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Yacht Industry of China to has room for development

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Up to seventy percent of the four thousand registered yachts in China are presently moribund with many yacht clubs losing their money, the senior industry members of China stated in an interview with the media earlier on Sunday.

Kuang Xiangrong, Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club members with thirty five years of yachting experience, said that yacht industry in China is in an unhealthy state. Several firms are clustering to high-end business yachts, few clubs have equivocal orientations, as well as avenues for profit making are especially narrow, Kuang said, adding that the lack of government policy support and infrastructure means that yachting in country remains in a primitive state.

Around four thousand yachts are filed in the mainland, with most grounded in Shenzhen as well as south China’s Hainan Province, as per China Association of the National Shipbuilding Industry. Continue reading “Yacht Industry of China to has room for development” →

License of captains does matter during yacht job search

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People under USCA plan talk about MCA; people under MCA plan sound off regarding USCG. Insurance firms are a well known scapegoat of both sides, and not even the owners break loose the wrath.

In recent years, there have been a few objections from yacht captains who have passed a career working up all the licensing ravel only to be stopped at the top. It appears that the tonnage on their ticket is not really enough to qualify them to deal with the vessels of that tonnage. Probably it should not. There is no shortage of captains — and the brokers and owners as well as insurance people — who would tell that experience is more important infinitely.

Yet the captains of the yacht are still needed to keep a license. Therefore, there is nothing to idea from where all these fuss is coming from. The assembled captains were a very interesting bunch of MCA, USCG, USCG-turned-MCA, commercial and yachting. Just 1 had the biggest MCA yachting ticket; none had the unlimited USCG ticket. Continue reading “License of captains does matter during yacht job search” →

Wynyard Yacht Club wins Club of the Year award

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Wynyard Yacht Club became the winner of yet another award. It became the joint winner of “Club of the Year Award along with Sandy Bay Club.

The award was given at the 2014 Tasmanian Yachting Awards that took place on Sunday 23d November at Hobart. One month before, Yachting Australia gave the club “Australian Club of the Year” award and a week after that the club became the winner at Medibank Active Tasmania Awards.

Commodore of the Wynyard Yacht Club, Neal Rodwell said that to him, winning the award felt like winning the trifecta. He considers the award o be a reward for their efforts. He said that winning the award was never a target for them but they do have certain accomplishments and he is really happy to get a reward for that.

Chris Symonds, the secretary of the Wynyard Club was also present with Rodwell at the awards. Greg Rowlings, the executive officer of ‘Yachting Australia’ wonderfully summarized the Yacht Club’s resurgence in the last 12 months.  He gave a synopsis of how a small club managed to promote the sport among children by contacting Local Authorities, Sporting Clubs and Schools.

Rodwell said that some years earlier they were on the verge of closing the club down. He also said that other small clubs are still facing the problems they had to face and thus they realized that the only way to ensure survival of their club was to partner with other clubs and contacting other people of the Yachting fraternity. Rodwell said that this strategy helped the club get back on its feet and he further added that yachting clubs nowadays have to engage in other water related activities along with racing.

Amelia Catt won the best female sailor of the year of the year award and Andrew Hunn won the best male sailor of the year award.