Budget Marine Launches Catalogue, Sponsors

Kayak Marathon

Budget Marine launched its 2010 marine equipment
catalog on October 28th. Each year Budget Marine

 

stages the official arrival of its first catalog. This year
the story was that in light of the financial climate, the
catalog was printed in-house by hardworking employ-
ees on a second-hand printing machine imported
from Bangladesh. The overall-wearing printer is Coleen
Lucas, who jumped out of the printing machine right
after completing the first copy printing. This coincided
with the annual Managers’ Meeting and the introduc-
tion of Ben and Amnerys Rivera of the newest Budget
Marine location, St. Croix. Group Manager Robbie
Ferron enthusiastically expressed his optimism for the
upcoming season and encouraged the crowd to
expect the best.

In other Budget Marine news, the group will sponsor
Ryan de Jongh, a Curacao kayak specialist and
nature activist, in attempting the marathon effort of
paddling between St. Maarten and Curacao. He will
leave St. Maarten on December 5th and stop at two
Budget Marine locations (Grenada and Bonaire) on his
way to his final destination of Curag¢ao where a party
will be ready for him, planned for December 27th. The

total distance to be covered is just over 1,000 miles.
The effort is intended to collect funds for the Carmabi
Foundation, which manages nature reserves
in Cura¢ao, as well as for a group that will provide 170
disabled children with a daily meal and education for
a period of a year. The other gold sponsor of this effort
is Insel Air and Ryan’s kayak will be accompanied by
the yacht Monsoon throughout the journey.

For more information on Budget Marine see ad on
page 2.

New Manager for St. Lucia’s Rodney Bay Marina

Ernie Seon reports: International Global Yachting
(IGY) has announced the appointment of a new gen-
eral manager at Rodney Bay Marina, St. Lucia.
Australia-oorn Adam Foster says, “It’s really great to
have been given the opportunity to serve the compa-
ny in this part of the world where there are both chal-
lenges and opportunities, given the fact that the com-
pany has undertaken a major investment in a period
of economic uncertainty. Our operations in St. Lucia
are still undergoing a physical transition and | am
pleased to have been given the opportunity to guide
the process, which will involve marketing and promot-
ing the marina globally.”

 

Adam has worked in the industry for the past 17 years
in Australia, the South Pacific region and Europe. The
early part of his career included diving instruction and
equipment service, bridge and wharf construction, hos-
pitality, commercial vessel operation, new boat mar-
keting, sales and service. In 2000, Adam took his first
position in marina management with Cronulla Marina
on Port Hacking (New South Wales). He joined
Australia’s largest marina group, d’Albora Marinas, in
2005. In 2007 Adam was appointed Business
Development Manager for the seven d’Albora marinas.

The new GM has trained marina staff throughout
Australia and Asia for the Association of Marina

Industries, a subsidiary of the International Marina
Institute, and was awarded his Certified Marina
Manager's designation in 2008. IGY Marinas employed
Adam several months ago as Education Director
where he wrote the IGY university training program
and trained staff at all Caribbean locations. Once the
training was complete, he was offered the position of
General Manager of the Rodney Bay facility.

“Lam looking forward to my stint in St. Lucia. | have
received a warm response from the hardworking staff
here and from St. Lucians in general, and we intend to
continue to play our part in overall development of
the yachting product in St. Lucia,” he said.

For more information on Rodney Bay Marina see ad
on page 55.

Dockwise Yacht Transport Record Load Bound

for St. Thomas

On November 3rd, when the 556-foot Super Servant
4, one of Dockwise Yacht Transport’s (DYT) fleet of four
semi-submersible ships, left Newport, Rhode Island, it
was packed with a record load of 50 recreational
cruising and racing boats, worth upward of US$41 mil-
lion. The ship headed to Freeport, Bahamas, a newly
added port of call for DYT, where it unloaded eight of
the vessels (six motor yachts, one sport fishing boat
and one sailboat), then carried on to St. Thomas, USVI,
where the remaining vessels (17 motor boats and 25
sailboats) disembarked.

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