Just back from the Monaco Yacht Show

September is one of our busiest months with the four day Monaco Yacht Show taking place within the ten day Southampton Boat Show, which makes for an interesting - and rather hyperactive - time.  We had three current clients to support at Monaco - two superyacht design houses and a leading brokerage firm - and the work that we had put in over August on the assorted newsletters, brochures and press releases ensured their success with both the superyacht media and our clients’ target customers.  We also got to look over some stunning superyachts and enjoyed the 30 degrees plus weather in an iconic setting.

ClearLine in 2007 - the story so far

Welcome to ClearLine’s new latest news section.  We hope that by describing some of the projects that we are involved in, this will illustrate to clients and potential clients the scope of what ClearLine does, and how our marketing and project management benefits companies and event organisations. 

2007 has been a very busy year for ClearLine, with the company involved in a wide range of activities right across the leisure marine sector. 

Highlights include; In the electronics and equipment area we have had an active nine months with safety electronics manufacturer McMurdo; working with their senior management and new owners to educate the market as to the change of ownership.  Instrumentation manufacturer Nexus Marine launched a number of major new products for which we handled the worldwide publicity, and we took over the PR and marketing support for Gerber Inc in the UK and Ireland as part of the takeover by that company of our long-standing client Silva Ltd. 

In the racing sector, not only were we working closely with Nexus Marine, as mentioned above, to launch their new instrumentation products, but we also worked with client Humphreys Yacht Design to announce a number of new race boat projects including an entry for the 2008 Volvo Ocean Race.  This boat is now currently under construction at yet another client of ours – Green Marine. 

We also remain highly active in the superyacht sector where we represent two designers currently working on motor and sailing yachts ranging in size from 37m up to 140m.  We handle worldwide publicity for both these – Rainsford Saunders Design and Humphreys Yacht Design – and also promote products by McMurdo and Nexus within this sector.  This year we will be attending the superyacht shows in Dubai, Monaco and Fort Lauderdale in support of our clients.  Currently we are compiling some prestige publications for top superyacht broker Yachting Partners International for new year publication. 

Our Event management desk has also been particularly busy in 2007, having organised three regattas on half of their management teams; the Bénéteau Cup, the British Classic Yacht Regatta, and the subsequent Six Metre World Championship, all held at Cowes.  From press reports to sponsorship contracts, race management to social events, we have to be multi-skilled to make these the successes that they have been. 

We have also been very pleased to work on half of the national yachting authority in the UK - the Royal Yachting Association – on a number of communications projects for the southern region, including communications to yacht clubs, and distributing stories from the RYA to the press. Overall ClearLine Communications has had an excellent and very interesting year to date, and we look forward to continuing this momentum through to the end of the year and into 2008.  

$800,000 order for McMurdo C1 Float Free Capsules

PRESS RELEASE

McMurdo, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of distress beacons and marine communications equipment, is to supply an order worth $800,000 of a quantity of C1 S-VDR float free capsules to electronics systems supplier Comas, for integration into their Blue Ocean S-VDR systems.  

Several months of collaboration between the two companies have resulted in the obtaining of the all-important ‘type approval’ to enable the McMurdo C1 float free solution to meet IMO maritime legislation, so that the fully integrated Comas SVDR system is now ready for the shipping market. 

McMurdo’s Sales & Marketing Director Jeremy Harrison comments “We are very pleased to be receiving such a high value order for the C1 SVDR float free capsule.  This is a further indication that the float free capsule solution for SVDR is proving to be a sound choice within the commercial shipping fleets.  Recent sales have demonstrated a growing level of confidence in this system. “

About the McMurdo C1-SVDR:The C1 complies with IMO regulations that require cargo ships on international voyages to be fitted with an S-VDR (Simplified Voyage Data Recorder).  In the event of a vessel sinking, the Float Free Data Capsule is automatically released from its on-deck housing, at which time an inbuilt distress beacon aids its location and safe recovery as well as automatically notifying the vessel’s distress to the maritime authorities. Using a McMurdo C1 is an alternative to installing a fixed data collection unit, and since it is free floating, is easier and quicker to retrieve, saving on substantial retrieval costs that would be incurred recovering a fixed and submerged unit.  The C1’s distress beacon transmits its GPS derived location and homing signals for a minimum period of 7 days after its release.   Once safely recovered, important voyage status information including speed, depth and course can be retrieved from its memory to subsequently analyse the factors surrounding the incident.   The C1’s integrated distress beacon signals on the Worldwide 406MHz distress frequency and has a 121.5MHz homing signal and is fully compatible with the COSPAS-SARSAT international satellite search and rescue system.  This picks up the distress signal, sending the alert to one of the many automated worldwide ground stations for forwarding to the nearest search and rescue authority.  

About the Comas Blue Ocean System: The Comas system comprises the S-VDR and optional ECDIS. (ECDIS is IMO requirement for the year 2007) Their S-VDR / Black Box (‘The Blue Ocean’) is designed to meet the requirements for an S-VDR as defined in the draft international standard IEC PAS 61996-2. The S-VDR system consists of the main unit, the processing unit, an industrial type computer (PC), and McMurdo’s Float Free Capsule. 

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McMurdo, a division of Signature Industries Ltd is a world leading producer of  Emergency Positioning Indicating Radio Beacons (EPIRBs),  Personal Locator Beacons (PLBs) Search and Rescue Transponders (SARTs), VHF Radios and NAVTEX for the maritime and leisure markets, including shipping, yachting, aviation and outdoor adventure pursuits.  The high quality product range is manufactured in the UK utilising the very latest technology available, and in partnership with the world’s safety regulatory organisations.

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