On the Water: News & Events

My first reaction to a press release about the new Si-Tex SP36 autopilot -- sure to be posted at the Si-Tex site soon -- was that its nifty-looking color control head above looks exactly like one ComNav has offered for a while.   Not that rebran... …Read More

Former PWC race and freestyle champion, now Hollywood stuntman Larry Rippenkroeger has gotten the green light on a feature film to be centered around the sport of PWC racing. …Read More

Shimano had new fishing reels, rods, and lures at ICAST for 2010, no surprise there, but what is surprising is just how much new gear these folks introduced this year. A down economy? Says who? Certainly not Shimano! But here’s the real surprise: not only did they intro new gear, they also re-designed (and vastly [...] …Read More

Social media, another way for boat dealers to be friendly! …Read More

Harley Clifford captures Pro Men title at 2010 WWA Wakeboard Nationals. …Read More

Si Tex marine electronics is back in the game after fading into the background for a couple of years, and their newest offering is an autopilot: the SP 36. This is a high-end unit, with advanced features like virtual feedback capability (so there’s no need for a rudder feedback unit on stern drive and outboard [...] …Read More

Shedding more light on why a city in Italy, or Spain, or Rhode Island, or California, might want to host the next America’s Cup, the office of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom today released the long-awaiting results of their economic impact report on what America’s Cup 34 could mean to the San Francisco Bay Area. [...] …Read More

Last week Lowrance announced the Elite-5 DSI and some related fishfinder/plotters, and while they're unabashedly aimed at freshwater fishermen, there's at least two things of interest to others.  DSI stands for DownScan Imaging, which seems to m... …Read More

BRP's 210 Challenger SE sport boat recently received a prestigious "red dot award" in the product design category from the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen in Essen,Germany. This makes the seventh red dot award Sea-Doo has received since 2005. …Read More

The new Lowrance X 4 and the entire X series fishfinder is the cheapest LCD screen fish finder I’ve ever reviewed, with a bottom line of $79.99. Can you really get a fishfinder for under 80 bucks? Evidently, the answer is yes. The X is essentially the guts of an Eagle in a Lowrance’s clothing. Eagle as [...] …Read More