Boat International - February 2016

Map – Tom Jay

Every month, you tell us where you are on the seven seas,

what you can see from deck and your top trip tips

Mem b e r s’ L og b o ok

PHOTOGRAPHS: SHUTTERSTOCK; GETTY; COURTESY OF OWNERS

Colin Griffinson

YACHT: Pacific Yellowfin

LENGTH: 34.75m

YEAR: 1943

LOCATION: British Columbia

• What can you see from deck?
  Bears, coastal wolves, fin
  whales, humpbacks and
  killer whales. We’re cruising
  the Great Bear Rainforest
  on the central coast of
  British Columbia


• What was your 2015 like?
  Incredible! We had the best
  and warmest summer ever on
  our coast. We’re now looking
  forward to summer 2016
  at was the highlight?
  tting in our tender, low
  tide, at dawn, watching
  wolves take fish from
  the stream and eat just

the heads.

Incredible.

• What are
  you drinking
  on board?
  Caesars... w
  coast style: vodka,
  Clamato juice, lots of
  spices and celery sticks, and
  served in vases


• How’s the boat running?
  She’s running superbly. All
  down to my 78-year-old
  engineer who is going to live
  until he is 110!


• Are you doing any work over
  the winter?
  Yes. We’re heading to the
  shipyard for a shave and
  a haircut. We’ll pull our
  propeller shafts, rudder stock
  and thru-hulls. A bit of bottom
  paint, then back in the water


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Owner of Silencio

LENGTH: 50m

YEAR: 2001

LOCATION: Antigua

• Have you got any regattas planned
  Yes, we’ll be participating in the next
  St Barths Bucket at the end of March


• Where else are you headed in the Caribbean?
  We’ll be cruising mostly around the Leeward Islands


• St Barths, Anguilla, the BVIs, Antigua and Barbuda


• Have you got a favourite island?
  Yes – Virgin Gorda!


• Silencio’s for sale – why?
  The yacht has been and still is the best experience
  I could ever wish for. She has opened my eyes to
  experience yachting from a different side. I’ve learnt
  how to sail and enjoy my time on the water at a slower
  pace. Now it’s time for a new project – the dream boat


• Tell me more!
  All I can say is that we’re working on the new Silencio 2
  with Philippe Briand
  Wh t will you miss most about the yacht?
  e crew: they are such a big part of it. Every
  ime my family and I come on board, the crew
  make sure our family time is unique

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