Boating is dead.
   There!
   I’ve said and written what no one else in the industry or related media is willing to say but it’s true. Recreational powerboating in particular has been on life support, in my estimation since 1987, the year of the infamous Luxury Tax. The industry had been through the economic ups and downs, the [...]

Comments sought on propeller-strike report
The Coast Guard and the American Boat and Yacht Council released a draft report, “Human Factors Analysis of Propeller Strikes,” prepared by CED Investigative Technologies Inc.
The report concludes that no universal solution exists to mitigate the risk of injury from accidental contact with boat propellers — an issue that the Coast [...]

Following accident, Lake Norman explores boat rental ordinance
March 14, 2012 
   After an accident left a woman with serious injuries following a day on the water with an inexperienced boat operator last summer, the Lake Norman Marine Commission accelerated its action to create an ordinance regulating boat rentals on the North Carolina lake.
The commission had previously [...]

Englewood woman guilty in turtle tampering case

Manasota Key property owner Juanita Schultz is clashing with the Charlotte County Sheriff’s office to keep trespassers off of what she claims is a private beach. Schultz says the sheriff’s office is neglecting their duty to enforce the law. ( Photo/ Matt Houston )

By Kate Spinner

Published: Tuesday, February [...]

State threatens suit against boat hobbyists

Posted: Feb 08, 2012 6:27 PM EST  Posted by Nancy Amons
MURFREESBORO, TN (WSMV) -The Tennessee Department of Revenue is threatening court action against a Murfreesboro man who built a small wooden boat in his garage with his 7-year-old son. 
The state says that makes him a boat dealer and subject [...]

Senator seeks sticker system for boat inspections
Posted on 07 February 2012

U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., recently asked the Coast Guard to meet with marine trade groups, boating safety advocates and local law enforcement officials to discuss the implementation of an official inspection sticker system that would better coordinate boater patrols on the Hudson River so [...]

Panel votes to make boat hit-and-run a felony
By Lee Davidson The Salt Lake Tribune  Feb 03 2012 03:53PM

After witnesses said boaters at Pineview Reservoir left a swimmer to bleed to death after they struck her last summer, lawmakers advanced a bill Friday to make leaving the scene of a boating accident clearly illegal.
The House Transportation [...]

Absolutely potty: £640 for a Moby Dick novel
(but it’s typed out on four and a half toilet rolls!)
By Jill Reilly
Some people will go to any lengths to win a bet – including one man who spent hours typing out an 822 page novel onto a set of toilet rolls.

But even more puzzling is now that [...]

NOAA satellites aid in the rescue of 207 people in 2011
January 23, 2012
In 2011, NOAA satellites were critical in the rescues of 207 people from life-threatening situations throughout the United States and its surrounding waters. The satellites picked up distress signals from emergency beacons carried by downed pilots, shipwrecked boaters and stranded hikers, and relayed [...]

3 years after US accident, boat washes up in Spain

Courtesy of U.S. Coast Guard

A boat that was lost at sea off the coast of Massachusetts in 2008 washed up on the coast of Spain more than three years later.

By Becky Bratu, msnbc.com
NEW YORK — As he swam toward the coast of Nantucket, Mass. in August [...]