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Volume #
462************************* Sept 25, 2002
Delivered most every month ******** Usually
on time!
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I KNOW SEPTEMBER WAS LAST WEEK
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I
finally got a chance to put together this newsletter after an exhaustive and
troubling six weeks involving a lot of out of state travel. Many of my normal
tasks have gone uncompleted or forgotten with so much going on. Besides this
newsletter; almost all emails have yet to receive a reply and if yours is one,
you might want to resend it in the next few days and I'll try to catch it
again.
A dear out-of-state relative's long bout with cancer finally
came to a calm, peacefull end last week.
Things are slowly returning to
normal now and I want to mention something to those of you who have time and
resources to volunteer or help a great organization: Hospice!
It was my
first experience with them but I was impressed with their caring and
professionalism in making her final weeks more comfortable. I don't have any
details but they are certainlly worthy of any support you could
offer.
I've got a little news and a few updates this month, but
no great Fall tips etc. but I promise the Oct. newsletter in a couple weeks and
I'll try to get you up to speed on the season and get some deals on winterizing
supplies in place as well.
I know it's early yet, but if you
hear of a "Holiday Boat Parade" scheduled for your area; let me know so I can
start putting a list together before the fact this year instead of just a review
of the winners similar to last year.
Send schedules to: parades@brokeboats.com
Welcome to all the new subscribers out there. You are in
the good company of an ever growing group of fine boaters and sportsmen/women.
Enjoy the cruise and pass it along,
Wayne
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Don't
forget that the new "post 9-11" warning rule or law is to stay a "Floating
Football Field" (100 yds.) away from Navy vessels & Cruise
ships!
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One
sailor, one boat, one goal. Around the world !
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Around Alone is the
longest race on earth for any individual in any sport. Formerly the BOC
Challenge, the Around Alone course spans some 28,755 miles of the world's
roughest and most remote oceans. It is a gruelling single-handed sailing race,
one of the most difficult and dangerous ever conceived where competitors are
both the captain and crew, pitting themselves and their craft against the
elements, alone, and where the finish line is literally a world away.
Around Alone 2002-03 will gather in Newport, Rhode Island
(USA), and depart for a 160nm, crewed prologue race to New York on 12th
September 2002. The start will be given on Sunday 15th September 2002 from New
York. The race takes the fleet from New York to Torbay (England), then Cape Town
(South Africa), Tauranga (New Zealand) and Salvador de Bahia (Brazil), before
returning to Newport in April 2003. The official entry list of competitors
consists of 14 competitors from 10 different nationalities; 7 in Class I and 7
in Class.
Introduction by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston
“Around
Alone is the greatest mental and physical challenge in any sport. Only those
with the highest proven stamina and mental toughness should enter for what is
the ultimate classic ocean race - the ultimate sporting challenge."
"All
around the world races are tough, some are tougher than others, however there is
none more demanding on the individual than Around Alone. In each around the
world race, the courses may be similar, the frustrations of the calms, and the
fear of the giant waves of the Southern Ocean the same, but there the
comparisons stop. When you sail non-stop around the world the boat must be
conserved all the way. One small piece of damage early on can mean removing any
chance of a win."
It is thrilling to keep abreast on the internet with all the
challenges the sailors face each day. You can almost taste the salt, feel the
spray, sense the dangers, and hate the calm on the various legs of the
race!
Visit the website below to catch all the latest race
news:
http://www.aroundalone.com/raceviewer/archive/
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NEW US HONDA DEALERS
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Honda
Marine has increased its network of dealers for its line of 4-stroke outboards,
announced the company in a press release dated Wednesday, 18 Spetember. The new
dealers to join the Honda Marine network include:
Emerald Coast Marine,
Pensacola, Florida
North Texas Marine, Gainesville, Texas
Tom
N Jerry's Boats N Motors, Mt. Vernon, Washington
Seven Lakes Marine,
Seven Lakes, North Carolina
River & Sea Marine Inc, Soldotna,
Alaska
Bolling Bridge Marine, Acworth, Georgia
Fun 'n the Sun
Houseboat Vacations, Alma, Wisconsin
Atlanta Marine Inc, Buford,
Georgia
Marshall's Marine, Lake City, South Carolina
and Three
Rivers Marine, Crystal River, Florida
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Concept Boat Entries
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Concept Boat competition list unveiled.
The British Marine Federation (BMF) and the Royal Institution
of Naval Architects (RINA), the organizers of the Concept Boat competition that
was launched at the Southampton Boat Show in September of last year, unveiled
the short-listed candidates for the competition at the 2002 Southampton Boat
Show, which finishes on Sunday, on Thursday, 19 September.
Visiting the Concept Boat stand at the show, UK Industry
Minister Alan Johnson also launched the 2003 Concept Boat competition, and
praised the high standard of entries in the 2002 competition, which has
attracted 100 entries from more than 20 countries.
"The UK boating industry has built a solid reputation for
quality and design and innovation, and it is important that it retains its high
status," noted Johnson, describing the Concept Boat Competition as a "welcome
initiative which invested in the future of the sector and encouraged people to
drive for ever higher standards, ensuring that the UK remained at the forefront
of the global marine sector."
The theme for the 2002 competition was 'Transportable Boats,'
a transportable boat being any recreational or commercial craft of up to 24
metres in length to be used on or in water and capable of being easily
transported by the user on, in or behind another vehicle, vessel or aircraft.
Entrants were also requested to show that their boats were not
only viable boats or watercraft, but that they were also practical and easy to
transport.
Short list includes …
Among the short-listed and highly commended entries for this
year's competition are the 'Buzzwizz,' a simple, lightweight, low cost two-man
'micro-sized' twin hull fun boat/tender; the Stingray, a fun Laser replacement
for the mature (heavier) sailor to be crewed by one or two; and the 'Rando,'
from France, a traditional looking, simple and economic coastal and inland
2/4-person sail cruiser with electric propulsion.
Other entries included the 'Kanakai,' from Japan, a fast, safe
and comfortable kayak; the 'Euniq,' a lightweight trailer-sailer with an unusual
rig that is 'easy to launch and retrieve, simple to rig and fun to sail'; the KW
650, from Ireland, an eco-friendly four-man trailer-sailer, featuring an
integrated ballast/electric propulsion keel; and the 'Valti,' from Denmark,
which was described as a clever, flat pack two-man outrigger canoe.
From the United States came the 'Missail,' a lightweight,
single-handed, collapsible, performance catamaran, whilst from South Africa came
an idea for a novel solo sailing dinghy.
Other entries includes a rescue/relief craft from the United
Kingdom that can be transported by land, sea or air, equipped with its own
desalination unit (water-maker) to provide immediate safe drinking water when
anchored a short distance off the shore; a folding, floating catamaran with a
rowing mechanism similar to a gymnasium machine; and from New Zealand, the
'Jasmin,' a simple folding multihull sailing yacht with berths for
four.
The winner of the 2002 Concept Boat Competition will be
announced at the London Boat Show in January next year.
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Watercraft-related manatee deaths hit record numbers
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Preliminary reports from the Florida Fish and Wildlife
Conservation Commission's (FWC's) Florida Marine Research Institute (FMRI)
indicate 83 manatees deaths due to collisions with watercraft have taken place
in the Sunshine State this year, exceeding the last record number of 82 set in
1999 and totaling 33 percent of all manatee deaths in the states, the FWC
reported in a press release dated 27 September.
"I don't tend to put much stock in that number, because we are
dealing with a population," David Arnold, chief of Florida's Bureau of Protected
Species Management, told the newspaper. "As with any population, you hope you
have more of them out there. And if you have more out there, you will pick up a
few more dead ones."
Environmental and animal rights groups had a different take on
the situation, however.
"It is callous and inhumane to suggest that if there are more
manatees, then it is OK for more of them to be injured or killed by watercraft,"
said Judith Vallee, executive director of Maitland-based Save The Manatee Club,
to the newspaper.
The last statewide survey of manatee numbers in Florida in
2001 put the population of sea mammals at over 3,200, according to the
FWC.
To protect the manatees, the FWC previously approved 10 new
manatee protection zones in earlier this month, which are outlined on the
commission's website, http://www.floridaconservation.org/
according to the group.
"That watercraft mortality has been a 'record' every year (or
every other year) for decades — it should come as no surprise because the
population of manatees is growing so fast," said Jim Kalvin president & CEO
of Standing Watch, in a press release dated 27 September.
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Build a boat in 48 hours
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The Family BoatBuilding event is being expanded to all 50
states and several international countries over one week in the summer of 2003,
the group announced in a press release dated Friday, 27 September.
The event, which involves families and groups building their
own boats in two days, launching them on the third day and taking them home for
their own uses, will be introduced to the general public in each US state or
participating country by regional sponsors and producers, organizers
said.
"Building a boat as a team creates remarkably strong family
bonds," said Carl Cramer, publisher of WoodenBoat magazine. "We want to
encourage this integral aspect of recreational boating by providing the Family
BoatBuilding opportunity to as many families as we can."
WoodenBoat magazine and the Alexandria Seaport Foundation,
Alexandria, Virginia, are co-producing Family Boatbuilding Week 2003, which was
first held at the WoodenBoat show in 1998, said organizers.
Organizers of Family BoatBuilding Week will launch a drive to
find nationwide support at the Annapolis Boat Show, 10-14 October, in Annapolis,
Maryland, according to the group.
You Can Do It!
The theme behind the event is that
ordinary people -- in our case, families -- can, with proper instruction, build
their own boat in a matter of days. Our experience has been that no prior
woodworking or boatbuilding expertise is required.
The greatest single
ingredient needed for this event is that families be dedicated to completing the
task. We have been so fortunate that our 112 families have been truly committed
to the event. They help other families when one invariably falls behind; they
share tools and interpretation; and they follow the instruction of the event
organizers.
For a weekend of fun take a look here:
http://www.woodenboat.com/fbb.htm
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Track a Manatee or Three
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To track each
manatee a special transmitter placed in a waterproof container is attached by a
four-foot tether to the manatee's tail. The towed transmitter broadcasts to a
receiver placed on low-flying (525 miles altitude), polar orbiting Tiros-N
satellites.
The satellite, in turn, relays the manatee data to Earth-based
listening stations where ARGOS computers determine the location of the manatee.
Finally, the locations are sent to the project scientists via the Internet. The
locations of the manatees are accurate to about 0.6 mile.
Details
here:
http://www.wildtracks.org/Belize/methods.htm
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The real Manatee population problem
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Six mating manatees
beached in Florida
from the Associated Press
BOCA RATON, Fla. - Beachgoers were treated to a heavyweight
spectacle Tuesday: a female manatee that beached herself to avoid the advances
of five males, which followed her onto the sand.
"A lot of people are running for their cameras," city
biologist Kirt Rusenko said of the 100 or so onlookers gathered behind orange
barricades protecting the creatures.
Penny Husted, a state manatee biologist, said that during
mating season, as many as 20 males will follow a female manatee for days,
sometimes weeks!
Six manatees beached themselves in Florida, however, wildlife
officials assured the would-be rescuers that they were not stranded - they were
just escaping the amorous attention of male manatees. The six girls beached
themselves behind a row of hotels, where several dozen spectators crowded around
fearing that the manatees were lost or ailing. An officer with the state Fish
& Wildlife Conservation Commission said that the behavior of the females is
typical of exhausted females pursued by a "mating herd" of 2 to 20 males during
the summer mating season. The manatees will likely swim away when they have
recovered, however, a wildlife officer watched over them to keep "rescuers"
away. Said of the manatees "These poor girls, the only way they can escape the
attention of the males, who are very persistent, is to ground themselves or go
up on the beach. The biologists believe that after a point, enough's enough.
They're tired."
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HURRICANE AND STORM SEASON IS HERE !
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I told you in July about the hurricane season and steps to
take in the event of one. Our friends in Louisana found out the hard way last
week and we all know the Red Cross is there to lend a hand.
I know from experience that after the news coverage and
headlines diminish those folks are just starting to need help. There are many
other ways to lend a hand and often the small things are appreciated more. Get
together with your church or boating club or buddies and send a care package to
a church in one of the towns that Lili blasted through. I'm sure they could use
anything from canned food to paper towels to rolls of polyethelyne or tarps.
It's the little things you use every day that they are most likely without now,
so do what you can. Don't forget the kids either!
All Red
Cross disaster assistance is free, made possible by voluntary donations of time
and money from the American people. You can help the victims of Tropical Storm
Isidore, Hurricane Lili and thousands of other disasters across the country each
year by making a financial gift to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund,
which enables the Red Cross to provide shelter, food, counseling and other
assistance to those in need. Call 1-800-HELP NOW or 1-800-257-7575 (Spanish).
Contributions to the Disaster Relief Fund may be sent to your local American Red
Cross chapter or to the American Red Cross, P.O. Box 37243, Washington, DC
20013. Internet users can make secure online credit card donations by visiting
http://www.redcross.org/
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DID YOU ACTUALLY READ DOWN THIS FAR ?
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If you did then you might enjoy reading through the pages of a couple books that have absolutely nothing to do with boating. They are interesting nonetheless and they're free. I learned a few things reading through them and still glance back from time to time.
Here's the link, "click" it and see what you think!
Click here and scroll down the page
Here's part of the introduction from one of the books:
Want to start a business online but don't have a product or a service
to sell? Looking for something to do part-time to earn some extra money to cover
the bills? Love the Net and want to try something that is flourishing?
This book provides you with the exact what-you-need-now resources and
tools to build a profitable online affiliate business... whether you are
"new-to-the-Net" or very Web-experienced.
This easy-to-read colorful Guide
will give you a concise orientation and provide "cream-of-the crop" strategies
and tools that have proven themselves to work reliably, consistently and
profitably. The Guide is designed to get anyone off to a fast, solid and
uncomplicated start.
Of course they're selling products as well but it still
contains a lot of info you might not know.
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That's it for
September!
Try to stay safe and courteous on the
water.
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