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For Immediate Release Tuesday, April 22, 2008 New York National Boat Show Gets New Dates After reviewing exhibitor feedback, show dates moved to mid-December CHICAGO, April 21, 2008 - - Following an extensive analysis of exhibitor feedback and in-depth discussions with both exhibitor and show committees, the New York National Boat Show will move to a new set of dates beginning this year. The new dates are December 13-21, 2008, nearly two weeks earlier than originally scheduled. After five years of less-than-ideal dates that straddled the Christmas and New Years holidays, the earlier date pattern opens up new marketing opportunities for the long-standing show, as well as the ability to piggyback off continuous holiday media attention. The earlier dates are also likely to ensure increased consumer attendance, as the show’s boating demographic is home preparing for the holidays instead of vacationing out of town, which has been the case with previous years’ dates. “This change represents...

Boating is.. May 30th by boatguy Ed "We're in a bind here," shouted the boater from the sandbar, "can you pull us off?" In most cases any boater would gladly help another boater in distress but this case was different. The stranded vessel was completely surrounded by sand and was a good two feet from water. "How long have you been aground," we asked. "We were shelling and the water just receded," answered the young woman walking around the boat. After checking the tide chart we noticed that the next high tide was eight hours away so we explained the situation to the stranded couple and offered a solution. "We'll nose our boat into shallow water and you can wade out to us. We'll take you to the nearest dock or wherever and you can call some friends, okay?" "We can't do that, this is a rental boat and we have to have it back in an hour. Just throw us a line ...

Whenever I'm on the water and stop in at a marina one of the dock hands will always want to tell a story of a catastrophe that occured recently. They usaully start out by telling me that a new boater or an inexpierenced boater did this or did that. The all time best was a story I heard recently from Dwayne and Frank dock attendants at the 'Tween Water' marina on Captiva Island, Florida. "A boat club was docking on Friday afternoon last month and one boat in particular was having trouble so frank and I were paying real close attention to this 28 foot cruiser. It took the skipper 5 or 6 attempts to get her into the slip but he finally was almost all the way in when I shouted to the lady on the bow, 'Throw me a dock line,' " said Dwayne. "She ran around searching for one and finally the skipper told her to look in one of the lockers and out came a West Marine bag out of which she pulled a brand new color coded double braided dock line still in the packag...

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