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By Lucy Chabot Reed

As the Palm Beach International Boat Show opens today, visitors can’t help but notice the grey-hulled M/Y Kismet front and center. At 223 feet (68m), the Lurssen is the largest yacht to appear in the 28-year-old show.

“We couldn’t ask for a better place to be,” said Chief Officer Casey Giesler as he oversaw a doubling of his deck crew finishing up prep work yesterday.

Getting the yacht in this prime location, though, was a bit hectic, he said. The yacht draws 12 feet, but there was only about 8 feet of water outside

the ICW channel.So they called Geno

Gargiulo and his team at Commercial Diver Services to make some room. It took them a week, but when they

were done, they had vacuumed out the soft sandy bottom and made a groove

Kismet moves water, sand to show

See KISMET, page 3

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Test Your Mates

Things to See / Do

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Test your crew with this maritime and geographical quiz. n There are several ways to

define the world’s ports and each list is different, but name some of the oldest, most beautiful and busiest ports.

ANSWERS on page 2.

Today, 1-4 p.m.

Events with Ward’s Marine Electric (booth 926A, near the Clematis Street entrance). Today it’s cigars, music, and bartenders with flair.

Today, 5-7 p.m.

Cocktails at the U.S. Superyacht pavilion. Casual networking, light fare.

Tomorrow, 6-10 p.m. Boatyard Ball at Rybovich. Live music by South Florida female vocalist of the year, Amber Leigh, food and drinks. Complimentary shuttle to the shipyard starts at 6 p.m. Look for it on the NW corner of Clematis and Olive (across from Don Ramon).

Tomorrow, 7 p.m. Pig Roast in Palm Beach, hosted by AIM Marine Group, at the Pavilion Hospitality Lounge, just north of Brad-leys on the waterfront. Live entertain-ment. RSVP required.

DID YOU SEE THAT?: The 223-foot (68m) Lurssen M/Y Kismet is the largest yacht the Palm Beach show has ever featured. Find her at the main dock in the heart of the show. PHOTO/LUCY REED

The yacht draws 12 feet, but there was only about 8 feet of water outside the ICW channel.

Answers to the quiz on page 1:n According to www.marineinsight.

com and www.wikipedia.org, the following ports rank (in no order) highest in cargo and traffic: Singapore, Busan (also known as Pusan) in South Korea, Port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands, Port of Kobe in Japan and Port of Dover in the United Kingdom. As well as Ningbo-Zhoushan, Tianjin, Guangzhou, Qingdao, Qinhuangdao Port and Hong Kong all in China.

And this subjective list describes the following list (in no order) as the oldest and most beautiful ports: Dubrovnik in Croatia, Venice in Italy, Lisbon in Portugal, Istanbul and Kusadasi in Turkey, Beijing (also known as Tianjin) in China, Athens (also known as Piraeus) in

Greece, Stockholm in Sweden, Quebec City in Canada, St. Petersburg in Russia, Alexandria in Egypt, Haifa in Israel, Bizerta in Tunisia, Miami in Florida and Nassau, Bahamas.

Test Your Mates

About Us

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Triton Today Palm Beach is published by Triton Publishing Group.

Publisher: David ReedEditorial: Lucy Chabot Reed,

Dorie Cox, Tom SerioAdvertising: Mike Price

Production: Patty Weinert

Vol. 3, No. 1. Copyright 2013, all rights reserved.

Get a pen to mark sights at the show

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KISMET, from page 1

Puzzle pieces fall into place at docks

40 feet wide and 15 feet deep between the slip and the channel.

They used an air lift, first invented 40 years ago by treasure hunter Mel Fisher , with whom Gargiulo once worked.

It’s basically a 6-foot length of 8-inch PVC pipe with pressurized air piped in through a commercial compressor.

As piped-in air goes in the pipe, it expands and rises, creating a vacuum at one end that sucks sand, rocks and whatever else is in its way out the other end.

“It’s basically an underwater Shop-Vac,” he said.

While his divers were underwater, yachts were lined up outside the whow, waiting to stage in. At one point, Gargiulo said he counted 36 yachts waiting.

And yet they still all made it into place.

“They moved 800 boats into this show.,” said Gargiulo, who opened a new office for his company at Rybovich recently. “What a puzzle. It always amazes me how they do this, create a city of boats out of nothing.”

Perhaps mayor of the city is M/Y Kismet, which has been listed for sale since at least the Ft. Lauderdale International Boat Show in October. In that show, its slip was tucked behind other large yachts accessible by a separate dock.

The yacht couldn’t make it to the

docks at the Yacht & Brokerage Show in Miami so this week’s show is its first chance for front-and-center boat show exposure.

“The boat’s actively for sale, so we wanted to get as much exposure as possible,” Chief Officer Giesler said.

“There is a great clientele here,” said Kevin Callahan, Kismet’s broker with Moran Yacht & Ship. “It’s got one of the best atmospheres of any show.”

Lucy Reed is editor of The Triton. Comments on this story are welcome at editorial@the-triton.com

CLEANING UP: Commercial Diver Services President Geno Gargiulo shows the rudimentary air lift that his team used to create a deeper channel for M/Y Kismet. PHOTO/LUCY REED

HANGING ON: The normal deck crew on M/Y Kismet was doubled in the days leading up to the show to get the yacht ready for showing. PHOTO/LUCY REED

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DOING THE CREW THING, DAY 1: Prep

Crew, captains and even a few brokers were BUSY cleaning and polishing

yachts yesterday as everyone got ready for today’s opening of the 28th annual Palm Beach International Boat Show.

PHOTOS/LUCY and DAVID REED

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CHECKING THE TIDE: Triton Today’s Question of the Day

Do you smoke?Go to any crew hangout on a

Saturday night and you’d think all yachties smoked. Yet when we asked crew at the show yesterday if they smoked, most said they didn’t.

We tried this survey at the Monaco show a couple years ago and learned that yacht crew are programmed to say they don’t smoke because they don’t smoke at work. So we asked about this very personal of habits in a different way.

We asked if the yacht had a policy about smoking. Most do, and it’s mostly against smoking. Smokers were not allowed to light up onboard, even on deck, even on a crossing. Several crew noted that the yacht doesn’t make hiring decisions based on smoking; just one said it did.

We’d hoped this would produce a more precise survey, but this exchange shows just how elusive that proved to be.

“There’s no smoking on the boat,” said the captain of a 100-foot yacht.

Even at anchor?“At anchor, they can smoke on

deck, as long as they make sure the ashes don’t land on the yacht.”

So they can smoke on the yacht?“Sometimes you can’t tell if they

smoke,” he said. “I had one guy who smoked and I didn’t know it for months. He carried a little bottle of Febreeze around with him.”

We’re giving up on this survey. I don’t think we’ll ever get the goods on crew and smoking.

– Data compiled by Lucy Reed

Freelancer Tyler PayneM/Y Obrigado100-foot MCP Yachts

“I used to [smoke], but I gave it up. Who wants to hang around with a smoker if you don’t smoke?”

Mate Jacques PayneM/Y Perseverance II125-foot Oceanfast

“I can’t smoke on the boat, even on crossings. That’s when Nicorette works. I respect their rules.”

Mate/Eng. Sebastien LafailleM/Y Star Sapphire117-foot Bilgin

“There’s no policy but there’s no smoking onboard. When I’m on watch, I can smoke on the flybridge over the sink. European boats smoke, but there’s a different attitude here in North America.”

Lia UsiltonM/Y Sea Bowld174-foot Oceanfast

“This is a non-smoking boat. We don’t like the smell. It’s been like that on every boat I’ve worked on. I see them [yachties who smoke] in bars, but not on my boat.”

Do you smoke?

What is the yacht’s policy about smoking?

No – 80%

Smoking OK outside– 20%

No smoking allowed – 80%

Yes – 20%