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Just in case you need a detailer, want free t-shirt, or want a job, here is our tentative boat show schedule for the ‘10-’11 boat show season!
Newport Boat Show – September 16-19, 2010
Cedar Point Boat Show (tentative) – September 15-19, 2010
Norwalk Boat Show - September 23-26, 2010
Passagemaker Baltimore Trawlerfest - September 14-26, 2010
United States Sailboat Show (Annapolis) – October 7-11, 2010
United State Powerboat Show (Annapolis) – October 14-17, 2010
Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show - October 28-November 1, 2010
Miami International Boat Show - February 17-21, 2011
Palm Beach International Boat Show – March 24-27, 2011
Just can’t wait for the Annapolis Boat Show or the Fort Lauderdale Boat Show to get your boat show season started? Then you are in luck! The Michigan City Boat Show is on tap this week starting on Thursday and going through Sunday. We will be there taking care of a few Edgewater Boats along with some new Formulas!
First Mate was proud to help out at the 50th annual Little Traverse Yacht Club Regatta. The second day ended with an abandonment due to low wind, but the first day was a great success. Be sure to check back for LOTS of pictures!
An oil spill released 19,500 barrels (or over 800,000 gallons, or about 10% of the oil the pipe routinely carries in a single day) into the Kalamazoo River.
By late Monday, the downstream edge of the spill had reached Ft. Custer State Recreation Area, between Battle Creek and Kalamazoo. Crews were using booms, skimmers [...]
The goal is not to bring every app for the iPad/iPhone into the spot light, but Jeff Seigel does a great job of showing off a few features of Active Captain through a series of screen shots. If you are curious as to what value such a device could have, this is worth a [...]
If the Lake Michigan Fuel Price app did not fill your appetite for boating information on your favorite Apple device, perhaps the Sunseeker app will help out. If this is any signal, it is only a matter of time before business specific apps become widespread and commonplace, akin to getting a website was 10 years [...]
Seafaring Solutions has just released a fuel price app in the iTunes store. While this app will certainly pay for itself, it is only compatible with iOS4 or later. So if you do plan on using this app, make sure you update your software first. Also, be aware early adopters, the original iPhone will not [...]
Along from watching marine industry news and events, we also keep an eye on the mobile and tech landscape. For example, we have mentioned a few times, here and here, about the importance cross over products are already having in the marine industry.
Mad Mariner (a great news source if you don’t already follow them), has a [...]
While July 4th is certainly a great day to sit back, go for a cruise, BBQ, have a few cold ones, and enjoy some fireworks, it is always worth remembering what it is we are celebrating: Liberty.
While the ’stars and stripes’ is the popular choice, a more nautical approach would be the Navy Jack [...]
With the Bay Harbor Vintage Car and Boat Festival coming up this weekend, it is as good as time as any to link to a story about President JFK’s (slightly more well known President than Dirk Boehmer!) former yacht “Honey Fitz” going through a refit:
While Presidents Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower used her, [...]
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