On the Water: News & Events

While many industry observers claim true PWC innovation will be somewhat stagnant until the economy truly rebounds, one major OEM has given me a sneak peak at a late-2010 model that legitimately hits 85 mph...and does not use gasoline. …Read More

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Here’s yet another post about dogs on boats, again courtesy of dog lover Kim Kavin. According to this post from the blog OhMiDog, a rescue vessel found Jaunita, a retreiver mix, aboard the yacht Tafadzwa, which had been adrift off the coast of New Zealand for over two weeks. Her owner disappeared overboard and is [...] …Read More

If you have a PLB or an EPIRB aboard you feel safer knowing that you can send out a distress message, but wouldn’t it be nice if you could also send out non distress messages? That’s an ability offered by satellite messengers like the SPOT, and it’s the one advantage the SPOT had over traditional [...] …Read More

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A group of Australian waterskiers broke the world record for most skiers successfully towed behind a single boat. A total of 114 skiers from the Horsehead Waterski Club managed to get up and ride for a mile, sharing the glory of a world record on the waters of Tasmania. They held the line behind a 35 [...] …Read More

“Every year the City of San Francisco hosts Fleet Week, and we manage more than a million spectators on the waterfront. We have a history of managing the logistics, and with the America’s Cup the opportunity for a world-class spectator event is unparalleled.” Michael Cohen, Director of the Mayor’s Office of Economic and [...] …Read More

So when the once Defender and the now Defender finally agreed to drop litigation and complete the transfer to the shores of San Francisco Bay of all the details attending upon the America’s Cup itself, the buzz on the Bay Area Multihull Association forum was about “pieces of the damaged Cup.” “WHEREAS, following the conclusion of [...] …Read More

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Kim Kardashian, the reality star famous for, well, for being famous, tweeted pictures of herself on a boat, in a bikini, and somehow this became national news. In the grand scheme of things the real question is, “And we care, why?” But people do care about celebrities and the minutiae of their lives. It’s why, as of [...] …Read More