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  • 14-year-old to sail solo

    July 31, 2010
    News
    Elizabeth Ellis - www.soundingsonline.com
    Just when it appeared that the brouhaha over teenage solo circumnavigators might die down, a Dutch court earlier this week cleared the way for a 14-ye
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  • Lakeshore Drive in Page, Arizona remains closed

    July 30, 2010
    News
    TODD GLASENAPP - Daily Sun Correspondent
    Lakeshore Drive will be closed today for the third straight day for road construction, the National Park Service said Wednesday. Only houseboat launc
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  • Last day for houseboats to vacate bay

    July 30, 2010
    News
    Wayne Moore - www.castanet.net
    About a half dozen houseboat owners may be heading for a confrontation with the District of West Kelowna. The owners of houseboats and other boats
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  • Seattle considering banning new houseboats

    July 30, 2010
    News
    LINDA BRILL - KING 5 News
    The city's Department of Planning and Development is updating its Shoreline Master Program, a set of rules on Seattle's waterways. The update could
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  • Man busted for taking joyride on boat

    July 29, 2010
    News
    Scott Arnold - www.newschannel5.com
    A local man hosted several day-long parties for friends on a $100,000 lavish houseboat this summer. But the problem was, police said the boat wasn't h
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  • Backwater bliss

    July 28, 2010
    News
    James Mathew - www.financialexpress.com
    The skies were ominous but the mind was clear. The entire family was together after several years and the rain had no right to take the fun out of a K
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  • KVH Industries reports 2Q results

    July 28, 2010
    News
    Trade Only Today
    KVH Industries today reported a 35 percent increase in revenue for the second quarter ending June 30.
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  • Marine groups sign Senate letter opposing E15

    July 28, 2010
    News
    Trade Only Today
    Thirty-six environmental and industry groups signed a letter that went to the majority and minority leaders of the Senate Monday urging opposition to
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  • Seattle wants to ban new houseboats

    July 28, 2010
    News
    VANESSA HO - SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF
    In a city of lakes and bays, squabbles about water are inevitable. But as Seattle mulls over a hefty set of new shoreline rules, one of the most iconi
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  • Boat of plastic bottles ends 4-month Pacific sail

    July 27, 2010
    News
    The Associated Press
    A sailboat largely constructed from 12,500 recycled plastic bottles has completed a 4-month journey across the Pacific Ocean meant to raise awareness
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  • Heaven is a slow houseboat to nowhere

    July 27, 2010
    News
    CHRIS COLIN - The New York Times
    The gentle swaying of our 47-foot houseboat was working its magic. Reeds shushed outside our little window and the dark river purled underneath. North
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  • Passersby curious about houseboat near Eau Claire

    July 27, 2010
    News
    www.wqow.com
    Drivers wonder whether they missed the boat. They want to know what's going on along County Highway AA outside of Eau Claire. A man is remodelin
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  • States sue to close locks, stop Asian carp

    July 25, 2010
    News
    Five Great Lakes states filed a lawsuit in federal court Monday aimed at trying to block Asian carp from entering Lake Michigan, the third attempt thr
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  • Free ride on the waterfront

    July 24, 2010
    News
    Jack Danylchuk - Northern News Services
    If the harbour commission proposed for Yellowknife Bay moves beyond the talking phase and takes control of the city's waterfront, Paul Servos has some
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  • Groups join together to fight E15

    July 23, 2010
    News
    Trade Only Today
    Environmental and industry groups are launching a joint campaign calling on Congress to require thorough and objective scientific testing before allow
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  • Obama issues national ocean policy

    July 23, 2010
    News
    Trade Only Today
    Recreational boating is highlighted in a final report on ocean management, which was used as the basis for the Obama administration's establishment of
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  • BoatTrader.com debuts new features

    July 22, 2010
    News
    Trade Only Today
    BoatTrader.com launched a new home page designed to maximize Boat Trader dealers' visibility and impact.
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  • MDCE full schedule released

    July 22, 2010
    News
    The lineup for this year's Marine Dealer Conference & Expo has been finalized and the 2010 brochure featuring the complete schedule is now available f
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  • EPA seeks comment on MSDs

    July 20, 2010
    News
    Trade Only Today
    The Environmental Protection Agency is calling for comments on marine sanitation devices, the National Marine Manufacturers Association announced.
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  • Western Australia: Red sands of Kimberley

    July 20, 2010
    News
    Patrice Gaffaney - www.nzherald.co.nz
    The seaplane arcs gracefully over water that's the brightest, glistening turquoise I've seen. Surrounding the water are sheer cliffs of the Kimberley'
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  • Ship unearthed at World Trade Center site

    July 17, 2010
    News
    Trade Only Today
    Workers excavating the site of the underground vehicle security center for the future World Trade Center in New York this week discovered the remains
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  • Fire damages Mercury Marine plant

    July 16, 2010
    News
    Trade Only Today
    A small electrical fire broke out Wednesday night at Mercury Marine's plant in Fond du Lac, Wis., when water from heavy storms reached an electrical s
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  • Fourth of July on the houseboat

    July 16, 2010
    News
    jabrannon.blogspot.com
    Our usual tradition of going to Winter Park's festivities (in Florida) was traded in this year for a day on Jeremy's aunt and uncle's houseboat on the
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  • Houseboat driver remembered by loved ones

    July 16, 2010
    News
    www.bclocalnews.com
    Family and friends of 53-year-old Ken (Kenny) William Brown gathered at the Chase Community Hall last Friday to remember this well-loved man.
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  • Houseboat sinks in River Hamble

    July 15, 2010
    News
    Simon Carr - www.dailyecho.co.uk
    A 60-foot houseboat has sunk taking with it the treasures of the two elderly residents. The vessel sank into the River Hamble shortly after midday
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  • MRAA supports expansion of SBA floor plan finance program

    July 15, 2010
    News
    www.boating-industry.com
    In a recent letter to Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), Chair of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, the Marine Retailers Associati
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  • West Marine reports 2Q revenue increase

    July 15, 2010
    News
    Trade Only Today
    West Marine today reported net revenues of $233.4 million for its second quarter ending July 3, an increase of $18 million, or 8.4 percent, from net r
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  • Coalition wants new plan for Asian carp

    July 14, 2010
    News
    Trade Only Today
    The UnLock Our Jobs coalition, which is advocating for keeping the Chicago locks open and finding a different solution to the Asian carp problem, adde
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  • MDCE "Powered By" sponsorships sell out

    July 14, 2010
    News
    The 2010 Marine Dealer Conference & Expo has sold out of its "Powered By" sponsorship opportunities - the highest level of sponsorship at the MDCE - m
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  • It's a plane! It's a boat! No, it's a plane-boat!

    July 13, 2010
    News
    Trish Smith - greenopolis.com
    What was once an old Boeing B-307 owned by aviation legend Howard Hughes has been recycled into one of the coolest houseboats in Ft. Lauderdale, Flori
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  • MRAA: Health care bill includes accounting requirement

    July 13, 2010
    News
    Trade Only Today
    The new health care bill will impose significant burdens on businesses by requiring them to issue a Form 1099 to all vendors from which the business d
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  • MRAA supports amendment tied to SBA floorplan program

    July 12, 2010
    News
    Trade Only Today
    The Marine Retailers Association of America recently sent a letter to Sen. Mary Landrieu, a Louisiana Democrat and chair of the Senate Committee on Sm
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  • Sense of responsibility sinks at nation's shorelines

    July 12, 2010
    News
    Siri Agrell - www.theglobeandmail.com
    From the deck of his home on Shuswap Lake, Ted Bacigalupo often sits and counts the boats that pack the popular, X-shaped body of water in the British
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  • Lake Powell: Discounts on houseboat rentals for Labor Day and beyond

    July 09, 2010
    News
    travel.latimes.com
    Lake Powell on the Arizona-Utah border has more than 90 major canyons to explore, whether it's the swirling sandstone of Cathedral in the Desert or th
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  • Ottawa to toughen standards for pleasure-boat operators

    July 09, 2010
    News
    Siri Agrell and Ingrid Peritz - www.theglobeandmai
    Ottawa will change course on the way it licenses recreational boat operators, toughening up a testing program long criticized as ineffective and easy
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  • $30,000 in grants available to help clean up the Gulf

    July 08, 2010
    News
    In wake of the oil spill in the Gulf, West Marine is putting out a call for entries for their Marine Conservation Grants program. West Marine is dona
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  • Friend says man killed in boat crash was big on safety

    July 08, 2010
    News
    ctvbc.ca
    As investigators in B.C. puzzle over the wreckage of a crash that killed a houseboat driver over the weekend, friends of the deceased are defending hi
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  • Living small in the Earth Ball

    July 08, 2010
    News
    Kara Pound - www.emagazine.com
    Since last November, Roger Drowne has been bobbing through East Coast waterways, from North Carolina to the Florida Keys, in a self-designed, soccer b
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  • A boat beneath the Himalayas

    July 06, 2010
    News
    www.smh.com.au
    Despite Kashmir's unresolved conflict, Natacha Butler continues the tradition of summer retreat to a wooden houseboat. Srinagar's Dal Lake is glass
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  • Southport Boats unveils floorplan program

    July 06, 2010
    News
    Trade Only Today
    Leland, N.C.-based Southport Boats recently introduced its 2011 "Floor Plan Free Buying Program" designed to reduce field inventory and eliminate asso
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  • Chinese houseboat in London

    July 02, 2010
    News
    asimplelifeafloat.blogspot.com
    Wild houseboat on the Regent's Channel in London.
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  • Senate bill would extend SBA lending program

    July 02, 2010
    News
    Trade Only Today
    An amendment to the Small Business Lending Fund Act of 2010, offered by Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., outlines a number of NMMA-supported changes to the
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  • Sunderland recounts her rescue

    July 02, 2010
    News
    Elizabeth Ellis - Soundingsonline.com
    In her first public statements after being rescued June 12 in the Indian Ocean, teenage sailor Abby Sunderland said Tuesday there were "times when I w
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  • No dam water for Lake Tahoe rafters on the Fourth

    July 01, 2010
    News
    Greyson Howard - North Lake Tahoe Bonanza
    Truckee River flow rules mean no water for rafters between Tahoe City and the River Ranch for the Fourth of July. The late spring runoff has been g
    Read More »
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