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September 1, 2010

The auction of the 38m (126ft) Emerald Isle scheduled for last week did not go as anticipated, with the minimum bid failing to be reached.

Built by Christensen Shipyards in 1992, the yacht underwent a US $2m refit in 2009 and attracted a high bid of US $2m. The reserve bid, however, had been set at US$2.85m.

Even though the auction didn't go to plan, Caley King Newberry, communications director for auctioneers J.P. King, says that her company will be doing all it can to find a new owner soon.

"As with any of our auctions that for whatever reason  may not sell on the day, our team will immediately get to work on selling it in private negotiations," she says.
The yacht's current owner, Bonnie Harvey, believes Emerald Isle will make a good financial and personal investment for whoever eventually buys her.

"Emerald Isle was special for us because it was big enough to be roomy, yet small enough that we could go into areas that other boats could not go." She also adds, "It was like home."

www.ibinews.com

September 2010 Ferretti Yachts, brand of the Ferretti Group, one of the leaders in the production of fibreglass flybridge yachts measuring 50 to 88 feet (15-27 metres), built with an uncovered upper deck and double pilot seat, both inside and out, is launching a new system for naming yachts measuring under 80 feet.

The change in the names of these yachts shall be applied officially as of 1^st September 2010 to correspond with the beginning of the 2010 – 2011 nautical year.

The change consists in adapting to the most widely used system in the nautical industry, already applied by Ferretti Yachts for yachts with a hull length of over 24 metres Lh, which refers to the length of the yacht (LOA – Length over all) and EN ISO 8666 (Lmax.), instead of the previous datum referring to construction length EN ISO 8666 (Lh – Length of the hull).

Therefore, the change does not involve the Ferretti Yachts range measuring over 80 feet, for which the trade name already referred to the LOA.

As of 1^st September 2010, the new names of the Ferretti Yachts range will be:

• Ferretti 500
• Ferretti 530
• Ferretti 570
• Ferretti 620
• Ferretti 660
• Ferretti 720 Project
• Ferretti 750
• Ferretti 800
• Ferretti 830
• Ferretti 881
• Ferretti 881 RPH
• Altura 840 for the line Altura aft cabin motoryachts.

Ferretti Yachts

Federica Beneventi

Tel. +39 0543.787.511

Email: federica.beneventi@customline-yacht.com

www.ferretti-yachts.com

August 30, 2010

A cold front in the Midwest will not only end the ongoing heat in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, but will also help play a role in how close Hurricane Earl comes to the coast.

The setup for early this week is depicted below.  The front and its associated dip in the jet stream will move slowly through the Midwest.  Meanwhile, high-pressure aloft will rebuild and stretch from the Atlantic to the Northeast.

How strong this high aloft rebuilds will determine how much farther west Earl can make it before turning more northward.

The northward pulling ingredient? The aforementioned coldfront in the Midwest.

www.weather.com

By: Willie Howard

Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

RIVIERA BEACH, FL — Residents opposing a city plan to lease part of the marina to Rybovich for 25 years had enough petition signatures verified today to place questions about the marina's future in front of voters Nov. 2.

City Clerk Carrie Ward said the Palm Beach County elections office stopped counting after verifying the 2,052 signatures from registered city voters needed to place a proposed charter change on the ballot.

"We made it," said Emma Bates, chairwoman of the Citizens Task Force and organizer of the petition drive.

"There's going to be an all-out campaign to get people to vote for it," Bates said. "I think we're going to do pretty good."

On Nov. 2, city voters will be asked to decide whether the charter should be amended to include a prohibition on the use of the marina for a "commercial boat repair operation." The proposed charter change also would restrict use of submerged lands at the marina and would include requirements that the city own and operate the marina, Newcomb Hall, Bicentennial Park and Spanish Courts, a motel south of the marina.

Ward said she will present the outcome of the petition drive Wednesday to the city council, which has been considering for months a plan to lease the southern part of the marina to Rybovich for a megayacht service yard.

Councilman Shelby Lowe said the referendum demonstrates that residents didn't understand how they would benefit from the proposed lease to Rybovich.

"It only works when everybody is involved," said Lowe, who has long pushed for a community boating center that would give more residents access to the water. "That place is not going to prosper unless you put people first."

County Commissioner Priscilla Taylor, who wrote a letter to Gov. Charlie Crist opposing the proposed lease, said she was glad residents will have a chance to weigh in on the future of the marina.

"The residents should be heard," Taylor said.

This article was published in:  http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/opponents-of-riviera-beach-marina-lease-win-spot-862465.html

August 9, 2010

An ice chunk four times the size of Manhattan has broken off of Greenland's Petermann glacier—possibly the biggest glacier collapse in recorded history, scientists announced Friday. The so-called "ice island" covers a hundred square miles (260 square kilometers) and holds enough water to keep U.S. public tap water flowing for 120 days, according to Andreas Muenchow, a physical ocean scientist and engineer at the University of Delaware.

As a result of the collapse, Petermann glacier—located about 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) south of the North Pole—lost about a quarter of its 43-mile-long (70-kilometer-long) floating ice shelf, satellites images taken Thursday show.

The new Greenland ice island is at least the second largest known glacial breakaway, Muenchow said. Another colossal ice chunk broke off of Petermann glacier in 1962, but it's not known whether that ice island was bigger than the new one, Muenchow said.

Like many glaciers, Petermann glacier has been disintegrating over the last couple years, he said.

Regine Hock, a glacial geophysicist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, said the breakup of ice shelves is "a normal process that happens all the time."

But such a "huge, huge piece of ice ... is very unusual," Hock said.

Because coastal glaciers are accelerating as they slide out to sea in many other places, she said, "it's something to watch to look at the cause—to see if it is an indicator or sign of something happening."

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/08/100806-ice-chunk-island-greenland-glacier-petermann-biggest-science/