Sea Magazine – May 2017

WESTCOASTFOCUS
BY STEPHANIE SHIBATA

WESTCOASTFOCUS
BY STEPHANIE SHIBATAWESTCOASTFOCUS^

ANATOMY LESSON

YACHT OWNERS ARE ALWAYS looking for

toys to make the on- and off-the-boat

experience better. We fi gure a personal propulsion toy that can travel at 12.5 mph

underwater and reach a depth of 130 feet qualifi es. The SEABOB F5 SR from

Germany-based Cayago can pull riders on top of the water at better than 13 mph

and record the action for posterity. (seabob.com)

Movie Magic

IT’S BEEN 20 YEARS SINCE James Cameron released the smash (pun intended) hit fi lm “Titanic.”

Check out these boating-related facts from the fi lm.

Displacement

We gave full sea trials to 25

boats in 2016, and those boats

had a combined displacement of

about 1,217,745 pounds, which

amounts to roughly 146,

gallons of fresh water (using 8.

pounds per gallon). That much

water could:

Fill^370 average

six-person hot tubs

Stretch for 13 1 / 4 miles in side-

by-side gallon milk cartons

Counterbalance 79 adult

African elephants, or roughly

three blue whales, on a seesaw

Fuel 17 of

Old Faithful’s longest,

or 39 of its

briefest, eruptions

Handles facilitate

carrying the

75-pound machine.

An HD camera

in the nose records

the action as it

happens. Another

in the information

display provides

all-important

selfi es.

A trigger in the handle activates the drive

mechanism. The green button provides

acceleration; the red button slows it down. The

blue and silver buttons provide prepro-

grammed data menus on the screen.

The cockpit display keeps the driver

fully informed: depth, water temp,

speed, battery life and more.

Tail fi ns improve

maneuverability.

The E-Jet Power

System is 10

percent more

powerful than on

previous models.

YACHT TOY

12 SEAMAGAZINE.COM MAY 2017

ƒ It cost more money to make the movie ($200 million) than it did to actually construct

the original ship ($7.5 million, or $150 million adjusted for infl ation).

ƒ The piece of wood (spoiler alert) that Rose fl oats on to survive is based on a real piece of wreckage

from Titanic.

ƒ Only the starboard half of the ship set was completed.