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To supplement the Bay Harbor Lake Marina webcam, it looks like the Yacht Club is catching up.
These webcams are a great way to keep an eye on your boat, particularly in regards to the weather. You can decide if it is a good day to take the boat out, or be able to tell [...]
Missed some of our Palm Beach Boat Show coverage? Fear not, we have even more!
Trevor sat down with Mike Dickman during the Palm Beach Boat Show to discuss the relaunch of www.BoatQuest.com and what we have to look forward to in terms of technology and boat shows. Enjoy!
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This morning we heard from Mike Dickman (GM of BoatQuest.com) and Skip Zimbalist (CEO of Show Management) about the just relaunched www.BoatQuest.com. In January of this year Active Interest Media purchased BoatQuest to complement their other marine services like Show Management and Yachts International Magazine.
Founded in 1999, BoatQuest.com already attracts close to 400,000 monthly [...]
First Mate spends a lot of time at all the major boat shows. As a precursor to the shows, I do a lot of research online going into the show. Who will be there? What boats will be there? What is the brokers email who is selling boat “x”? Which of the three 50′ Sea [...]
GeoGarage has a nice online chart/google map combo. It can help fill the boating void for those in colder climates this winter while dreaming of the summer! Watch the video below for a quick demo.
Trevor recently attended YachtWorks Brokerage University (you can see his write up here), and they obviously were trying to convey how important technology is important in todays marketplace. It is important to sellers and potential buyers, there is no doubt about that. At the end of the day it comes down to how easy information [...]
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 look.
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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), [...]
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