DECEMBER 2017
OWNERS’ CLUBEvery month, you tell us where
you are on the seven seas, what
you can see from your deck
and your top trip tipsMAP JING ZHANGTerry Giles
Yacht: Kalliente
Length: 90ft
Year: 2017
Location: South
of FranceYou’re selling Kalliente? That’s right. We’ve owned a hotel in
the South of France, Château Eza, for almost 30 years and we
received an offer for it we couldn’t refuse. We were going to
use the yacht alongside the hotel, but now the hotel is being
sold we’d prefer to take our yachting to North America. Our
one summer on board Kalliente also made us realize we want
yachting to be a bigger part of our lives, and for that we need
a bigger boat! We did love Kalliente, though. The performance
and comfort were spectacular. We couldn’t have been happier
So what’s next? We’ve ordered a 124ft trideck from Dominator,
the same yard that built Kalliente. We’re working on the
plans, which are being designed specifically for our needs
and include being equipped for US waters
What are the biggest gains by stepping up in size? The
124ft will allow us to have more common areas with the trideck
configuration and additional interior space. Additionally, we’ll get
a master suite (rendering above) with all the bells and whistles
we would need to spend more time on board
How will you use it? We intend to use the boat in North America.
For a couple of years we’ll keep it on the East Coast. We’ll be
in Newport, Rhode Island, and the surrounding area for the
summer and the Florida Keys, Bahamas and Caribbean in
the winter. We’ll then move the boat around to the West Coast.
We have a home in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, so we’ll cruise
around there and the Sea of Cortez in the winter and take
it up to Vancouver and the San Juan Islands in the summerWhy are you cruising in Canada? We’re homegrown
Montrealers and we’d never seen the eastern provinces.
We started in Newport, Rhode Island, headed to Nova Scotia
and then Newfoundland
Tell us more... We cruised down to St Pierre and Miquelon,
which has an interesting history. We then headed down to Prince
Edward Island, where we moored in the middle of Charlottetown.
There was a dinghy regatta that day and it reminded me of
my early sailing days in Montreal and the first regatta of the
season, which was aptly named the “Ice Breaker Regatta.” We
had fabulous seafood here. Then we went round Prince Edward
Island to moor outside Malpeque Bay, where the famous oysters
come from. We went on to Gaspé in Quebec, where we quickly
became the star attraction, with lots of locals coming out to see
the boat. They had never seen anything like it, suggesting not
many superyachts get up this way
How was the sailing? On our way up to Gaspé, we were doing
11 to 12 knots under sail but were reprimanded by the coastguard
as the speed limit is 10 knots (to protect the whales), so we had
to haul in the sails and continue under power!
Where did you head next? After Gaspé, we went into the St
Lawrence River and spent the night in the town of Trois-Pistoles,
which translates as “three pistols,” yet nobody seemed to know
why. In the morning we picked up a pilot and continued into
Quebec City. The tidal flows in the St Lawrence are very strong- we were able to travel at 12 to 13 knots using very little fuel
How was Quebec City? A jewel. We hadn’t been there in more
years than I care to say. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves in this
very European-style city. Leaving, we went nonstop back to
Newport and had one day of winds of 40 knots gusting to
50 plus on the nose. Three of our crew were “unwell!” Apart
from that the trip was memorable, and made us feel proud
of the natural features of our country
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Owners of
Mondango 3
Length: 185ft
Year: 2014
Location: Eastern
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