Lake Powell resorts & Marinas to Host Brostock Wakeboarding Expo

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... ]

Fishing Vessel Submerged at Oceanside, NY, Pier

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...]

Artemis Transat Fleet Prepares for Sunday Departure

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... ]