Yacht Financing

Sailboat Towing Weight

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 09:30:33 +0100

Outdoors notes for April 28, 2012
Daytona Beach News-Journal - Apr 28, 2012
is the weigh master for both competitions. The Lipton Cup regatta sets sail on the south side of the inlet this morning. The skippers' meeting is 8 am, and the first race -- wind permitting -- will start at 10 am The Smyrna Yacht Club is hosting

Sailboats race off beach this weekend
Daytona Beach News-Journal - Apr 27, 2012
There are three divisions of sailboats -- spinnakers, non-spinnakers and cruising class. The race committee will determine the overall winner based on a handicap formula factoring the weight and length of the boats. If winds are good, the first race of

Crew in fatal yacht race joined by love of racing
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Apr 17, 2012
Chicago resident Michael Kennedy, who owns the same kind of boat as Bradford and has frequently raced against him, said his heart goes out to him. "It's an unbearable position he is in because the weight of the world is on his shoulders at this moment

Way We Were
The Hour - Apr 26, 2012
Christopher A. Gallo of Connecticut Commuters Inc. says that since 50 percent of all fatalities on I-95 occur along the 15-mile stretch between Greenwich and Norwalk, the truck weigh station should definitely be located in Greenwich. Grove Ely, a boat

No. 1 pick Andrew Luck ready to start over in Indy
KFVS - Apr 27, 2012
Sailboat racers were grumbling Friday after the Coast Guard temporarily stopped races in ocean waters outside San Francisco Bay following a deadly yacht crash. Jerry Sandusky's lawyers have been improperly issuing subpoenas and using them for a fishing

Kayak Self Rescue

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 09:21:48 +0100

Kayaker took precautions before fatal accident
Boston Herald - Apr 20, 2012
Kayaking experts would have suggested a drysuit, for greater protection against hypothermia. Friends said they weren't sure if Langlais had learned self-rescue techniques, to right himself after the kayak tipped. Experts also caution against kayaking

High Adventure for a Cause
Snowshoe Magazine - Apr 22, 2012
The mountaineering course included glacial rope skills, self-arrest, crevasse rescue, advanced rope training and other climbing skills that prepared him for not only Mt. Rainier, but also served as a “prerequisite climb” as Eric called it,

In Maine, a kayaker's final Facebook post
Press Herald - Apr 18, 2012
Take lessons or a tour with an experienced guide who can show you the skills and equipment needed for sea kayaking, including self-rescue techniques. • Check weather and coastal marine forecasts so you can plan for potential changes in weather, wind,

Coast Guard: Always Wear Life Jacket
KGMI - Apr 20, 2012
As opportunities for winter recreation start to fade and more people are going out on the water, the Coast Guard is reminding boaters and kayakers to always wear a life jacket. Dan Shipman with the 13th Coast Guard District says the combination of cold

The environmentalist: Doug Tompkins
Buenos Aires Herald - Apr 22, 2012
In subsequent years, and by 1963, 1965, 1967, all those years, every two or three years at most, I came back for climbing expeditions, mountain kayaking or just visiting friends I had made. Eventually we had a business in Argentina, producing clothes

Yacht Financing

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:12:21 +0100

Marine Registration – Where Is Best For You To Moor Up?
Jersey Isle News - Apr 17, 2012
Some financing options can also be used to put distance between the owner and the asset. For instance, by using a leasing arrangement, the bank or finance company buys the yacht from the seller and then leases it to the buyer.

Oracle Racing to help build expensive America's Cup boat
San Francisco Examiner - Apr 12, 2012
Oracle Racing offered to help another French team with yacht construction. San Francisco Bay will soon make history as the site of the largest and fastest boats ever raced in the international America's Cup regatta. But that also means competitors will

Arrests 'major achievement' for squad
Montreal Gazette - Apr 18, 2012
Lapointe said that some of the "gifts" allegedly received by Marcotte could be related to Accurso's million-dollar yacht, the Touch, which the multimillionaire entrepreneur keeps in the Caribbean. Accurso's "specific role was that he would give

Ex-advisor Hahn faces new lawsuit seeking $38M
Seacoastonline.com - Apr 12, 2012
A former yacht-owning investment advisor accused of bilking a Portsmouth man out of $1.9 million is named as a defendant in a new 12-count $38 million lawsuit. Once owner of a 7900-square-foot mansion, on a waterfront piece of Odiorne Point Road real

USA. Cruise into Spring at the Newport Boat Show
BYM News (press release) - Apr 05, 2012
No matter whether you're searching for the latest yacht, the newest marine electronics and gear to outfit your present boat, or essential yacht services -- including marine financing and insurance -- you'll find what you're looking for at the Newport

Dinghy Mate

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:11:30 +0100

Navy crew stands by as yachtie's $600000 boat sinks in Mourilyan Harbour
The Cairns Post - Mar 13, 2012
Kurrimine Beach man Marcus Kitchen told a navy crew member said: "We would love to help mate, but we have to wait until we get permission from Canberra." Mr Kitchen had pulled his dinghy up to a navy vessel and begged crew to tow his

For Titanic Disaster's 100th Anniversary, 'A Night to Remember' Comes to ...
Indie Wire (blog) - Mar 29, 2012
He strictly enforced the "women and children first" vacating strategy and, incredibly, was saved from the vessel's undertow by a blast of hot air from a submerged ventilator, and swam to a capsized rescue dinghy. Lightoller's testimony along with

Boaties praised after sinking
Stuff.co.nz - Mar 19, 2012
SAFE AND SOUND: Ngaruawahia man Seth Taylor and his son Corban Radford, 10, only have an empty trailer to show after their 14-foot dinghy was hit by two large waves and sunk off the Raglan coast on Friday night, forcing them to swim for their lives.

Klaus Lorenz and Ollie Annear win Silver in New South Wales championship.
BYM News (press release) - Mar 12, 2012
Teenage Whitsunday Sailing Club 420 dinghy sailors Klaus Lorenz and Ollie Annear secured the respect as a promising young crew when they won the Silver Medal in the New South Wales championship. The former Sabot and Optimist dinghy skippers have

An instrument of peace
knox.VillageSoup.com - Mar 09, 2012
Even getting to the beach on the day of his arrival was a humbling experience, as his Maine upbringing did not prepare him for a woven-reed dinghy he seemed only to be able to paddle in circles. "I wished I would sink. I hated this water, this island,