On the Water

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Simrad Yachting said customers purchasing certain new marine electronics products from authorized dealers are entitled to rebates up to $200. While the program runs til the end of June, customers who purchased eligible products beginning February 8, 2010 are also eligible for the rebates. That’s a nice touch. Here’s a list provided by Simrad of the [...] …Read More

The Miami International Boat Show a few weeks ago was visited by more than just boaters, boat builders and accessory manufacturers.  In fact, one of the exhibitors seeing attention was the Korea International Boat Show that is coming up in June. It’s no surprise really.  Korea is a leading shipbuilder and Korean companies including flat panel TV manufacturers and satellite TV and VSAT antenna developers are making great strides in the marine industry.  Korea is the 5th largest automobile manufacturer and the world’s 13th largest economy.  Its geographic position between Japan and China certainly helps in reaching out to major consumer markets.  The show is just in its first couple years but it’s gaining strength and is now being marketed actively to American companies and boaters.  So, on June 9-13, Gyeonggi Province will host the 2010 show with about 80,000 square feet of exhibit space both in and out of the water.  In 2009, 467 companies from 33 countries participated.  If you have the time, and maybe business in that part of the world, check out the show.  But bring your suit, in Korea, these events are still fairly formal affairs.  …Read More

With classic American racing yachts, there’s more than one meaning to the phrase, bring’em back. Any wood boat that’s been out there a while will surely have been “brought back” one time or more through restoration procedures that we can reasonably hope are unreasonably fanatical. There’s also: Bring’em back home. Dorade, courtesy Sparkman & Stephens [...] …Read More

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  YAY! It’s finally not snowing, cold, or otherwise suck-ish outside! And the deliciously warm weather game the kids and I a chance to (finally) get out and do some fishing this weekend. That also meant I had a chance to take a test-run with a new reel Shimano sent me to test out, their 2010 [...] …Read More

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Peligroso, aka a training camp. Photo by Kimball Livingston Regata Copa México is important because it is not. That is, whether it was the MEXORC series for big boats just completed or the J/24 racing soon to be under way on Bahia de Banderas, there is nothing here to re-chart the course of boat design or [...] …Read More

How does a dealership in the Tennessee countryside continue to sell pricey go-fast boats in a tough economy? Two words: David Woods. …Read More

Right in the middle of Regata Copa México comes a day of Puddle Jump seminars, a get-acquainted and get-educated opportunity for cruisers outbound into the Pacific. Most of their day was spent in the lounge at Marina Riviera Nayarit, in La Cruz de Huanacaxtle . . . A day later, with the same Private [...] …Read More