Speedboats | Motorboats News for 06/13/2009

Boaters Beware!
InjuryBoard.com, FL
On average the subjects were males, 21 to 40 years of age, and were in small open motorboats and non-powered craft. Important to note is that the study found that passengers had the same risk of dying as the driver, regardless of whether the boat was .

Boat accident trial: Engineer testifies a guard would have prevented womans injuries (Naples Daily News)
A biomechanical engineer testified Friday that a guard would have prevented an East Naples womans serious injuries when she was cut by a boat propeller. Outboard Marine Corp. should have equipped boats with inexpensive guards, the engineer told jurors. Brian Benda of Pennsylvania, an expert hired by the plaintiff, told the Collier Circuit jury that the first responsibility of a product ...

Teppco buys 47 vessels from TransMontaigne (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Petroleum and natural gas distributor Teppco Partners LP said Friday it has purchased 19 boats and 28 barges from TransMontaigne Product Services Inc. for $50 million...

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 ...

Severe weather in Dallas-Forth Worth area causes power outages (Lubbock Avalanche-Journal)
DALLAS (AP) - A series of powerful storms packing heavy rains and frequent lightning strikes grounded dozens of flights, left about 245,000 North Texans without power and made for a chaotic Thursday morning rush-hour commute through flooded streets without working traffic lights...

Inexpensive Mid-Atlantic Family Trips - Baltimore Jewish Times

Baltimore Jewish Times

Inexpensive Mid-Atlantic Family Trips
Baltimore Jewish Times, MD
Rowboats and motorboats can be rented in summer and early fall. Call the Sandy Point Marina for availability and prices at 410-974-2772. In the summer season, admission is charged per person, with Maryland residents paying less. .

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...

No-wake zones among top boat-safety issues - Leader-Telegram

No-wake zones among top boat-safety issues
Leader-Telegram, WI
Motorboats are prohibited from creating a wake within 100 feet of a dock, raft or buoyed restricted area, said Scott Thiede, a state Department of Natural Resources warden based in Eau Claire. For personal watercraft, the no-wake zone is 200 feet. .

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

NY Senate power struggle may drag into next week (The Auburn Citizen)
ALBANY -- The struggle for control of New York's Senate is likely to drag into next week...

Ithaca board talks lakefront zoning - Ithaca Journal

Ithaca board talks lakefront zoning
Ithaca Journal, NY
Advocates of longer docks have argued that that while motor boats can handle shallower water, sailboats need more depth. Also, state Department of Environmental Conservation regulations use water depth as a measure rather than length, they say. .

High-speed boats come racing into Lochranza - The Arran Banner .
The Arran Banner | Where your community comes alive: Discover » News . Five high-speed boats came racing into the pontoons in Lochranza on Friday night.The Rigid Inflatable Boats (RIBS) included the current holder of the round Britain ...

Boat builder Dave LeClercq helped launch Alaska's fishing fleet (Seattle Times)
Dave LeClercq, who died last Saturday, transformed a childhood fascination with boats into a decades-long run as the most productive boat builder for the Alaska fishing fleet...

Maritime museum's cat loves the water - Barnstable Patriot

Maritime museum's cat loves the water
Barnstable Patriot, MA
Around us, ferries, motorboats, sightseers, sport-fishing vessels and personal watercraft powered by. Another catboat sailed past us, headed back to Hyannis. Hall pointed out the yard from which he'd seen the Pan Am clipper go down, .

Texas storms flood, cancel flights, shut off power (AP via Yahoo! Philippines News)
A series of powerful storms packing heavy rains and frequent lightning strikes grounded dozens of flights, left hundreds of thousands without power and caused widespread damage across portions of Texas on Thursday. No deaths or injuries were reported from the storms that began whipping the Dallas-Fort Worth area Wednesday night with winds up to 70 mph. By the time the storms cleared the city, ...

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...

EagleSpeak: Somali Pirates: View of the Attacked
1012: Speed boats located port quarter of our vessel only by its wake. 1015 : Vessel altered course by 40° to stbd to confirm if the speed boats were chasing or is it passing by. 1020 : It was confirmed speed boat was chasing, ...

Texas storms flood, cancel flights, shut off power (The Daily Jeffersonian)
DALLAS (AP) -- A series of powerful storms packing heavy rains and frequent lightning strikes grounded dozens of flights, left hundreds of thousands without power and caused widespread damage across portions of Texas on Thursday.No deaths or injuries were...

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 .

Texas storms flood, cancel flights, shut off power (AP via Yahoo! News)
A series of powerful storms packing heavy rains and frequent lightning strikes grounded dozens of flights, left hundreds of thousands without power and caused widespread damage across portions of Texas on Thursday...

The Arks of the Flathead: WWII pontoon bridges converted to ferry Scouts (Missoulian)
One of Don Cisney's converted pontoon bridge boats cruises toward the Walstad fishing access on Flathead Lake on Friday afternoon. Cisney built the boats from sections of pontoon bridges from World War II...

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. .

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 ...

Violent Thunderstorms Cut Power to 240,000 in Texas (Fox News)
A series of strong thunderstorms and dazzling lightning strikes grounded dozens of flights Thursday, left nearly 150,000 north Texans without power and made for a chaotic morning rush-hour commute through flooded streets without working traffic lights...

Tiny speedboats race at Westmoreland Casting Pond
All of the speedboats are 1/10-scale, Holmberg said, and must include all of the features of the full-size watercraft after which they were modeled, including engine cowlings, exhaust stacks, and windshields. To make the races a test of ...

Speedboats
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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 ...

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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Beneteau scales back number of forced redundancies - Motor Boats Monthly

Beneteau scales back number of forced redundancies
Motor Boats Monthly, UK
Beneteau Group, the French maker of Beneteau and Jeanneau motorboats and yachts, today announced that it will only be making 60 forced redundancies after revealing that its sales had fallen by around 50%. The company had originally been planning to .

Summer Rituals | Boat Club - New York Times

Summer Rituals | Boat Club
New York Times, United States
Many of the 88 members are retired civil servants and tradesmen who fix up used motorboats and spend weekends chasing bluefish and drinking Budweiser. The bar is open to the public, but is usually filled with raucous members comparing pensions and .

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