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NBOA and SeaRay

Press release today: KNOXVILLE, Tenn., March 31, 2008 – Sea Ray Boats, the world’s largest manufacturer of superior quality pleasure boats in business since 1959, has announced their “Platinum Partnership” with the National Boat Owners Association, also known as NBOA. It is only natural that Sea Ray partner with NBOA, an organization with a history [...]

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April 1, 2008 Read the full article →

SeaTow Press Release

By now, most of you have seen the latest press release from SeaTow , announcing SeaTow’s “evolution into a full-service organization dedicated to the savings, services and security of the recreational boating public”. Because SeaTow is one of the two largest assistance membership networks, Red Right Returning is obligated to weigh in. First of all, [...]

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March 26, 2008 Read the full article →

3 stories, 1 thread

Hmmm….my Google news search came up with three very different news articles today, but as I perused them, I began to wonder how these situations are connected in some way. First off is the story of a 70′ SkipperLiner that floundered along the Gulf Coast. (link to story) Basically, a brand new boat sinks because [...]

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November 20, 2007 Read the full article →

Softly I Ground, Inch by Inch….

In keeping with the law of unintended consequences, the expression Soft Aground has entered the lexicon of general maritime phraseology. I’m not sure who first coined the term Soft Aground, or when it was first used. Perhaps that phrase has been around for ages, used as a way of saying “I’m aground, but remain otherwise [...]

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July 5, 2007 Read the full article →

Frequent Flyers

Frequent flyers is the name we give to boaters who keep breaking down; repeat customers. I remember one guy in Marina Del Rey who had so many services that I had his boat registration numbers memorized. Frequent flyers are not a huge issue for the industry, but a guy who needs 3 jump starts in [...]

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June 11, 2007 Read the full article →

Good times and bad, demand remains for service

2007 called awful year for boat market: Seen a bunch of headlines like this one lately? As the spring progresses, it seems like I see increasing predictions that the marine industry is just barely afloat. Sales are down, numbers are down, traffic is down (except for the press releases that declare just the opposite.) But [...]

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May 30, 2007 Read the full article →

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