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One-to-One with the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Healthcare Dr Chris Fearne p.06
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Ineos Team UK takes to the race course p.16
} SPECIAL FEATURE: ON BOARD WITH JOHN CAUDWELL
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Cover Story
Contents
CUTTING EDGE HEALTHCARE INNOVATION
One-to-One with the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Healthcare
Dr Chris Fearne
Creative Q&A
FORTUNA IS STILL MY FAVOURITE
Exclusive with Italian designer Tommasso Spadolini
14
30
Interview of the Month
ON BOARD WITH JOHN CAUDWELL
Owner of 73m superyacht Titania and man on a mission
2019 Rolex Middlesea Race
RMS 2019
Entries on track
32
39
London Boat Show
ON BOARD DURAN DURAN’S ICON:
Panerai’s Eilean docks in London

Sailing Narrative
16 A RETURN TO WINNING WAYS
Ineos Team UK takes to the race course
MBR Features
20 HIGH VISIBILITY
We find out about the best underwater drones to
visit the depths
One-on-One
26 WHAT ELSE CAN ONE POSSIBLY WANT?
The Editor’s latest transponder
GT54UHD-TM TRANSDUCE
Sailing Regattas
42 TOP MEDITERRANEAN REGATTAS
The best places to race a sailing yacht, from
Sardinia to St Tropez
Ocean Risk Initiative
44 PARTNERING FOR PROGRESS ON
OCEAN RISK
When people are invited to stop what they are doing
and think about the ocean, what it means to us,
and what we can do to help protect it
Quote of the Month
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able
to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?
This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and
without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.
– Thomas Merton
Editor’sNote
Another stifling, hot summer is upon us. I am
planning on a holiday break in London and
Paris, as well as a sailing adventure around
the Aeolian Islands, while I am writing this
editorial.
Rising out of the cobalt-blue seas off Sicily’s
northeastern coast, the Unesco-protected
Aeolian Islands (Vulcano, Lipari, Salina, Panarea,
Stromboli, Filicudi and Alicudi) are a little piece
of paradise, a seven-island archipelago offering
a wealth of opportunities for relaxation and
outdoor fun. Stunning waters provide sport
for swimmers, sailors, kayakers and divers,
while trekkers can climb hissing volcanoes and
gourmets can sip honey-sweet Malvasia wine. My favourite hot spot is Panarea,
the smallest and most fashionable of the Aeolians, attracting international jetsetters
and Milanese fashionistas for a taste of dolce far niente
I shake my head when I am at one of the few local yacht clubs on the Island,
watching the kids get ready for their junior sailing program, and there are a
bunch of parents rigging the boats. As a kid, we would have been incredibly
humiliated if our parents had rigged our boats for us. It was something we did
together, helping each other when necessary but taking responsibility for getting
the job done by ourselves. My mother’s total involvement was to hand me my
favorite floppy hat and some pocket money and tell me to have fun.
I had no one to protect me from doing something stupid, like getting fingers in
the way when attaching a boom or lowering a centerboard. And because no one
shielded me from difficulties or disappointments, I learned to stand on my own.
Trust me, I only held a fully loaded spinnaker halyard once as I released it when
dousing the chute. Smoked my hand, learned a lesson, as I was growing fast.
If I forgot to pack a sandwich or, more likely, forgot to stow it someplace dry, I was
the one with a soggy sandwich at lunch. There was no mommy-boat to fix things,
and I learned to carefully waterproof anything I wanted to eat later, and it wasn’t
a plastic bag back then, it was multiple layers of wax paper with a rubber band.
One of the special qualities of sailing is that it really does train kids to become
functioning adults. Sure, soccer and football and other sports help instill teamwork,
but that’s about it. Not much use in your adult life for bunt or place kick.
Sailing teaches you stuff you will use forever. I used knots I learned on the water
to tie some lumber securely to the roof rack of my car recently, and I have a
lifetime of familiarity with tools, paints, adhesives and the other stuff that kept
my boats together and afloat. Sailing prepares kids for life.
Sailing is a training ground that turns kids into adults, as long as adults leave them
alone. Let them win or lose on their own merits, not with someone snowplowing
their life. As a kid, I was expected by my parents to exercise good judgment and
good judgment often comes by making mistakes.
Mistakes are a part of the growing process and I have to admit, I am still a little
skittish around spinnaker halyards..
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CUTTING EDGE
INNOVATION
By Martin Vella
Talking about one of the people in Malta with the clearest vision on how the future of healthcare looks
like, what we have managed to accomplish with digitization, and what yet must be done to improve
the state of health of all Maltese, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Healthcare Dr Chris Fearne is
always looking for ways to improve the healthcare system and making it work for all. In this interview he
tells us about opportunities and challenges lying ahead, and how we can be ready to meet them.
Talking about one of the people in
Malta with the clearest vision on how
the future of healthcare looks like,
what we have managed to accomplish
with digitization, and what yet must be done
to improve the state of health of all Maltese,
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for
Healthcare Dr Chris Fearne is always looking
for ways to improve the healthcare system and
making it work for all. In this interview he tells
us about opportunities and challenges lying
ahead, and how we can be ready to meet them.
MBR: Malta’s healthcare system is ranked
very highly, coming in amongst the top ones
in Health International Indices. What are
the defining aspects of the system?
CF: Malta’s public health system delivers a
comprehensive basket of health services to
all citizens for free. The system is consistently
placed amongst the top ones in the world.
Lancet, probably the best medical journal,
currently places us in the top ten.
Maltese citizens enjoy one of the highest life
expectancies in Europe, a very good gauge
of our citizens’ health and the quality of our
health services. More specifically, the country
is doing very well according to many of the
indicators of communicable disease and child
development. After many years facing a host
of issues such out of stock medicines and long
waiting lists for appointments and surgeries,
there is now a strong political commitment to
provide a healthcare system that is accessible
to all, of high quality, safe and sustainable.
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Scoring so high on Health Indices is a direct
result of the competence and dedication
of our entire staff, government’s everincreasing
investment in the health sector
and the effective leadership and vision of our
management team.
MBR: Mental health strategy and dementia
– what are your policies and how are they in
line with our ethos and social values?
CF: We have just recently published a mental
health strategy covering 2020-2030. Through
it we will be modernizing current policy,
refurbishing and strengthening our existing
infrastructure and following a clear road map
to achieve and preserve mental well-being.
For decades, mental health was grossly
underfunded and kept in the shadows of other
health services. This government has been and
will continue to be determined to do everything
to turn this round. With an investment of €6.4
million this year alone, Mount Carmel Hospital
will be undergoing a radical transformation and
refurbishment. Its wards are being equipped with
modern facilities and to the highest standards.
The strategy emphasises the shift from
hospital to community care, thus providing
more accessible care and preventing patient
institutionalisation. At the same time, a site for
an acute 100-120 psychiatric patient facility on
Mater Dei grounds has been identified.
Mental health clinics will be placed in primary
care settings, thereby integrating mental and
physiological care.
Four years ago it was estimated that over 6000
people were suffering from dementia. This
amounted to 1.5 per cent of the population
and is projected to reach 3.5 per cent by 2050.
This demographic will bring about a significant
demand not only on the health and social
care services but on society as a whole. The
National Strategy for Dementia in the Maltese
Islands (2015-2023) is aiming to implement a
number of measures in various management
and care areas. Its key objectives include
increasing awareness and understanding
of the condition, timely diagnosis and
intervention and staff development. This
strategy also aims to promote an ethical
approach to dementia management and care.
It also provides patients and their care givers
with the necessary psychological support. The
ultimate objective is to maximise the quality of
life in the circumstances of both patients and
their carers.
MBR: Can you provide some insights into
the local healthcare system, the Ministry’s
main policy priorities and the continued
efforts to improve quality of life for Maltese
citizens?
CF: The key to an excellent health service
is a strategy that keeps patients’ needs at its
centre. For instance, we launched a national
diabetes strategy which widened the range of
free medicines, bolstered the distribution of
free diabetes sticks and created a new ward for
patients with complications in their legs and
feet. We also launched a national cancer plan,
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more specialised medicines for different types
of cancers. In addition, using NDSF funds, we
are investing €10 million in capital funds in
our community health centres.
The IVF legislation amendments based on
pro-life principles will double the number
of surviving embryos. This service is now
available for free at MDH, and to a wider range
of applicants. Seen holistically, these measures
give a chance to many more couples to realise
their life dream of becoming parents.
To distance the threat that new resistances to
macrobiotics pose to the community, we are
rolling out anew, state of the art antibiotics
plan. During my address at the EPSCO meeting
in Luxembourg, I urged that Anti-Microbial
Resistance be given utmost priority in the EU
Health Agenda. This was also discussed during
the most recent Valletta Declaration Meeting
with EU Health Ministers.
Recently, Mater Dei Hospital was certified as a
co-ordination centre for European specialized
hospitals known as the European Reference
Network. This network comprises over 500
health centres and hospitals specializing in rare
diseases. In Malta, there are 3,539 registered
patients with rare conditions. Sitting in the EU
Maltese presidency chair has also given us an
opportunity to place rare diseases at the top
of the EU agenda. We shall continue to strive
to reduce the isolation of afflicted patients
through more support networks.
More generally, the government will embark on
the creation of a long term and comprehensive
strategic plan for healthcare covering the
years 2020-2030. The aim will be to ensure
accessibility to all through a smart programme
of national investment.
MBR: What steps are you taking to ensure
that our healthy living and wellbeing
systems remain sustainable?
CF: Sustainability is key challenge on the
desk of any health minister. Our health
system is both excellent and free and we are
determined to keep it that way. Indeed our
investment strategy takes its cue from this core
value. In parallel, we are actively working to
consolidate further Malta’s credentials as a
centre for medical tourism, precisely to shore
up sustainability
We are doing even more on this count.
The implementation of the Patient Charter will
continue to ensure free, efficient, top-quality
and sustainable health services accessible to
all. We shall also continue to invest in better
technologies, increase the health care work
force and care in the community.
As a government we will continue to upgrade
and strengthen the health infrastructure as
well as up our game in preventive screening,
awareness, educational campaigns. We
will also further increase the availability of
free medicines which treat more diseases.
Obviously, all this calls for strategic investments
to underpin a revision of existing processes
whilst shifting the focus of care away from
hospital to the community.
MBR: How are you fostering innovation so
that all Maltese can improve their wellbeing
and healthy living?
CF: Cutting edge healthcare innovation in
is one of our top priorities. We introduced
remote patient monitoring, kicking off with
diabetes patients on insulin, allowing them to
monitor their glucose levels. This new service
gives the patient an instant blood sugar level
reading which then triggers the software to
supply potentially life-saving information.
This system can also instantly inform the
doctor, family members and the hospital when
necessary. This year we plan to implement this
technology nationwide, eventually extending
it to patients suffering from other conditions
like lung and heart diseases.
Recently at MDH, ‘Mario’, our first robot,
delivered his first medicines. ‘He’ not only
does it more efficiently but also drastically
decreases the chance of error. Maltese doctors
are currently being trained in anticipation of
the introduction of robots assisting them in
surgeries at MDH. The first roll out will be in
prostrate surgery.
MBR: One of your key objectives is to bring
innovative drugs to the market more swiftly
and in a more cost-effective manner. Could
you please elaborate on the pathways you
are exploring to achieve this?
CF: When Malta chaired the Presidency of
the EU Council, we initiated the Valletta
Declaration and set up this group of ten EU
countries with the aim of lobbying large
pharmaceutical companies for better prices
on bulk purchases of public pharmaceuticals.
During our last meeting in July, we came
together to vigorously ensure that there is
sustainable pricing of new medicines coming
on the market. Through more streamlined joint
procurement initiatives we aim to provide the
best, most accessible and advanced healthcare
and medicines to all our citizens. We wish to
continue introducing innovative medicines,
but always insisting on full price transparency.
MBR: In what ways can digital healthcare
help Malta in tackling social inequalities on
life expectancy and the level of unmet needs?
CF: While we have made great strides in
health care in Malta, the advent of blockchain
technology, digitization and artificial
intelligence is set to revolutionize the system
out of recognition. Digital healthcare can
facilitate patient care, protect his or her
information, and monitor treatment across
hospitals and health centres worldwide. In
this respect we are truly headed to some
revolutionary times.
Digital technologies are supporting health
system efforts to transition to new models of
patient-centred care as well as help develop
‘smart health’ approaches which increase
affordability, improve quality and lower costs.
Blockchain, RPA, cloud, AI and robotics, the
Internet of Medical Things, digital and virtual
reality are just some of the ways that this
wave is radically transforming health care.
These technologies can help with diagnosis,
treatment, speed, quality, diagnostic accuracy,
care and more generally to improve the patient
experience. Investment in digitization can
lead to better usage of health data in research
supporting personalized care.
Allow me, however, a quick reality check.
Digital innovation is assisting and augmenting
health staff skills, not replacing them. It is
freeing up the time of highly trained staff
to focus on more valuable, patient-facing
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The strategy emphasises the shift
from hospital to community care,
thus providing more accessible
care and preventing patient
institutionalisation.
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activities. The My Health system which stores
patient records electronically allows a family
doctor access to more than 60,000 patients.
MBR: Prevention rather than cure – which
innovations and projects can have an
impact on the future of public health?
CF: The Health Ministry, through the
Superintendency of Public Health’s Social
Determinants Unit, has secured social
funding to establish a national platform to
address social determinants of health. This
survey covers various topics such as quality
of life, tobacco, alcohol consumption, body
mass, illness, disability and the use of health
services and medicines. The data will enable
identification of health inequalities in Malta,
which in turn leads to overarching and crosscutting
policies. In other words, policy can be
shaped to increase prevention and awareness,
look out for a healthier community and rooted
in the cardinal principle of equity address
different needs of each strata of society.
Malta has recently registered the best Breast
Cancer patient survival rates due to top notch
quality treatment and care given to patients.
Hence, we are extending the breast screening
service to women aged between 50-69 to
once, every two instead of three years. Up
till now around 80,000 mammograms were
performed since the service was introduced
in 2009.
MBR: What remains to be done to improve
the state of health of the Maltese?
CF: Our vision is to actively promote a society
that fosters an environment conducive to
health and well-being. To attain these goals
the government will continue to build on the
current principles laid out in the National
Health Strategy for Malta 2014-2020 - to
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give every individual the opportunity to
lead a healthy and active life and to benefit
from equitable access to sustainable quality
healthcare services.
In the coming decades, the Maltese health
system will have to face a number of
significant challenges, including the increase
in population size as well as chronic conditions
such as obesity, diabetes, cancer and heart
diseases. More mental health problems will
certainly add further pressure on the system.
In order to address these challenges sustainably,
the health system needs to find effective solutions
with greater emphasis on prevention, increased
efficiency and improved use of resources.
MBR: At this key moment for the Ministry’s
agenda on the European stage, what is
your final message that you would like
to share with our local and international
readers?
CF: The Health Ministry believes in the
quality of its main resource, that is our
dedicated health staff. We aim to empower
them more, providing more access to training
and ground-breaking medical research
as well as access to the latest technology
and equipment. We shall strive to further
develop primary health care and the role
of specialized centres to put Malta on the
regional health map. MS

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} Feature: Superyacht Hacking
EXPERT INSIGHT:
Inside the
secret world
of superyacht
hacking
Tales of successfully hacked superyachts
are be hard to come by. Owners
are reluctant to recount personal
experiences of loss to hackers and
their keyboards. As Tony Gee, associate partner
at cyber security firm Pen Test Partners says,
“There is very little proper knowledge about
yachts being attacked.” But this doesn’t mean it
isn’t happening.
Gee, along with Malcolm Taylor, director of cyber
security at ITC Secure, has opened up about
what causes a yacht to become compromised.
Such incidents, they say, are the result of a
trailing industry “playing catch up” with shrewd
hackers and slack cyber security. Both say it is a
growing problem. “There are industries that are
ahead on this issue and the nautical industry
is not one of them,” says Taylor. Gee agrees,
branding the business “massively behind” on
matters of security. “There is maybe a handful
of people out there who have got a view on this
issue,” Gee says, “but basically no-one is looking
at security on superyachts.”
The yachting community’s approach to the tech
revolution of the last 25 years bears significant
blame. As the internet has saturated more and
more of our lives, the priority of owners and
builders has largely been to transfer the latest
tech on to superyachts. Cyber security has been
left by the wayside, according to Taylor. “The
demand was for performance and somewhere
in the middle of that, the notion that we need
to worry about security was lost,” he says. “We
are much more capable than we are secure and
there’s a big gap between those two things.”
Newly launched superyachts carry a plethora
of cutting-edge tech, from the standard staples
of Wi-Fi, smart TVs and audio systems, to
connected lighting, drones, smart mirrors and
virtual concierges akin to Amazon’s Alexa that
can even place orders with the yacht’s chef.
“The problem is that much of this technology
is very vulnerable. There are a lot of ways for it
to be attacked,” Gee says.
Gee highlights one website Showdan.io,
which allows users to search for other people’s
devices online. It can also be used to search
for satellite communication systems and, Gee
warns, “more and more people” are using
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it to find the communication systems of
superyachts. Speaking at BOAT International’s
Superyacht Design Symposium in January,
Gee demonstrated how easy it is to log into
the satellite communication systems of a yacht
live onstage. He revealed it is even possible to
hack into the navigational system of a yacht
and re-write its location, tricking the yacht into
thinking it is somewhere else.
However, Taylor says such an incident is
“extremely unlikely.” Instead, he argues that
cyber criminals are targeting superyachts
for instant financial gain. “Some hackers are
motivated by ideological reasons but for most
cyber criminals, it’s how they make their living
– they want money.”
Taylor, who is brought in to aid and advise
hacking victims on asset recovery, can recall
many instances of owners who “lost seven
figures” through phishing fraud. In one such
case, the captain of a yacht received an email
asking for a $100,000 fuel payment. The only
thing that made it different from the fuel
company’s previous emails was its request to
pay the money into a different account. “The
hackers made the email look exactly the same
as previous ones,” Taylor explains. Caught
unaware, the crew made the transaction to
the false account, losing $100,000. Phishing
emails like these are common, Taylor says, and
successful when operated by skilled hackers.
“They make the emails look like they have come
from the right person and the right place.”
In the most extreme occasion he recalls, an
owner was defrauded of $11 million in one
transaction. But this was not your typical
phishing email. After hacking the yacht’s
systems, the criminals carried out a drawn-out
period of communication surveillance, gaining
access to negotiation conversations between
the owner and a broker. “The hackers realised
that the owner was preparing to buy something.
When the price had been agreed, they sent a
confirmation email asking for the money to be
paid into a bank account,” Taylor explains. “The
individual at that time was expecting such an
email and he paid the money.”
Taylor also reports cases of sensitive business
documents being stolen. Another owner had
“very personal photos” taken. “The hackers
began asking for money to send them back and
threatened to publish if they didn’t get it.” For
every one of Taylor’s stories, countless others
remain untold. “The thing about cyber-attacks
is that the ones you hear about are the tip of
the iceberg because people just do not want
to admit it.”
Sloppy security on board can be traced back to
two parties, Gee and Taylor agree; the owner
and the captain, but there is a tendency for
each one to shirk the responsibility onto the
other. “The captain has a responsibility to
ensure the technology is kept up to date and
maintained but they may not think that’s
their problem,” Gee said. For a yacht to have
watertight security, both parties need to take
responsibility. “Captains should care about
cyber security on board and owners need to
understand how secure their yacht is.” Simple
rules, such as ensuring the captain keeps a
clean USB for navigational purposes, which
is locked away after use, could dramatically
reduce a yacht’s vulnerability, the pair say.
Greater importance should also be placed on
training crew to deal with such situations.
“Something that owners, yards and yacht
management companies could certainly
improve on is training the crew,” Taylor says.
“They’re the ones dealing with the emails,
they’re the ones on the front line.”
EXPERTS’ TIPS FOR OWNERS
• Ask the captain when the satcom and
navigation systems were last updated.
• Regularly audit charter yachts for rouge
systems and devices.
• Seek training for captains and crew on good
security practices.
• Seek assurances that smart devices cannot
interact with safety critical systems.
EXPERTS’ TIPS FOR CAPTAINS
• Change default passwords for all systems.
• Test on board systems for issues.
• Train your crew on good security practice
such as where they can charge their devices
and what they can do with them while they
are on the yacht.
• Ensure maintenance windows for updates
are allowed. MS

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} Extreme Sailing Adventure
SAILING
AROUND CAPE
HORN ON 45M
SALPERTONA
By Sailing-Yacht-Salperton
Some people buy a boat just for
glamour or racing. Others buy a
yacht to embark on the voyage
of a lifetime. The owner of 45
metre superyacht Salperton (now
Palmira) talks to Sam Fortescue
about his epic adventure in
Patagonia.
Salperton sailed through mountainous Patagonia to reach Cape
Horn, where the Pacific and Atlantic tumultuously converge.
Image by LuisValiente from Pixabay
Having owned large sailing yachts for 21 years, Barry Houghton knew exactly
what he wanted when he commissioned Salperton. On delivery in 2009, the
45-metre sloop was already prepared for high latitudes, with extra heating,
vast tankage (22 tonnes of fuel and 12 tonnes of water) and eight freezers for
extended cruising.
Houghton spends 16 to 20 weeks per year on board, and was longing to see Chile and the
Falkland Islands. “I wouldd lived in Verbier, Switzerland, for 21 years, so I love mountains.
I wanted to go trekking first of all, so I combined that [at Torres del Paine National Park]
for three weeks prior to meeting the boat.”
He joined ship in Punta Arenas, after the yacht’s demanding downwind run from New
Zealand. “We underestimated the Roaring Forties – 24 days when the crew saw no one and
nothing. In that time, they had hardly any sail up; running downwind with just a small
staysail, hitting 25 knots – they must have been close to broaching many times.”
Obtaining their cruising permit from the Chilean authorities, the first thing they had to do
was to mend their blown-out mainsail in a makeshift tent on the commercial dock. But the
weeks of cruising that followed were sublime, in good conditions, Houghton remembers.
“I did not fill the boat with guests. The only people who came on were good friends I knew
well.” They cruised from anchorage to anchorage with a guide – a Yorkshireman who had
worked with famed sailor Skip Novak for many years. They would often hike for hours,
revelling in the wildness of the Beagle Channel.
With little love lost between Argentina and Chile, it was essential to stay in permitted
waters – the more so because Houghton wanted to continue on to the Falklands.
The highlights of the trip? “We had a close-range encounter with a condor,” he says. “It flew
within 20 metres of us; it had absolutely no fear. Also, the drama of the glaciers, without
any shadow of a doubt. And having the ability to hike in absolute nature, with no one and
nothing around. Just the pure splendour of nature, the remoteness and the silence.” MS
Courtesy: Boats International
We underestimated the
Roaring Forties – 24
days when the crew saw
no one and nothing.
Things took a dramatic
turn when the
downwind sail from
New Zealand to Chile
blew out the mainsail.
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} Creative Q&A
Creative
Q&A
By Miranda Blazeby
In this instalment of our creative Q&A series,
we profile Italian designer Tommaso Spadolini on
the inspiring city of Florence and designing the
fastest yacht in the world.
Source of inspiration?
My personal background – I was born and raised in a family of architects
and painters. Florence, the wonderful city in which I live, and my passion
for sailing - my long cruises and regattas allow me to find elements and
ideas that I later revise in design.
Spadolini at his studio in Florence
Toughest project?
Fortuna, the yacht designed and built for the King of Spain. Together
with Donald Blount, who developed the hull, we worked in a wind
tunnel in order to reach the project speed of 75 knots. It is the fastest
yacht in the world even now.
Image by MustangJoe from Pixabay
Photo courtesy of Tommaso Spadolini
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Florence based Tommaso Spadolini says he draws his
inspiration from the city in which he lives
Spadolini designed the fastest
yacht in the world, Fortuna
Your big break?
My first realised project was for the Barberis yard, for which I designed
the interiors.
Favourite yacht you designed?
Fortuna is still my favourite.
Most admired yacht designer?
I follow the designers that took their first steps in my studio.
Favourite yacht design?
The explorer concept – a yacht conceived and realised to make long
journeys and face any weather condition.
Favourite furniture designer?
I recently collaborated with Peter Marino Studio PMA whose great
innovativeness applies to yachting interior design.
Favourite building?
I am fascinated by the Sydney Opera House and the Guggenheim
Museum in New York.
Ultimate design fantasy?
A motor trimaran with ecologic technology.
If you were not a yacht designer?
I would be an architect. Or I would have like to have designed a vintage
scooter, or maybe a coffee machine or a vintage record player – why
not? MS
Credit: Boats International

} Special Feature
HOW
is becoming the yachting
capital of the world
Each year thousands of boats, both big and small, flock to the
Italian Riviera seeking a taste of la dolce vita. And right at the
heart of the action is the colourful city of Genoa. With a historic
port and marinas accommodating yachts up to 130 metres, it's
a hub of yachting activity and a portal to Italy’s romantic coastline. Not
only is Genoa home to a flourishing number of shipbuilders, the city
also hosts one of the world’s premier boat shows – and it's growing year
on year.
This year marks the 59 th edition of the Genoa International Boat Show
and aims to be bigger and better than ever. From September 19-24 the
city will be open for business as the world’s biggest boat show takes over
its historic harbour.
This year will showcase an even more expansive display of Italian
excellence. Inspired by the global success of Milan’s Salone del Mobile,
organisers want to push the Genoa International Boat Show beyond the
confines of the marina and host a number of events throughout the year,
transforming Genoa into the true capital of yachting.
Last year’s edition of the Genoa International Boat Show welcomed over
174,000 visitors, and 951 exhibitors from 27 countries, breaking its own
record as the biggest event in the Mediterranean for the industry. With
100,000 square metres of land and 100,000 square metres of water
already fully booked, it looks like this year certainly won’t disappoint.
And the good news doesn't stop there. The Italian boating industry is
on the rise for the fourth year running - a growth that is reflected in the
success of the Genoa International Boat Show each year.
This is a city that lives and breathes yachting. Showcasing Italy’s worldclass
excellence and unmatched maritime history, it's no wonder Genoa
is well on its way to becoming the capital of yachting. MS
Creditline: Boat International; salonenautico.com
The 59 th edition of the Genoa International Boat Show will be bigger and
better than ever
The Capital of yachting.
Genoa, 19 - 24 September 2019
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} America’s Cup
A RETURN TO
winning ways
INEOS TEAM UK TAKES TO THE RACE COURSE
Not only have Sir Ben Ainslie and his
INEOS Team UK been racing again,
they have had some hard-won
success, too...
It’s critically important not to get rusty. The next
America’s Cup takes place in Auckland in March
2021, and it will be raced in the foiling AC75
monohull. It’s a brand new class and the rules
forbid the launch of any boat before the end of
March 2019. So we needed to find something
for INEOS Team UK to race in this year.
T5, the test boat we created from a Quant 28,
is a great tool for understanding how the AC75
will work and funnelling that knowledge into
the design of our own America’s Cup boat. But
our sailors also have to stay current, sharp and
race-ready through the long design and build
phase that we are now in.
We wanted the sailing team to compete together
on an existing racing circuit. Initially we looked
at the TP52s, and some of the other America’s
Cup teams did choose to race in those boats. But
the only real similarity with the AC75 is the fact
that they are both monohulls.
So we looked around for alternatives. We didn’t
want it to cost a fortune either and it seemed
that the GC32 foiling catamaran fitted well – a
top speed of over 30 knots and relatively simple
systems let us concentrate on the racing. The
Extreme Sailing Series also uses the GC32 in
its Stadium Racing circuit, but while it’s a more
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Photography courtesy of Harry Kh/Ineos Team UK
The next America’s
Cup will take place
in 2021 in Auckland,
New Zealand.
commercial series orientated to spectators and
sponsors, we felt that the quality of the racing
was better on the GC32 Racing Tour. And
that had to be the priority: good, competitive
sailing in a foiling boat.
We still had to learn all the nuances of the
boat, though – the right time to try to get it
foiling, when to change modes, when to go
for the tacks and gybes and the detail of the
execution on all those manoeuvres. It’s the
same with any crew; there is a lot of teamwork
involved and everyone needs practice and a
good feel for the boat.
We joined the circuit at the second event in
Lagos, Portugal. Although we came third at
that event it was obvious that we lacked time
in the GC32; we were a long way from the level
of Franck Cammas and his winning NORAUTO
Team France. The expectations are always
high, and while we were frustrated not to be
performing better, the goal was always about
developing the team. To that end, we rotated
our sailing squad through all of the events in
order to give as many of our squad members as
much race time as possible.
The fact is that if you want to win in any class
you have to do the hours on the water. We
progressed massively through the season to
the point that we were able to really step up
and dominate the final event, in Toulon. That
we were able to improve so significantly while
rotating our crew was a real success and it feels
like we certainly maximised our experience on
the GC32 Racing Tour.
Being on the tour worked well towards our
ultimate goal of winning the America’s Cup.
To get this high-quality foiling racing under
our belts was invaluable for our campaign.
We challenged our sailors but also encouraged
the whole team to work together, including
our sailing team coach Rob Wilson, sailing
team manager Jono Macbeth, fitness coach
Ben Williams, the boat maintenance team of
Matt Adams and Aston Campion and the wider
team back at the Camber in Portsmouth. The
GC32 Racing Tour did an excellent job of that
this year. But next year we will step up to the
AC75 – and that will take things to a whole
new level. MS
Credit: Boats Int’l/Yacht Int’l

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} Sailing the Med: Rhodes
Exploring the wilder
side of Rhodes
By Holly Overton
Image by Josef Kotarba from Pixabay
With pretty bays and year-round sunshine, Rhodes is a popular
superyacht stop-off. Holly Overton steps ashore to discover how the
island’s wilder south side is undergoing a luxury eco-revolution.
Then ancient town of Lindos is 10 nautical miles away where you can dive into St Paul’s romantic heart shaped bay
According to Greek myth, when Zeus
defeated the Giants he decided to
divide the Earth between the gods,
only to mistakenly leave out Helios,
God of the Sun. It was agreed that the next
island to emerge from the sea would be his. The
following day, Rhodes rose from the Aegean
and has been sun drenched ever since. Of
course this is just an old folk tale, but the island
is statistically speaking one of the sunniest
places on earth, basking in sunshine 300 days
of the year. Locals call it “the island of the sun”.
This paints a rather idyllic picture of Rhodes
that’s a far cry from its party town reputation.
Your mind might wander to the boozy streets
of Falaraki with partygoers spilling out from
crowded bars every which way. But Helios’s
untainted island can still be found in the lesstrodden
south. Superyacht visitors seeking
solitude should head down the coastline where
the landscape turns much wilder, with rolling
hills clad in pines and cypresses, prickly pear
cacti sprouting at the roadside, and a smattering
of small fishing villages.
Hidden among this rustic landscape there is
luxury to be found at the Gennadi Grand Resort
- a beachfront oasis set between a pebbled shore
and rugged hills. This new eco-retreat is the first
of its kind on the island and is part of a new
wave of eco-luxury travel. Low slung-buildings
and a sloping green roof seamlessly blend the
hotel with the landscape while large floor to
ceiling windows bring the outside in and offer
endless views across the Aegean. Also among its
eco credentials, a clever water system is used
to fill the 161 private pools by desalinating
seawater. This eco-conscious ethos is at the
heart of the Gennadi Grand Resort.
“The biggest challenge is to find a way to
combine luxury with eco-friendliness and to
ensure as many of our everyday products and
amenities as possible are sustainable”, explains
sales manager Georgia Angeli of the resort’s
sustainability mission. “We are redefining
modern luxury in perfect harmony with the
surrounding environment”.
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Gennadi Grand Resort – This new eco-retreat is
the first of its kind on the island and is part of a
new wave of eco-luxury travel
Arrivals by sea can moor in the Port of Rhodes,
or, if you don’t mind getting your feet wet, drop
anchor in Gennadi Bay and tender into the
hotel’s pebble beach. After wandering between
sunken gardens and swaying palms, I check into
one of the resort’s beach chic suites, complete
with its own private pool and sea view. On the
sea-facing side of the hotel, I was greeted by
the golden display of the sun rising up from the
Aegean each morning.
‘Eco’ doesn’t mean having to sacrifice on
indulgence and the Gennadi Grand Resort is
the perfect example of this. A perhaps unlikely
foodie haven, substitutes for your on board chef
come in the form of 11 restaurants and bars,
ranging from fine dining to poolside snacking.
For the ultimate Greek experience the on-site
ouzeri is a must. This candle-lit underground
tavern serves up a Mediterranean menu of fresh
fish, such as sautéed sea bream or tuna fillet,
along with traditional dishes like Kritharoto,
the Greek answer to paella made with orzo
and Macedonian saffron. For dessert, try
Galaktoboureko, a traditional Greek pastry
stuffed with citrus fruit cream, topped with
kumquat and yoghurt ice cream and drizzled
with honey.
Among its eco credentials, Gennadi Grand
Resort boasts a green roof and a reverse osmosis
water plant to fill its 161 private pools
If you are looking to burn off some of the extra
calories there are few places more picturesque
to work up a sweat, with hiking trails scattered
across the surrounding hills. I take a rocky track
up to the ruins of a 15th century castle and am
rewarded with incredible panoramic views of
the coastline. Well-versed in the island’s flora
and fauna, my guide Nikos sporadically darts
off the path, returning with regional plants such
as thyme, sage and capers. As for the fauna,
other than the buzzing of cicadas, a lone goat is
our sole walking companion.
If you want to explore further the ancient
town of Lindos is 10 nautical miles away. Here
you can wend your way down narrow streets
shaded by vines and bougainvillea, dive into
St Paul’s romantic heart-shaped bay or hike
up to the ancient acropolis that dominates the
skyline. It’s steep but certainly worth it for
the view. Further afield, the small but pretty
island of Symi should be top of your list thank
to its colourful neoclassical houses, while
Fethiye on Turkey’s Turquoise Coast is also a
short sail away.
Superyacht stopovers should also head to the
island’s historic port which has welcomed some
of the largest yachts in the world, including
93m Mayan Queen IV, 140m Ocean Victory,
and 162.5m Eclipse. The Port of Rhodes (made
up of three harbours - Mandraki, Kolona and
Acandia) sits in the capital, Rhodes Town, in
the island’s busier North. The town is divided
into two parts, each with its own distinct
character. To one side of the port you’ll find
the cosmopolitan centre, with upscale shops
and waterfront bars welcoming passers-by for
an afternoon cocktail. To the other sits the Old
Town, encircled by medieval stone walls with
turreted entrances. Inside, colourful shops
selling local handicraft fill the 200 or so cobbled
backstreets. Throughout the summer season
the town is particularly lively while ferries
shuttling sightseers to nearby islands fill the
port’s waterways.
Rhodes is an island of contrasts with a clear
divide between its busy north and wild south.
Whichever your preference, guaranteed
sunshine and a long summer season mean the
island is perfect for a late summer getaway –
and one that no Aegean itinerary should be
complete without. MS

} Summer Event
Grimaldi Group
announces new,
innovative, ecofriendly
vessels at
their annual Malta
summer event
18 JUNE 2019, HILTON, MALTA
The Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Capital Projects, the Honourable
Dr Ian Borg as well as His Excellency Mario Sammartino, Italian Ambassador to
Malta, together with Dr Eugenio Grimaldi, Line Manager Italy – Malta Short Sea
Services of Grimaldi Group and Mr Ernest Sullivan, Managing Director of Malta
Motorways of the Sea and CEO of Sullivan Maritime Ltd
Mr Ernest Sullivan, Managing Director
of Malta Motorways of the Sea and
CEO of Sullivan Maritime Ltd,
welcomed guests to the annual
Grimaldi Group summer event in Malta held at
the Hilton Quarterdeck. Mr Sullivan introduced
Dr Eugenio Grimaldi, Line Manager Italy -
Malta Short Sea Services of Grimaldi Group
who addressed the clients, service providers
and local authorities. The Minister of Transport,
Infrastructure and Capital Projects, the
Honourable Dr Ian Borg as well as His Excellency
Mario Sammartino, Italian Ambassador to
Malta, were amongst the distinguished guests.
The Grimaldi Group are focused on creating
a shared value for the communities in which
it operates, whilst reducing environmental
impact, and operating in a sustainable way.
This is attainable through the development
of long, stable and positive relationships
with the Group’s partners. Developing and
implementing innovative projects contributes
to the improvement of the transport sector as
a whole. Increasing the capacity of the ships
means responding to market needs.
Malta Motorways of the Sea/Grimaldi Group
are very proud to have served the Maltese
maritime industry and the country’s economy
for fourteen years through their EU – Regular
Liner Shipping service that is backed by a fleet
of modern Ro-Ro vessels that guarantee a ‘Just
In Time’ service all year round. The Grimaldi
Group registered an incredible growth of
more than 50% in volumes during the last
five years.
Today, MMOS/Grimaldi Group offer very
competitive freight rates, and the highest
quality of maritime services to/from Malta
through the network of Short Sea Shipping
Services and weekly maritime connections
with daily service from/to Genoa, Livorno,
Salerno, Catania, Brindisi and Ravenna,
amongst several other ports.
The Grimaldi Group have recently undertaken a
massive investment program in retrofits for their
vessels, such works are granting the Group a
yearly saving of almost one million Tons of CO 2
,
with re-blading intervention on 38 vessels and 5
vessels have benefited from Re-bulb works.
In addition to the aforementioned retrofitting
program, the Grimaldi Group has also invested
in New Buildings. From May 2020 the Grimaldi
Group will take delivery of 12 giant hybrid-RoRo
vessels, equipped with large Lithium-ion batteries
to guarantee Zero Emissions in Port. Apart from
the great advantage of the zero emissions in Port,
these new vessels will also have double the load
capacity of the existing vessels in service taking
in over 500 trailer units. This will result in the
maximization of the economy of scale where
vessels will double their revenue intake whilst
maintaining running costs.
The Group exceeded a turnover of 3 billion
Euros in 2018. An incredible result achieved
thanks to their long-term investments, their
corporate belief in ‘Together we are better’ and
ultimately as a result of the continued support
and trust from their clients and local operators.
The Grimaldi Group, Naples is represented in
Malta by Sullivan Maritime Limited. Should
you require any further information please
visit www.sullivanmaritime.com or call on
+356 22995110. MS
Dr Eugenio Grimaldi, Line Manager Italy –
Malta Short Sea Services of Grimaldi Group
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} Underwater Drones
HIGH
visibility
The best underwater drones
for exploring the depths
By Sam Fortescue
We’re used to seeing drones flying high, but they can dive
deep too. Sam Fortescue recommends the best underwater
drones for capturing marine life in high quality.
POWERRAY WIZARD
This ray-shaped box of tricks is capable of
descending to 30m on a 70m cord. The
PowerRay can stream HD video to your smart
device and shoot 4K video at 30fps as well as
hi-res stills – all lit with its built- in LED spots.
The Wizard package comes with sonar fishfinder,
bait delivery unit and VR headset.
£2,099
powervision.me
GLADIUS MINI
This second-generation drone has five drives
for more manoeuvrability and a battery life of
up to two hours. It’s controlled wirelessly from
up to 100m via a buoy tethered by a cord. Set
a tilt lock for stunning 4K camera and 12mp
images at depths of up to 100m, using builtin
lights and optional colour correction filters.
£1,299
chasing-innovation.com
ROBOSEA BIKI
Chinese outfit RoboSea has made a “cute”
drone in the shape of a bionic fish that uses its
tail for propulsion. Wireless control is achieved
from your phone via a sonar unit. BIKI has
infrared obstacle avoidance, shoots 4K video
and 16mp stills with image stabilisation, and
there’s a return-to-base button.
£799
robosea.org
DTG2 DEEP TREKKER ROV
Decidedly more Jacques Cousteau than the others here, the Deep Trekker
can descend to 150m and work for up to eight hours on a 90-minute
charge. Upgrade to a 4K camera for HD video and 18mp stills. Rugged
and with built-in lighting, it comes with a remote.
£15,000
deeptrekker.com
IBUBBLE DIVE CAMERA
Designed to film you during dives, iBubble is autonomous for up to
an hour in the water. It operates silently, using sonar to avoid reefs or
coral, with emission levels that don’t impact marine mammals. Twin
1,000-lumen lights adjust to diminishing light automatically.
£4,499
ibubble.camera
Credit: Boats International
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} Section Title
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THE RIGHT
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important assets, and through well-trained staff we are committed to delivering
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All freight and logistics solutions offered by O&S have one thing in common:
they are carried out with utmost dedication and an understanding that the
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} SY Concept Design
DRAWING BOARD:
LATEST SUPERYACHT
Superyacht concepts come in
all shapes and sizes – radical,
ordinary, revolutionary and
bizarre. We round up the
latest list of designs from the
industry...
NAUTA 78
The star attraction on board the latest superyacht concept from Nauta
Yachts is an expanding beach club dubbed “The Island” by the designer.
Sitting aft on the 78 metre yacht, the beach club features glazed transom
doors, a bar, underwater “nemo lounge” and fold-out terraces on port
and starboard. Accommodation is for a total of 12 guests, with the upper
deck completely dedicated to the owner’s accommodation.
SUPER EXPEDITION
Created by Canadian studio ER Yacht Design, this 65 metre go-anywhere
expedition yacht design is based on a modular concept. This means that
yacht features a number of removable modules or containers of differing
facilities, including additional accommodation, scientific laboratories
and extra storage for tenders and toys. Studio president Ivan Erdevicki
said the concept was inspired by the “wish lists” of previous clients.
BULLDOG 88
Presented by Italian builder Cantieri Navali Santamargherita and designed
by Roberto Curtó, the 26.7 metre Bulldog 88 features a transformable
layout, with large and open living spaces. Key exterior features include
a large stern sundeck, including a 30 square metre beach club. The
upper deck also features a sundeck area of around 50 square metres and
includes a Jacuzzi situated at the bow for maximum privacy.
COLUMBUS 120
This 120 metre design from Hydro Tec has been described as the “natural
evolution” of the 80 metre Columbus Yachts flagship Dragon, which was
launched in March this year. Sporting “clean, crisp and sweeping lines”,
the concept features a steel hull and aluminium superstructure, with a
profile that “pays tribute to a bygone era of graceful ocean liners.”
SILENCE
A rare glimpse into the in-house design concepts at Feadship shows
a 65 metre steel and aluminium superyacht concept called Silence.
Designed with a female American client in mind, Silence is intended to
“facilitate partying by day, becoming zen by day." Key features include a
hanging pool aft, which is supported by a central glass structural pillar,
Hydroponic garden, crow’s nest and touch and go helipad forward. MS
Credit: Boats International
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} Deep Sea Secrets
Diving in the Mediterranean
often gets a bad rap – lack of
marine life, poor visibility and
hordes of tourists – but Risa
Merl discovers a spectacular
site hiding in a classic summer
cruising ground to tick off your
diving bucket list.
AN INCREDIBLE DIVE
SITE TO VISIT IN THE
MEDITERRANEAN
blue hole
inland sea
GOZO, MALTA
Don’t let this dive site’s proximity to
the shore fool you. Not only does
this spot blow stereotypes about
Med diving out of the water, it also
offers two stunning sites in one descent. The
natural rock formations of the Blue Hole Grotto
and the limestone lagoon of the Inland Sea are
linked by a beautiful series of small caves and
caverns, allowing divers to explore both.
Many dives start in the Inland Sea before
passing through the crevice of rock that
connects it to the open sea, heading over a reef
dotted with nudibranchs and then emerging
into the Blue Hole, one of the world’s most
amazing cave dive sites. “Sea life abounds,”
says Mikhail Umnov, owner of Starfish Diving
School on Malta’s east coast, who often guides
superyacht owners and guests to this site.
“There are big yellowfin tuna up to 1.5 metres,
dolphin fish and even octopus. Not only is
the sea life fantastic, but there is a beautiful
composition of rocks.”
The sites suit beginners and experienced divers
alike. “Open water divers can easily go on this
dive. It’s good for buoyancy control but it’s also
advanced, and technical divers enjoy it as the
max depth is 65 metres.”
Location: Near the site of the Azure Window,
a 28m natural limestone arch that collapsed in
March, off the island of Gozo, Malta
How to get there: It’s a 500 metre tender ride
from the Fungus Rock anchorage – far prettier
than it sounds
Depth: Up to 65 metres
Experience level: Open water to technical diver
Insider’s tip: The best time to go is in the early
morning when you can see a lot of sea life and
beat the dive boats, which come between 9am
and 2pm. MS
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Picture courtesy of Gettyimages.co.uk
There are big yellowfin tuna
up to 1.5 metres, dolphin
fish and even octopus. Not
only is the sea life fantastic,
but there is a beautiful
composition of rocks.

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} Marine Electronics
GARMIN MARINE CHARTPLOTTER
ECHOMAP ULTRA 102SV
HAS A GT54UHD-TM TRANSDUCER WITH A 1,100 FOOT DEPTH REACH...
what else can one
possibly want?
ECHOMAP Ultra 102sv combo, has
a bright sunlight-readable, keyedassist
touchscreen display and all the
tools needed for successful fishing.
It is integrable with premium BlueChart® g3
charts, BlueChart® g3 Vision cartography with
integrated data from Navionics®, Panoptix
LiveScope LVS12 sonar (no black boxes
required) and all the Panoptix range of allseeing
sonar transducers, besides supporting
the Panoptix LiveScope system. Moreover, it
enables the transfer of information gathered,
such as sonar soundings, routes and waypoints
with other ECHOMAP ULTRA and ECHOMAP
PLUS units.
If that were not enough, its built-in WIFI unit
gives access to the all-in-one ActiveCaptain
app, which is internet downloadable free of
charge and enables access to this data from
practically anywhere, through a compatible
mobile device. Similarly, software updates, are
internet downloadable to the device, at one’s
convenience.
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As one would expect, the ECHOMAP Ultra
combo may be easily disconnected and taken
home without the necessity of any wire
fiddling, given its quick-disconnect bail mount.
This marine chartplotter has superior sonar
capabilities and is equipped with:
• 10” keyed-assist touchscreen combo which
includes an all in one transducer for CHIRP
traditional and Ultra High-Definition
ClearVü and SideVü scanning sonars,
• Built-in support for all Panoptix sonars and
the Panoptix LiveScope scanning sonar
system, including the Panoptix LiveScope
LVS12 sonar,
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} Diving
By Angela Audretsch
THE BEST SCUBA GEAR TO KEEP ON BOARD
Whether you're equipping your yacht for charter or just want to make sure it's stocked for yourself and
your guests, no toy box is complete without several sets of scuba dive gear for exploring the deep. With so
much on offer, we've navigated the market to bring you the best scuba dive gear to keep on board now...
ATOMIC AQUATICS BC1
The Ferrari of BCDs, the new BC1 takes quality
and detail to the next level, with titaniumcoated
D-rings, sand-resistant zips and even
quilted shoulder pads.
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AQUALUNG AQUAFLEX WETSUIT
With extra-stretchy neoprene, the new 5mm
AquaFlex becomes a second skin. The seams
are sealed with liquid rubber and the threeway
zip seal prevents any chilly trickles.
£285
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AP DIVING INSPIRATION XPD
Divers may joke that they don’t count as
“real” diving kit, but a rebreather enables
a transformative experience. Get closer to
wildlife and extend your bottom time by hours.
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CETATEK AQUABIONIC ABS
Available to pre-order now, these highly
innovative diving boots instantly connect to
a variety of modular fin-blades in different
performance parameters using ski-binding
technology. Game-changing.
£188
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OCEAN REEF NEPTUNE SPACE
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Breathe through your nose, enjoy a wider
field of vision and ditch the pressure points of
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GARMIN DESCENT MK1 DIVE
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Garmin’s first dive computer is smooth and
loaded with features, including surface GPS
navigation, colour mapping and multiple dive
modes. It also pairs with your smartphone.
£1,300
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} Newport Regatta
12 Metre Pre-Worlds:
LAST BLAST BEFORE
THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
By Barby MacGowan
Photo Credit: Ian Roman
Nyala (US-12), winner in Vintage Division, at the 12 Metre
Pre-Worlds, part of Sail Newport’s Newport
In preparation for the recent 12 Metre World
Championship (July 8-13) in Newport,
R.I., a fleet of 16 12 Metres competed in
Sail Newport’s annual Newport Regatta
and counted it as their official 12 Metre Pre-
Worlds. After five races over two days (July
6-7), New Zealand (KZ-3), Victory ’83, (K-22)
Columbia (US-16) and Nyala (US-12) became
the names to beat, winning their respective
divisions, but not without a fight. This regatta
foreshadowed the intense competition to come
when 22 of these yachts – considered some of
the most iconic in the history of sailboat design
and spanning the decades between the 1920s
and 1980s – compete at the Worlds.
“It was unprecedented and awesome to see so
many 12 Metres together on Narragansett Bay
and Rhode Island Sound (where they sailed,
respectively, on Saturday and Sunday),” said
12 Metre Worlds Event Chair Peter Gerard,
“And it will be even more spectacular next
week when another six 12 Metres join the
racing, making it the largest gathering of 12
Metres since the 2001 America’s Cup Jubilee.”
The 12 Metres, most famous as America’s Cup
boats but also with ties to the Olympics in the
early 1900s, are divided into divisions based
mainly on when they were built. They are
Grand Prix (for 12 Metres built between 1983
and 1987 with winged keels), Modern (1967-
1983), Traditional (1958-1964) and Vintage
(1907-1958).
Photo Credit: Ian Roman
Victory ‘83 (KA-22), winner in Modern Division
After two firsts and a second on one Saturday,
Dennis Williams’ Victory ‘83 (KA-22) had
four points on Enterprise (US-27) going into
Sunday’s Modern Division racing. “We just
wanted to sail the racecourse as fast as we
could,” said Williams, who won Sunday’s first
race by 20 boat lengths or so and “never looked
back” after establishing an early lead on the
eight-mile twice-around windward-leeward
course. “In the second race, a start near the pin
end didn’t really work for us; we got pinned
out by Intrepid (US-22) and couldn’t sail the
course we wanted to sail. We finally got free
and ended up second but took a penalty (2
points) for fouling Challenge XII (KA-10) at
the weather mark.
“If you make a mistake you get shot out
the back; it’s pretty simple,” said Williams.
“You can’t find big boat around-the-buoys
racing like this anywhere else. There’s lots
of very close competition, and the boats are
technically challenging; it’s really a lot of
fun. We hope we can go out and show our
competitors the way around the course next
week!”
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} Interview of the Month
ON BOARD WITH
John
Caudwell
OWNER
OF 73M
SUPERYACHT TITANIA
AND MAN ON A MISSON
By Stewart Campbell
A billion-pound fortune has brought this
British tycoon a superyacht... but also the
chance to help thousands of ill children
and wipe out Lyme disease too, as he
explains to Stewart Campbell...
John Caudwell underpaid for his
superyacht Titania – and he feels bad
about that; the billionaire tycoon regrets
not paying many millions more. It’s
not something you hear often in superyacht
circles – or really in any circle. He lays out
the whole story over lunch on the main aft
deck of his 73 metre yacht as we ride at
anchor off Antibes.
It was 2010 and Caudwell was not enjoying
his first foray into serious superyachting.
Just months before buying Titania he had
purchased the 58.55 metre LürssenCapri on
the brokerage market, which he candidly
admits was “a dreadful experience”. He
thought about walking away from the deal –
and yachting. “If I could have cancelled Capri
I would never, ever have bought another big
yacht. I would become so fed up of it.”
In the bitter aftermath of that deal, he came
across an auction listing for a yacht called
Apoise. Another Lürssen, 67 metres long
(since extended) and fresh from a four-year
circumnavigation, it was owned by Dave
Ritchie, founder of Ritchie Bros Auctioneers,
the world’s largest industrial auction house.
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Ritchie wanted to sell Apoise and decided
to auction the yacht with the company he
founded – without a reserve.
And it was this that caught the eye of the
instinctive deal-maker Caudwell. “I wasn’t
looking for another boat, and I couldn’t really
believe it could be a genuine auction, but the
more I looked into it the more impressed I was
with the Ritchies and the way they operated,
and I thought this could be a very good deal.”
On the day of the auction, which took place at
the Ritz-Carlton in Grand Cayman, Caudwell
was the only bidder actually in the room. “It
was just me and five telephone bidders,” he
remembers. Bidding started at €20 million
and blew into the 30s before whoever was at
the end of those telephones started to waiver.
“I could see people dropping out one after the
other because the guys on the phones were
going quiet, and it ended up being just me and
one telephone bidder. It got down to half a
million bids, which is a lot of money but not in
boat terms, and I ended up getting it for a very
low price.” The hammer dropped at around
€34 million – roughly half the boat’s estimated
value. “I instantly felt really sad,” says Caudwell.
“I had come to really like the Ritchies and I had
bought the boat way too cheaply.”
Caudwell is not your average billionaire. He
proudly pays his tax, has pledged to give
away most of his wealth to charitable causes
and claims to be much more at home in a
one-star guest house (“as long as it’s clean”)
than a palatial five-star hotel. “Going into a
restaurant and ordering a bottle of wine that’s
even £200 would break my heart. It’s not me.
I did not do it. I don’t crave materialistic
things, although I have got a lot. I love this
boat but if I did not have it, as long as I could
go cycling and camping up in the mountains
there, I’d be fine.” He pauses at that. “Actually,
it would be hard giving up this boat.”
That’s no surprise – Caudwell is evidently
comfortable on board and has infused the
entire yacht with his own brand of easy
informality. The crew smile genuinely and
warmly at the boss as he asks about the menu
and requests a drink. There’s no stuffiness,
none of the upstairs/downstairs that can
make the onboard atmosphere rigid and
uncomfortable. It’s one of the reasons Titania
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Image courtesy of Rupert Peace
Titania is heading to Thailand this winter, where
she will be available to charter through Burgess
The whole objective
was to turn it into a fun
boat with great food, a
happy, smiling crew and
all the facilities anyone
could want.
The Caudwell International Children’s Centre in
Staffordshire in the UK is due to open later this year
yacht, commanding €630,000 a week in the
high season. “The whole objective was to turn
it into a fun boat with great food, a happy,
smiling crew and all the facilities anyone
could want. If someone wants white, starchy
service they won’t get that here; it’s just all to
do with friendliness and efficiency. Of course
the service is first class though. My crew are
wonderful – they are very well paid and get
phenomenal tips.”
Charter comes first, Caudwell says, to the
point where he will cancel his own plans to
visit the yacht if a client wants to book it. “I
set it up to be a successful charter yacht right
from the beginning.” He amped this up with
a significant refit in 2012 that added a second
owner’s cabin on the upper deck, a gym on
the sundeck and an extension to the stern to
accommodate a beach club. All the toys are
on show the day I visit, with a full water park
floating off the stern and crew circling the
boat in Seabobs to help the guests flying down
the enormous 12.7 metre long waterslide.
Another of Titania’s USPs is the intense focus
on wellness, a Caudwell obsession. In 2014
he was diagnosed with Lyme disease and
Image courtesy of Christophe Paitrault
Business tycoon and philanthropist John Caudwell
ever since has been on a very public crusade
to get the government to take the tick-borne
illness more seriously. He says 11 of his
family have tested positive for the disease,
most devastatingly his 23-year-old son Rufus,
who requires full-time care. “It started with
[Rufus], who had it for 10 years but we didn’t
know he had it so we never got it diagnosed.”
In the course of interviewing doctors for the
Caudwell International Children’s Centre,
a new state-of-the-art facility at Keele
University in Staffordshire in the UK, which
is dedicated to researching, diagnosing and
treating autism, Caudwell discovered that
Lyme disease could be responsible for his
son’s condition. Other members of the family
then decided to get tested after recognising
the symptoms. Caudwell was the fifth to learn
he carried the disease. “I thought I had very
mild ME, but sure enough I tested positive for
Lyme as well. We ended up with the whole
family having it.”
Caudwell is now on a mission to raise money
for research and push it up agendas. “I would
be very disappointed if I died not having fixed
this Lyme disease problem. It’s horrific what
Vigilant about his health and diet, Caudwell is
also an enthusiastic cyclist
some sufferers go through. I cannot fix all of
them, but if I can fix the system, if I can get
the system responsive, then that’s the start to
helping people.”
One of the ways Caudwell manages his own
illness is through a strict, non-toxic diet. “Diet
is my number one weapon. I keep cleaning up
my diet more and more. Everything on this
boat is organic, there are no toxins in it at
all and there is almost no sugar. We do serve
bread but I never eat it. No bread, no dairy.”
He lets a few glasses of wine slip through
the net but will cut alcohol out entirely if he
feels “even the slightest bit off”. He certainly
looks healthy, and eats lunch dressed head
to toe in Lycra after coming back from a ride
to Eze in the morning. He casually mentions
conquering the Col de la Madone a few days
previously, which a later Google reveals to be
one of the most punishing ascents in world
cycling. Always at his side on these rides is his
girlfriend Modesta Vzesniauskaite, a former
Olympic road cyclist from Lithuania.
He estimates he spends a third of his life on
his charity work. Through Caudwell Children,
set up 20 years ago, he has helped more than
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} 2019 Rolex Middle Sea Race
RMS 2019
All photos courtesy of Rolex/Kurt Arrigo
Strombolicchio, the northernmost mark of the Rolex Middle Sea Race
Courrier Recommandé, at the start of the
2018 Rolex Middle Sea Race
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Géry Trentesaux and the crew of Courrier Recommandé,
winners of the 2018 Rolex Middle Sea Race Trophy
Aegir passes Stromboli in 2016 Rolex Middle Sea Race

} 2019 Rolex Middle Sea Race
Solenn (L) at the start of the 2018 Rolex Middle Sea Race
Fleet passing the active volcano of Stromboli
Following last year’s special anniversary,
a downturn in interest in the 2019
Rolex Middle Sea Race might have
been on the cards. Far from it, it
seems. Some 38 yachts have already entered
the race, which starts on 19 October. This
matches progress at the same point in 2018,
when a record fleet of 130 gathered. 150 days
out from the 40th edition of its 606-nautical
mile offshore race, organisers, the Royal Malta
Yacht Club, look set for another celebratory
year. Entrants, to date, represent 16 nations
confirming once again the global appeal of this
stalwart in the international calendar.
Following last year’s stunning win by Géry
Trentesaux and the French crew of Courrier
Recommandé, it is small surprise that crews
from France are leading the way with seven
entries. Trentesaux, who famously announced
his retirement from offshore yacht racing after
victory in the 2015 Rolex Fastnet Race, found
he could not resist the attraction of the distinct
challenge offered by the Rolex Middle Sea
Race, particularly in its 50th anniversary year.
Trentesaux became the third French skipper
to lift the substantial Rolex Middle Sea Race
trophy, following the victories of Antares in
1981 and Spirit of Ad Hoc in 2008.
French registered yachts this year include:
most notably, The Kid, the JP54 design
conceived and skippered by short-handed
sailing legend Jean-Pierre Dick (twice winner
of Barcelona World Race, four-time winner of
Transat Jacques-Vabre); as well as the welltravelled
25-metre Rogers 82, Aegir; Philippe
Frantz’s Nivelt/Muratet designed Albator,
which finished third overall (and first in Class
4) at the Rolex Middle Sea Race in 2018; and,
Gerard Ludovik’s JPK 10.80 Solenn (second in
Class 6 in 2018).
Another intriguing French entry is the 9.82m
(32-ft) multihull Skymy (pronounced ‘skimmi’).
The pre-preg carbon KM32fc catamaran is
currently in production at Magma Composites
based in Questembert, Brittany, and will feature
Z-foils to promote the possibilities of flying
inshore and skimming offshore. According to
the project team, the core aim is to embrace
high levels of safety in structure, stability and
flotation. The design concept incorporates
ease of handling through its sail and other
control systems, and, ease of transportation
and dockage via the push button ability to
fold and unfold the hulls. The team plan to
launch in September and undertake the Rolex
Middle Sea Race double-handed, with a crew
made up of Alain Duvivier, an accomplished
amateur who conceived the project, and
Gurvan Bontemps, whose expansive multihull
experience includes the Flying Phantom and
the GC32. The multihull course record of 49
hours, 25 minutes, 1 second set by Maserati in
2016 could be under threat.
Elsewhere, the fleet currently has a make up of
European entries from the northern, eastern,
southern and western regions, with boats
from Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Germany,
Latvia, Malta, Romania, Spain, Sweden,
Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The
Russian Federation, straddling both Eastern
Europe and Russia, is another good source of
entries, as is the United States, for the moment
represented by regular entrant, Rambler, and
newcomer, Kiva, Mark Stevens’ Hinckley 51,
which is taking part in the Transatlantic Race
in June and the Rolex Fastnet Race in August.
The Australian entry and veteran of the
Rolex Sydney-Hobart, Tilting at Windmills,
is taking a second tilt at the Mediterranean’s
equivalent offshore classic after last year’s
creditable debut.
Follow the latest news and stories on the
Rolex Middle Sea Race social media accounts,
Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
The official race hashtags are:
#rolexmiddlesearace & #rmsr2019.
The Rolex Middle Sea Race starts on Saturday,
19th October 2019 and the final Prize Giving
ceremony will be held on Saturday, 26th
October 2019. Entry Registration closes
on Friday, 27th September and crews are
encouraged to submit their entry forms at their
earliest convenience.
For further information, including the notice
of race, please visit www.rolexmiddlesearace.
com or contact the Royal Malta Yacht Club at
info@rmyc.org MS
Courtesy: Royal Malta Yacht Club
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I have always had a
charitable ambition
in life. When I had made
enough money in business,
I started to think what
I could do to help.
Continued from page 31
30,000 children from all walks of life. “The only thing that mattered
was that they had got an illness that was not being attended to by the
medical profession.” That could mean buying a £20,000 wheelchair
for a child with muscular atrophy or paying for an operation called
selective dorsal rhizotomy, which helps children with unresponsive
legs walk and even run again.
“I have always had a charitable ambition in life. When I had made
enough money in business, I started to think what I could do to help.
And I just thought what better than helping children who have had
no life, who’ve been born with terrible challenges in life. If you can
make their lives substantially better it’s not just them it helps, it’s the
family, it’s everyone.” He gestures around him, saying: “How can you
have all this and not provide for these children? If you landed from
outer space and looked down and saw me sitting on a superyacht and a
child lying on the floor with the family devastated and £20,000 would
transform that child’s life, how can that be something that’s acceptable
in a civilised society?”
Caudwell didn’t come from money, which may explain his deep empathy
with those who can’t afford five-star treatment. He grew up in Stoke-on-
Trent in the Midlands, one of two children. He does not recall being poor
as a child, but says he knows what it’s like “to only have beans on toast
for dinner and not being able to get warm because there’s no heating”.
Boats were an early fascination. His childhood home was on a hill and he
remembers tying lollipop sticks together to make rudimentary toy boats
and running them down the gutter. A canal at the end of the road meant
he could experiment with more complex craft – rafts lashed together with
planks of wood and oil drums. “I nearly drowned playing in that canal
when I was about four,” he says. “Someone fished me out.”
Caudwell at his charity’s fundraiser, the Butterfly Ball
Image courtesy of Wesley Webster
His entrepreneurial streak also developed early. One scheme saw him
growing worms under his mother’s bed to sell to local fishermen;
another was selling motorcycle clothing. He didn’t finish school,
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Image courtesy of Shutterstock
The canals around Stoke-on-Trent in central England provided some of
Caudwell’s earliest boating experiences

Continued from page 29
Nyala (US-12) won all of its races in Vintage Division, but skipper Mauro
Pelaschier said he will have to concentrate to stay ahead of the rest next
week. The last time he sailed in Newport was 36 years ago (1983) when
he was helmsman for Azzurra (I-4), the first Italian challenger for the
America’s Cup. “I’m really happy to be back in Newport where I started
my professional sailing life,” said Pelaschier, who has also sailed in three
Olympic Games. “My crew is all from Azzurra, too, so we are not only
a vintage boat but also a vintage crew,” laughed Pelaschier. “We have
sailed together in many regattas, so we always learn, learn, learn. Our
boat is competitive for sure, and the crew is ready.”
New Zealand (KZ-3) with Max Buerman at the helm, edged out
Kookaburra (KA-10), steered by Torben Grael in Grand Prix Division,
while Columbia (US-16) won Traditional Division over American Eagle
(US-21).
In ROAD TO THE WORLDS Waypoints Series Standings, the point
spread is close: Courageous (US-26) is leading with 87 points,
while Victory ’83 (K-22) is close behind with 84 points. They are
followed by American Eagle (US-21) and Challenge XII (KA-10),
each with 82 points.
ABOUT THE 2019 12 METRE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
The International 12 Metre Class’ 2019 World Championship will be
held in Newport, Rhode Island (USA) from July 8-13 and hosted by Ida
Lewis Yacht Club, the International Twelve Metre Association (ITMA)
America’s Fleet and the 12 Metre Yacht Club. It will be the largestever
gathering of 12 Metre yachts in the United States with 22 boats
from six countries competing. International teams comprised of elite
sailors, including America’s Cup veterans and Olympic medalists, will
represent Canada, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Norway and the United
States. The 2019 12 Metre World Championship fleet will span the years
1928 -1987, include seven America’s Cup defenders and challengers,
and be sailed on Rhode Island Sound, the site of nine America’s Cup
competitions from 1958-1983. www.12mrworlds.com
ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL 12 METRE CLASS
The 112 year-old International 12 Metre Class encompasses a living
history of racing yacht design by the world’s foremost naval architects
including Olin Stephens, Clinton Crane, William Fife III, Philip Rhodes,
Johan Anker, Ben Lexcen and more who pushed their designs to the
very limits of innovation. The resulting boats represented the pinnacle
of yacht development from 1907-1987 for the highest levels of
international sailing competition-- the Olympic Games (1908-1920) and
the America’s Cup (1958-1987). www.12mrclass.com MS
} Newport Regatta
There’s lots of very close
competition, and the boats
are technically challenging;
it’s really a lot of fun.
2019 NEWPORT REGATTA – RESULTS FOR 12 METRE PRE-WORLD REGATTA
Place Yacht Name Owner/Skipper Hometown Results Total Points
Grand Prix (One Design - 4 Boats)
1 New Zealand (KZ-3) Gunther and Maggie Buerman Highland Beach, FL/ 1 -3-1-1-1 7
Newport, RI, USA
2 Kookaburra II (KA-12) Torben Grael / Patrizio Bertelli Arezzo, ITA 2 -1-2-2-2 9
3 Legacy (KZ-5) Thomas Andersen / Jesper Bank Munkebo, Fyn, DEN 3 -2-3-3-3 14
4 Kiwi Magic (KZ-7) Johan Blach Petersen Aarhus C, DEN 4 -4 -4 -4 -4 20
Modern (One Design - 7 Boats)
1 Victory ‘83 (K-22) Dennis Williams, Hobe Sound FL/Newport, RI, USA 1 -2-1-1-4 9
2 Enterprise (US-27) Clay and Nancy Deutsch Newport, RI, USA 2 -1-4-3-1 11
3 Courageous (US-26) Ralph Isham / Steve Glascock / Alexander Auersperg / Ward Marsh / Arthur Santry Newport, RI 3 -5-3-2-3 16
4 Intrepid (US-22) Jack Curtin Toronto, Ont, CAN 6 -4-2-6-6 24
5 Freedom (US-30) Charles Robertson Guilford, CT, USA 5 -5 -5 -5 -5 25
6 Challenge XII (KA-10) Jack LeFort Jamestown, RI, USA 4 -9 -9-4-4 30
7 Defender (US-33) Tom Webster, Hilton Head, SC and Dick Enersen San Rafael, CA, USA 7 -6-9-7-7 36
Traditional (2 Boats)
1 Columbia (US-16) Kevin Hegarty / Anthony Chiurco Newport, RI, USA 2 -1-2-1-1 7
2 American Eagle (US21) Eagle 2019 Syndicate Middletown, RI, USA 1 -2-1-2-2 8
Vintage (3 Boats)
1 Nyala (US-12) Mauro Pelaschier/Patrizio Bertelli Arezzo, ITA 1 -1 -1 -1 -1 5
2 Blue Marlin (FIN-1) Henrik Andersin Kaunianen, FIN 2 -2 -2 -2 -2 10
3 Onawa (US-6) Jim Blanusha / Steven Gewirz / Louis Girard / Earl McMillen / Mark Watson Newport, RI, USA 4 -3 -3 -3 -3 16
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} Interview of the Month
When I’ve got a boat
as good as Titania, the
thought of trying to build
a 110 metre boat, with
everything else I’ve got
going on in my life,
is too much. I am not a
hands-off person;
everything I do is very
hands-on.
Continued from page 34
instead opting to undertake an engineering apprenticeship, and by
the mid-1980s, as a thirty-something, he was running a successful car
dealership in Stoke. In the course of his business he heard about the
nascent mobile phone market and decided to contact US firm Motorola
to see what opportunities there were distributing the phones in the
UK. He eventually bought 26 handsets from the company, each costing
£1,350. It took eight months to sell the phones for £2,000 each. His
new company, Midland Mobile Phones, lost money for two years but by
1991 turnover had grown to £13 million. It was more than £1 billion
just nine years later. In 1996, Caudwell established mobile phone
retailer Phones 4u, which quickly expanded on the high street to 600
stores. In 2006, he sold the holding company, Caudwell Group, to a
pair of private equity firms for £1.47 billion, instantly propelling him
into the three comma club.
As his businesses expanded, so did his boats. In his 20s he had graduated
from makeshift rafts to canal boats, in which he cross-crossed the UK’s
expansive canal network with his young family. “I find the canals so
romantic. We did them when they still had their old industrial character.
We travelled with a stove pot, a chainsaw for cutting my logs up, and a
little petrol generator for driving the chainsaw. They were lovely times.”
He started thinking about going to sea proper in the late 1980s. He would
visit the Southampton Boat Show each year and spent a decade tyre-kicking
until eventually getting a deal he couldn’t refuse on a 20 metre Sunseeker.
Over the next decade that was upgraded to a 25 metre Sunseeker and
eventually a 29 metre model, which he still owned when he bought Capri
and Titania in 2010.
Naturally there’s a “next boat” on his mind. In a rare quiet moment he will
refine it further in his imagination. It will be a new build, formed around
three main requirements: the need to keep a helicopter permanently
on board; a substantial garage for a submarine; and somewhere to
house a folding-wing aircraft, “so you could launch it on the sea and
have an aeroplane taking off from the water”. He thinks this will push
the size up to around 110 metres. “I don’t really want a 110 metre
boat, but those kind of facilities will dictate the size.” But Caudwell is
in no hurry. “When I’ve got a boat as good as Titania, the thought of
trying to build a 110 metre boat, with everything else I’ve got going on
in my life, is too much. I am not a hands-off person; everything I do is
very hands-on.”
That’s as true of the Caudwell Collection, his property company that
is transforming a Mayfair street, to his charity commitments. “When
I sold the businesses, the intent was retirement. I didn’t know what
retirement looked like, but it was retirement. And I often joke that
the biggest failure ever in my life was the retirement because it’s
Caudwell founded the high street mobile phone retailer Phones 4u in 1996
and sold his company, the Caudwell Group, for almost £1.5 billion in 2006.
Audley Square House, in London’s Mayfair, is a property in the
Caudwell Collection
nothing like retirement!” I suggest he’s akin to a shark – he has
to keep swimming or he’ll drown. “I would like to be lazier, for
sure. But who is going to look after all those children with the
Caudwell Children charity? Who is going to sort out Lyme disease?
I’m enjoying my businesses and wouldn’t want to get rid of them.
But it’s a good life and I can’t complain. But do I have to keep
swimming? Not really. I would just like to be able to take my fins off
and tread water once in a while.” MS
Creditline: Boats International
Image courtesy of Shutterstock
Image courtesy of David Cabrera
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By Cynthia Attard
} Powerboat Racing
“Super team, super race...no words
can describe this experience!”
– Clive Butler and Sammy Grima - El Diablo
EL DIABLO WIN THE VOOMQUEST
ENEMED UIM V2 WORLD
POWERBOAT CHAMPIONSHIP
El Diablo are in the VOOMQUEST
Enemed UIM V2 World Powerboat
Championship lead with 55 Points,
after placing first in Races 1 and 3 (20
points each) and third in Race 2 (15 points).
Race 3 saw another thrilling championship
race that brought us jaw-dropping action when
Interceptor Remax was in the lead for the first
9 laps, however El Diablo fought to reign
supreme and managed to conquer the first
position. Interceptor Remax currently rank in
second position, after placing second in Races
1 and 3 (17 points each) and fourth in Race 2
(14 points).
Whilst Friday’s race had to be postponed, it
was still a winning achievement for powerboat
racing champion and organiser, Aaron
Ciantar, as it was another successful event
that continued bringing awareness of the
VOOMQUEST international championship. A
huge thanks goes also to the main sponsor,
Enemed, who provides fuelling for all the
competing powerboats and all the other
sponsors who are making this event possible.
After the final podium, Aaron Ciantar said
“It was an incredible weekend, and although
we had to alter the programme, with great
determination and perseverance we still
managed all three races. Thankfully there
were no accidents, we raced fast and the teams
helped each other as and when required as
they were very supportive until the very end.
We also saw changes in the podium as now all
drivers have achieved a high racing standard,
and at this stage the results are an open book
as anything can happen.”
From his side, Kevin Chircop, Executive
Chairman - Enemed, had this to say “I am
positively surprised and impressed as to
how quickly drivers are improving their
performance from race to race. It’s a pleasure
to see a rotation of positions on the podium
and in the races and it’s evident that this title
is sparking more and more determination
from the drivers to win this world title. We
are building something unique here and as the
main sponsor and official fuel supplier to the
championship, I cannot be but pleased of how
things are evolving.”
Jean Marie Van Lancker, UIM Official and
Offshore President was also present and
described this as a top weekend as VQ has
proceeded in a very positive way and teams
are working hard and learning very fast
and this can be seen through different race
results and placings. “I have been travelling
for a couple of months now and can say
that everyone from all over the world is
interested in what we are doing here. I am
proud that there were no accidents during
the weekend as this shows that the teams
are becoming professional too. Last but not
least, I would like to thank Aaron Ciantar for
believing and trusting in me, together we
will take VOOMQUEST higher.” MS
Source: Malta Independent
Malta
national aquarium
The Malta National Aquarium project
is spread over approximately 20,000
square meters and consists of an
Aquarium, a public landscaped belvedere
on the promenade, a multi-storey car
park, facilities for local dive schools, catering
facilities including a beach club, a merchandise
outlet and a tourist information kiosk.
The Malta National Aquarium has 41 tanks
including reptiles, insects and amphibians,
amongst others, Mediterranean fish, including
fish commonly found in Maltese waters
together with replicas of historical artefacts
that one can find in the seas around the
Maltese islands.
The main tank of the aquarium houses species
from the Indo-Pacific Ocean, including black
tip sharks, zebra sharks, leopard sharks,
bamboo sharks, rays, eels and other exotic
species. The main tank is approximately 12
meters in diameter and has a walk-through
tunnel that allows visitors to experience the
fish at a much closer range.
All tanks are expertly themed to replicate the
underwater environment. Additional features of
the public aquarium include a laboratory, food
preparation room and quarantine facilities.
The Malta National Aquarium complex is in
an iconic curved shell structure in the form of
a starfish. The adjacent promenade provides
additional recreation facilities for pedestrians
including a children’s play area.
EDUCATIONAL
The Malta National Aquarium teamed up
with the iLearn Biology Team to prepare
high level educational programmes in line
with the Maltese National curriculum. We
also offer curricula related activities with the
Aquarium education team to supplement the
students’ visit.
We provide an array of public talks daily
which help promote awareness on essential
issues such as littering, loss of species and
conservation. This new concept of interactive
teaching will eventually help change the
traditional way of learning.
ENVIRONMENTAL
Our aim is to be the leading entity for
the preservation of the marine life and its
environment. We do this by instilling a
sense of environmental responsibility in our
visitors and members of staff. We practice
what we preach and therefore fully respect
the environment throughout our operations.
We have also improved the outlook of Qawra
point whilst protecting its picturesque natural
surroundings.
Through collaboration with various local
NGOs we have undergone a number of
projects to further promote awareness and
education amongst school kids and adults
alike. MS
Source: www.aquarium.com.mt
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} Traditional Regatta
What it is,
where it is and
why you should
check it out!
By Melanie Drury
Are you going to the Maltese National Regatta? If you
haven’t properly considered it, you should. Here’s
one national event that is not only historic, but
also guarantees an atmosphere with a great deal of
excitement and local cheer.
Traditional boat racing has been going on in Malta since the
Middle Ages. While the details have changed considerably over
the years, today the regatta races are held twice a year on the
31 st March and 8 th September. Both dates commemorate the end
of foreign occupation or invasion: the British army and navy left
Malta on 31 st March 1979, while the 8 th September marks the end
of the Great Siege of 1565 as well as the departure of the French
occupiers in 1800.
The races are held in the Grand Harbour, with the fortifications
of Valletta, the Three Cities and Fort St Angelo as a backdrop.
Rowers from seven coastal towns compete in two categories
– one for professionals, and one for amateurs – with each
featuring five races of 1,040 metres each. Take a snack and a
couple of beers – this is a five hour affair but with lots to keep
you entertained, promise!
Each race features a different rowing boat, traditionally the
kajjik, frejgatina, dgħajsa tal-pass and dgħajsa tal-midalji, all
converted Maltese working boats. Points are awarded to the first
three placings and the club with he most points from the five
races wins the respective category.
Needless to say, there is a great ado about being the winners
in this traditional Maltese sport. Traditionally, the participating
clubs are the Birżebbuġa Regatta Club (Red-White-Blue), the
Kalkara Regatta Club (Green), the Bormla Regatta Club (Light
Blue), the Birgu Regatta Club (Red), the Senglea Regatta Club
(Red-Yellow), the Marsa Regatta Club (Red-Blue) and the
Marsamxett Regatta Club (Yellow) of Valletta.
The competition is fierce and supporters scream encouragement
from their viewing points (whether they can actually be heard
or not is another matter, but the support is certainly there!) Join
the large crowd of keen spectators on the water’s edge or on the
bastions of Malta’s historic fortified cities.
Don’t miss this colourful, lively and spectacular event full of local
flavour! MS
Credit: Drew Creative Studios
THE COMPETITION IS FIERCE
AND SUPPORTERS SCREAM
ENCOURAGEMENT FROM THEIR
VIEWING POINTS
Melanie Drury was born and
raised in Malta and has spent a
large chunk of her life travelling
solo around the world. Back on
the island with a new outlook, she
realised just how much wealth her
little island home possesses.
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} London Boat Show
On board
Duran Duran’s icon
Panerai’s Eilean docks in London
By Lucia Ferigutti
Image: Guido Cantini/Panerai
Customers can now step on board sailing yacht Eilean
to shop Panerai’s new Sailing Chronographs.
Some might say that the sight of Duran Duran dressed in
fluorescent suits prancing on the bow of a boat in their now
iconic but outrageously kitsch music video 'Rio' was too great
a distraction to pay attention to the vessel they were actually
sailing on. But for any true boat lover, it is the beautiful yacht Eilean that
is undoubtedly the star of the show.
The 22-metre ketch boasts a storied past, first setting sail from the small
village of Fairlie, Scotland in 1936, built for Scottish steel merchants
the Fulton brothers at the famous William Fife & Son boatyard. In 1964
she was bought by Lord Shawcross, formerly the lead prosecutor at the
Nuremburg Trials, and spent summers cruising around the Balearics
before being sold ten years later, bought for use as a charter.
The new Panerai Sailing
Chronograph Gold Pam01020
is available to pre-order in
London on board Eilean.
Eilean heeling on in a gust, racing
It was in Antigua in 1983 that she had her shining moment, when the
British new wave band Duran Duran filmed their new music video
aboard. While 'Rio' and its ode to eighties glamour and excess helped
propel the band into the mainstream, Eilean was less fortunate. Shortly
after filming, she collided with a ferry breaking her mizzenmast, and
then sank on her mooring while waiting for repair.
Some 20 years later, having been dragged up a creek and left to rot,
she was discovered by Angelo Bonati, the chief executive of Panerai
watches, who fell for the boat's classic Fife lines. He took her to a
shipyard in Genoa, where she was restored according to her original
1936 specifications, found in the archives at the Scottish Maritime
Museum. In a fitting end to the tale, the restored boat and the band
members were reunited for the Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta in 2010.
Where frontman Simon Le Bon, a keen sailor since the age of 11, took
the helm. MS
Creditline: Boat International
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} Ocean Vision
It’s time to supercharge our actions to
protect and regenerate the ocean, and what
better moment than World Oceans Day?
I’m thrilled to share our plans for a new
partnership between Ocean Unite and one
of the Virgin family’s latest additions, Virgin
Voyages, to push for protecting 30 per cent
of the ocean by 2030.
TIME FOR 30X30
The ocean and the planet has never been at greater risk. Just a
few weeks ago, the UN released a truly terrifying report on the
state of life on Earth. A million species are at risk of extinction.
That’s about a quarter of all lifeforms on the planet, rising to
over a third for marine mammals and nearly a third for sharks. We have
already lost half of all live coral reefs and the rest will disappear within
decades as the ocean becomes hotter and more acidic. Plastic pollution
has increased ten-fold in a single generation.
Unfortunately we would better brace ourselves for more bad news. A
Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate
being completed later this year will chart the unprecedented changes
happening as our seas and frozen places heat up. The Silent Spring
foretold in my youth is looming larger than ever over land, sea and ice.
But these warnings must be a call to action, not despair.
If we want our seas vibrant not silent we need transformational change.
That’s the clear message of the UN report. And that change is within our
power. The climate crisis is the third most destructive force behind the
biodiversity crisis, but the top two are our use of land and ocean and our
direct exploitation of its species. For the ocean that means excessive and
destructive fishing, and pollution from agriculture, mining, shipping and
plastics. These are all things we can do something about, and relatively fast.
We can and we must, because the threats to the ocean are not some future
prophesy, they are endangering people, livelihoods and nature now.
Business has a key role to play in this action, but not business-as-usual;
a new kind of business driven by purpose and partnership as well as
profit. At Virgin Voyages, we are determined to lead the way in the quest
for a healthy, protected, regenerating ocean. And at the heart of Ocean
Unite and Virgin Voyage’s joint mission to supercharge ocean protection
is our 30x30 vision: the goal to strongly protect 30 percent of the ocean
by 2030.
Our partnership got off to a flying – or, more accurately, diving – start
with our first ever collaboration which saw the first ever submersible
dive to the very bottom of the Belize Blue Hole, one of the ocean’s most
mesmerising and mysterious places. For me, it was an unforgettable
experience, and huge privilege, to plunge to the depths of this uncharted,
unknown jewel of the sea, and a profound reminder of just how much
we have to learn and to lose.
Continued on page 50
The red dock on Necker
made from recycled plastic
Image from Greg Rose
Image from Jussi Oksanen
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} Marine Environment / Health
MOVE IN AS SWIMMING
SEASON OPENS
By Rachel Baldacchino
The recent Sette Giugno fine and warm
weather presented a perfect occasion for
many to take their first season’s swim.
Unfortunately, as in previous summers,
as the season opens jellyfish also move in at
times scaring away some swimmers. This was the
situation for those who today went for a day’s
holiday at Little Armier bay which was filled with
jellyfish. Photographs of the jellyfish immediately
went on Facebook with many comments that
jellyfish were also spotted in other bays and
rumours had it that some might also be poisonous.
We spoke with biologist Dr Adriana Vella who said
that the sighted jellyfish was the Pelagia Noctiluca
species, which is practically the same jellyfish
that has been appearing every summer in waters
around the Maltese Islands. “As we already know,
even from experience, it is a type of jellyfish that
stings when made contact with. Therefore one has
to follow authorities instructions so that a person
knows how to react and if pain persists, should
consult a doctor. It is important that those stung
by a jellyfish should not apply vinegar, fresh water
or cover the mark with a bandage, but rinse with
sea water and apply ice or baking soda if this is
in hand.
Anyone seeing jellyfish in any bay is encouraged
to inform the authorities by giving details on
JellyWatchMalta@gmail.com. MS
Credit: tvm.com.mt
Image by PublicDomainPictures from Pixabay
Yacht owner Ray Bartoszek holidaying in the sun.
RAY BARTOSZEK, OWNER OF 48M BIG SKY
By Grace Trofa
Ray-Bartoszek-FamilyRay, his wife Lydia and their
six children have enjoyed Big Sky to the fullest.
Ray Bartoszek tells Grace Trofa about
making memories with his family
on board 48-metre Big Sky, the
superyacht named after his favourite
ski resort in Montana.
I grew up in New York, went to the US
Merchant Marine Academy and sailed on
merchant vessels as an engineer and a deck
cadet – I could go into the engine room and
turn some wrenches, but I choose not to.
Big Sky is all we could have imagined and
more. She's had a recent remodel of the
interior; she is comfortable, warm and chic.
We like to believe we have the most toys of any
yacht this size – four Seabobs, a slide board,
four jet skis, a 10-metre Nor-Tech tender,
paddleboards and kite surfs.
I have six children. With my wife, Lydia, and
all of us on board, we have shared many
memorable moments. Watching my eight-yearold
son Owen and my seven-year-old daughter
Natalia jump off the 10-metre-high top deck is
a moment I will never forget.
We have a schedule of six trips a year with
time for eight to 10 charter trips. We picked
up Big Sky in Europe and although we love
cruising there, we all agreed the yacht would
get more use in the Bahamas. Staniel Cay is
where we usually anchor to have private beach
moments with family, swim with sharks, visit
Thunderball Grotto and have amazing warmweather
experiences. We have a private jet
so just four-and-a-half hours after leaving
Bozeman we are cruising on our yacht.
Our chefs do a lot of themed dinners with
costumes, which the kids really enjoy, and
later we watch movies under the stars. Right
now, the bloom is not off the rose for Big Sky.
We are all happy with the yacht, and watching
our children grow up right in front of our
eyes. MS
Credit: Boat International
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} Sailing Regattas
Top Mediterranean
Regattas
The best places to race a
sailing yacht, from
Sardinia to St Tropez
VOILES DE ST TROPEZ
29 SEPT - 6 OCT 2019
Marking the end of the Mediterranean yachting season, Les Voiles de
Saint Tropez is the Cote d’Azur’s most important regatta. Welcoming
4,000 sailors and more than 300 exceptional sailing yachts for a sevenday
meet, entrants include modern, classic and Wally yachts. The Voiles
celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2018.
MAXI YACHT ROLEX CUP, SARDINIA
1 - 7 SEPT 2019
2019 marks the 30th edition of the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, where world
class sailing yachts compete against the stunning backdrop of Sardinia's
Costa Smeralda. The brainchild of the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda and
its president, the Aga Khan, the regatta is now an eagerly anticipated
annual event attracting a sizeable fleet of majestic maxi yachts to Porto
Cervo each september.
Image: Claire Matches
SUPERYACHT CUP, PALMA
19 - 22 JUNE 2019
The Superyacht Cup is the longest running superyacht regatta in
Europe, a favourite with yacht owners, friends, captains and crew who
visit Palma de Mallorca annually for the four day event. With warm
early summer conditions and reliable sea breezes, the Bay of Palma
offers some of the most idyllic racing conditions in the Mediterranean. MS
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} Auto Review
BENTLEY REVEALS EXP 100 GT
CENTENARY CONCEPT CAR
By Miranda Blazeby
Bentley has unveiled a futuristic concept car designed for the
world of 2035 to mark its centenary anniversary.
Unveiled at The Home of Bentley
in Crewe, the autonomous and
completely electric Bentley EXP 100
GT represents the British brand’s
vision of future car design while preserving its
heritage.
References to famous models from Bentley’s
past are seen throughout the sleek and
muscular exterior of the 5.8-metre-long car.
These include the round headlights that
overlap the grille in a nod to the Bentley
Blower and a rear resembling the famous
R-Type Continental.
Made from lightweight aluminium and carbon
fibre, decorative features are made from copper
and aluminium while the driver and passenger
doors are two metres wide and pivot outwards
and upwards to rise to three metres tall.
The Bentley EXP 100 GT has seen the brand
place sustainability at the forefront of its design
ambitions, with a zero emissions powertrain
and range of up to 700km. The exterior paint,
named “Compass”, is made from rice husk
ash, a bi-product of the rice industry, while the
cockpit is styled with natural materials such as
wood, leather and glass.
Bentley’s director of design Stefan Sielaff
said the concept “represents the kind of cars
we want to make in the future.” He added:
“Like those iconic Bentleys of the past, this
Like those iconic Bentleys of the past, this
car connects with its passengers’ emotions
and helps them experience and safeguard
the memories of the really extraordinary
journeys they take.
car connects with its passengers’ emotions
and helps them experience and safeguard the
memories of the really extraordinary journeys
they take.”
Head of exterior design John Paul Gregory
revealed that the concept was heavily
informed by the history of the brand. “The
starting point was our heritage. Bentley’s
history is peppered with amazing cars so that
was our first port of call.
“You start with the proportions. You stand a
good distance away from the car and you’re
able to recognise that it’s a Bentley, even just
from the silhouette.” MS
Creditline: Boat International
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} Ocean Risk Initiative
for
ON OCEAN RISK
Every 8 th of June people are invited to stop what they are doing and think
about the Ocean, what it means to us, and what we can do to help protect it.
By Karen Sack and Chip Cunliffe
Ocean Unite and the AXA XL Ocean
Risk Initiative’s work is centred on
the Ocean every day, so we don’t
need to stop. Instead we wanted
to celebrate and share the story of our work
together to help regenerate ocean health.
Ocean Unite and an insurance company may
seem unlikely partners, but in fact we have a
lot in common. We are both future-focused,
data and science-led, and alarmed by the
unprecedented changes happening in the
ocean and what they mean for the future. We
also both know that dealing with challenges
of this scale will take multidisciplinary action
and alliances.
Human activity is now changing the ocean
faster than at any time in the past 65
million years resulting in major threats to
communities, economies, and ecosystems and
the resulting vulnerabilities and risks will have
significant consequences over time. The ocean
has absorbed about 30 per cent of our C02
emissions and around 90 per cent of the heat
from those emissions.
New research shows that the rate of ocean
warming has quadrupled since the late 20th
century, with increasingly more heat finding its
way down into the deep ocean. The knock-on
effects of these changes are huge, particularly
given that the ocean is home to some 80 per
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cent of all of Earth’s biodiversity. Fish stocks
are moving, habitats and ecosystems are being
degraded, storms are increasing in intensity
and sea levels are rising – in fact, it is projected
that by 2050, 800 million people will be at
risk of coastal flooding and storm surges. This
will have lasting impacts on food security and
population stability.
Image by Stefanie Ferchland from Pixabay
These emerging and intensifying ocean-based
threats have created a whole new category of
risk: Ocean Risk. Coastal communities in small
island developing states, developing countries
and other low-lying areas are especially
vulnerable. And these changes also are not
gender neutral. They have disproportionate
impacts on women and girls, so gender-based
solutions are critical. We need to identify
where and how the impacts of these hazards
can be reduced by taking pre-emptive action
that reduces exposure and vulnerability and
builds resilience to these changes.
Insurance is by definition an investment
to guard against potential future risk. The
insurance industry is constantly seeking out
data and knowledge to model forward and
price emerging risk. AXA XL launched its Ocean
Risk Initiative in 2017 to generate research,
communicate the impacts of the changes we’re
seeing in the ocean and to identify and develop
effective solutions.
With just 30 per cent of economic losses
caused by natural disasters currently covered
by insurance – and as little as 5 per cent or less
in emerging economies– closing the so-called
protection gap is a priority for governments
and the insurance industry in order to prevent
catastrophic levels of loss that can wipe out
decades of development and are impossible for
vulnerable communities to recover from.
Continued on page 46
Image by Walkerssk from Pixabay

} Newport Trophy Regatta
The regatta was started by Ida
Lewis Yacht Club during Newport’s
America’s Cup days as a fleet-racing
competition for all eliminated wouldbe
defenders and challengers for the America’s
Cup. The event has been held annually since,
typically hosting the 12 Metres in the Americas
fleet that make Newport their home.
This year’s regatta was comprised of three
‘round-the-buoy races – held on Saturday in
medium air and lumpy wave conditions on
Rhode Island Sound – followed on Sunday by
a race around Conanicut Island that was part
of the International Yacht and Athletic Club’s
Newport Cup regatta.
Columbia (US-16) won its Traditional Division
in a tie-breaker over American Eagle (US-21)
but also won the IYAC Newport Cup overall
when it was dual-scored for that race under
PHRF handicap. Columbia has been chartered
for the Worlds by Anthony Chiurco (Princeton,
N.J.) who helmed the boat while owner Kevin
Hegarty (Newport, R.I.) and his crew of 15
years sailed it. “Columbia is faster now than
she has ever been,” said Hegerty. “Every year
we tweak her to make her quicker, and we’ve
done a few things this year to really step it up.
In the knife fight that was the Modern Division
competition, Jack LeFort’s (Jamestown, R.I.)
Challenge XII (KA-10 led by only two points
over Dennis Williams’ (Hobe Sound, Fla./
Newport, R.I.) Victory ’83 (K-22). Challenge
XII and Victory ’83 both won two races in their
series. (Victory counted the around-the-island
race as one of its two.)
Johan Black Petersen’s Kiwi Magic (KZ-7), here
for the Worlds from Denmark, joined Gunther
and Maggie Buerman’s (Highland Beach,
Fla./Newport, R.I.) New Zealand (KZ-3) for
Saturday’s races in Grand Prix Division while
Legacy (KZ-5), chartered by Danes Jesper Bank
and Thomas Anderson for the Worlds, made
a last-minute decision to sail in the aroundthe-island
race. New Zealand, which won the
division, won all the buoy races but succumbed
to Legacy in Sunday’s race, finishing second to
Legacy’s first.
Newport Trophy Regatta
Showdown Won by Columbia,
Challenge XII and New Zealand
The Newport Trophy Regatta, hosted by Ida Lewis Yacht Club and held
on the weekend of 29-30 June for ten 12 Metres, gave a sneak preview
of the intense racing to come in July’s 12 Metre World Championship,
where 21 of the historic boats will compete.
“It was great to have three of the ‘plastic
fantastics’ out there, and today showed that
the boat handling of all three was phenomenal”
said New Zealand’s tactician Brad Read, adding
that a total of four Grand Prix Division 12
Metres will sail at the Worlds. “In general, it’s
really amazing that you have these boats from
so many generations competing 30 to 50 years
after they were originally built. We’re just so
fortunate that we have these great weapons to
go sailing on.”
ABOUT THE 2019 12 METRE WORLD
CHAMPIONSHIP
The International 12 Metre Class’ 2019 World
Championship will be held in Newport, Rhode
Island (USA) from July 8-13 and hosted by Ida
Continued on page 47
Brad Read, tactician
for New Zealand
(KZ-3) accepts the
first-place trophy for
Grand Prix Division.
Photo Credit: SallyAnne Santos
The team of Traditional Division winner Columbia (US-16) at the Newport Trophy Regatta Prizegiving at
Ida Lewis Yacht Club. The team also won overall honors in the IYAC Newport Cup regatta.
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Photo Credit: SallyAnne Santos

} Ocean Risk Initiative
Continued from page 44
Ocean Unite and AXA XL (XL Catlin at the
time) alongside other partners, including the
IUCN convened the world’s first Ocean Risk
Summit in Bermuda in May 2018, bringing
together leaders in politics, finance, academia,
science, the ocean community and insurance
to deepen our understanding of the challenges
we will face from ocean derived hazards and
cultivate collaborative solutions. We explored
issues from national security and migration to
food security and global health, and what was
absolutely clear was how important it would
be for these different sectors to come together,
and to develop a common understanding and
language to combat ocean risk.
Since the Summit, AXA XL and Ocean Unite
have deepened our partnership. A new
Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance or
ORRAA, is being built, together with partners
including the Government of Canada, The
Nature Conservancy, Bank of America, the
UNDP, InterAmerica Development Bank (IDB),
Willis Towers Watson, Global Resilience
Partnership, Stockholm Resilience Center, and
the conservation organisation Rare.
The Alliance will bring multiple players
together to pioneer breakthrough insurance
and finance instruments that drive
investment into coastal natural capital, green
infrastructure, rebuilding marine biodiversity
and growing resilience to ocean change. It is
focused on addressing ocean risk and building
resilience in the communities that need it
most, particularly in vulnerable coastal areas
and small island developing states. It also
links well with the Sustainable Blue Finance
Principles that have been developed by the
European Union and WWF.
We were delighted when, with leadership from
Canada and France, the Alliance was welcomed
by the G7 Environment Ministers meeting this
past May in France. The ministers noted the
under-utilization of economic instruments and
supported ORRAA to expand knowledge, build
resilience and drive investment, innovation,
finance, insurance, expertise and – crucially –
political will. All 7 countries as well as the
European Union, Fiji, Mexico, Norway and
India agreed to become part of the Alliance.
Image by kolibri5 from Pixabay
We are excited about the ability for ORRAA
to pilot and scale solutions. Examples of
projects include working to promote resilient
and sustainable small-scale fishing practices
through the development of micro-insurance
products and micro-finance loans. Also, life
insurance policies for small-scale fishers,
benefiting the financial resilience of families,
particularly women. AXA XL and The Nature
Conservancy (TNC) are developing a Blue
Carbon Resilience Credit, giving both a carbon
and resilience value to mangroves, ecosystems
which are under particular threat.
The Alliance will also use insurance and finance
tools to incentivise environmental stewardship
for biodiversity, and the development of
sovereign and individual parametric insurance
measures for coral reefs and mangroves which
Image by Claudia Beer from Pixabay
THE NATURE
CONSERVANCY (TNC)
ARE DEVELOPING A
BLUE CARBON
RESILIENCE CREDIT,
GIVING BOTH A
CARBON AND
RESILIENCE VALUE
TO MANGROVES,
ECOSYSTEMS
WHICH ARE UNDER
PARTICULAR THREAT.
will ensure swift payouts enabling faster
restoration, which is known to reduce harm to
both the environment and increase community
resilience.
We are looking forward to working with our
partners as we build the Alliance over the
coming months and years. MS
Courtesy: Virgin
This is a guest blog and may not represent the
views of Virgin.com. Please see virgin.com/terms
for more details.
This post is part of a series produced by Virgin
Unite in partnership with Ocean Unite, an
initiative to unite and activate powerful voices
for ocean-conservation action
Image by Marcello Rabozzi from Pixabay
Image by David Mark from Pixabay
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} Yacht Launch
Italian yard Permare has
launched the fourth hull in the
Amer Cento series.
The grey-hulled, 29.6 metre GRP yacht hit the water for the first
time on May 24 at the Viareggio based yard. While few details
have been released about the fourth model, it is known that the
yacht features exterior design and naval architecture by Verme
Projects.
Amer
Cento
PERMARE LAUNCHES FOURTH
YACHT
The interior meanwhile has been designed by Stefano Tini and can
accommodate a total of 10 guests in five cabins. The crew quarters allow
for a staff of four.
Described by the yard as possessing “a sober and velvety refinement”,
the 29.6 metre yacht features a grey hull and larger windows on the
main and lower decks. A propulsion package of 4 IPS 1200 Volvo Penta
engines provide a top speed of 32 knots.
The yacht will now undergo sea trials before it makes its debut at the
2019 boat shows. Permare also revealed that two additional hulls in the
series are in build at the shipyard.
The news comes after the yard revealed the third hull in the Amer Cento
series was under construction. MS
Courtesy: BI/Yachts
Continued from page 45
Lewis Yacht Club, the International Twelve Metre Association (ITMA)
America’s Fleet and the 12 Metre Yacht Club. It will be the largestever
gathering of 12 Metre yachts in the United States with 21 boats
from six countries expected. International teams comprised of elite
sailors, including America’s Cup veterans and Olympic medalists, will
represent Canada, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Norway and the United
States. The 2019 12 Metre World Championship fleet will span the years
1928 -1987, include seven America’s Cup defenders and challengers,
and be sailed on Rhode Island Sound, the site of nine America’s Cup
competitions from 1958-1983.
The 2019 12 Metre World Championship is sponsored by Château
d’Esclans – Whispering Angel, Grand Banks Yachts, Gurney’s Marina and
Resort, MJM Yachts, North Sails and Vhernier Milano. Official suppliers
include Bacardi, Barton & Gray Mariners Club, Code Zero, Harborside
Marina, Helly Hansen Newport, McMillen Yachts, Quantum Sails, Robbe
& Berking Classics, Sevenstar Yacht Transport, Stella Artois and Trident
Studio. Event venue partners are Clarke Cooke House, Ida Lewis Yacht
Club, International Yacht Restoration School, Newport Shipyard, Sail
Newport and Seamen’s Church Institute. For more information please
visit: www.12mrworlds.com/partners
ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL 12 METRE CLASS
The 112 year-old International 12 Metre Class encompasses a living
history of racing yacht design by the world’s foremost naval architects
Photo Credit: SallyAnne Santos
The team of Modern Division winner Challenge XII (KA-10) at the Newport
Trophy Regatta Prizegiving at Ida Lewis Yacht Club.
including Olin Stephens, Clinton Crane, William Fife III, Philip Rhodes,
Johan Anker, Ben Lexcen and more who pushed their designs to the
very limits of innovation. The resulting boats represented the pinnacle
of yacht development from 1907-1987 for the highest levels of
international sailing competition – the Olympic Games (1908-1920)
and the America’s Cup (1958-1987). MS
Place Yacht Name Owner/Skipper Hometown Results Total Points
12m – Grand Prix (One Design – 3 Boats)
1 New Zealand Gunther and Maggie Buerman Highland Beach, FL/Newport, RI, USA 1 -1 -1-2 5
2 Kiwi Magic Johan Blach Petersen Aarhus C, DEN 2 -2 -2-4 10
3 Legacy Jesper Bank / Thomas Anderson Munkebo Fyn, DEN 4 -4 -4-1 13
12m – Modern (One Design – 5 Boats)
1 Challenge 12 Jack LeFort, Jamestown, RI, USA 2 -1 -1-2 6
2 Victory 83 Dennis Williams Hobe Sound, FL./Newport, RI, USA 1 -4-2-1 8
3 Courageous Ralph Isham / Alexander Auersperg / Arthur Santry Newport, RI, USA 5 -2-3-3 13
12m – Traditional (One Design – 2 Boats)
1 Columbia Anthony Chiurco / Kevin Hegarty, Newport, RI, USA 2 -1-2-1 6
2 American Eagle Eagle 2019 Syndicate Middletown, RI, USA 1 -2-1-2 6
For more information on the Newport Trophy Regatta or the 12 Metre Worlds visit www.12mrworlds.com or contact Peter Gerard at pgerard53@gmail.com.
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} Yacht Marina
Factors to consider when choosing a
Whether this is your first boat or your tenth, there are always various things which have to be taken into
consideration when choosing the Yacht Marina which you will use to berth your boat, as this will have a
significant impact on the enjoyment of your boat during the season.
Choosing the right Marina depends on
a number of factors ranging from the
size of the boat to your lifestyle. Every
boat is different and with it comes
different needs and requirements. Hereunder
we are going to list the main things which you
need to consider when choosing a Marina!
WEATHER EXPOSURE
When choosing a Marina, one of the first things
which you must take into consideration is its
safety against bad weather spells. You should
check that it is not too exposed, so that is not
affected both by strong winds and continuous
passing vessels. A Marina which is exposed
will also make it difficult to berth your boat
at the end of the day when returning. Also if
you like spending the weekends sleeping on
your boat at the Marina, you might find it
uncomfortable if your boat keeps moving and
bouncing throughout the night. This excessive
movement will also put a strain on your ropes
and cleats. Apart from this, your marina needs
to be safe enough for you to sleep at night
during bad weather spells, knowing that your
beloved yacht is safe and well looked after.
WATER DEPTH
Besides having to obviously have enough
water under your hull, water depth can have
an impact on the wave environment in and
around the marina, therefore an optimal water
depth is beneficial. Also, if the waters are too
deep, the mooring lines will be too heavy to
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put on and swell/ tides movements will have a
more adverse effect on your boat's safety.
BERTH SIZES AND FAIRWAY WIDTHS
The chosen marina needs to have the space for
your boat, but you also need to have enough
space to manoeuvre. Unfortunately gone
are the days where berths have ample space
between berthed boats. At the same time, one
has to keep in mind that having too much
space will make it harder to get the boat in
berth with a crosswind.
TYPE OF MOORING
Some marinas offer pontoon berths, others
are stern to jetties, and others have finger
pontoons. They all have advantages and
disadvantages. Pontoons generally sit lower
in the water, and while this makes it more
comfortable to get on and off your boat, these
are generally unstable during bad weather
spells and when the stern is moored directly
onto the pontoon - the whole pontoon and
the boats moored onto it, become one whole
wave movement, which can be unsafe. Finger
pontoons are the most convenient to moor
on and shipside cleaning can be much easier
to perform. However, these are the least safe
in bad weather spells as sometimes it is the
finger itself that can cause damage to the boat.
Mooring stern to a fixed jetty usually means
stronger mooring attachments, and due to
the fixed height of the jetty, getting on and
off the boat can get more difficult in low tide
situations, unless the boat is equipped with a
proper hydraulic gangway.
LOCATION
The location of the marina is a very important
factor when making your choice, depending
on your boating preference. Is it within easy
reach of the places you like to go to? Is it well
connected to amenities? You should look out
for good cafes, entertainment spots, a few
retail outlets to keep the less participating crew
occupied while you are preparing the boat,
restaurants, and hotels for visiting guests, and
of course somewhere where to have a cold and
refreshing beer after a day of sailing!
The location greatly affects the enjoyment of
your boat. Also worth considering is the distance
to your favourite bays as this does not only take
more time but will also have an effect on your
fuel consumption. An extra 20 minutes on a
motorboat can easily mean an extra Euros100
every time you go out on your boat.
ACCESS FOR UN/ LOADING AND
PARKING
The convenience of the parking and loading/
unloading facilities can really make an impact
on the enjoyment of using your boat. A lot of
Yacht Marinas have parking challenges, seeing
the proximity of the land to the sea and the
fact that it comes at a premium.
Of course, spending a very long time trying
to look for parking, or having to carry a large

} Yacht Marina
number of heavy items to get to your boat can
easily dampen your mood for the rest of the
day. So paying that little bit extra for the berth,
but knowing that you will not have to face
these issues every weekend is well worth it.
Also, returning to a car which has been left in
the sun for a weekend in the blistering summer
sun, is not really appealing.
FACILITIES IN THE BERTHS
Stable electricity, good water pressure
and a decent wifi connection are essential
requirements for a yacht marina.
Modern yachts simply necessitate a good shore
power connection. Depending on the type of
boat, one could need various types of shore
power, and environmentally conscious marinas
might not allow the use of generators for a
lengthened period of time unless absolutely
necessary.
Good quality pressured water is also key to
maintain the boat properly, being able to wash it
well, and fill up the tanks before going out. The
marina tariffs could already include normal use
of such facilities or else demand extra payment
for them. Make sure to check this out properly
before so as to avoid any nasty surprises.
Although not really a boating necessity,
unfortunately, the simplicity of boating needs
to be hindered with internet connections too.
It would be great if your chosen yacht marina
can also offer this necessary commodity. This
can sometimes be useful in order to be able
to go boating for longer periods of time and
still keep in touch with the office, or just to
update your social media fans with your status
or pictures, making them envious of your
yachting life! Power, Water & Wifi are essential
requirements nowadays.
One of the main benefits of berthing in a
marina is that you are constantly connected to
electrical power. In this way, your batteries are
always charged and there is no need to use a
generator.
Having water readily available means that
you can always have your tank full and your
boat clean. One must also check the tariffs
whether they are included in the berthing fee
or whether there are any extra charges.
SERVICES
Time is a constraint for everyone, therefore
being in a marina which is also a one-stop shop
is definitely a plus. Convenient access to all of
the boat owners' needs is essential. Things to
take into consideration are:
• where is the nearest fuel pump-out?
• are there any onsite maintenance facilities?
• can one find mechanics, marine electricians
and other experts readily available on site?
ACCESS TO AMENITIES
Are there nearby restaurants, supermarkets,
pharmacies, clean marina showers, toilets,
ATM's and other essential amenities? These
are all important factors which one needs to
take into consideration especially if you enjoy
spending a number of overnights on your boat.
ACCESS TO GARBAGE DISPOSAL
After a day out at sea, or even if you are staying
on your boat, easily accessible and adequate
waste disposal is important.
HOURS OF OPERATION
A marina should be open on days and at hours
when they are most likely to be needed. Staff
should a lso be available on weekends and
public holidays. There should be overnight
security. It is also important for the marina to
be reachable by phone and marine radio, and
for staff to be around to help you if it is maybe
windy or with a technical problem.
SECURITY
Apart from having security overnight, there are
other factors to take into consideration:
• Does the marina have security gates and an
electronic access control system?
• Are there CCTV cameras that maintain a
record of events at the marina?
• Does the marina have a history of break-ins
or damage to vessels?
• Does the marina hold keys to vessels, and is
there a procedure for signing keys in and out?
Asking these questions, and knowing what
security measures are in place, will help you
put your mind at rest, that you and your boat
are safe.
EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
OF STAFF
The staff managing the marina must be credible
and can put you at ease. You must ensure that
the staff working there have a passion for boats
and are knowledgeable enough to be able to
help you and advise you on your daily needs,
whether they are maintenance issues or even
suggestions to make your trips more enjoyable.
Passion plays a very important part in the
marina and boating industries, and a marina
run by experienced boaters will reflect the
need of the boaters.
EMERGENCY RESPONSE
PROCEDURES
It is important to check what happens in an
emergency and whether there are the correct
response procedures in place in the case of a:
• Medical Emergency: All the staff should
be trained in emergency first aid and there
should also be the required first aid kit on
site including a Defibrillator and Oxygen.
• Fire Emergency: Marinas are also required
to have fire extinguishers, fire hose reels and
hydrants. Fire and emergency drills should
also be held on a regular basis so as to test
these procedures.
• Fuel Spills: For fuel spills, marinas are
required to have spill response kits on site
which include booms and absorbent pads to
contain and address the issues.
• Storms: It is important to ask how the marina
has faired through any strong storms in the
past, and what their response was. Also, how
vulnerable they are for future storms.
ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY
Boating relies on the environment, and since
marinas are vulnerable to the effects of climate
change, they should have a responsibility to
protect the environment with their operating
practices as well as to promote environmentally
sustainable boating. Ask questions, and make
sure that the marina which you choose to use
is environmentally friendly.
RECIPROCAL ARRANGEMENTS
Cruising is fun and a great way to enjoy your
boat. Ask whether the marina has any reciprocal
berthing arrangements with other nearby
marinas, where you could berth for a couple of
nights at another marina at a discount.
ACCREDITATION AND AWARDS
Accreditation is a sure way of knowing what
type of service a marina provides. In the same
way, which hotels have a star rating so as to
categorize them, marinas have a Gold Anchor
Standard. Under this standard, marinas are
accredited against a strict and comprehensive
set of criteria that covers the physical facility,
its amenities and the services provided by the
marina management.
Accreditation and awards are an important
reflection of a marina's commitment to quality
and customer service. By readily submitting
themselves to third-party reviews, the marina
demonstrates its commitment to consistent
quality and service.
VALUE FOR MONEY
This last factor depends on both the budget
and the boat owner's need. Marina fees
reflect the location, services available,
security, convenience, and a number of other
considerations, mainly mentioned above. MS
Courtesy: Boatcare Ltd
Portomaso Marina Malta:
a Five Gold Anchors Destination
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} Ocean Vision
Continued from page 40
Our 30x30 Ocean Vision is based on the scientific assertion that 30 per
cent is the minimum level of protection needed for a thriving ocean
and planet. Protection equals regeneration and resilience, both vital
for countering the accelerating threats from global heating, industrial
fishing and pollution. And experts stress that large, networked marine
reserves are better than scattered islands of protection. Only these
vast, strongly protected ocean areas can provide real safe havens
where marine life can replenish and fortify itself. They are a proven,
scientifically-mandated opportunity to invest in our planet, and our own
present and future wellbeing, that we would be crazy to turn down.
Scientists have been calling for 30 per cent of the ocean to be strongly
protected for years, so why is just 2 per cent truly safe from the tentacles
of human exploitation? From the Arctic to the Antarctic, high seas to
the shoreline, and everywhere in between, we must create and enforce
marine sanctuaries able to protect the ocean from ourselves while
humanity works to clean up its act.
Ocean Unite and Virgin Voyages will not be shy in demanding far more
ambitious, concrete global goals and targets. Not only do governments
need to immediately scale up their actions – and enforce the protected
areas they have already promised – but they must unite to ensure the
30x30 goal is included in the new global deal on nature that will be
agreed at the 2020 UN Biodiversity Conference in Beijing. In parallel
to a massive ramp-up of action to meet the 1.5oC Paris Climate
Agreement target, delivering this 30x30 commitment will set in motion
the transformational change necessary to combat the unfolding climate,
biodiversity and ocean emergencies.
Richard Branson kitesurfing
Image from Jussi Oksanen
THE CLEAR MESSAGE THIS WORLD OCEAN DAY IS THAT IT’S TIME TO
LISTEN TO SCIENTISTS, AND THE COMMUNITIES ALREADY BEING RAVAGED
BY THE IMPACTS OF A HOTTER, DEPLETED OCEAN. GOVERNMENTS,
BUSINESS, CIVIL SOCIETY, TECHNOLOGY AND THE MEDIA NEED TO JOIN
FORCES TO GIVE THE OCEAN THE 30X30 VISION IT DESERVES.
Virgin Voyages is doing its part by promising to be one of the cleanest
and most sustainable cruise line fleets in the world. We aim to embody
the “blue voyage” pathway pioneered by Ocean Unite and become an
example of how business and responsible ocean stewardship can go
hand in hand. Sustainability and ocean health will be at the core of
everything we do. We are eliminating single use plastics from the sailor
experience; using state of the art equipment to maximize energy and
water efficiency and minimise waste; sourcing sustainable seafood; only
offering reef-safe sunscreens; and finding creative ways to incorporate
recycled ocean plastics on board.
We intend to push the boundaries of sustainable travel and tourism,
allowing people to experience the beauty and bounty of the seas as part
of a proactive partnership for ocean protection. We will be working with
Ocean Unite to continuously advance the ocean health strategy and
enhance the sustainability of our operations. Following the example of
the work around the Belize Blue Hole expedition, the partnership will
also spearhead and support conservation initiatives in areas where we
sail and proclaim the 30x30 message across the waves.
The clear message this World Ocean Day is that it’s time to listen to
scientists, and the communities already being ravaged by the impacts
of a hotter, depleted ocean. Governments, business, civil society,
technology and the media need to join forces to give the ocean the
30x30 vision it deserves.
It’s wonderful to see Ocean Unite and Virgin Voyages embarking on this
journey together. It’s time for us all to get on board and deliver an epic
sea-change for the ocean. MS
Image from Discovery
Courtesy: Virgin
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