury and hypothermia free.

I am not going to lie, the post-SUP menu del día in Alcudia town was probably slightly more enjoyable than the SUP itself – in particular the warm-ing glasses of rosé. However, this column has helped to prove that, whatever the weather, whatever the wind, it is possible to SUP in Mallorca throughout the winter and there will always be people mad enough to join you.

If you’re also slightly mad, contact www.bellini.es - they’re open throughout the winter and prices start from 20 euros a head for three hours’ SUP including equipment hire.

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You could literally stand on your board, do absolutely nothing, not dip the paddle into the water even once, and end up 50 metres away. Likewise you could battle the elements, burn your biceps paddling against the wind to shore, have a quick chinwag with a friend, and find yourself out back where you started. I genuinely believe we could have covered the 60km to Menorca with ease, in less than five minutes (we’ll try that next time). In short, the best solution was to get that “sail” down and stay on your knees.

So, how was it for the team? Well, ‘grown-up’ beginner one took to SUP like a duck to water and merrily paddled about – standing up and kneeling down – and kept her hair dry through-out. ‘Junior’ beginner was brave and persevering, however the wind did no favours for her slight lack of steering control. No sooner had we got her on her feet than she was career-ing towards a rock and flinging herself to her knees once more. I owe it to her to take her for a rematch on a calm sunny day; it’ll be a real confidence booster as she’ll probably find it a doddle.

Mr ‘not so sure’ remained so, and sadly had a few unintended dips in the sea – all well and good in the summer when wa-ter temperatures average 26ºC, less good when it’s a chilly 13.9ºC. The two ‘experienced’ (myself included) found it to be an ‘experience’

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Stew of the Month: Adela Zumrova

Q: How did your yachting career begin?A: I worked as a nanny for a lovely couple - captain and his ex-yachtie wife. I enjoyed their stories so much that a year and a half later I got my first position on a 80m yacht as crew mess stewardess. I’ve worked on yachts pretty much ever since.

Q: Tell us about your current position and its advantages / downfalls.A: Currently, I am the Chief Stew on a private 35m Sunseeker. We are between 6-7 crew so it feels like a family. I like that it is still easy to stay on top of things. Also the atmosphere is quite relaxed and “rules” are flexible. The down-fall is that there is not much privacy, due to the size, and there’s a lack of possibility of career advancement on board of the same yacht.

Q: How was your delivery experience? Are there any tips for other Chief Stews that are having their boat transferred using Dock Express?A: Last December our yacht was lifted out of the water and shipped from Genoa to Dubai. It was my first shipping ever so I was not sure what to expect. Nevertheless, we wrapped everything in the interior into plastic sheets, bubble wrap and towels, locked all the doors or secured them with the blue tape. All the fridges, freezers and icemakers were emptied and cleaned. I left them open, put a kitchen towel in the door and secured with blue tape to prevent moulding. I was advised to gather all the alcohol and seal it and be ready with a proper inventory for the customs in UAE. On such a small yacht there is no suitable space thus using crates I put all the alcohol into two guest showers and taped the doors over. Of course, once in Dubai, no one ever showed up and I used the stock to serve the guests.My overall advice is to have the interior ready as much as possible to be used as once the

yacht is delivered you will prob-ably have to do lots of shopping and run other errands while the guests may be waiting pretty much on the quay ready to get on. Oh, you may also have to get your hands on the prescrip-tion medicine that is usually kept in the fridge.

Q: How do you keep fit onboard?A: Depending on the size of the yacht, its facilities and the freedom crew gets I may use the onboard gym. Once there was time when we got addicted to HIIT, when you use your own body weight to exercise for some 20 minutes a day. I also try to keep my eating habits in line with what I consider healthy and my alcohol intake to minimum, which is almost impossible! Whenever I can, I take some time to get off the boat and go for a walk. This keeps me healthy and sane at the same time!

Q: Favourite movie?A: The Life is Beautiful.

Q: What inventory system do you use? A: Excel spread sheet

Q: How do you preserve flowers onboard? A: I change the water every 2-3 days, sometimes adding sugar or bleach, to cut flowers. For the potted ochids, after trying all the different advice, water-ing the soil once a week works the best, both for me and the orchids. I also make sure they have a constant temperature.

Q: How do you keep children onboard entertained? A: From my experience, guests usually bring their own nanniesso then you do not have to worry. However, be stocked on games, download instructions how to fold towels into animal shapes, do funny table decorations and know the destination activities for children. Kids love doing what adults do, thus make peace with the chef and ask him/her to give a cooking class or two to your young guests.

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Super Yacht Luxury Networking Event 4 April, 3-6 pm

Yacht Stews, come and join us for an afternoon of networking with your local Palma suppliers.

At the Galley Club on Calle Cotoner, 21 in Santa Catalina. http://thegalleyclub.com/en/

- Wine Tasting from Wine Educators International- Make Up Demonstration - Clothes Swap (Bring any clothing or accessories which you would like to swap)

Goody bags for all Yacht Stews attending, and a raffle to win top prizes.

To reserve your place register: [email protected]

how to make mocktails and presented them with a certificate, pictures and recipes on the last night of the charter. Tip guaranteed! How about wa-ter sport olympics, teach them basics of housekeeping - just kidding here!!! Camping on the aftdeck, picnic on the beach? The list here is endless. Just keep the boat clean, please!

Q: What is your onboard pet hate? A: Mugs in the sink, I think all the stews have that, and people that are either too negative, lazy or think they know it all.

Q: What is your favourite yachting destination?A: I have not been to many places but so far I would vote for Mexico, California Baja. The water is awesome, beaches pristine and margaritas are served in seemingly bottomless glasses.

Q: If you could give your 20yr old self one piece of advice what would it be?A: Save more, travel more, study more. Don’t get trapped in the yachting bubble and try to come up with an exit plan.

Q: How can aspiring Steward-ess’ gain experience before entering the yachting industry?A: You can get hands on experience from summer job in upscale bar/restaurant/hotel. Having some of the basic interior courses is definitely an advantage too.

Q: Which are your favourite crew agents? A: Helen Stachini from Dovaston Crew and Torbjorn Hoglund from Crew Network for their professional yet friendly attitude. I also like JF Recruiting for being so user friendly.

Q: What do you least enjoy about yachting? A: Not spending enough time with my family and friends. I also can’t stand the crew mess politics and sometimes the superficiality of all of this.

Q: What tips do you have for Stews that are out of work in Palma over the winter period?A: Depending on your finances, educate yourself - do more trainings, learn Spanish. If you are cold, sign up for the Bikram yoga classes. If you like the outdoors, winter is the best time for hiking. If you have no one to go with join one of the many groups on facebook such as couch surfing.

Q: Whats your favourite adventure in Mallorca? A: Hiking or paddle boarding with my friends. Not very adventurous I know but not many things can beat that. Although, any night out can turn into an adventure in Palma!

Q: What has been the best training course that you have done in your yachting career! A: I really enjoyed wine training by VSF, PBL2 by Aigua Sea School and Stewardess

Massage Course by Super Yacht Luxury. They were worth every penny! Oh, and I should not forget silver service by Silver Service training in Palma.

Q: What has been your career highlight?A: Personally, all the places I have seen. I just love travel-ling. Professionally, working for the richest man in the world. Although, I have never seen him but don’t tell anyone!

Q: What is your best personal asset? A: Being hardworking, energetic and, although I may not look like it sometimes, organized. I have also heard from others that I am very patient with the guests.

Q: Where would you like to be in 10 years? A: Travelling around the world with my partner, happy children, family and friends.

Q: What is your best travel tip? A: Travel light, be open minded and smile. Everybody is gonna love you and you will enjoy.

Q: Whats the biggest thing you spoilt yourself to at the end of a hard season? A: A 4 month holiday in India.

Q: What is the best internet resource that you use for your job? A: I started following Isobel Odendaal’s page on Facebook, which is full of great tips for stews. For the decoration ideas I like to browse on line brochures of charter agents and different pinterest boards. I also have many apps on my phone which make my work little bit easier.

Q: What are your top 3 new years goals?A: Be better in keeping in touch with my family and friends. Travel somewhere I haven’t been to before. Buy my first property.

Q: Tell us about your best Bridget Jones moment onboard. A: While serving dinner one of the guests asked me where the shrimps came from. It was one of my blond moments so I answered they were from the sea, with “obviously sir, where else?” having written all over my face. We all had a good laugh about it. Since then I ask the chef about the origin of his produce.

Q: When are we going to see you back in Palma? A: Hopefully in May!

Hooray, we can’t wait to have you back Adela!

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In the competitive crew market it’s helpful to have a few extra skills up your sleeve. Massage skills are a really useful skill to have onboard, especially on charter. And you don’t need to have a spa onboard, we’ll teach you how to set up a massage area in various locations onboard. Treat guests

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The next Palma course will be held 12-16th May.

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- 3 stalks lemongrass, outer leaves discarded and bottom 6” roughly chopped into 1/2″ sections- 1 3/4 cups sugar- 5 cups of water - soda water- gin (optional)- lime wedges

1. Throw the ginger and lemon-grass into a food processor and process until it becomes the consistency of a thick puree. You’ll have to stop the machine and scrape down the sides a couple of times.

2. In a saucepan over high heat, add water, lemongrass/ginger

and the sugar. Boil and immediately turn heat to medium-low and simmer for 15 minutes, uncovered. Strain with a couple layers of cheesecloth or a clean tea towel. Chill in fridge until ready to serve. (This step can be done a few days in advance)

3. To serve, fill a tall glass with ice. Add a ¼ cup of syrup in the glass. Top with soda water and or gin. Add a quick squeeze of lime and decorate with piece of lemongrass stalk with a lime wedge pierced though it.

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Mallorcan Wines, Part 3

Bodegas Son Puig is a small family winery that produces top really quality wines in Puigpunyent, Mallorca. Therefore its location means that the vineyards are officially outside of the island’s two D.O. regions (Binissalem & Pla i Llevant) leaving the wines to be classified as ‘Vi de la Terra Mallorca / Vino de la Tierra. The wine production here is very limited and comes only from grapes grown exclusively in the estate’s own vineyards in the locality. These grapes are only ever handpicked by the same people, including the characterful father Ramon & lovely daughter Isabel in person, every single harvest season.

The winery’s modern

architecture and ‘cutting-edge’ technology have been added sympathetically into an ancient, historic and traditional wine-making building. The Son Puig estate is listed in the ancient real estate inventory held by the Town Council in Puigpunyent. Back in 1597 there already were vineyards at Son Puig, making it one of the oldest original wine sources on the island. Indeed the beautiful, original tiled floors of one wing of the family’s apartments had to be lifted individually by hand to allow the specially designed, squat stainless steel tanks to be lowered into place before replacing the floors! This is a story that we love to regale our wine & gastronomy visitors with. The winery has been designed to produce just 50,000 litres of wine a year. The house still has a private chapel and a (unused!) slave hole!

“In the inventory that was made following the death of Felip des Puig, in 1597, Son Puig is recorded as having houses with

different rooms and chambers, an olive oil press, a storage room for oil, stables, acourtyard, a small old winery and a new one...”

Furthermore, a note by Jeroni de Berard in 1789 states “It (Son Puig) is large; it has a kitchen garden with fruit and flowers, water and vines. It is owned by Joseph Despuig from Palma.” Cardinal Despuig (1745-1813) was the estate and house’s best-known owner.

However, the property’s original construction date is unknown. Possibly the estate’s first building was a defensive tower for the inhabitants of the valley of Puigpunyent.

The winery and Son Puig’s different wines are the result of the efforts and dedication of a family who are convinced that sustainable ways of working the land and maintaining big rural estates, based on agricultural production and processing systems, are the pathway to the future for our historical heritage.

By arrangement the visiting groups here can enjoy the wine tasting in the beautiful gardens of the property, cherry orchards as well as vines, accompanied by a fantastic Mallorquin tapas selection, lovingly prepared by mother!

The wines:

Sonpuig Blanc d’estiu“summer white” - young, fresh and fruity: Chardonnay, our

native Premsal Blanc plus Sauvignon Blanc

Sonpuig estiu Tinto“joven y alegre” - with subtle ageing in barrels. Recommended serving chilled at 15ºC during the summer. A blend of the estate’s four red grape varieties: Cabernet Sauvignon, indigenous Callet, Merlot & Tempranillo

Sonpuig Tintowith a 10 to 14-month ageing period in French and American oak barrels. Also a blend of the estate’s four red grape varieties: Cabernet Sauvignon, indigenous Callet, Merlot & Tempranillo

Gran SonpuigThe same estate blend again, but having a 12 to 24-month ageing period in the French & American oak barrels followed by at least 2 years ageing in the bottle prior to release.

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and storage temperature of the meat, the heat of the pan, air temperature; all affect the cooking time. At the end, the surface should be charred, the centre barely cooked and, after a period of resting, the temperature will have evened out through the meat before it gets cold. That’s the theory at least. Cooking a steak sous-videis different. Sealed in a water-tight pouch it is sunk into a water bath at 56.6C where it remains for a half an hour or so, at which point the core of the meat is at the same tempera-ture as the surrounding water. It doesn’t matter much past this point how long the pouch stays in the tank - it simply can’t overcook. When the chef needs to finish the steak… the bag is removed from the water bath and the steak is removed, seasoned and thrown into a hot pan to sear the outside. Without the need for it to be rested, the meat is perfectly pink all the way through, plated and served.

The physics are simple. We cook things by raising their temperature. Air, by which heat is transmitted in a normal oven, is a very bad conductor. Water or oil are much better - which is why we boil, deep fry or confit some food. Controlling temperature accurately in a box of air - basically what a domestic oven is - is difficult. In a bath of water it’s easy.

What you lose with sous vide cooking is the hands on experi-ence of...well, cooking. Eve-rything is sealed in plastic, so there is no tactical experience of handling the food as it cooks. No aromas fill your kitchen. No adjustments can be made mid-cooking. There’s an artistry to sous vide cooking, there’s no denying that; but it can also make any cook feel remarkably distant from their food.

Sous Vide

These days, chefs in most restaurants are using new science and modern technologyto improve and enhance their food to some extent and Sous vide cooking has quickly become one of the hottest culinary techniques found in most professional kitchens throughout the world. So why are all top chefs turningto this type of cooking? Well, what you gain with sous vide is perfectly cooked food every single time. The vacuum-packaging seals in all the natural juices, flavours, and seasonings into whatever you’re cooking. The temperature control means the food will literally never over-cook. Proponents of sous vide cooking point to chicken breast so tender you can cut it with a fork and scrambled eggs the consistency of fine custard.

Sous vide is French for “under vacuum” and describes the cooking of raw ingredients in heat-stable, vacuum-sealed plastic bags at precise temperatures. Despite its name, precise temperature control is more important for chefs than vacuum-sealed packaging. If you take a piece of fillet steak, and throw it into a hot pan, you heat the exterior very rapidly while the centre takes longer to cook. There are all sorts of variables. The thickness, texture

Sous vide cooking has been used in the world’s top restaurants since the 1970s, was extensively studied by food scientists in the 1990s, and has started showing up in home kitchens in recent times. The problem is that in order to maintain the precise control of temperature, sous vide cooking requires a temperature-controlled water bath and a means to vacuum seal the foods to be cooked and these do not come cheap. A cheaper option is to try cooking “en papillote”. A traditional French technique that refers to food that is cooked or baked while tightly sealed in greased parchment paper. The food typically cooks up in minutes, the sealed parchment literally puffing up as the food gently steams inside. Because it is delicate and cooks quickly, fish is a good choice for cooking en papillote. When serving a recipe prepared en papillote, it is traditional to

present the dish by slicing open the paper in front of the guest.

Baked Fruits “en papillote” with ginger and cinnamon

Ingredients: (serves 4)60g piece of fresh ginger root, peeled and very finely sliced4 cinnamon sticks3 under-ripe bananas, sliced into bite-sized pieces1 peach, stoned and quartered ½ small pineapple, chopped into bite-sized pieces4 fresh figs, quartered1 sprig of fresh basil, leaves picked

Place the sliced ginger in the small saucepan. Add the cinnamon sticks, sugar and enough water to just cover. Bring to the boil and simmer the syrup until the ginger is tender, around 20 minutes. Remove and discard the cinnamon sticks.

Preheat the oven to 200°C/gas 6.

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Take four sheets of foil, 30cm x 25cm. Place a mixture of the banana, mango, pineapple, peach and figs in the centre of the bottom half of each sheet.

Divide the sliced ginger and basil leaves evenly among the four sheets. Drizzle over the cinnamon ginger syrup. Fold over the paper and seal the edges by folding over several times, taking care not to squash the fruit or make the foil parcel too tight.

Place the foil parcels on a baking sheet and bake for 15 minutes, during which time the parcels should puff up like balloons. Transfer the parcels onto 4 serving plates and open up at the table. Serve with vanilla ice cream.

Thai Baked Salmon

Similar to “en Papillote” …cooking in Banana leaves is another simple way of sealing in flavours. Ingredients: (serves 4)

1tbsp sesame oil 1 small red chilli, deseeded and roughly chopped 1 lemongrass stalk, roughly chopped 20g galangal or root ginger, peeled and roughly chopped 2 garlic cloves, crushed 4 lime leaves, roughly chopped 1/2tsp ground cumin 10g coriander leaves 20g basil 4 salmon fillets each about 200g 1 banana leaf, about 1 metre in size

For the dipping sauce:

1tbsp sesame oil 1 small red chilli, deseeded and finely chopped 1tbsp finely chopped galangal or root ginger 1tbsp finely chopped lemon-grass 2 lime leaves 1 garlic clove, crushed 3tbsp soy sauce Preheat the oven to200C/gas mark 6.

For the dipping sauce:Heat the sesame oil in a pan and fry the chilli, galangal, lemongrass, lime leaves and garlic gently for 1 minute to soften them and release their flavours. Add the soy sauce, bring to the boil, then allow to cool and pour into a bowl or, ideally, individual dipping-sauce dishes.

For the fish parcels:Heat the sesame oil in a pan and gently cook the chopped chilli, lemongrass, galangal, garlic, lime leaves and ground cumin for a couple of minutes until the aromatics are soft. Tip the pan’s contents into a food processor with the coriander and Thai basil, together with a couple of tablespoons of water, and blend to a paste. Spread this on the fish fillets and wrap each one in a piece of banana leaf like a parcel, folding the leaf so the edges join beneath the fillet. Bake for 12 minutes in a hot oven. Place a fish parcel on each plate with a pot of the dipping sauce. Serve with the fragrant rice.

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What with all the hype in the media about GM foods, we read horrifying stories of villainous corporations injecting truck-loads of growth hormones into our livestock, innocent farmed fish being force fed animal off cuts and chicken legs, it’s a wonder that we can look at our carne clear in the polystyrene and rejoice. In Mallorca organic meat is available but comes with a distinctly unflavourable price tag - and we are in the depths of a crisis for goodness sake! With this firmly in mind I cast some thoughts to what is available to us, the humble consumer. Take a drive in our beautiful island, cast your glance on all those spring lambs frolicking in green pastures. At the risk of offending our lovely vegetarian and vegan readers of The Islander, I have been thinking, you can’t get more natural than lamb. I am not suggesting you leap out of your motor, chase down and wring a cute lamb by the neck, now that would be just un-kind. But when at your butcher consider a rack of lamb the next

time you want to dazzle at the dinner table. The followingrecipe is easy and locally sourced using mostly Mallorcan food - olive oil, black olives, garlic and thyme. Also, give the Panko breadcrumbs a chance - they are the only real foreigner in this recipe originating in Japan But I can promise you, dear friends that you’ll never let a packet of Quellys near your galley after using panko. They are flakier, tend not to soak up the oil, and give the old taste buds a very satisfying crunch. Bit swanky are Panko breadcrumbs, but very versa-tile. Dredge prawns with egg and roll them in panko - chuck em in the oven and serve with a sweet chilli sauce - yum! You are gonna love this recipe!

Rack of Mallorcan Lamb in olive crust with olive oil (2 people)

2 racks of lamb6 tbs olive oil2 shallots100g stoned black olives, chopped finely2 cloves of garlicBunch fresh thyme

Lemon zest from one lemon100g panko breadcrumbs

Gently fry shallots, garlic and olives in a splash of olive oil, remove from heat and chuck in roughly chopped thyme and lemon zest - mix with bread-crumbs and extra olive oil to make a paste, Have a happy old grind of the salt and pepper rubbing well into the lamb. In a preheated oven (170C) roast racks for about 15 to 20 mins. Five mins before lamb is finished, whisk these little racks from the oven and smear the olive mixture over the flat side of the racks. Pop back ithe oven until crisp. I would serve this little gem with some garlicky potato gratin and generous quantities of red wine. One other tip I have to share with

you if you are indeed a bit of a lambaholic is to take yourself up to Es Verger in the Alaro mountains. Referred to by grotty yachties as The Farm-house just under the Castillo de Alaro. You’ll park your car there and be confronted by some shabby farmhouse buildings, peer into the darkened interior you’ll spy an ancient waitress slowly moving from tiny table to bench like tables. And more likely than not the place will be jam packed with punters because in this somewhat dingy restaurant you will be feasting on some lamb dishes of considerable note. I wouldn’t however take a glance into the bowels of the kitchen.

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News from Deckers Barcelona

The closing of 080 Barcelona Fashion Week Winter 2014/15 brings the realization that the year is already flying by and a changing of the guard is happening in shop windows all over Barcelona! Walking along Portal del Angel you can see the mannequins exchanging tight black trousers for high-waisted shorts and lace-up heels. Spring fashion is on its way and fair enough, we might keep the holographic trend to the lenses of our aviators, but we can definitely support the white shirt dress and the contrast collar button-downs. Girl’s civvies will include wide-leg pants, cropped jackets and athletic bikinis in pastels and quirky prints. Men’s trends are leaning toward the double-breasted blazer and man bag, but in the yachting world, floral swim trunks and neon sneakers will be most popular worn by deckies racing down the Paseo on skateboards. Keep up boys and get your print on!

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Well if you have been out here in Palma, you would have been hard pushed to miss the hundreds of bare legs on display! Nope, we haven’t been having a heat wave and taken to our bikinis just yet, but Trofeo Palma, one of the most exciting road season cycling events, has been in full swing, giving us girls a great oppor-tunity to don our sunnies and pretend we aren’t looking and all the hunky legs up and down the Paseo! The Italians pipped it this year at a nail biting photo finish. Meanwhile, back at Deckers HQ Palma, we are busy preparing for our first party of

2014 with a newly renovated showroom. What better day to celebrate than St Patricks Day? Come and join us for the craic, we will be sure to be sure to keep you entertained! Also a great opportunity to check out all the latest trends and new products in time for your new season – save the date, and we look forward to seeing all our yachty friends there! News From Deckers Antibes

We’ve just been loving February on the French Riviera... With owners at bay and leave to take, the snow enthusiasts amongst us boaties have been heading on mass to nearby Isola 3000 and Limone.Back in Antibes, gone are the lengthy debates about who works on the 100m or who polishes with the most finesse, the talk is all “360’s”, “kickers” and “yard sales”. For those novices amongst us, this is snowboarding slang for when one’s equipment falls off, leaving whoever fell to walk back up the hill to gather hat, goggles, skis, poles etc. In Deckers terms, “yard sale” refers to our fab seasonal promotion where we’re offering 10% off selected items. Contact your local Deckers agent for more details.

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I’m sure that if someone actually made a study it would be proven that the majority of nervous breakdowns were caused in some way by fitted sheets

Up until the arrival of the fitted sheet the only option was a flat sheet and carefully constructed hospital corners but these rarely stayed in place. It wasn’t unit 1959 that Bertha Berman patented the idea which was then improved on in 1990 by Gisele Jubinville who later sold the patent for $1million. Since then the principle hasn’t really changed, it’s a sheet with corners and elastic to hold it on. It sounds simple enough but how many of us have felt our stress levels rising whilst attempting to get the short side of the fitted sheet to fit over the long side of the bed? Add to this the irregular shaped beds on most yachts and you find yourself only moments away from flinging the fitted sheet out the window. So why is such a simple idea causing so many headaches? It’s all in the measurements - if the sheet isn’t made to fit correctly it is never going to fit. Fear not fitted sheet phobes – Home & Yacht Finest Bed

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Linen can help smooth away those shattered nerves. They provide bespoke and standard bed linens and are experts with fitted sheets for the all types of irregular shaped yacht beds. To get a fitted sheet that fits perfectly requires that the bed is measured correctly and know-ing which parts to measure. (Finest Bed Linen typically take at least 10-15 individual measure-ments of a typical bed) Secondly the elastic has to be perfectly tensioned to give just the right amount of resistance to keep the sheet on without the need for super human strength to stretch it onto the bed. And finally, a label for each sheet with the name of the boat and the cabin/bed it goes on helps to make up a bed on the move by placing the label in the centre of the head of the bed and working around the sheet until you find yourself back at the top with a perfectly fitted, beautifully smooth fitted sheet. At Home & Yacht Finest Bed Linen we offer a wide range of standard and bespoke bedding. Our own range of 400 thread count Egyptian cotton and our luxury Italian woven fabric is in stock with fabric available to bespoke make any irregular sized items.

Zelebri.Com Takes Top-Class Chef Home

Zelebri.com starts in Mallorca with 23 Chefs, among those who are Macarena de Castro, Fernando P. Arellano, Gerhard Schwaiger and Marc Fosh

11 February 2014 – The fact that gastronomy is booming it is not news. TV Shows about amateurs and professional chefs, corporate events where chefs and their “show- cookings” are the clear protagonists, underground din-ners, ephemeral banquets and private dinners at home are just a few examples that draw the new leisure -gastronomic reality.

In this context, we have Zelebri.com, the first online platform of Top-class Chefs that enables you to hire private chefs and organise dining experiences at home with just a click.

Experiences such as “Green Revolution,” “3-Star dinner”, “Show- cooking”, “Traveling Cooking”, “Eco-Local-KM.0” or “Cocktail” are some of the culi-nary proposals that Zelebri Chefs

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offer through their unique and differentiated menus with prices ranging between € 20 and € 250 per person.

ASide from this, the Zelebri platform offers the possibility of hiring additional services to the Chef’s Menu, such as crockery, furnishings, table decorations, waiter service, drinks, wine pairing service, bar tender & cocktails, photographer and live music, all coordinated and super-vised by the Zelebri team who also offer an “A la Carte” service for those who want to organize a custom event.

The platform, which has just started its activity in Mal-lorca, already has the support of 23 renowned chefs, including Macarena de Castro (El Jardín Alcudia*), Fernando P. Arellano (Zaranda*), Gerhard Schwaiger (Tristan) and Marc Fosh (Simply Fosh), among others.

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targeted to adopt “harmless” smoking. The tobacco industry is exploiting the perception of harmlessness to encourage their use and also to underminecurrent effective bans on smoking in public places but the promotion of vapour devices flavoured with items such mint, chocolate, vanilla, coffee or strawberry, to mention a few, has got to be an attempt to coax youngsters into the scene.

The World Health Organization(WHO) stated that as of July 2013, the efficacy in using electronic cigarettes to aid in smoking cessation has not been demonstrated scientifically. They recommend that “consum-ers should be strongly advised not to use” electronic cigarettes until a reputable national regulatory body has found them safe and effective. Similar cautious noises are made by the British Medical Association - the BMA encourages health professionals to recommend conventional nicotine replace-ment therapies, but for patients unwilling to use or continue those methods, they say health professionals may present e-cigarettes as a lower-risk option than tobacco smoking. In the United Kingdom, the

use, sale and advertising of electronic cigarettes are legal and electronic cigarettes are not covered by smoking bans but in January this year the UK government announced legisla-tion would be brought forward to outlaw the purchase of electronic cigarettes by people under the age of 18.

There are now moves afoot to have e-cigarettes classified as “medicines” in the UK and to put them in the same category as other smoking cessation aids such as nicotine patches or gum. They will then be available on prescription rather than the open market.

Why all the fuss and hesitation?

e-cigarettes can resemble traditional tobacco cigarettes but they contain a rechargeable battery and a heating element that vapourises a solution which contains flavourings and, quite often, nicotine. This mechanism can be started up by an inhaled breath in some models equipped with an electronic airflow sensor and the resulting vapour is inhaled which, whilst this avoids the toxins and carcinogens of tobacco smoke, still delivers inhaled nicotine which is a very addictive material in its own right.

Their use in smoking cessation is still unclear in that nicotine dependency continues even without the smoke. They may help smokers to stop smoking or they may just transfer them to inhaling nicotine in a vapour as a compromise outcome.

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e-cigarettes: solution or snare?

Electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) sales have grown in the US from 50,000 in 2008 to 3.5 million in 2012. They were introduced into the UK market in 2007 and were used by 1.3 million in Britain last year. They have become very popular very quickly.

At first sight they seemed like a step forward in public health tools but they are beginning to raise concerns in many countries. Unlike other nicotine agents, they are used by smokers and non-smokers.

Smokers use them as a tool for smoking cessation and non-smokers perceive them as harmless lifestyle accessories, no doubt encouraged by the increasing advertising expendi-ture of the tobacco industry. However, the jury is still out on their effectiveness in smoking cessation and there are now serious worries that non-smok-ing younger people are being

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They are relatively cheap and are not subject to the same tax burden as tobacco products but are increasingly seen as a quasi-smoking experience which is available to youngsters as well as adults. The targetingof young non-smokers by advertisers is feared by some as a prelude to re-normalising smoking and the worry is that cigarette smoking will be the next step for many. A UK Health Minister (Mark Drakeford) was quoted in early February as saying “what we don’t want are e-cigarettes to become a gateway to real cigarettes”. He went on to say, “if you lived in New Zealand for example you can only buy an e-cigarette at a pharmacy because they regard them entirely as to be governed as a health issue and as a medicine”.

The relatively fast growth of this product seems to have caught many Governments and health bodies by surprise and there are lots of interlocked but unresolved issues - the perceived but unproven health benefits to smokers, the glamourising of smoking especially by high-profile celebrities and tobacco industry advertising strategies, the re-normalising of tobacco smoking by association, the threat to smoking bans in public places, the availability to young and sometimes under-age consumers and last, but probably not least, the lack of taxation income. All in all, controls seem inevitable but watch this space over this year and next.

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Lesson 5: Turn Procrastination into Motivation

Have you ever struggled to meet a pressing deadline? So much so that the more you thought about it, the more the mental fog descended and the more the overwhelm consumed you?

That’s the state of mind I was in yesterday when I dragged myself kicking and screaming to my laptop to renew my household insurance, something I should have addressed ages ago.

Usually I find it easy to do administration tasks. They have a clear beginning, middle and ending and an orderly path. But not this time. I’ve been so busy recently, the thought of filling out a form was daunting. So I kept putting it off. Not because it was particularly difficult to fill in, or especially long in and of itself. But because I was in that motivation-sapping state of mind called Procrastination.

Now it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to tell you that procras-tination wasn’t going to get my fingers typing – or my house insured. So I decided to take some of my own neurological medicine and do something about it, because that deadline was about to hit me square in the jaw.

Here’s what I did.

Step 1. Ask yourself the question, “Where am I right now?”

Write down your answer, as this helps you to ground yourself

in the moment. For me, the answer was, “I’m sitting on the sofa in my house on Friday at 3 o’clock in the afternoon.”

Step 2. Next, ask yourself the question, “What do I want to achieve?”

The answer to this question is the thing that you’ve been avoiding doing. Again, write down the answer. For me the answer was, “Renew my house insurance so I can finally cross it off my To Do list.”

Step 3. Next, ask yourself the question, “How will I feel when I’ve done it?”

Maybe you’ll have a sense of satisfaction? A sense of achievement? A sense of relief? Whatever that feeling is, tune into it and enjoy it. Close your eyes and allow that feeling to grow. Intensify it. Spin it, faster and faster. Make it more powerful.

Step 4. And finally, ask yourself, “What’s one small step I can do RIGHT NOW to get this great feeling?”

The answer I had was “Sign into my account.”

Which is exactly what I did. But here’s the best thing. When I had signed in I found it easy to continue with the process and get the job done.

Don’t believe me? Give it a go. It sounds ridiculously easy but it really is incredibly effective.

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2. Practice interval training. Short bursts of very intense activity, working anaerobically - periods where you may struggle to speak and certainly be out of breath. Keep these intervals from between 30’ to up to a minute if you can.

3. Throw some weights into the mix. Even if its just your body weight. Try doing timed bursts of activity, say in 3 minute bouts so your circuit would look something like this: 30 seconds of push ups ( elbows pointing backwards, arms tucked in close to your sides) 30 seconds of squats 30 seconds of tricep dips either On a bench/ bunk/chair or on the floor, 30 seconds of alternating lunges, 30 seconds of Spider-Man’s ( forward plank, knee comes to the outside of the body up toward the shoulder ) and a 30 second bout of burpees. Rest for 30 seconds and begin again. Repeat this 5 to 6 times and rev up your metabolism.

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was standing on. I was more surprised the more I watched and could not understand how the finish was changing before my eyes. Where once there was the calling card of an angry seabird was now brilliant white, the water spots on the windows disappeared and the water he applied fell rapidly to the deck taking every spec of grime and sea spray with it. Effortlessly. He never once reached for a squeegee nor chamois and with good reason. The surfaces gleamed.

Now I’ve never been accused of being a rocket scientist, but I’ve cleaned enough boats to know that there is no way you can clean a boat with just water, therefore there must be some-thing else in the water already or maybe it was not water at all. Maybe it was a translucent chemical that for all intensive purposes looked like water, had no foam, did not need to be squeegeed nor chamoised? No way.

Ok Sam whats the secret?

Because you got me well confused. There is a catch right?

“Well yes and no”, he replied. The cleaning is done with just water. However it is pure pure water, with zero parts per million in terms of Totally Dissolved Solids. These dissolved solids are mineralslike calcium, magnesium, sodium and potassium. To appreciate what this means in non rocket scientist terminol-ogy. Your average glass of mineral water will contain around 250 ppm of TDS. Even spring water will have 50 ppm of TDS. Water for washing your boat arrives at the dock at around 500 ppm of TDS.

Now to add more science to the picture, there are various ways of removing unwanted solids and microbes from water including, filtration, distillation, reverse osmosis, ozonation, and UV treatment. Each of these treatments whilst producing clean and safe water, still con-tain varying amounts of TDS.

Sam uses water that he has de-ionised using a system that yields water that is 99.99% pure. The water dries without streaks or spots and there-fore no need to squeegee or chamois.

This water leaves a shine on glass and surfaces without the use of chemicals. The pure water attracts the dirt and grime and lifts it from almost any surface. As there are no chemicals involved the system of cleaning with pure water is

I was by chance working the other week in Palma, when a young guy arrived to clean the boat next to me. I always like to have a chat, you never know where it may lead.

The interesting thing was he had no cleaning gear or so it seemed. No detergent, no squeegee no chamois, nothing.Sam had a long handled brush which was connected to a mobile water pump on the dock which in turn was connected to a large container of water. That was it.

We started talking and I watched as he began to clean with nothing more than water. Just having hosed down, scrubbed with detergent, hosed down again, then sqeegeed and chamoised, I was keen to see how Sam was going to get his boat as clean as the one I

completely environmentally friendly.

Apparently the system of cleaning with pure water is not new, it has been used for many years for cleaning windows commercially and now the system is available for use on boats.

When fitted into a boat the owner can have a choice of different levels of filtration depending on the final use requirements. for example filtered water for drinking and appliances and pure water for cleaning. Each system is bespoke based on boat design and requirements.

I thought of my own position cleaning with chemicals and wondered aloud what would become of my job should the boat I was on install this pure water cleaning system?

Sam asked “what do you do when your not cleaning?” All the jobs that need doing. Detailing, polishing, fixing broken fittings, a million other when I get around to it jobs.

“Ok and what is the worst clean? The one that you do after the boats been left dirty for a while right? So imagine you can clean more often, taking less time, using no chemicals and then having time to do all the other jobs that you don’t get time to do?”

Boats are boats and we all know there is never nothingto do!

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Battery Care

58% of our emergency call outs are to do with dead batteries. But why did the batteries die?

Most of the failures we encounter are to do with a charging problem. As connections decay in the damp salty environment, the chargers find it harder to measure the batteries’ condition, and to deliver the correct voltage. When the connections are sufficiently corroded, chargingwill stop altogether. In 3 of the last 5 cases, this was the problem. Even while winterized, most boats deliberately have systems running off the batteries (pumps, fridges, inverter-dehumidifiers etc) and/or stray current, so voltage can drop below operational capacity in a day or two.

One client was dismayed to find her brand new gel batteries had melted into a toxic steaming soup a few days after the

installation. Gel batteries need a different charging cycle to the previously installed wet lead acid units. The battery charger was delivering a higher voltage than the batter-ies could absorb and they soon gave up. Most good quality

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marine battery chargers can be programmed with a set of microswitches, or by connecting a PC and downloading manufacturer’s software.

Occasionally we see the wrong type of battery installed for the application. Starter batteries like Optima Red Tops can deliver 815 Amps for up to 30 seconds at -18ºC (CCA), but only offeraround 70Ah at the slower discharge needed by domestic services. For that, deep cycle batteries offer lower power consistently for longer periods. It is somewhat of a myth that absorbed glass matt (AGM) batteries are good for one application, lead acid for another, and so on. The electrolyte medium is less important than the structuralegineering of the battery, which will be designed to be very good at starting or services, or quite good at both.

Early movers to adopt technology pay more and suffer poor reliability but their enthusiasm serves laggards like me by funding research

and development. Lithium ion batteries have suffered infamy from Boeing’s troubles, but have now been successfully installed and working for years in a number of racing and luxury yachts. For most they are still prohibitively expensive, but if you can afford to take a big hit in one go, prices have come down to the extent that they are now cost-effective for many installa-tions. A lithium-ion battery may be half the weight and volume of its ancestor, and offer up to 2000 charging cycles (instead of 500). They charge quickly and deliver reliable current for most applications. The benefits are overwhelming until they catch fire, which fortunately they are no longer prone to doing…

All batteries can of course catch fire or explode. A good sign that you are in for trouble is when all systems fail when you try to use a heavy-load application (e.g. a bowthruster). Heavy loads test batteries to the limit and when they’ve had enough they will occasionally explode (this can also happen with when a spark meets the hydrogen produced by charging tired batteries). Last year, screwed down battery box lids were blown clean off, and an engine room sprayed with acid, as we used a bowthruster to coax a yacht into her mooring.The electrically-managed engines failed and it all became quite dramatic for a moment.

Happily tools, monitoring systems and the technicians that know how to use them are readily available. To avoid some of the problems we’ve outlined, you might want to follow this

checklist - naturally with the correct precautions, experience and qualifications:

To install:• A battery and charger monitoring system to enable at-a-glance checking• The right batteries for your application, energy require-ments and frequency of use• The right charger, alternatorand smart regulator, programmed for the right cycle for the batteries

Annual checks:• Clean and grease terminals at alternator, charger, batteries, diodes• Check voltage output at charger with a voltmeter• Check voltage output at alternator(s) and at diode if present• Check voltage at batteries to identify voltage drop• Cut and replace terminals as required• Internal battery resistance check

As part of your regular checking and monitoring:• Record battery voltage twice monthly• Record AC voltage that the charger needs twice monthly• Turn off the charger, start the engines and run all the domestic systems to keep the batteries working, and help identify problems early

And in case you’re wondering, the remaining call-outs mostly concern blocked toilets or bad fuel.

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Vilanova Spring Offer

Return to the Med,knowing that everything is ready, and enjoy our “special Spring 2014 pack”with attractive discounts and free use of services, as well as courtesy activities for crew to make your stay an unforgettableexperience. Because we know what your crew and yacht need upon arrival in the Mediterranean. Enjoy peace of mind with our specialized staff at your disposal, and facilities specifically designed to provide all required services for the final preparation of yachts.

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To celebrate your return to the Med, we have prepared a new sensational “Spring2014” pack for you.

20% berth discount. A leading superyacht marina in the Med at the best rate.

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Two tickets to experiece an official match of Barcelona football team at the sensational Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Europe.

Courtesy dinner for two people at one of the finest restaurants in Barcelona.

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Marina Estrella Strengthens its Charter Division

Marina Estrella has strengthened its charter division with new unique superyachts in some of the most exclusive destinations for its current and potential customers on the five continents.

To further develop this division,Marina Estrella Charter has signed agreements with European and Caribbean leading marine companies and its shipowners with the aim of offering its customers excep-tional new destinations, most of them in the Cote d’Azur, Italian Riviera, Caribbean, Croatia and other exclusive places as the Seychelles and French Polynesia, all of them with high demand.

One of the advantages of Marina Estrella Charter is the possibility of renting superyachts and

megayachts in the winter season in the Caribbean and in the summer season in the Mediterranean, also including Spain. It also incorporates a new exclusive offer for the most unique canals and navigable river destinations worldwide.

The new yachts for next season include a catamaran Sunreef 70, with 5 double cabins with bathroom, for 12 guests and a superb seaworthiness; a sailboat CNB of 95 foot, very comfort-able and elegant, exclusively designed, with a very high quality, performance, and capacity for 8 persons; and a magnificent Azimut 98, with a cruising speed of 28 knots, 4 double cabins with bathroom for 4 couples and the unique Italian design that characterizes the shipyard.

The head of the charter divi-sion of Marina Estrella is Beatriz Lafaille, a professional expert of the marine industry with a large experience, who joined Marina Estrella two years ago.


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Afloat Offshore

Many professionals move to work offshore to earn a bet-ter salaries and accumulate savings. Their technical skills command a premium in sands of the desert oil camp or the humid heat of the Arabian Gulf. Typically these individuals work for intense periods and then get extended rest and recreation periods.

The R&R periods allows them to recharge their batteries before returning for another bout of intense activity. R&R is also the opportunity for quality time with loved ones. Unfortunately upon return to home base one can fall foul of acquisitive tax authorities. More than ninety days in any one tax year in the UK and one becomes tax resi-dent and liable to tax on one’s hard earned offshore savings. Similar rules apply in most European countries.

At Boatshed Gibraltar we have noticed an interesting trend. Many of these professionals are acquiring comfortable yachts where they can relax with friends and family. If the yacht is based in Gibraltar there is the added advantage of good yachting facilities, easy access to an airport and as they say English is spoken here! More seriously there are real tangible benefits of acquiring and keeping a yacht in Gibraltar. These are:

1. Gibraltar is outside the EU Customs Zone so VAT is not payable on new yachts. 2. A yacht permanently imported into Gibraltar will

attract a paltry 6% import duty or 0% if she is over 18m in length. 3. Non-VAT paid yachts can cruise for up to 18 months at a time if owned by an individual non-EU resident. This is precisely what an offshore worker is! 4. A well regulated yacht registry where you can register your vessel. 5. A floating asset that you can take with you when the dark clouds gather. I can’t help but feel sorry for all those expatriates in Cyprus with their bank accounts subject to capital controls. You can’t sail out with a villa in tow but a yacht takes you away from trouble.

Come and talk to us at Boat-shed Gibraltar. We have deep knowledge about this niche market and we will only be too happy to share it with you.

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Ocean Village Gives Sunborn Gibraltar Yacht Hotel a Warm Welcome

On Sunday 2 February Sunborn Gibraltar was escorted to her permanent home in Ocean Village Marina. Accompanied by flat calm seas and bright sunshine, a crowd gathered to witness the arrival of this game-changing yacht hotel.

Gregory Butcher, Chairman of Ocean Village, says, “When we were contacted a year ago by a Finnish company hoping to bring a luxury yacht hotel to Gibraltar, despite a clear need for five star accommodation, I had my doubts it would actually happen. I am delighted to say that it did and, after extensive ground engineering works at the Marina, Sunborn Gibraltar has become a prestigious addition to our complement of high profile tenants at Ocean Village. Of course we extend her a very warm welcome and, as her operators work towards an imminent opening, look forward to the benefits this asset will bring not only Ocean

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Village Marina but also Gibraltar as a whole.”

Indeed Sunborn Gibraltar slots nicely into very grand plans afoot for Ocean Village’s developers. With an applicationapproved by the World Trade Centers Association back in 2010, their 45 million pound seven-storey World Trade Center Gibraltar (WTCG) projectis now back on track and expected to break ground in the first half of 2014. Elsewhere in Ocean Village a further 900m² of eco-friendly healthy-working offices are under construction with completion scheduled for spring.

On the subject of berths, at 142 metres in length Sunborn Gibraltar has resulted in a minimal loss of available moorings, but Neil Crawford, Estate Director, says the Yacht Hotel provides an opportunity to improve Ocean Village Marina and its facilities.

“We are now in the process of reconfiguring the pontoons to make the Marina more efficient and create more berths”, says Neil. “We will also be buildinga fixed pontoon walkway directly across the water from neighbouring Marina Bay to Ocean Village, saving a good ten minute walk and of particular use to yachtsmen who wish to visit the Pier Office or take advantage of our newly refurbished shower and toilet facilities. Moreover, the sheer size of Sunborn Gibraltar will unintentionally serve as a wind break in certain corners of the Marina, something the smaller boats will appreciate. And, they now have the five star services of the Yacht Hotel to hand – few marinas can boast such exclusivity.”

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Upcoming MCA course datesSTCW95 Basic Safety Training £995 or €1195 – 5 days - 12th March 2014STCW95 Medical First Aid on board ship £450 or €540 – 4 days - 17th March 2014STCW95 Medical Care on board ship 5 days - 21st March 2014STCW95 Basic Safety Training £995 or €1195 – 5 days - 26th March • 9th April • 7th MaySTCW95 Medical First Aid on board ship £450 or €540 – 4 days - 12th May 2014STCW95 Medical Care on board ship £675 or €810 – 5 days - 16th May 2014MCA ENG1 Medicals available – £675 or €810

Upcoming RYA course datesFast Track MCA RYA Yachtmaster Offshorewith STCW95 & Commercial Endorsements 2nd March • 5th April • 4th May 1st June • 6th July • 3rd August 7th September • 5th October • 2nd November

Other RYA courses offered weeklyPowerboat level 2 Sail and Motor Day Skipper & Coastal Skipper ICC Sail, Motor and PowerboatSRC VHF Radio CoursesRYA Radar and Diesel Engine CoursesMCA RYA Yachtmaster Coastal & Offshore

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Oil Drilling Threatens Ibiza Coastline

Over the past several weeks, Ibiza has become a hot topic in the EDM community, and not for the right reasons. Scottish oil and gas exploration company Cairn Energy are planning exploratory drilling in the Gulf Of Valencia, some of it just a few miles from the coast of Ibiza. The size and scope

of the project, along with the expected reserves underneath the areas of the Mediterranean where drilling is taking place, could lead to major oil extraction across an area of over 1,500 square miles.

The news that the Spanish government has given the project its full support has, understandably, not gone down well on the island. Such major

undersea activity, even duringthe initial testing phase of the project, could cause major damage to marine life. Once the project is in full flow, the poten-tial for a major disaster could spell the end of Ibiza’s beautiful clear blue waters. Even without a major spill, such activity could irrecoverably alter the marine ecosystem.

While the utilization of remaining oil reserves is very important, given we live in a world that will one day run out of such resources, the brutal disregard for the lifeblood of Ibiza has caused a major protest movement on the island. Alianza Mar Blava--The Mar Blava Alliance--is a group of over 50 organizations on the island with one clear aim--to stop the project in its tracks. With ever-increasing support from across the world, you can join the cause by signing the official petition, or even just sharing the story across social media. Full details of how you can help are available via Ibiza Spotlight.

Music Industry celebrities, many of whom have homes and make a substantial part of their

living on the island have thrown their weight behind the protests. Fatboy Slim, Pete Tong, Richie Hawtin, Carl Cox, and many more artists who make their home on Ibiza are spreading awareness of the campaign to stop Scottish company Cairn Energy from drilling in the waters between Ibiza and Valencia. Diddy, Kate Moss, Paris Hilton, and SiennaMiller are also among the celeb-rities urging their fans to help.

Many Mallorca residents have also get behind the campaign by signing a petition and official protest forms to stop this potentially drastic action. Just at the stage where there is a real awareness of the marine environment, in these islands, and a realisation that we need to do all we can to preserve it, led by Brad Robertson and his Ondine project, this is not the news we were looking for.

Let’s hope that our voices are heard in the high offices of government, but with a potential “Get out of Jail card”, in terms of the taxes and revenue this could bring to our failing economy, don’t hold your breath.

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AROUND THE REGIONS IBIZA


Possible future seascape off Ibiza Espalmador Beach... under threat

Cala Mastella Ibiza... pollution worries

Port Addaia, Menorca

Port Addaia (aka Addaya) is a pretty, tranquil harbour on the North coast of Menorca. On approach you will see the Illes d’Addaia, (Petita and Gran), and the beautiful view of the tiny village of Na Macaret.

Addaia is a popular stopover on our 5 day RYA practical courses, not only because of the idyllic setting but also as the entrance to the harbour cannot be approached without a long hard look at the local chart and pilot guides. There is a dangerous submerged rock which can be safely avoided by following the channel markers along a dog leg route. The red and green buoys should not be disregardedeven in a rib as the rock has been known to break a leg off an outboard. The harbour should also be avoided if there is a forecast of a strong north wind or Tramuntana, or you

Elizabeth ParrMenorca Cruising(+34) 660 647 845www.menorcasailing.co.uk

may be stuck there for longer than you bargained for. There are no lights in the entrance channel to the bay, and so it is not recommended to enter at night time.

Once safely inside the harbour you can choose between the buoys or the pontoon mooringsor operated by the marina Puerto Addaya. There are transit moorings for boats up to 15m in length but we recommend booking ahead. There is a waiting list if you want to rent a mooring there all year round.

There are good facilities including showers and toilets and a laundry. Make good use of the self-service washing machines if you can as they are few and far between in Menorca in general. Also, don’t forget to fill up with water, as this is only one of 4 places on the island with fresh water for boats. There is no fuel station. The marina has a travelift for boats up to 15m and some hard storage. On the port there is an excellent café next to the marina office and a handy chandlers.

At the centre of the urbani-zation of Addaia there are a couple of bars, the Corner Bar and and El Castillo serving good food, a small supermar-ket, a gift shop and a second chandlers. Since 2013, Addaya has also been home to the Taj

Indian Restaurant, formerly in Mahon, one of the few indian restaurants on the island and very popular with the British residents and especially our Principal, John.

If you fancy stretching your legs on land then we highly recommend the section of the Cami se Cavalls, Menorca’s coastal path, which goes from the Addaia to the Salines de Montgofre, where salt was produced up until 1990. Although you are walking around the sheltered inlet of the sea you feel like you are walking around a lake as you cannot see the open ocean. The Montgofre Estate was the home of the late Sr. Fernando Rubio y Tuduri, the chemist and founder of a multinational pharmaceutical company who was a great philanthropist of Menorca.

Addaia was also the favouriteplace on the whole island of John Armstrong, who was posted to Menorca in 1738 and who published the results of his research and his experiences in his book, ‘The history of the Island of Menorca’. To quote, ‘It lies in the form of a theatre open to port on the Eastern side, but surrounded on every other quarter by a chain of hills... The air derives a Temper from these advantages which gives it, in my Opinion, an indisputable Prefer-ence to that of any other spot on Minorca.’

Puerto Addaya:LATITUDE : 40º 00’ 30” NLONGITUDE: 04º 12’ 00” E13.6nm from Mao4.5nm from Fornells(+34) 971 358 [email protected]

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24th of November for the reform of infrastructures,transports and economic measures, (Real Decreto-ley 1/2014, de 24 de enero, de reforma en materia de Infraestructuras y transporte, y otras medidas económicas) the Administration implements a new financing system in which the main idea is that the users of maritime rescue and safeguard the Spanish Sociedad de Salvamento y Seguridad Marítima (SASEMAR), contribute to the costs and expenses of said company. SASEMAR is a public entity that renders services of safeguard

Carlos EspinosaSolicitor and Tax Adviser(+34) 627 41 32 [email protected]

More Burden: The Increase of Navigation Tariff T0

We were quite optimistic because of the end of the Matriculation Tax for charter boats and also for the reduction of the port tariffs of last December´ Budget Law but unfortunately last January our politicians brought us bad news again. Through an adaptation of the Port Law adopted through the Royal Decree 1/2014 from

of human life and rescue at the sea at the sea, also fights and prevents environmental maritime disasters, assistance at the sea traffic and control of maritime navigation and assistance and help of ships and vessels at sea and trailer services.

This Navigation tariff T0 is a kind of tax for the maritime services received at sea payable by ships, vessels and pleasure crafts with base port in Spain over 9m LOA if motor yachts and over 12 m LOA if sailingyachts provided they are obliged to have Spanish registration or navigation permit. The taxable payer is the owner and /or the captain of the boat. It is accrued in the moment in which the vessel or ship starts to receive said services in Spanish waters.

The deficit in the books of the public entity SASEMAR has motivated the new increase of the Tariff T0 and this is has been done through the inclusion and new valuation in the new regulation of the two different services that are rendered to the tax payers: first, the services that are related with control and aid at sea for the maritime safe navigation; and secondly, the services for implementing and maintain-ment of sea and maritime sign, signals and marks carried out by the Ports Authorities. And here is where the Law has changed as the list of the competences has been increased together with their prices so that at the end the navigation Tariff 0 will be almost twice as much more expensive than in the past.

So once again sailing is bit more expensive in Spain.

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This month’s offering is a wonderful little gem situated in Santa Catalina, Palma, close to the eating centre of Calle Fabrica. It is a Tunisian restaurant, which can be best described as a French menuwith a Tunisian twist.

Saloua is the owner and chef, and has a unique take on her business, in as much as she

regards her restaurant as her own kitchen and house, where clients are regarded as friends rather than just customers. Her blackboard (see photo) explains how she sees herself and her business.

We have eaten here on numerous occasions, including Christmas Day, when we had a memorable lunch, and the food never disappoints. Saloua is happy to cook to the clients taste, and because everything

is freshly cooked, there is room for personal preferences to be accommodated. The a la carte menu is a comprehensive offering of meats and fish, as well as some tasty veggie options, with prices varying from 12 to 20 euros for a main dish. There is always a good number of specials on offer in addition to the standard menu. One of my favourites to start is the Tuna Tartare, the best I have ever tasted.

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“Menu del Dia” which, at 12.50 is great value. The menu is regularly changed and offers a great variety of dishes, but don’t plan on getting much work done afterwards as the portions are very generous!

The wine list is of average price and contains enough choice, my favourite being the Mallorcan Rota Merlot, a lovely wine in my opinon.

One of the USP’s of this restaurant however is its friendly service and cosy atmosphere. It is a refreshing change from the surly attitude which is often the case at many so called “top restaurants”. Her staff cannot be faulted, and is one of Saloua’s great strength’s, and the reason why the restaurant is one which is often mentioned as being a great place to go.

Give it a try, you won’t be disappointed.

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NORAI BROKERAGEPso Maritimo 1, Local nº. 10

Alcudiamar Marina 07400 Pto Alcudiaemail: [email protected]

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Hunter Legend 33, 2004 registered 2005. 10.09 metres with a 19hp, Volvo, diesel engine. 6 berths in 2 double cabins and saloon. Priced at 49,000 euros. Lying in Alcudiamar. Further details on our website:- www.noraibrokerage.com.

Hunter Legend 332004 registered 200549,000 €

CNB Bordeaux 602011£ 875,000 - VAT paid

Built in 2011, she is designed and equipped for comfortable fast blue water sailing. Her fresh modern lines and large airy saloon give her a real “wow” factor, contributing to this are the large open transom cockpit, twin carbon & teak wheels, vast teak deck and sweeping coachroof windows. Full Raymarine navigation equipment, reverse cycle airconditioning, watermaker etc. She is ready for long or short term cruising. Lying Mallorca.

Beneteau 572004£ 265,000 - VAT Paid

Great example of this super model, a Beneteau 57, 2004, with navy blue hull, teak decks. Yanmar 160hp diesel, bow thruster, generator, air conditioning, watermaker, in-mast furling. Aft cabin layout, very well maintained and updated. Privately used only. Lying Croatia and priced at 265,000 GBP Tax paid.

Grand Banks 53 Aleutian20121,400,000 €

2012 powered by twin Cummins QSM-11 diesel with 715hp each. Raised pilot house design with Portuguese bridge. Furthermore a large fore deck, wide side decks, an expansive fly bridge and a teak cockpit. She comes well equipped with stern- and bow thruster, generator, air condi-tioning, washer/dryer, ice maker, hydraulic passerelle, full navigation package, etc.

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Sealine Model S422006250,000 € - VAT Paid

Sealine Model: S42, Length: 42 ft 3 in, Price: EUR 250,000, Year: 2006. This Sealine S42 has to be seen to be appreciated, loaded with loads of extras, including hydraulic passerelle,Williams 285, air conditioning, bow thruster, IPS 500 engines, bespoke interior including heads plus much more. Always in undercover storage for the winter months, has been maintained to a very high standard.

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We require a creative and capable person to join our Palma office. Responsibilities will include day to day administration of our charter and brokerage processes including web based work, assisting with the production of marketing/specification materials and providing general assistance to a busy office.

The successful applicant needs to be a team player with proven marketing skills, an eye for design and the ability to work under pressure. Knowledge of sailing is essential and a European language would be an advantage. There will be a requirement to train for this job in the UK.

Please apply via email to Sarah Harmer at the address below:[email protected]

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For Sale/Rent: Beautiful 4 bed 3 bath house Camp de Mar just 70 mtrs from the beach. Spectacular master suite with stunning views. Small community of 8 houses, Brand new shared pool and terrace, nice gardens, shaded ter-race areas. Partial sea views and Golf Course view. Private parking. Brand new air con throughout. New appliances. Long term Rent 1750 euro/ month For Sale 595,000 euros. Tel: 607 911 898. For Rent: Office Share in a great location! Calle Soler 21, Santa Catalina. Bright, clean, secure and friendly atmosphere. 250€ per month all inclusive (air con, heater, internet, printer...). Call Shari on 691 027 012.For Rent: Long Term Rent. 1000 € / month. A Beautiful traditional Farm-house close to Santa Eugenia. 4 Bedrooms ( sleeps 8/10). Lovely garden with private swimming pool. Tel Brian 662 525 450.For Rent: Office/local available for rent. Double fronted glass door (with shutters), bright & clean space with bathroom. +/- 45m2. Sant Magi, Santa Catalina. Opposite Indi-Clean offices. 500 euro/ mth. Graham. 696 740 353For Sale: Flying 15 For Sale. Ovington 9 Smoothy 2002, Ready to race, hull and rig in excellent condition, 3 full sets of Goacher sails, 1 of these sets hardly used, 2 spin poles aluminium/carbon, tactic compass, 2 over-boom covers, Hayling road trailer with towing board and new spare wheel. €10,800, Tel 609 967 424.For Sale: RIO 450, 2001 with trailer. Outboard Tuhatsu 50 hp, regularly ser-viced, unused since last service. New antifoul. This is a great day boat with lots of space for it’s size, and in very good condition. One caring owner since new. Always stored on land. 4500€. For additional info and pics please con-tact David on 680 779 360 or mail:[email protected] Sale: Shipman 28 yacht built in 1974 and lying in Club de Mar. 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it’s a quality that’s hard to pin down precisely. Some would call it arrogance, but that’s over simplifying it - they are supremely confident in virtually everything they do and that sometimes could be misinterpreted as arrogance.

What they are definitely not is excitable in any way, shape or form. Most appear to have hearts that beat only a coupleof times a day and it takes something really, really shock-ing to get their pulses racing.

During my stint reporting on the last Volvo Ocean Race, CAMPER’s Australian skipper Chris Nicholson explained the reason for the seemingly emotionless demeanour of most Volvo sailors.

“We can’t afford to excitable when we are dealing with the big stuff out at sea,” he told me. “That leads to making bad decisions which can make things go from bad to worse really quickly. So our normal levels of excitability are set much lower than most people’s.”

Anyone who has been through a genuine crisis moment out at sea and come back to tell the tale will be able to relate to that. Survive even just one life threatening experience and most of life’s problems seem trivial afterwards.

For the next 17 months I am going to be embedded with the sailors and shore crew of the Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing team as they prepare for and embark on the 2014-15 Volvo Ocean Race.

Travelling with the team as the sailors race around the world, my job is to help bring the excitement and drama of their story to sailing fans and also to the wider sporting audience.

I will also be sharing my experiences with The Islander readers and to kick us off here are a few observations on how Volvo sailors are different from all other human beings.

Spend any time in the company of a group of Volvo sailors and you soon realise they are simply not like the rest of us - ocean racing pros have an intangible quality which sets them well apart from the masses.

For sure they are rough and tough - mentally as well as physically - but beyond that

Given the extreme nature of the Volvo Ocean Race and the almost constant stress levels of the sailors it’s no surprise really that their personas have been markedly altered by the experience.

The closest I can equate their collective demeanour too is a platoon of soldiers back from a prolonged spell of active duty. We are not quite talking ‘thousand yard stare’ territoryhere but observing the sailors interact with each other it’s clear there is some sort of unspoken bond, a secret shared experience, that ‘civilians’ like me are not privy to.

That’s not to say these guys are emotionless automatons - far from it in fact. Their conversa-tions are peppered with tales of past glories, Volvo war stories and reliving of other assorted offshore dramas or screw ups. Beyond that they are pretty funny. The banter is as relentless as it is hilarious - no slip up, no matter how small,

goes unpunished. The next edition of the race doesn’t start for another seven months but there’s plenty for everyone to do.

As I write, the crew are about to refit the deck gear on their newly branded boat before in a few day’s time it emerges from the shed for the first time.

Right now the sailing crew are splitting their time between preparing and familiarising themselves with the boat and preparing themselves physically with a series brutal sessions in the gym - more on that next month.

By the time they arrive in Alicante, Spain for the race start in early October the ADOR crew will have sailed thousands of miles from their training base in Cascais, raced around Britain and Ireland and crossed the Atlantic at least twice.

Then the adventure can really begin.


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