CHESAPEAKE, VA, February 10, 2009 (The Boating Channel) –Volvo Penta is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its industry-changing sterndrive propulsion system for power boats, the Aquamatic, with the introduction of the next big innovation in inboard-outboard engines. Owners of gas-powered twin sterndrives can now look forward to stress-free docking through the use of a Joystick.
OLYMPIC PENINSULA, WASHINGTON (The Boating Channel)
- Bill Herzog has been fishing the Pacific Northwest for most of his life and is widely considered to be an expert on the region. The author of many books and articles from "Tying Strong Fishing Knots" to the "Color Guide for Steelhead Drift Fishing." Bill has also been a frequent contributor as a reporter for shows on the Outdoor Life Network, ESPN, as well as a regular columnist for Salmon, Trout, Steelhead.
SANTA CLARITA, CA, February 3, 2009 (The Boating Channel) - Caribbean Princess has just emerged from an extensive three-week drydock to add many of Princess Cruises’ signature features that have proven so popular on its newest ships. Although only a bit over 4 years old, the 3,080-passenger ship was launched before some of the line’s most popular features had been introduced. The rennovated vessel now offers passengers the engaging street-café atmosphere of the piazza-style atrium with its International Café and Vines, the wine, seafood and cheese bar; the adults-only Sanctuary, seven new suites, and a more centrally located casino. Work is also nearly complete on a new Crown Grill steak and seafood restaurant. [Read More]
SABLES D’OLONNE, FRANCE, February 2, 2009 (The Boating Channel) – When Michel Desjoyeaux sailed his 60-foot monohull “Foncia” across the finish line yesterday, he became the first sailor to win the prestigious Vendee Globe for the second time. Desjoyeaux completed the solo round-the-world race at 15h11’08’’ UT on Sunday February 1st, clocking a total time of 84 days, 03 hours, 09 minutes and 08 seconds. It is a victory that places him in the record books several times over, for he has also set a new benchmark for the 24,840-mile marathon. With an average speed of 12.30 knots, Desjoyeaux sailed past the previous record of 87 days, 10 hours, 47 minutes set by Vincent Riou in 2005. [More...]
DUESSELDORF, GERMANY (The Boating Channel)
Luxury yachts and mega yachts are the stuff that dreams are made of and always popular destinations at boat shows. This year's boot duesseldorf was no exception. Showing off their stuff were Oyster Marine with their new Oyster 655, and two custom yacht builders, Claudia and Albert Drettmann of the Drettmann Group and Sanlorenzo, designer-builders of mega steel yachts.
boot duesseldorf is the largest and most international boat show in Europe with 1,650 exhibitors from 56 countries filling 220,000 square meters of exhibition space in 17 gigantic halls.
QINGDAO, CHINA, January 29, 2009 (The Boating Channel) - In a leg that has been full of drama, bravery and courage, Bouwe Bekking and his men racing Telefónica Blue have pulled off their second leg win a row to take first place on the podium in Qingdao, China, after sailing immaculately.
Shortly before crossing the finish in thick fog at 0700 GMT (1500 local time), after racing for 11 days, 2 hours and 26 seconds (11d:02h:00m:25s), Bekking said, “I feel far from comfortable. Even if it should go wrong, the guys should all feel like the moral winners of the leg; they sailed like champions.” [More...]
From the gondolas in Venice, to rowboats near New Zealand, to giant sailboats off the coast of Nantucket, Boats encompasses watercraft of all sizes, shapes and cultures. Reynolds travels the globe to document these breathtaking maritime moments, and completes this photographic journey with the wit and wisdom of notable authors and poets, such as Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, John Steinbeck, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Shakespeare.
Discover the beauty and diversity of nautical vessels with Boats, captured through the lens of distinguished photographer Sunny Reynolds. Elegant excerpts of poetry and prose complement more than 75 stunning, full-color photographs of skiffs, steamers and schooners that cruise the waterways around the world.
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS (U.S. Coast Guard video by Petty Officer First Class Matthew Belson/First District External Affairs, Boston) - Coast Guard boating safety experts, including a crew from Coast Guard Station Boston, explain the hazards of boating during winter and the cold water safety precautions mariners should follow. Video includes footage taken on Boston Harbor Jan. 10, 2009 and storm footage the next day, Jan.11, 2009, on Cape Cod, Mass.
SOUTHAMPTON, NY, January 21, 2009 (The Boating Channel) - NOAA’s Fisheries Service yesterday issued final guidance on annual catch limits designed to help restore federally managed marine fish stocks and end overfishing.
Annual catch limits are amounts of fish allowed to be caught in a year. The 2007 amendments to the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act required fishery management plans to establish mechanisms for specifying annual catch limits at such levels that overfishing does not occur. Additionally, the act calls for measures to ensure accountability with these limits, and that the limits do not exceed the scientific recommendations made by the regional fishery management councils’ scientific committees.
“The Magnuson-Stevens Act requires that we end over-fishing by 2010,” said Jim Balsiger, acting NOAA assistant administrator for NOAA’s Fisheries Service. “The commercial seafood industry and recreational saltwater fishing provide our nation food, jobs and other incredible benefits that we want to continue for future generations when we end over-fishing.“ [More]
(DUESSELDORF, GERMANY)
New at boot duesseldorf this year is the Nemo 100 - a two-man mini-submarine that enables people to submerge without a license. The Nemo 100 has already won awards and attracted worldwide interest. And, At a cost of
about 180,000 Euros ($240,000 USD), it's a real bargain compared to other submersibles.
boot duesseldorf is the largest and most international boat show in Europe with 1,650 exhibitors from 56 countries filling 220,000 square meters of exhibition space in 17 gigantic halls.
HUNTINGTON BEACH, CALIFORNIA (The Boating Channel) - Liquid Fame is an award winning surfing documentary on the first U.S. Opens Surfing Championship held at Huntington Beach, California. The show features interviews with popular local surfing pros and an exclusive interview with Kathy Kohner Zuckerman - The original Gidget!
Kathy is the real life inspiration for the fictional character of Franzie (nicknamed Gidget) from the 1957 novel, Gidget: the LITTLE girl with BIG ideas, written by her father Frederick Kohner. The book sold over 500,000 copies and in 1959 Columbia Pictures, where Frederick Kohner had been a screen writer, adapted the novel into a film. Two other Gidget films were made, as well as a 1965 television series starring Sally Field and several television movies. As Kathy says, "Nobody knows I'm a real person -- they think 'Gidget' is Sandra Dee or Sally Field."
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HALF MOON BAY, CALIFORNIA (The Boating Channel) - Something mysterious has been stirring in the deep waters off northern California. Fishermen have been reporting bizare sitings ... of fiendish alien creatures, packs of canabalistic invaders... This is a documentary on the invasion of the ferocious Jumbo Squid
SAG HARBOR, NY (The Boating Channel/Carey London)
Imagine cruising peacefully into the sunset; you sit back, close your eyes, and smell the sweet sea breeze. Suddenly, several men in small speed boats drive up and hop onto your vessel. Pirates! They are greedy and heavily armed with automatic weapons, mortar shells and maybe even antitank rockets. They will surely kill you if you don't obey them. Chances are, they will kill you anyway.
Perhaps, you’re not cruising, but your multi-billion dollar company cargo is. It is traveling through pirate-ridden areas such as parts of South East Asia, Africa, and South America, and your hired crew has no understanding of the local people or of how to defend the ship in case of attack. The pirates may well have a computer printout of your cargo, and they will steal anything of value, frequently taking the entire container ship. Your crew stands a better than even chance of being thrown overboard. [More... ]
MIAMI, FL, June 6, 2008 (The Boating Channel) – If your fun in the sun isn’t enough to reduce those worry lines, or if those feel-good UV rays have added another wrinkle to two, how about a little Botox to make sure you return from your cruise looking better than ever?
Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL), in partnership with Steiner Transocean, LLC ("Steiner"), has announced that it is the first cruise line to offer BOTOX® Cosmetic, Restylane® and Perlane® facial aesthetic treatments in its Mandara-operated spas. The treatments, which are part of Mandara's medi-spa program, are currently available on select NCL ships, including Norwegian Dawn, Norwegian Gem and Norwegian Spirit, with plans to launch fleet-wide this fall. [More... ]
PAGE, AZ, May 12, 2008 (The Boating Channel)
Although still awaiting NPS Special Permit Approval, Lake Powell Resorts & Marinas has announced it will host the third annual BROstock Wakeboarding Expo June 12 through June 15, 2008. The event will feature a Wakeboarding competition with a $25,000 cash prize for the winner.
BROstock 2008, sponsored by Lake Powell Resorts & Marinas and Liquid Force, will feature some of the industry’s best-known wakeboarding professionals, the newest products on the market and exhibitions for enthusiasts to obtain tips from the pros. The event will take place in Warm Creek Bay at Lake Powell, located in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, on the border of Utah and Arizona. [More... ]
NEW YORK, NY, May 10, 2008 (USCG)
The Coast Guard is overseeing the salvage of a 70-foot fishing vessel that sank at the pier in Oceanside, N.Y., at around 8 a.m. today.
Coast Guard Station Jones Beach received the initial call that the Miss Edith, a clamming dredge owned by Bayhead Inc., Manahawkin, N.J., was submerged in roughly 20-feet of water and leaked 100-gallons of diesel fuel in the Hog Island Channel. The owner reported he had deployed a boom around the vessel to stop the leakage. [More...]
PLYMOUTH, UK, May 9, 2008 (The Boating Channel)
The clock is ticking down in the Barbican, the medieval center of Plymouth where 23 skippers prepare for the start of the Artemis Transat 2008. The single-hand race across the Atlantic leaves from Pylmouth on Sunday, May 11. The Class 40 fleet will head for Marblehead, Massachusetts, 2,739 miles away, while the IMOCA fleet will travel 2,743 miles to finish in Boston harbor.
The course includes gates (obligatory points of passage), in a zone where ice floes represent a huge danger. Four years ago, the skippers set themselves a waypoint to avoid the icebergs and growlers, and for this thirteenth edition ice has already been spotted to the South of the banks of Newfoundland (41°30 North). [More... ]
Ten members of the US Disabled Sailing Team AlphaGraphics have landed in Qingdao, China, and are preparing for five days of racing at the International Association For Disabled Sailing (IFDS) Qingdao International Regatta.
The U.S. has sent five of its top-ranked teams to this May 11-15 event. Although it is not an official test event, the IFDS Qingdao International Regatta will serve as the most realistic training the teams and the organizers will see before the Paralympic Games in the fall. Head Coach Betsy Alison (Newport, R.I.) says in an email from China, “There is no substitute for practicing at the venue in preparation for the big show.” [More... ]
RICHMOND, CA, May 6, 2008 (The Boating Channel)
A spill of toluenediamine, a flammable substance that can cause irritation by inhalation, at the Reaction Products facility in Richmond, California, has brought out the U.S. Coast Guard along with the California Office of Emergency Services, the Department of Fish and Game and Contra Costa County Hazardous Materials Team.
The chemical spill occurred at an unconfirmed time this past weekend. The spill has been fully contained by booms and absorbent pads. The spilled chemical is not believed to have reached the San Francisco Bay. A safety zone was established and enforced by the Coast Guard Monday afternoon and has since been lifted. [More...]
