Speedboats | Motorboats News for 06/06/2009



UK. Fairline Squadron 55 wins Motorboat of the Year award - BYM News (press release)

UK. Fairline Squadron 55 wins Motorboat of the Year award
BYM News (press release), Spain
Leading luxury performance motor yacht manufacturer, Fairline Boats has been awarded the prestigious accolade of the 'Motor Boat of the Year' Award 2009 in the Flybridge Above 50ft category for the Fairline Squadron 55. The Awards are judged by a panel .
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Indian navy staves off attack by Somali pirates - AFP

Earthtimes (press release)
Indian navy staves off attack by Somali pirates
AFP
The pirates on board three fast motorboats targetted the freighter Postojna, but fled after warning shots were fired from the Indian naval vessel escorting a convoy. Nobody was hurt in the incident, Radio Slovenija said. The Postojna, en route from .
INDIAN NAVY FOILS PIRATE ATTACK Maritime Global Net
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Maharashtra Govt earmarks Rs 150 cr to buy speed boats
Mumbai, Jun 3 (PTI) In the aftermath of 26/11 terror attacks, Maharashtra government has set aside Rs 150 crore to buy 28 hi-tech speed boats for patrolling the sea. The first boat, equipped with bullet-proof jackets and sophisticatedEUR..

Mississippi headwaters: Minnesota park holds many attractions - Chicago Tribune

Mississippi headwaters: Minnesota park holds many attractions
Chicago Tribune, United States
Bicycles, canoes, rowboats, kayaks, paddle boats, pontoon boats and motor boats are available for rental in the park from mid-May through mid-September. For fishing folks, rods, reels and other gear are also rented. The tourist-enticing headwaters area .
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Columbia Gorge bucks economic winds, especially in The Dalles (The Oregonian)
As Oregon staggers through the worst recession in memory, The Dalles is doing OK...

Madoff Yacht Maker Shielded as French Rules Draw Ire - Bloomberg

Madoff Yacht Maker Shielded as French Rules Draw Ire
Bloomberg
EURWe would love to go for another year without paying our bills,EUR said Fabio Ermetto, commercial director at Heesen Yachts in Oss, the Netherlands, which specializes in building luxury motor boats. EURThis is not balanced competition. .
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State to require boating courses for some as of July 1 - Daily Press

Daily Press
State to require boating courses for some as of July 1
Daily Press, VA
The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, which will enforce the new regulations, defines personal watercraft, or PWCs, as "motorboats less than 16 feet in length that are powered by jet pumps, not propellers, where the persons stand, .
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Ship hits trestle (New Bern Sun Journal)
MOREHEAD CITY - A ship shifting berths at the Morehead City Port Friday afternoon lost power and hit the railroad trestle over the channel and shut it down...

Danger in your wake - San Marcos Daily Record

Danger in your wake
San Marcos Daily Record, TX
The most common types of vessels involved in reported mishaps were open motorboats (44 percent), personal watercraft (24 percent) and cabin motorboats (15 percent). In other words, there's no such thing as carefree boating, especially on bodies of .
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Editorial: Reflect on Memorial Day message - Wrightstown Post Gazette

Editorial: Reflect on Memorial Day message
Wrightstown Post Gazette, WI
The exuberant parades, the buzz of motorboats, the clinking of dishes and laughter of family members gathered for a picnic and the blaring TV ads reminding us of "can't miss" sales can all drown out the message that is Memorial Day. .
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Tension, Pacing and Speedboats | www.publetariat.com
Think of your story as a speedboat. You, as the author, are the pilot of this speedboat, charged with controlling both the speed and direction of your story at all times. The reader is pulled along behind you as a water-skier and is ...

Japanese Macaque Monkeys Waterskiing & Driving Speed Boats
More proof that the film EURPlanet of the ApesEUR was prophecy. In this video clip, Japanese macaque monkeys EURMomokoEUR and EURLillyEUR show impressive waterskiing skills. then then raise the bar by driving speed boatsEUR ...

'Stinking' lagoon is a haven (San Diego Union-Tribune)
To get to work each day, Josh EURYukonEUR Hebein walks downhill a few yards from a house he shares with his co-workers to the dock at Agua Hedionda Lagoon in Carlsbad. It's the only lagoon in the county that allows power boats, including the kind that Hebein steers over the shimmering waves from sunup to sundown as a wakeboard instructor at California Watersports...

Edison Electric Speedboats | The Steampunk Workshop
Growing up near a lake, there were two types of boat people: speed-boat people and patio-boat people. As I sipped drinks from the comfort of a floating drunk-tank, I never really understood the appeal of speed-boats (especially on a ...

The calendar for June 5 (Miami Herald)
The South Florida Boat Show starts Friday, offering boating enthusiasts record-low prices on midsize power boats in every size and style. $10, children under 14 free. Miami Beach Convention Center, 1901 Convention Center Dr. ; 800-321-6164...

Bass, bluegills biting at Roosevelt Lake (Eastern Arizona Courier)
Reel News By Dennis Schrudder RIGGS FLAT The lake is open and anglers are catching limits of rainbows. The lake has been stocked. Anglers report that worms with marshmallows and power bait are working well. Bears are out in abundance, so beware...

Tankers and Speedboats | America in Transition
How does one turn a policy around? Speaking to a student audience in Ankara a few days ago, Barack Obama described it as a slow process. States are like...

Search canceled for boater lost in Lake Washington (KOMO Seattle)
King County sheriff's officials have called off a search for a boater lost in Lake Washington near Kirkland on Thursday night. The missing man was one of two occupants of a passenger in a boat that lost power on the lake as winds kicked up overnight...

speedboats on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
still playing around inside the house today. thanks to playingwithbrushes for this texture...

Hybrid ship ahoy: Valence to supply Siemens (CNET)
Lithium ion battery company Valence signs deals to supply energy storage for hybrid boats and to utility S&C Electric for storing wind and solar power on the grid...

Go where no motorboat has gone before - StarNewsOnline.com

Go where no motorboat has gone before
StarNewsOnline.com, NC
Now, you can get into little places with big fish that those guys in motorboats can't touch. You've got the thrill of not only catching a big fish but feeling him pull your whole boat, even a short distance, across the water. .
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You could literally walk across the Channel - WalesOnline

You could literally walk across the Channel
WalesOnline, United Kingdom
EURThose of us who survived were in the water for about two hours and we were picked up by two of our coastal motorboats.EUR George had an eventful war, also having served at Dunkirk, and being mentioned in dispatches while attached to the US Navy. .
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Frauscher Cantiere Nautico Feltrinelli
speedboat mixing modern and classic in honor of boatracing legend racer Dino Feltrinelli. Feltrinelli, himself born of an Italian boatbuilding family that has long been allianced to Frauscher, won many racing trophies in the 1930s and ...

Wayzata.com: Vintage Speedboats now on display at Wayzata Bay Center
Vintage Speedboats now on display at Wayzata Bay Center. Posted by Serena Calder at 6:00 AM. The boats that were featured in a Mahogany Bay parade last week are now on display at the Wayzata Bay Center. The boats sit in the main hallway ...

D-Day: Victory, loss and a memory endure (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
BEDFORD, Va. -- The memories are always there. On a day when hymns fill the air and old men snap to attention, those memories come front and center...

Girl power takes on British Isles record (Times Online)
AFTER fighting tooth and slender fingernail round the world for more than three months on the Vendee Globe, the British solo sailors Dee Caffari and Sam Davies are teaming up to tackle the monohull world record for circumnavigating the British Isles...

Boatnik cuts speedboats from festival | MailTribune.com
GRANTS PASS EUR After a 12-year run, marathon jetboats that scream at 110 mph up and down the Rogue River won't be part of the Boatnik Festival this year...

Oklahoma Nationals: Go, speed boats, go
Drag boats are back in Oklahoma City for the first time since 2006. But the time away wasn't without its fair...

'Stinking' lagoon is a haven - San Diego Union Tribune

San Diego Union Tribune
'Stinking' lagoon is a haven
San Diego Union Tribune, CA
This body of water is an anomaly EUR not only because of the motorboats but also for the variety of demands on its waters and shoreline. They include strawberry fields, a power plant, a fish hatchery, a shellfish farm, a nature center, a YMCA aquatics .
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Body in Lake Washington may be missing boater (KOMO Seattle)
A body was found just after noon Friday in Lake Washington near Juanita Park, and deputies say it may be a boater who went missing Thursday night after the boat he was in lost power...



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