High Life (Yachting) in China

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Laurie Burkitt, China’s ‘Floating Hotels’ Are Hiring. Scene Asia, Apr 6, 2012.
http://blogs.wsj.com/scene/2012/ ... -hotels-are-hiring/

Note:
(a)
(i) Azimut | Benetti Group
http://www.azimutbenetti.it/

DO NOT go to that website, which is not informative for my purpose.
(ii) http://www.azimutyachts.com

There is no need to visit this website, either. The point is the compamy makes this clam:

"Azimut Benetti is the largest network producing megayachts and the world's leading private group in the luxury boating sector."
http://www.azimutyachts.com/azimut-benetti-group.html

(b)
(i) Azimut (company)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azimut_(company)
(based in Avigliana, in the province of Turin, Italy; established in 1969 by Paolo Vitelli)
(ii) Benetti
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benetti
(Headquarters Viareggio, Italy; Founded in 1873, when Lorenzo Benetti (1844–1914), bought the Darsena Luca shipyard to found the Benetti shipyard; Sale to Azimut in 1984)


(c) Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press:
(i) About Paolo Vitelli.
(A) Paolo is Italian form of Paul.
(B) The Italian surname Vitelli referred to "son of Vitello."

The Italian surname Vitello is a pet form of the personal name Vito.

Vito
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vito
(ii) About Lorenzo Benetti.
(A) Lorenzo is Italian/Spanish form of Lawrence.
(B) The Italian surname Benetti: "from a derivative of Bene, a short form of the various personal names formed with this element (from Latin bene ‘well’), such as Benedetto, Benvenuto.reduced form of Benedetti.'

(d)
(i) The Italian noun "azimut" is "azimuth" in English.

But what is azimuth in English?
(A) (n; Middle English, from Medieval Latin azimut, from Arabic al-sumūt the azimuth, plural of al-samt the way; First Known Use  14th century)
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/azimuth

(B) DO NOT go to Wikipedia(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azimuth
), which is poorly prepared (in both text and diagram).
(C) Altitude and Azimuth
http://www.astro.cornell.edu/aca ... astro201/alt_az.htm
("By convention, azimuth is measured from north towards the east along the horizon")

In other words, azimuth is measured from (true) north CLOCKWISE along the horizon.

Remember, the true north is the one (direction) on the horizon, not above the head of the observer pointing to the sky.

(D) Definition of 'azimuth.' Heavens Above, undated.
http://www.heavens-above.com/glossary.aspx?term=azimuth

View the diagram only.

(e) For Sunseeker International Ltd, see Sunseeker
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunseeker
(headquarters and assembly factory is at Poole in Dorset, England; founded in 1979 by Robert Braithwaite)

The English surname Braithwaite are name of places in northern England, derived from Old Norse breiðr ‘broad’ + þveit ‘clearing.’

The "clearing" means clear a patch of forest to make for a farmland.