Speedboats | Motorboats News for 04/12/2009



Cos Cob Power Plant park status? It's back to drawing board (Greenwich Citizen)
Hey, read all about the "once and future" Cos Cob Power Plant park...

Report: Crew Of Hijacked Vessel Overpowers Pirates, Back In Control - MyStateline.com

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Report: Crew Of Hijacked Vessel Overpowers Pirates, Back In Control
MyStateline.com, IL
Gunmen have been known to use small motorboats to pursue and capture huge cargo ships and tankers in the area. The ships and their crew are often held in hopes for huge ransoms. Early this year, the Sirius Star supertanker was released after a payment .
Video: Hijacked Ship on the Move, Navy on Board The Associated Press
Somali Pirates Strike Again - This Time Against US Crew FITSNews
Somali pirates attempt to hijack an Israel ship defpro
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S. Padre Island seeing fewer visitors for Holy Week (San Antonio Express-News)
Reduced buying power and economic uncertainty in northern Mexico is felt all along the border, but nowhere as dramatically as South Padre Island right before Easter. Blog: View from the Valley..

Marina at 50 - News Dispatch

Marina at 50
News Dispatch, IN
In post-World War II years, as the United States vaulted ahead in its standard of living, more people could afford motorboats or sailboats. As privately owned boats got bigger, they needed a place to be docked all summer. Today, the Port Authority .
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Center makes sailing an option for more folks - CharlotteObserver.com

CharlotteObserver.com
Center makes sailing an option for more folks
CharlotteObserver.com, NC
They politely obeyed instructor Larry Vitez as he gave orders from a motorboat. Unlike other first-timers, they didn't tip the boat over. Along with fellow teenagers Emma Haupt, Camden Griggs and David Keener, all of Davidson, the brothers are the .
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Bali trades in otherworldly - Honolulu Star-Bulletin

Bali trades in otherworldly
Honolulu Star-Bulletin, HI
At the Floating Temple of Ulun Danu, Lake Bratan is crisscrossed by vacationers in motorboats. At water's edge stand a complex of Hindu, Buddhist and Islamic places of worship, sporting thatched towers and minarets. (Although Bali remains Hindu, .
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Of Float Planes and speed boats @ Two Oceans Slope Soarers
EURNice speed boatEUR was the quip from the sidelines. Now with egg on my face and looking for excuses, I started to blame the water. As for Dan, he stepped up with his yellow monster plane, ridiculously overpowered, and simply dragged ...

It's the EC's power, not the Speaker's: EC boss (Sabah Daily Express)
Putra Jaya: Election Commission (EC) Chairman Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof said the commission has the power to declare whether a parliamentary or state constituency seat is vacated...

Deputies Take Crews in Boats to Fix Power Lines (KQCD-TV Dickinson)
Crews from Minnkota Power Cooperative needed boats to get to a flooded area to replace insulators on ice-damaged power lines serving an estimated 1,500 customers...

The Donz Knows Blog Archive Fish, Cake & Speedboats!
Fish, Cake & Speedboats! The Donz. So this weekend marked my 26th year of life on this majestic planet. Wow, makes it sound kinda epic! Truth is, with the advent of the Internet, the stylization of modern media and advertising; ...

Hong Kong Marine Police "Police 3" + Speed boats. on Flickr .
The marine Police have been doing loads of exercises in Tseung Kwan O bay the past few weeks. The main boat here "Police 3" seems to have a few senior guys standing upfront watching two of the police speedboats chase down the third...

Cuba readies for possible influx of U.S. tourists (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Behind the mangroves that skirt the blue waters of Cuba's Bay of Cardenas, a 1,500-slip marina is taking shape as the island's tourism industry braces for what could be its biggest challenge yet...

Somali pirates seize German ship-maritime group
The pirates typically use speed boats launched from EURmother shipsEUR. They then take captured vessels to remote coastal village bases in Somalia, where they have usually treat their hostages well in anticipation of a sizeable ransom ...

Adventures of the Black girls - dead dogs, speed boats, hot buses .
World Nomads Travel Journal: Adventures of the Black girls - dead dogs, speed boats, hot buses, bowling and friends. Well we made it to Laos.. it was crazy adventure!! After leaving Chiang Mai we took a 5 hour mini bus to the ...

(Neb.)-Boating Safety Course At Chadron - KCSR

(Neb.)-Boating Safety Course At Chadron
KCSR, NE
The minimum age to operate a motorboat in Nebraska is 14. The six-hour class covers everything from equipment requirements to safe boat operation and accident prevention, and is a great course for both new and experienced boaters. .
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Joe's? North River? What rece$$ion? (The Oregonian)
Just because Joe's (formerly G.I. Joe's) is going away, North River Boats seems to be tanking, Sportsman's Warehouse is/was in trouble. .Doesn't mean there isn't interest in hunting and fishing in Oregon. Think about this thought, courtesy of Gary Waterhouse at Great American Tackle in Clackamas: On Saturday, April 4,...

Piracy vs. Americans - Chattanooga Times Free Press

Piracy vs. Americans
Chattanooga Times Free Press, TN
They use small motorboats and wield machine guns and rocket launchers to attack huge merchant ships, whose civilian crews are unarmed. The practice of the pirates is to demand ransom in the millions of dollars. Many shipping companies have been willing .
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Anarchy on Land Means Piracy at Sea (New York Times)
How the Navy can fight an asymmetrical war in the Indian Ocean...

A fisherman's dilemma (Trinidad Express)
FISHING FOR 20 YEARS: Assistant secretary Alcan Bay Fishing Association, Martin Alexander. It is Wednesday afternoon, (around 2.30) and the docking port at Alcan Bay in Carenage is lined with fishing boats...

Going from ocean liner to speedboats | hattiesburgamerican.com .
Turning the audacity of hope into the power of persistence is a daunting task in an age of Twitter, even for the prime-time and online president, Barack Obama...

Beneteau confirms rumours of big job cuts - Motor Boats Monthly

Motor Boats Monthly
Beneteau confirms rumours of big job cuts
Motor Boats Monthly, UK
Beneteau Group, the maker of Beneteau and Jeanneau motorboats and yachts, has confirmed rumours of mass job cuts by announcing today that nearly 1600 jobs are at risk. Previous measures such as a shorter working week and the cutting of temporary staff .
Top sailboat builder to cut 600 jobs Sydney Morning Herald
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DEL MAR: Beached whale moved out to ocean - North County Times - Californian

DEL MAR: Beached whale moved out to ocean
North County Times - Californian, CA
Milakovich said that the Sheriff's Department had notified Sea World and another marine organization. About 10 am, lifeguards used two inflatable motorboats to tow the animal's carcass four miles out into the ocean, Del Mar lifeguard officials said.
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The ShadowLands: Speedboats to save world
Island factories are harming the atmosphere with sky-high levels of industrial pollution. As an international watch-dog with a wicked speed-boat, you have to make sure they know and abide by the Kyoto Treaty. ...

IT'S HOTZ OUTSIDE: Time to make your motorboat seaworthy for summer - StarNewsOnline.com

IT'S HOTZ OUTSIDE: Time to make your motorboat seaworthy for summer
StarNewsOnline.com, NC
Those of us with more expensive toys, such as motorboats, have to be particularly on top of our springtime inspections. Boat US, a recreational boater advocacy group, just happened to e-mail me a list to help with the process. I've pasted it below. .
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Travis County orders builder's improvements removed (Austin American-Statesman)
The old photographs of the mounds of filth, the abandoned boats, cars and trailers that Rob Surette showed to the Travis County Commissioners Court last week told only part of the story of the Mountain View subdivision...

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Hogan wants wife's beau to not drive family cars, boats (The Tampa Tribune)
Hulk Hogan's attempt to stop Linda Bollea from letting her 20-year-old boyfriend drive the estranged couple's boats and cars is merely a ploy to control her love life, Linda Bollea's attorney said in court today...

Aircraft Carriers vs. Speed Boats MANSIZEDTARGET.COM
The War Nerd has a good column (as always) about how the Navys commitment to big budgets and unlikely conventional wars leaves our forces vulnerable to low-tech attackers in speed boats. This is familiar territory; its how the Spanish ...

Ten Ways to End the "Scourge of Piracy" - TPMCaf

Ten Ways to End the "Scourge of Piracy"
TPMCaf, NY
As compared to loose nukes, North Korean crazy missiles, the meltdown of the world financial system, or even an earthquake in rural Italy, a few undernourished guys with sub-machine guns, motorboats and rope ladders in the Gulf of Aden seemed more .
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Slow Speedboats and Mediocre Lunches
I hadn't taken much notice of boats at Christchurch Quay on previous occasions but, inspite of Josh's insistence to the contrary, I was pretty sure I'd never seen any speedboats there. It's quite a narrow, busy little stretch of river ...



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