boatinternational.com • 05 2019PHOTOGRAPHY: BEN BAKER/REDUX/EYEVINEOWNERS’ CLUBstillworksasplannedandsomeofthebatteries,
chargedanddischargedthousandsoftimes,are
original.Intheboat’s10-yearsurveycompletedlast
year,nochangeswerenecessarytothepropulsion
orthebatteries,whichcanbeusedforsilentoperation
ofthevessel,agenerator-freenightatanchororfor
peakshaving.
Theboat’senergygridisremarkablyflexibleandcan
chargebatteriesthreeways–fromshaftgenerators
whenthepropsarefreewheelingundersail,turning
underpowerofthemainenginesorviaoneofthree
relativelysmallgensets.Reducingtheproductionof
heatofeverythingfromlightbulbsandairconditioning
toglassinportlightsanddeckhatchesthatreflect
outdoorheatcombinedwithsubstantialinsulation
meanstheboat’shotelloadismuchlessthanothersof
comparablesizeandvolume.
“Aboatisafiniteuniverseandwehavetolivewith
ourresources.Wehavetobeconsciousofhowmuch
powerwecangenerate,howmuchwaterwecanmake
andhowmuchfoodwecancarryinourself-contained
world,”Joynotesfirmly.
Livingwithinlimitsisakeyphilosophyforhusband
andwifealike.Shannonisaproducerofdocumentary
filmssuchasChasingCoral,GhostFleet,MissionBlue“WE HAVE TO BE
CONSCIOUS OF
HOW MUCH POWER
WE CAN GENERATE,
HOW MUCH WATER
WE CAN MAKE”and her latest, Anote’s Ark. She’s also on the board of
Mission Blue, Oceans 5, Wild Aid and EarthSense
Foundation. Ethereal, Joy tells me, has been on many
dive trips while videographers and scientists worked
on the films. “Most of our sailing has been in the South
Pacific, Palau and Raja Ampat, Melanesia, Micronesia,
Indonesia, Polynesia – all the ‘nesias’ – and Tahiti.
I like the diving and Shannon is working on a lot of
conservation issues in those areas.”
It evidently irritates him that governments and
corporations don’t seem to have
grasped the urgency of the world’s
environmental challenges. “People
hear that CO2 is going up so many
parts per year and it seems like
they still have time. The funny
thing is, there are tipping points.
There is a point at which things are
barely in balance and then you add
a stressor and the forest that has
become drier every year for 10
years because of climate change
suddenly becomes a massive fire.
The polluted water run-off in
Florida becomes a catastrophicGLOBAL VIEW
Joy and his wife
Shannon spend
around three months
a year on board
Ethereal, mainly in
the South Pacific,
Indonesia and
Polynesia. “I like the
diving and Shannon
is working on a lot of
conservation issues
in those areas”82