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Yachtsman Jim Glidewell and 130 Westport Motor Yacht Serengeti

Posted October 1, 2014 in Charter by Janine St.Denis

A true yachtsman at heart, Jim Glidewell has owned many vessels, but the head-turning M/Y SERENGETI has a special place in his heart.

Glidewell’s 130-foot Westport, built in 2002 was previously called MARY ALICE II, but she was originally named SERENGETI by a Hollywood legend. In homage to her original owner, when Glidewell purchased the yacht, he reverted the name to SERENGETI, but also because “it’s bad luck to change the name of a boat,” he proclaims.

But let’s start at the beginning. In 1987, Glidewell purchased his first vessel, a 50-foot boat, which grew into a 63-foot Sea Ray, which lead him to an 84-foot Sunseeker. He then purchased a 95-foot Heesen dubbed VOYAGER. The next yacht was a 120-foot Broward called SOVEREIGN and from there, a 122-foot Flagship named SHOGUN. The culmination was a 154-foot Admiral named OHANA. The Glidewell family loved OHANA, but because his children were so young, the vessel did not receive as much use as she deserved, and she was destined for a sale.

Now, Glidewell proudly owns M/Y SERENGETI, which lives on the west coast of the Americas, chartering the Pacific from Mexico to Alaska. While SERENGETI is on the seas, Glidewell also owns a “back up” yacht in Newport Beach, an 82-foot Hatteras sportfish.

The 69-year-old yachtsman has lived on the West Coast his whole life. Glidewell was born in Las Vegas, moved to California for college and never looked back. Now living in Newport Beach with his wife and four children, Glidewell gets quite a bit of use out of SERENGETI.

“I mainly have boats for the kids,” says Glidewell. “It’s exciting sharing different ports of call with them.” His children range in age from four to 10. From June to September, SERENGETI is based in Juneau, Alaska, where she charters if the Glidewell’s aren’t on board. From October to May, the vessel lives in Newport Beach, California, occasionally heading south to La Paz or Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. “I love the balance of the Westport,” says Glidewell. “All of the systems work perfectly. We can run at 29 knots and cruise comfortably at 22. There are five staterooms, which work well for my family and, since I have an office in Newport, we use the vessel for company events. We have cocktail parties on board, and we’ve even taken her out to Catalina for weekends.”

A native to the area, Glidewell favors the U.S. and Mexican west coast. “I’ve been a pilot for 30 years and I used to fly to the west coast of Mexico often and stay in hotels, but now I can fly in and stay on my yacht, which I much prefer.” Other favorite yachting hubs for Glidewell are Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket. He also loves The Bahamas, “I like it there better than the Caribbean islands.” Glidewell hasn’t spent time aboard yachts in the Mediterranean, but he has traversed the Panama Canal aboard three times.

One of his favorite yachting memories happened on M/Y SERENGETI quite recently. Glidewell brought the yacht and 20 guests to The Bahamas to attend the ShowBoats International Boys & Girls Clubs Rendezvous at the Atlantis resort. After the event, they cruised to the Exumas, in The Bahamas, for a double hook-up with Glidewell’s east-coast-based yacht M/Y OHANA. As many yachts only can host up to 12 guests, the double hook-up worked well for Glidewell, and “the critical mass of 20 people made the whole trip more enjoyable,” he says.

When it’s just the family on board, one of Glidewell’s favorite pastimes is fishing with his children. “Most people say they fish,” he laughs, “we catch.” Captain Mike Finnegan has been with Glidewell for five years, previously working as captain of SHOGUN, and he is an avid fisherman. “We catch everything from Dungeness crab to salmon, halibut, cod, and what we catch goes on the menu,” Glidewell smiles.

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Below Deck’s Staggering Production Cost is Revealed as Yacht Owners React to Partying On Their Boats And One Owner Reveals Massive Amount He Was Paid for Vessel Rental

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One Below Deck yacht owner reveals how much he was paid for the use of his boat and others react to the partying that takes place on board as the jaw-dropping amount of money it takes to film the show is revealed.

Many networks prefer reality television because the genre is fairly cheap to produce when compared to scripted television. However, the same cannot be said about Below Deck as it typically costs upwards of $10 million per season to produce.

In 2019, Below Deck Mediterranean alum Hannah Ferrier dished on what it costs to film the Bravo series.

“All I’ve got is the gossip, and numbers have been swirled between $10 to $12 million,” she told the Daily Mail . “It’s a very expensive show to film.”

Of course, renting a yacht for a six-week season is extremely expensive since the average cost of a weekly yacht rental is about $200,000. Bobby Genovese — who owns the boat known as Valor featured on seasons four, five, and seven of Below Deck — recently revealed how much he was paid for the use of his boat while explaining why he agreed to the deal.

“I don’t use the boat those six weeks. They paid me a million dollars, they fixed the damage that [they caused], my crew got the opportunity to have time off, and it made sense for me,” Bobby told Docwalk in April.

It should be noted that his boat’s real name is BG. Since he didn’t want his vessel to be associated with the show, the stage name Valor was chosen.

Meanwhile, Jim Glidewell — who owns the yacht Ohana featured on season two of the show — said he did not wish to use a stage name for his vessel as he dished on the great experience he had working with Bravo.

“Bravo has this down to a science. It doesn’t go rough at all. It’s very well done,” he explained. “ Captain Lee [ Rosbach ] handled it great, but I had a first mate and an engineer on board for backup [who were not shown on television].”

Jim went on to say that his boat’s typical guests are nothing like the charter guests on the show because they’re not “adult spring breakers.” Kim Vibe-Petersen , who owns Parsifal III  on Below Deck Sailing Yacht , seemingly agrees with Jim about the guests, but he also believes the crew members are a bit over-the-top as well.

“It’s not totally like it is in reality,” Kim revealed. “The crew is jumping around in our Jacuzzi and all over the boat. That part of it is maybe a little overdone .”

As for the Valor’s owner, he refuses to watch the show because he’d rather not know what’s happening on his vessel. Furthermore, if someone attempts to tell Bobby about something that went down on his boat, he shuts the conversation down immediately.

Below Deck Sailing Yacht season two airs Monday nights on Bravo at 9/8c, and Below Deck Mediterranean season six is expected to return sometime this summer.

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Below Deck secrets: The reality series that went from hard sell to selling charters

Kate Lardy finds out how the hit reality TV show about yacht crew drama went from hard sell to selling charters.

Rebecca Taylor Henning was on holiday in St Martin and having dinner with her family when she began eavesdropping on the table of yacht crew next to her, hearing the angst of a stewardess who was falling in love with the mate and deliberating whether to tell the captain.

“It was Below Deck unfolding before my eyes,” says Taylor Henning, who worked on yachts as a second stewardess and mate before making a career in television. Befriending that crew was the impetus she needed to pitch a reality TV show centred around superyacht crew. It was an opportunity that US production company 51 Minds couldn’t pass up. And just like that, the carefully constructed veil of privacy that surrounds superyachts was breached.

Many in the close-knit yachting world were none too happy about it. “When we started making cold calls, we were shut right down,” says Taylor Henning, who was co-executive producer for season one of the show.

“People told me that my little TV show would be the downfall of the multibillion-dollar yachting industry,” says yacht chef Adrienne Gang, who worked with 51 Minds on the sizzle reel that sold the show to American TV network Bravo and appeared on the first season as chief stewardess. “After the show aired, I was terrified to go to the Fort Lauderdale Boat Show. There was such an uproar about it!”

Eight years later, the superyacht industry is still ticking along, as is Below Deck , which raked in 1.13 million viewers in June 2021 when the latest season of Below Deck Mediterranean aired. The series has also celebrated the launch of other spin-offs including Below Deck Sailing Yacht which premiered in early 2020, and an Australian and adventure charter series both set to debut and 2022.

Filmed over a period of six weeks, the show brings on a new set of guests every few days. The producers never tell the cast what to say or do, but crew nights out between charters, where alcohol flows copiously, are mandatory. It’s a high-pressure environment bound to unleash the drama that is the backbone of any successful reality show.

How real is this reality? Very, say crew members who’ve been involved with the show. “Anybody who tells you none of those things happen on yachts is lying,” says Gang. “There are always love triangles, insubordination, people getting too drunk, people not doing what they’re supposed to be doing, crazy charter guests – all of those things are real… Just not all on the same boat in the same six-week period.”

Ross Inia had plenty of experience working on charter yachts when he agreed to be part of season six. The New Zealand native had not been home in four years and the show’s filming location in Tahiti was the selling point. “My [thinking] was to go on there, do the job, make some money and go back to New Zealand,” he says.

He found the experience true to life – and a lot of fun. “I’ve been in the industry and what you see on television is happening in real life,” he says, although he acknowledges that personalities clash a bit more on television than they do on boats.

Whereas captains hire crew members who focus on synergy, the show hires an ensemble cast with a wide range of personalities and backgrounds, says Shari Levine, Bravo’s executive vice-president of current production. “Some may be more assertive than others or have a specific way they like to lead or be led, and we see that all play out on the show.”

All of which concerned Kim Vibe-Petersen before his 54-metre Perini Navi Parsifal III became the star of the first season of Below Deck Sailing . “At first, we didn’t want to do it,” he says. “We thought maybe this was the wrong signal to send out to the market and that it could disturb the very good reputation that Parsifal III has.” But persistence won out. “They kept on asking and asking and we came to an agreement.”

He considered changing the yacht’s name for the show, but later changed his mind, acknowledging that name recognition might be good for a charter yacht, even one as successful as Parsifal III . “We were a little nervous that the series would be too extreme, but it turned out to be pretty good. You have to understand it gives a different image to your boat, but, of course, they cannot film all 18 episodes and just have quiet charters. Something has to happen.”

Below Deck Sailing featured Vibe-Petersen’s captain of 13 years, Glenn Shephard, and some of his crew instead of an entire cast of talented actors. Two of the yacht’s guest cabins were converted into studios for the film crew. Shephard says he found the cameras “weird” at first, but got used to them after a couple of days and got on with running the boat just like he would in any other charter season. “It’s not totally like it is in reality,” says Vibe-Petersen. “The crew is jumping around in our Jacuzzi and all over the boat. That part of it is maybe a little overdone.”

Bobby Genovese, owner of 46-metre Feadship BG , says he’d rather not know what goes on. His boat has been on three seasons of Below Deck , but Genovese says he’s never seen an episode, and when someone tries to start a conversation about something that happened on the show, he shuts it down. When 51 Minds approached him with the idea, what convinced him was that filming fell during ski season.

“I don’t use the boat those six weeks. They paid me a million dollars, they fixed the damage that [they caused], my crew got the opportunity to have time off, and it made sense for me.” In the end, “the overall feeling was it was good for the boat, and everybody had an enjoyable experience”. BG , however, had the stage name Valor as Genovese didn’t want his boat associated with the show.

The owner of Ohana (now Rhino ), Jim Glidewell, had no such qualms. The 46-metre Admiral Marine appeared under her own name, and the exposure even attracted a buyer. He has nothing but good things to say about the experience. “Bravo has this down to a science. It doesn’t go rough at all. It’s very well done. [TV] Captain Lee handled it great, but I had a first mate and an engineer on board for backup [who were not shown on television].” He’s hoping to repeat the experience with one of his two current superyachts in a future season. “I think if people don’t take that charter money, they’re wrong.”

Glidewell has seen some of the shows and, like Vibe-Petersen, says the charterers are not like his yacht’s typical guests – he calls them “adult spring breakers”. Guests pay to be there like any other charter, says Bravo’s Levine. “How they choose to interact with the crew is up to them, and while some charter guests are wonderful and gracious, some are not.”

Yacht broker Shannon McCoy, of Worth Avenue Yachts , was one of the gracious ones. Invited by her clients, she’s appeared in two episodes. “Even though there are cameras everywhere and you’re being mic’ed, it is very much like a real charter,” she says. “Everybody treats you based on your preference sheets. Nothing is scripted for the guests.”

Her second time on the show, in Tahiti, was her favourite. “The weather was perfect, the group of people we had was great, and we did every water sport and activity that we could that was offered by My Seanna (now Starship ). You don’t ever see any of the drama that happens below deck.” So, while the bosun was struggling to communicate with his deck team and the third stewardess was feeling ostracised by the chief and second stews, “we had zero idea”, says McCoy.

Jerry Purcell, a guest with McCoy in Tahiti, says some in their group were bothered by the microphones and cameras, but he quickly forgot about them. “They kind of just go away in the background,” says Purcell, who owns a 21-metre yacht that occasionally charters. He came on the show to see how a large yacht charter unfolds and as a fan.

The franchise seems to have found particular appeal with the charter crowd. “I have a lot of charter clients that watch the show and take it for what it is, and they’ve become big fans – huge,” says Jennifer Saia, president of B&B Yacht Charters.

“Our guests are Below Deck crazy,” says Victoria Allman, chef on a 50-metre motor yacht. “The stews have overheard their comments at the table: ‘Don’t do this, or do it this way; the crew on Below Deck hate it when…’ In a weird way it has helped us,” she says. “One guest even brought their own steamer because the girls on the show hate being stuck in the laundry.”

As a treat for the guests, Allman once orchestrated a surprise visit from Kate Chastain, the chief stewardess who rose to fame over six seasons. “The stories she told about how hard they work during the shoot amazed me. They still have to turn the boat around, do the laundry, provision, etc, as well as sitting for interviews and dodging camera crews,” she says. “There is no ‘extra’ stew making sure all the grunt work gets done while the stars are being filmed. If I work 16 hours a day, they must be doing so much more than that. We as a crew should have a lot more respect for how hard they are working.”

There is still some stigma around the show, but the tide is turning. “It has become a talking point for people in the industry instead of ‘We don’t want to acknowledge it exists,’” says Gang. 

It helps that the show has enticed new charterers instead of turning them off. “I know it has had a good effect on the charter market,” says McCoy. “I personally have booked charters from being on the show.”

It has also attracted new crew. “There’s definitely been an uptick in crew applications. It has brought more American crew into yachting; some are doing very well,” says Joanne Damgaard, crew placement agent at Bluewater .

The prevailing sentiment in the early years was that anyone who appeared on the show would never work in yachting again. Thankfully that has been proven wrong, with many cast members returning to charter work. Gang says there may have been a handful of yachts that turned her down because they recognised her from the show, but she’s had no trouble finding work among her extensive network. And speaking to BOAT International from his job as mate on a 35 metre, Inia says his Below Deck stint hasn’t affected his career at all.

So, while some in the industry – like the captain of a superyacht who binge-watched the entire franchise during Covid-19 lockdown – will never accept the show as a representation of yachting, that might be beside the point. “It’s supposed to be entertainment, take your mind off the trials and tribulations of your day and show you some place maybe you haven’t been before,” says Captain Lee, the show’s most famous face.“It’s also brought awareness to a lot of people who have money and never knew you could charter a yacht like that. It’s a whole new world for them.”

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Below Deck yacht owners dish money, crew member parties, and overall feelings about their yachts on Bravo show

Below Deck yacht owners are dishing what it’s like to have their yachts featured on the Bravo show, including the money and crew members partying on the boats.

Fans of the hit yachting franchise have always been curious about the money Below Deck, Below Deck Mediterranean, and Below Deck Sailing Yacht crew members make on the show. It’s good money that includes crew salary, tip, and production fee from Bravo.

Mega money and crew parties on yachts

In an interview with Dockwalk , Bobby Genovese, Kim Vibe-Petersen and Jim Glidewell talked about their yachts being on reality TV.

Bobby owns BG, which Below Deck fans know as The Valor featured in Sea 4,5, and 7. , He revealed the money he makes from renting his yacht. Plus, Bobby also spilled that filming occurred during ski season, which sealed the deal for him.

“I don’t use the boat those six weeks. They paid me a million dollars. They fixed the damage that they caused, my crew got the opportunity to have time off, and it made sense for me,” Bobby shared with the website.

Kim owns Parsifal III, which has been featured on both seasons of Below Deck Sailing Yacht. He weighed in on crew member parties on his yacht in real life versus reality TV life.

“It’s not totally like it is in reality. The crew is jumping around in our Jacuzzi and all over the boat. That part of it is maybe a little overdone,” Kim explained.

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What do the Below Deck yacht owners think of the Bravo show?

Jim who owns the Rhino, which Below Deck fans know as Ohana featured in Season 2, praised the show and said it was a no-brainer to lend his yacht to reality TV.

“Bravo has this down to a science. It doesn’t go rough at all. It’s very well done,” he said to Dockwalk. “Captain Lee handled it great, but I had a first mate and an engineer on board for backup, who were not shown on television. I think if people don’t take that charter money, they’re wrong.”

Like Kim, Jim feels the charter guests and crew are not like typical charters. Both yacht owners have nothing but respect for the Bravo franchise. Kim and Jim hope to keep lending their yachts for future seasons of Below Deck and Below Deck Sailing Yacht.

While Bobby doesn’t mind having his yacht featured on the franchise, he has never watched an episode and doesn’t ever plan on it. Bobby revealed that he changed the yacht’s name so people wouldn’t associate the boat with the show.

Overall the three yacht owners are pleased with the Below Deck franchise. They make great money and some of them enjoy seeing their yachts on the small screen.

Below Deck Sailing Yacht airs Mondays at 9/8c on Bravo.

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Venezia: Village Crean sells at auction for $10.6 million

Bidders at the Village Crean auction on Friday.

Winning bidder Jim Glidewell is congratulated by Realtor Duffy Routh.

The Village Crean main house

John and Donna Crean

Barbara Venezia and John Crean cooking up fun on the set of At Home on the Range in John's garage

Going once, going twice, sold!

With the highest bid of $10.6 million, the new owner of the Village Crean estate is Jim Glidewell of Newport Beach.

It took less than 20 minutes Friday for the home John and Donna Crean built, at 2300 Mesa Drive overlooking the Back Bay in Newport, to be sold at auction by Tranzon Asset Strategies of Irvine.

The Village Crean had been placed for sale after Donna Crean passed away last year.

The original asking price for the 3.6-acre estate was $19.8 million. With no solid offers as 2012 closed, the price was lowered to $16.9 million in January.

In March the price was reduced once again to $14.9 million.

Last month I reported the Crean family had decided to put the house on the auction block .

And at 11 a.m. on Friday about 50 people filled the living room of the Village Crean for the sale.

Half of those were Crean family members, friends, and Tranzon staffers including Michael C. Walters, regional president, and Tiffeny R. Cook, vice president.

Also in the crowd were about six to eight interested buyers with brokers in tow milling around prior to the start of the auction.

I spoke with a few from Newport Beach – including John Crean’s old buddy Bob Teller, founder of the Orange County Market Place.

Teller wasn’t really clear with me as to why he was there, but his broker was with him.

As the auction began, auctioneer Ed Durnil warmed up the crowd by first auctioning a copy of John Crean’s autobiography, “The Wheel and I.”

The book sold to 27-year-old Cliff Heiser for $80, with proceeds going to the Crean Family Foundation.

Heiser told me he bid on the book because it was part of the “experience.”

Now it was time for the house to be sold. The energy in the room was electric as bidding opened at $3.5 million.

It quickly rose from there.

Four million – five – six – seven million!

Tension was high.

When it hit $8 million Durnil announced it had now reached the minimum the family had placed on the sale.

It was fast and furious until it reached Glidewell’s $10.6 million.

As the gavel came down and he won, the crowd applauded

I was eager to speak with Glidewell, who founded Newport Beach-based Glidewell Laboratories in 1970.

Glidewell’s company is an industry leader in providing dental lab products such as crowns, bridges, dentures, dental implants, removable full and partial dentures, prosthetic components, and full-cast restorations.

The company’s also on the cutting edge of research and development for the dental field.

Now this successful business man is the new owner of one of Orange County’s most iconic estates.

Glidewell told me he was familiar with the comedy cooking show John Crean and I produced – At Home on the Range.

He’d also done his homework on Crean’s history as founder of Fleetwood Enterprises and said he was impressed with what Crean had accomplished in his life.

So what motivated Glidewell to come to the auction?

He likes the water and had been trying to buy a house on Mesa Drive for over a year, he told me.

“This type of house appeals to me and has a great view,“ Glidewell said.

Glidewell plans on someday living in the home and said he hopes to “retain Mr. Crean’s philosophy of doing fundraisers here, too.”

He also felt a kindred spirit with Crean after reading about him.

“Even though I’m a tooth maker, I’m also interested in woodworking, as John was,” he joked.

I liked his attitude and he seemed genuinely enthused about the house.

Living down the street, I look forward to getting to know my new neighbor and seeing how this new chapter in the Village Crean’s history unfolds.

After the auction the Crean’s daughter, Emily Vogler-Flynn, summed up her thoughts.

“It’s truly the end of an era and we hope the new owner has as much fun in it as we did,” she said.

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Below Deck’s staggering production cost revealed

Yacht owners have revealed how much they were paid for the use of their boats for the filming of the hit reality TV show Below Deck. Crew members have also given an insight into what it costs to produce the show.

Bravo TV’s Below Deck chronicles the lives of crew members who work on board luxury yachts during the charter season. Each season features a different crew configuration, and the episodes show how the crew members interact alongside their working lives. The seasons are filmed over six weeks, with every episode featuring a new group of charter guests.

In 2019, Below Deck Mediterranean alum Hannah Ferrier revealed what it costs to film the series.

“All I’ve got is the gossip, and numbers have been swirled between $10 to $12 million,” she told the Daily Mail. “It’s a very expensive show to film.”

Bobby Genovese, owner of 46-metre (154-foot) M/Y Valor, which features on seasons four, five, and seven of Below Deck, recently revealed how much he was paid for the use of his boat while explaining why he agreed to the deal.

“I don’t use the boat those six weeks. They paid me a million dollars, they fixed the damage [that they caused], my crew got the opportunity to have time off, and it made sense for me,” Genovese told Docwalk.

It should be noted that his boat’s real name is BG (formerly Charade). Since he didn’t want his vessel to be associated with the show, the stage name Valor was chosen.

Meanwhile, Jim Glidewell, owner of 46-metre (154-foot) M/Y Ohana, which features on season two of the show, said he did not wish to use a stage name for his vessel as he dished on the great experience he had working with Bravo TV.

“Bravo has this down to a science. It doesn’t go rough at all. It’s very well done,” he explained. “Captain Lee handled it great, but I had a first mate and an engineer on board for backup [who were not shown on television].”

Glidewell went on to say that his boat’s typical guests are nothing like the charter guests on the show because they are not “adult spring breakers”.

S/Y Parsifal III

Kim Vibe-Petersen, owner of 54-metre (177-foot) S/Y Parsifal III on Below Deck Sailing Yacht, seemingly agrees with Glidewell about the guests, but he also believes the crew members are a bit over-the-top as well.

“It’s not totally like it is in reality,” Vibe-Petersen revealed. “The crew is jumping around in our Jacuzzi and all over the boat. That part of it is maybe a little overdone.”

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Below deck: show reportedly costs $10 million to produce per season.

Below Deck, it has reportedly been costing Bravo upwards of $10 million to produce every year. The price of a weekly yacht rental is about $200,000.

Since the  Below Deck  franchise began in 2013, it has reportedly been costing production upwards of $10 million to produce every year. Unlike other reality TV shows, which are considerably cheap to make, the yachting series cost Bravo a pretty penny compared to the other shows they produce. However, it seems all the money the network put into the franchise may have paid off as season five of  Below Deck Mediterranean  was their highest-rated series of 2020 .

When the first episode of the Bravo series aired almost eight years ago, no one could have predicted the success it would have. It began as a show to give viewers a look at what happens behind the scenes on a yacht, however, it has since become much more than that. Viewers are now interested in the lives of the yachties outside the boat, with many of them obtaining different careers after leaving the show. Nonetheless, there will always be new faces to add to the show as the yachting industry has become quite popular.

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Over the years, there has been speculation about how much it costs to film a season of  Below Deck . In 2019, Hannah Ferrier, from  Below Deck Med ,  revealed to the  Daily Mail  the reports she has heard regarding the cost of production. " All I’ve got is the gossip, and numbers have been swirled between $10 to $12 million ," she told the news outlet, noting, " It’s a very expensive show to film ." The price may not come as a shock to viewers, seeing as the average cost of a weekly yacht rental is about $200,000. In April, Bobby Genovese, the owner of Valor, which was featured on seasons four, five, and seven of  Below Deck , recently opened to  Dockwalk   about how much he was paid for the use of his boat.

" I don’t use the boat those six weeks. They paid me a million dollars, they fixed the damage that [they caused], my crew got the opportunity to have time off, and it made sense for me ," Bobby told the publication. In fact, Valor is actually named BG, as Bobby didn't want his yacht to be associated with Bravo or the show. Despite this, Jim Glidewell, the owner of the vessel Ohana from season two of  Below Deck , did not want to use a stage name for his yacht as he had an amazing experience working with the network. He even applauded Bravo and Captain Lee for all their hard work  in keeping his vessel intact (via Reality Blurb ).

Unlike Bravo's other reality shows,  Below Deck  costs an insane amount of money simply to give the fans a behind-the-scenes look of what it is like to work in the yachting industry. With three  Below Deck  series currently on Bravo, it must be costing them upwards of $30 million every year to film. Now that  two more spin-offs are in the works , this franchise is costing them more to film than the  Real Housewives .

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Billionaires were slaves to a strict jetsetter calendar — at least before COVID-19 ruffled their cravats.

In early December, that meant off to Miami for Art Basel — aka “the running of the billionaires” — then to St. Barts for a New Year’s Eve glass of bubbly aboard Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich’s $500 million megayacht.

Next they stopped in Palm Beach, Fla., to say hello to Stephen Schwarzman, Leonard Lauder or Robert Kraft (if they dare!), then a ski jaunt in the Alps in the spring. In May, it was on to the South of France to hit the Cannes Film Festival and the Monaco Grand Prix.

In summer, some chartered yachts along the Amalfi Coast, while others opted for the French Riviera — bobbing in and out of the Hamptons via private jet from Memorial to Labor Day. They spent millions upon millions on princely compounds all the while.

But travel restrictions and the viral threat has disrupted the play schedules of the superrich and the seasonal real estate markets relying on peripatetic high rollers. Even in New York — where some 113 billionaires rest their laurels, according to Wealth-X — the lights are out along 57th Street’s Billionaire’s Row.

“The travel patterns of the extremely wealthy have been thrown into a tailspin because of Covid,” said Tony Abrams, founder of Four Hundred, a membership-based concierge and travel company that counts more than 75 billionaires as clients.

“Most of their go-to events like Basel have been canceled, and border restrictions prevent them from going to their usual international haunts.”

Now, restless 1 percenters are carving out a new routine.

“In the past, I’ve gone to Europe over the summer, and the people who chartered from me would normally be in St. Tropez instead of New England,” said Jim Glidewell, a demi-billionaire.

Glidewell spent part of this unprecedented summer in New England on his 161-foot, five-bedroom superyacht named Zoom Zoom Zoom, renting it out to New York hedge funders when he wasn’t cruising. A weekly charter is $165,000.

“Going clamming, watching sunsets and drinking expensive wine is about as action packed as it’s gotten,” he said.

But 2020 wasn’t just an off year. The routines of the ruling class are changing. Here’s a look at the new billionaire social calendar and what it means for some of the world’s top real estate markets.

After being ravaged by Hurricane Irma in 2017 and locking down during the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak, the tony isle of St. Bart is back with celebs like Paul McCartney, Amy Schumer and Chrissy Teigen all spotted over the holidays.

 “St. Bart’s has always been hot, but this year it’s on fire because it’s one of the handful of places that’s open to visitors,” said Abrams. “It’s a place with great beaches and restaurants and gorgeous villas.”

Famously aloof billionaires favor private villas over the island’s luxe hotels and the 16,000-square-foot Villa Rockstar , which goes for upwards of $175,000 a week during high season, is one of the best.

Situated on Saint Jean beach and owned by Eden Rock, the property has six suites including one with a 24-carat white-gold bathroom.

After St. Barts, the party moves on to Palm Beach, where the already costly real estate rental and sales markets have skyrocketed since the start of the pandemic.

Billionaires including financier Henry Kravis, investor Carl Ichan and Julia Koch, widow of industrialist David Koch, all hibernate in Palm Beach over the winter.

“People want to park themselves someplace warm while they wait out to see what happens with the vaccine,” said Stacy Fischer-Rosenthal, the president of Fisher Travel Enterprises, a membership-based lifestyle and travel company.

Gstaad, Courchevel and St. Moritz may be off the table for now, but the other mainstay billionaire stomping ground of Aspen, Colo., will be an even wilder see-and-be-seen destination this spring.

Jeff Bezos, John Paulson and Kris, Kendall and Kylie Jenner (who are currently paying $450,000 a month for an Aspen spread) are just a few of the high rollers with homes here.

“Aspen will be popular in the same way St. Bart’s is over Christmas,” said Abrams. “Both have the same crowds.”

Four Peaks Ranch in Snowmass, which goes for $20,000 a night, is one of the ski paradise’s best billionaire bastions. The property is set on 876 acres and has 15 miles of private trails for cross-country and snowmobiling. Other amenities include seven bedrooms, eight baths, a movie theater and an indoor/outdoor pool with grottos and a waterfall.

Lately, billionaires who want to avoid the buzz of Aspen are escaping to nearby Telluride, where the 40,000-square-foot Sleeping Indian Ranch from Auberge rents for a minimum of $50,000 a night. With 15,000 acres of total privacy and endless amenities like a movie theater, gym and a cigar humidor room, the estate and the community is about as exclusive as it gets.

In 2020, the Hamptons and Malibu filled in for the French Riviera and the Amalfi Coast as getaway spots of choice for the money-is-no-object set. And real estate experts predict a repeat this summer.

“The demand for long-term rentals in Malibu especially shot through the roof when Covid hit,” said Andrew Steinberg, a luxury advisor with Ovation Vacations in New York City. “The broker I work with to find homes for my clients got 200 calls in March for summer renters, which was more than a tenfold increase from last year.”

In the Hamptons, folks like George Soros, Ralph Lauren and Steve Cohen are among the many tycoons hiding out.

The biggest deal of the year came from the hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin who paid $84.4 million for Calvin Klein’s former 7-acre property at 650 Meadow Lane in Southampton.

Your grandmother and the world’s richest now have something in common. They both love to watch the leaves change!

Believe it or not, destinations like the Adirondacks and Vermont — playgrounds for old money like the Rockefellers, nouveau riche titans like Alibaba’s Jack Ma, as well as celebs like Bruce Springsteen and Sigourney Weaver — saw a huge influx of billionaires this year, according to Fischer-Rosenthal.

Heavy hitters who headed to the Adirondacks clamored for takeovers of The Point , a pricy hotel set on Upper Saranac Lake and the former camp of William Avery Rockefeller. The nightly buyout rate is $29,600.

But the exceptionally well-heeled also enjoyed the mild weather in New England by boat, according to Daniel Ziriakus, the president of yacht charter brokerage Northrop & Johnson, who rents out Gildewell’s yacht.

Glidewell gets it: “Even when the world opens up again, I love the idea of being in New England, not St. Tropez. It’s a destination with a lot to offer.”

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A new motor yacht has joined the US charter fleet: 39m (128ft) luxury motor yacht SHOGUN. She was built in 2002 by Northcoast Yachts, with her elegantly appointed interiors helmed by Robin Rose  & Associates. She will be available to charter on the West Coast in Northern California both in the summer and winter seasons.

Luxury yacht SHOGUN accommodates 12 guests across 5 cabins

Charter yacht SHOGUN is an on-the-water sanctuary that welcomes up to 12 guests across 5 sumptuous cabins, decorated in a classic style. Her main deck master suite is a glorious full-beam stateroom, replete with an ensuite bathroom that features a private marble Jacuzzi. The additional staterooms (comprising a VIP and two queen cabins) can be found on the lower deck, which also have excellent en-suite facilities. 

Her indoor social spaces are characterized by their generous size and large windows throughout. Highlights include her fabulous sky lounge. Outside, she has another Jacuzzi, located on the sundeck which provides perfect panoramas for all yacht charter guests to enjoy.

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To book a yacht charter on the US West Coast, please consult your chosen yacht charter broker.   

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First refuelling for Russia’s Akademik Lomonosov floating NPP

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The FNPP includes two KLT-40S reactor units. In such reactors, nuclear fuel is not replaced in the same way as in standard NPPs – partial replacement of fuel once every 12-18 months. Instead, once every few years the entire reactor core is replaced with and a full load of fresh fuel.

The KLT-40S reactor cores have a number of advantages compared with standard NPPs. For the first time, a cassette core was used, which made it possible to increase the fuel cycle to 3-3.5 years before refuelling, and also reduce by one and a half times the fuel component in the cost of the electricity produced. The operating experience of the FNPP provided the basis for the design of the new series of nuclear icebreaker reactors (series 22220). Currently, three such icebreakers have been launched.

The Akademik Lomonosov was connected to the power grid in December 2019, and put into commercial operation in May 2020.

Electricity generation from the FNPP at the end of 2023 amounted to 194 GWh. The population of Pevek is just over 4,000 people. However, the plant can potentially provide electricity to a city with a population of up to 100,000. The FNPP solved two problems. Firstly, it replaced the retiring capacities of the Bilibino Nuclear Power Plant, which has been operating since 1974, as well as the Chaunskaya Thermal Power Plant, which is more than 70 years old. It also supplies power to the main mining enterprises located in western Chukotka. In September, a 490 km 110 kilovolt power transmission line was put into operation connecting Pevek and Bilibino.

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Rosatom Starts Production of Rare-Earth Magnets for Wind Power Generation

TVEL Fuel Company of Rosatom has started gradual localization of rare-earth magnets manufacturing for wind power plants generators. The first sets of magnets have been manufactured and shipped to the customer.

In total, the contract between Elemash Magnit LLC (an enterprise of TVEL Fuel Company of Rosatom in Elektrostal, Moscow region) and Red Wind B.V. (a joint venture of NovaWind JSC and the Dutch company Lagerwey) foresees manufacturing and supply over 200 sets of magnets. One set is designed to produce one power generator.

“The project includes gradual localization of magnets manufacturing in Russia, decreasing dependence on imports. We consider production of magnets as a promising sector for TVEL’s metallurgical business development. In this regard, our company does have the relevant research and technological expertise for creation of Russia’s first large-scale full cycle production of permanent rare-earth magnets,” commented Natalia Nikipelova, President of TVEL JSC.

“NovaWind, as the nuclear industry integrator for wind power projects, not only made-up an efficient supply chain, but also contributed to the development of inter-divisional cooperation and new expertise of Rosatom enterprises. TVEL has mastered a unique technology for the production of magnets for wind turbine generators. These technologies will be undoubtedly in demand in other areas as well,” noted Alexander Korchagin, Director General of NovaWind JSC.

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TVEL Fuel Company of Rosatom incorporates enterprises for the fabrication of nuclear fuel, conversion and enrichment of uranium, production of gas centrifuges, as well as research and design organizations. It is the only supplier of nuclear fuel for Russian nuclear power plants. TVEL Fuel Company of Rosatom provides nuclear fuel for 73 power reactors in 13 countries worldwide, research reactors in eight countries, as well as transport reactors of the Russian nuclear fleet. Every sixth power reactor in the world operates on fuel manufactured by TVEL. www.tvel.ru

NovaWind JSC is a division of Rosatom; its primary objective is to consolidate the State Corporation's efforts in advanced segments and technological platforms of the electric power sector. The company was founded in 2017. NovaWind consolidates all of the Rosatom’s wind energy assets – from design and construction to power engineering and operation of wind farms.

Overall, by 2023, enterprises operating under the management of NovaWind JSC, will install 1 GW of wind farms. http://novawind.ru

Elemash Magnit LLC is a subsidiary of Kovrov Mechanical Plant (an enterprise of the TVEL Fuel Company of Rosatom) and its main supplier of magnets for production of gas centrifuges. The company also produces magnets for other industries, in particular, for the automotive

industry. The production facilities of Elemash Magnit LLC are located in the city of Elektrostal, Moscow Region, at the site of Elemash Machine-Building Plant (a nuclear fuel fabrication facility of TVEL Fuel Company).

Rosatom is a global actor on the world’s nuclear technology market. Its leading edge stems from a number of competitive strengths, one of which is assets and competences at hand in all nuclear segments. Rosatom incorporates companies from all stages of the technological chain, such as uranium mining and enrichment, nuclear fuel fabrication, equipment manufacture and engineering, operation of nuclear power plants, and management of spent nuclear fuel and nuclear waste. Nowadays, Rosatom brings together about 350 enterprises and organizations with the workforce above 250 K. https://rosatom.ru/en/

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However, up to now, the main carriers of catalytic additives have been mineral sorbents: silica gels, alumogels. This is obviously due to the fact that they consist of pure homogeneous components SiO2 and Al2O3, respectively. It is generally known that impurities, especially the ash elements, are catalytic poisons that reduce the effectiveness of the catalyst. Therefore, carbon sorbents with 5-15% by weight of ash elements in their composition are not used in the above mentioned technologies. However, in such an important field as a gas-mask technique, carbon sorbents (active carbons) are carriers of catalytic additives, providing effective protection of a person against any types of potent poisonous substances (PPS). In ESPE “JSC "Neorganika" there has been developed the technology of unique ashless spherical carbon carrier-catalysts by the method of liquid forming of furfural copolymers with subsequent gas-vapor activation, brand PAC. Active carbons PAC have 100% qualitative characteristics of the three main properties of carbon sorbents: strength - 100%, the proportion of sorbing pores in the pore space – 100%, purity - 100% (ash content is close to zero). A particularly outstanding feature of active PAC carbons is their uniquely high mechanical compressive strength of 740 ± 40 MPa, which is 3-7 times larger than that of  such materials as granite, quartzite, electric coal, and is comparable to the value for cast iron - 400-1000 MPa. This allows the PAC to operate under severe conditions in moving and fluidized beds.  Obviously, it is time to actively develop catalysts based on PAC sorbents for oil refining, petrochemicals, gas processing and various technologies of organic synthesis.

Victor M. Mukhin was born in 1946 in the town of Orsk, Russia. In 1970 he graduated the Technological Institute in Leningrad. Victor M. Mukhin was directed to work to the scientific-industrial organization "Neorganika" (Elektrostal, Moscow region) where he is working during 47 years, at present as the head of the laboratory of carbon sorbents.     Victor M. Mukhin defended a Ph. D. thesis and a doctoral thesis at the Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia (in 1979 and 1997 accordingly). Professor of Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia. Scientific interests: production, investigation and application of active carbons, technological and ecological carbon-adsorptive processes, environmental protection, production of ecologically clean food.   

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