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 November 11, 2009

Yacht Club Isle de Sol in St. Maarten

 Following this year’s successful events in Antibes and Palma de Mallorca, CrewShow – the only trade exhibition focused exclusively on professional yacht crew – announces its first Caribbean event: CrewShow- St Maarten. The new show is scheduled for Saturday, January 9, 2010, at Yacht Club at Isle de Sol, an Island Global Yachting (IGY) marina.

My father, Ray Kelly, died when I was 9 years old. I was living in Washington Heights in New York City with my mother, Alice Kelly. She knew it would be good for me to get out of the city and spend time with my Uncle, Richard Brennan. I spent the month of August of 1963 living at his home in North Massapequa, NY which is on Long Island.
Uncle Richard had a 16' old wooden cuddy cabin boat which he kept docked in Tiana Bay in Hampton Bays on Long Island. Uncle Richard was an avid fisherman. He knew it would be good for me to go out on that boat and go fishing with him. He worked as a car inspector for the subways of New York City Transit. Shortly after I was there, he asked if I would like to go fishing on his boat. Needless to say, I said YES! What really surprised me though was we were going overnight on the boat. This was going to be quite an adventure.

 October 16, 2009

Joshua Slocum was the first person to complete a solo circumnavigation in 1898.

The list includes about 260 individuals, who come from all over; Britain, US, Poland, Germany, France, Australia, South Africa and the list goes on. There are women and men, seniors and teens, and it started in 1894 when Joshua Slocum became the first person to sail around the entire world alone in his ketch, 'Spray.' (It took him 3 years!)

Nicknamed “Killer Algae,” due to the large amount of toxic chemicals this plant releases, Caulerpa Taxifolia is a species of seaweed invading the Mediterranean Sea... and your wallet. What was once only found in places such as Hawaii and the Indian Ocean, has rapidly spread throughout the Mediterranean. Yachts, boats, fishing nets and anchors are the main contributing factors to the unwanted increase of this species in coastal areas. 

For a region that did not have a yachting industry 20 years ago, you could call Thailand’s growing popularity as a premiere destination a booming success. For years, yachts were looked down upon as toys of the rich, or idle play things for people to throw money at, so, regulations were imposed. Certainly, there was no hope for growth when taxes on imported yachts exceeded 200 percent. Other government regulations were imposed, from making it difficult for a non-Thai to hold a Thai skipper’s license to scuffles over the definition of a ‘yacht.’

This article is taken from a local Symi newspaper. Visit their site at http://www.symigreece.com/news/

by WILL SAWYER

Among the many visitors that Symi gets each year are
some of the most beautiful yachts in the World. With several
arriving each week during the peak tourist months and with
Symi providing the perfect backdrop for them, much chatter
and many envious glances result, as well as the constant whirr
of camera shutters.

 Unfortunately, only a very few people from Symi ever get to go onboard one of them and so the luxurious, and often outrageous, interiors of these boats are left to the imagination.

 At the end of the 2008 tourist season, photographs of these yachts in Symi, as well as photographs of what they look like inside, began appearing on the Symi Yacht Spot website at: www.SymiGreece.com/yacht.htm together with statistics, comprehensive descriptions and histories. As the first question occurring to many people is " I wonder how much that's worth?"  The site also tries to find this out too. Over the
2009 season, as many as possible of the large yachts that visit
Symi will earn a page on the Symi Yacht Spot, often within a
day of their arrival, so if you want to learn more about them,
do pay the site a visit.