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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.

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.

It is that time of year again; time to be reminded of all the safety tips that should be practiced while cruising on the open seas. Of course, you’ve heard it a thousand times, yet so many fatalities could be avoided each year had individuals chosen to practice the safety advice they claim to know so well. In the United States alone, on average, 700 people a year die in boating accidents and many of these would not be deaths had a life jacket been worn. The majority of these accidents are caused by human err or bad judgment, not by faulty equipment or environmental factors.

It happens all too often, you come down with a cold at work and even though everyone treats you as though you’ve contracted some new strain of malaria, within a week or so the rest of the crew is coughing the same cough. Sick at sea is no fun, and with such small corridors and living space everyone surrounding you is likely to pick up your germs. There are certain steps you can take, besides washing your hands raw, to protect yourself from contracting any illness

By Miracle Saez

 A steward is likely to have more one on one dealing with the guests and owner than any other crew member on board. In order for that relationship to be successful here are a few commonsense approaches and some nifty little tricks

1. Do your homework. Know your guests. Before they arrive on board. Know that Peter wont eat read meat, Sally loves gladioli, Marion likes Belgian chocolate, Arnold like green tea with a dash of vanilla and Martin likes a cigar in the evening after dinner.
   
   Do your homework take two: Know your destination. If you can tell your guests that restaurant is the best for fish, this boutique has the best deals, Madonna shops here, this church was where so and so witnessed a miracle it will make their enjoyment of their holiday all the more effortless for them. One of the biggest problems on a holiday - apart from catastrophe is - 'What shall we do today?'
   

   
   

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