Name That Boat MAINTENANCE Bottom Strip & Paint SPORTS FISHING Caribbean Tournament Roundup
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TRAIN TO BE A LICENSED CAPTAIN CRUISE TO CONDADO ALL AT SEA CARIBBEAN Inside: Name That Boat MAINTENANCE Bottom Strip & Paint SPORTS FISHING Caribbean Tournament Roundup AUGUST 2013 FREE ANGUILLA BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS HAITI SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO MADCO Marine Power Service Ltd. Aquabois Dominica Marine Center Inc. Corsa Marine St. Martin Tortola Haiti Roseau San Fernando +590-590-510-540 +284-494-2738 +509-3438-8333 +767-440-BOAT(2628) +868-657-4723 ANTIGUA CAYMAN ISLANDS JAMAICA SAINT LUCIA TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS Paradise Boat Sales Scott’s Industries Ltd. Jamaica Marine World Limited A1 Island Marine Supplies Inc. Sherlock Walkin & Sons St. Johns Grand Cayman Kingston 11 Castries Providenciales +268-562-7125 +345-949-4186 +876-757-8456 +758-452-9404 +649-9-46-4411 BAHAMAS DOMINICA NETHERLANDS ANTILLES SAINT MARTIN VENEZUELA Lightbourne Marine Dominica Marine Center Inc. 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Stumbling over extremely convoluted boat names while manning a bilge pump and shouting into the microphone of a VHF radio, only for the potential rescuer to insist you repeat the boat name over and over again, will not help your peace of mind. Even worse if they burst out laughing! In this edition, Barbara Hart comes up with a fun story of how one couple picked their boat name and went cruising. Fact or fiction! You decide. The waters of the Caribbean are the best in the world for diving, fishing, sailing and motor-boating. And to say the hat’s in a name? A lot when it comes to boats! Caribbean lacks seasons is not true for thousands of visiting Taking ownership of a new vessel, buyers face sportsmen and women. This month sports fishing features the daunting task of coming up with a name strongly in the pages of All At Sea, and rightly so. Sports W for their treasured possession. It’s never easy fishing forms part of a massive leisure industry enjoyed by and not everyone gets it right. Some names can cause a little thousands every year but it’s not a sport without controver- mirth while others garner serious ridicule. Jan and I owned a sy. Happily, the practices of the past are being tempered famous yacht called Driac II and the name came with a won- by new methods of conservation and the tag and release derful history. The yacht, a 32ft cutter built in 1931 for Scots program has earned the industry our praise and respect. eccentric A. G. H. MacPherson, made some astounding long Good environmental practices not only help protect our distance small boat voyages before the Second World War. oceans, they also make all our water-sports more enjoyable MacPherson wanted to honor his friend, Sir James Caird, the in a world where sustainability is the name of the game. principal donor of the National Maritime Museum in Green- Striking a balance is never easy and someone is bound to wich, London, by giving the yacht his name. But there was feel unhappy or even bullied by rules that limit our free- a problem. Back then, no two boats on the UK Register of dom. A case in point is the introduction of marine reserves Ships could bear the same name, and the lifeboat in which in the coastal waters of some islands where anchoring is Sir Ernest Shackleton made his amazing voyage from Ele- suddenly restricted or even prohibited. phant Island to South Georgia after his ship, Endurance, was Restrictive or not, we need marine reserves; tag and re- trapped in the Antarctic ice and sank, was already called Sir lease programs, Blue Flag schemes, and environmentally James Caird. MacPherson got around the problem by calling friendly boatyards. Only by working together can we leave his yacht Driac, which is Caird spelled backwards. a sustainable leisure industry in our wake, one that every A commercial fishing boat I owned was named Cockle water-sports enthusiast, resident or visitor, can enjoy. We Kate, which I thought was rather lovely. A 36ft sloop we owe it to the people of the islands and we owe it to our- delivered across the Atlantic went by the name of Tropi- selves. The alternative is unthinkable. cal Seas and whenever we called a freighter on VHF, they always assumed we were a container ship. On several oc- casions I asked why? And the answer was always the same See you on the water! … because of the yacht’s name. This means people make an assumption about the boat based solely on the name! Powerful stuff, eh? You would think that no one in their right mind would call Gary E. Brown, a yacht Titanic, but people do. I’ve seen at least three during Editor 6 ALLATSEA.NET AUGUST 2013 August 2013 THIS ISSUE THE CARIBBEAN’S WATERFRONT MAGAZINE 24 PHOTO COURTESY OF MENCHU AGÜEROS FEATURES 18 SAILING HUMOR 34 SEAMANSHIP & VOYAGING The Lighter Side of Watermakers Qualified to Go to Sea BOATS IN PARADISE 44 Sailing with Charlie: Challenges 38 TIPS & TRICKS 24 RACING CIRCUIT Boat Bottom Blues Winners Named at Puerto Rico DEPARTMENTS OUR NATURAL WORLD Heineken International Regatta 42 Lovely Worms 6 EDITOR’S LOG 26 FISHING CARIBBEAN BROKERAGE 12 WHERE IN THE WORLD? 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