BOAT/U.S. Magazine articles from January 2001

BOAT/U.S. Magazine archives from January 2001

The Future is Here for Digital Radios.
January 1, 2001... The promise of new radio technology that will aid boaters in distress came a step closer to reality as BoatU.S. has become the first non-governmental organization to be given authority to issue identification numbers for VHF marine radios with...

TECHNO - TALK.
January 1, 2001... Boats eat batteries. Replacing disposable batteries is simple: Buy spares for all sizes, and the one you don't have will be the one you need. In contrast, buying the right storage battery can be confusing. A number of different types are...

VESSEL DOCUMENTATION: New Changes to an Old Service.
January 1, 2001... The hills of West Virginia would seem to be an odd place for a major installation of the U.S. Coast Guard. But there it is, a few miles from Martinsburg in Falling Water, WV -- ground zero for the agency's National Vessel Documentation Center....

West Winds.
January 1, 2001... In most parts of the country, living aboard a small cruising boat is an activity restricted to hopeless romantics or people who are running out of life choices. We have both those categories of live-aboards here in Southern California, to be...

Could Firestone Fiasco Happen in Boating?
January 1, 2001... Reports of catastrophic tire failures, auto accidents and corporate coverups of safety defects have garnered banner headlines in recent months. The recall of 6.5 million Bridgestone/Firestone tires and federal investigations into related...

Ocean Policy Review Gears Up.
January 1, 2001... Wonk! Wonk! Wonk! Hear that? It's the sound of Washington insiders gearing up to overhaul U.S. oceans policy. And it will get louder in the months to come as two high-level commissions grapple with how best to govern the oceans in the...

TOP BOATING INVENTIONS COVER ALL DIMENSIONS.
January 1, 2001... If you can build a better mousetrap, great. If you can build one with bells, whistles and microchips and still keep it affordable, that's even better. Roughly, these were the wide-open rules of a recent marine industry product innovation awards...

GIZMOS, GADGETS AND OTHE INVENTIONS WAITING TO HAPPEN.
January 1, 2001... It's all very well and good to celebrate new inventions, but there's still a lot out there waiting to be discovered. We asked our intrepid Boat U.S. staff -- many of whom work on the frontlines with the boating consumer, in everything from...

Boatbuilding By the Bay.
January 1, 2001... For a recreational boater, it's easy to leave your heart in San Francisco. And probably the best place to drop it off for safekeeping is at the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park. This national park is home to the history of...

GETTING SAFETY IN THEIR SIGHTS.
January 1, 2001... One very large segment of boaters is out on the water in all seasons and all weather -- true outdoors enthusiasts. But they don't join boating groups and they don't read boating magazines. They actually don't consider themselves to be...

MICHIGAN Hits Million Mark.
January 1, 2001... Ask any boater to name the state with the largest number of registered boats and odds are Michigan won't top the list. But last month Michigan became the first state in the nation to register one million boats. In fact, its million boats...

An Explorer and a Gentleman.
January 1, 2001... Luis Marden, who signed on in 1966 as the first member of the BoatU.S. National Advisory Council and whose career at the National Geographic Society spanned more than six decades, was featured in a 17-page article in the November issue of...

TowBoatU.S. Captain Honored.
January 1, 2001... It's never too late to do a good deed - or to honor one. BoatU.S. member and TowBoatU.S. tower, Captain Mark Freeman, of Seattle, WA, was recently awarded the Coast Guard Commendation Medal for Outstanding Performance for a rescue he performed...

A Model Employee.
January 1, 2001... BoatU.S. staffers have all kinds of hidden talents and one in particular, Walt Stinchcomb of Towing Services, won an award for a ship model he built. His scale model of a Coast Guard cutter was entered in the prestigious annual Task Force 50...

Tall Tales Net Prize.
January 1, 2001... David Seidman, a BoatU.S. member and senior editor of Boating magazine, won the first Marex writing award worth $5,000 for his article on a bizarre voyage he took in 1999-from Alaska to Siberia across the Bering Strait on a SeaDoo personal...

Cruisers Make Special Deliveries.
January 1, 2001... When you're packing for your next international cruise, try to leave a little extra room for some school supplies. BoatU.S. member Troy Hollan has developed a private nonprofit organization called Project KidSea, in which cruising boaters drop...

A Great Race for the Bay.
January 1, 2001... The Great Chesapeake Schooner Race, featuring more than 40 schooners from around the world, took place Oct. 1822 from Baltimore, MD, to Norfolk, VA. Boat U.S. was well represented, with 35 members serving as captains and crew aboard the...

BEHIND THE BUOY.
January 1, 2001... Michael G. Sciulla By the time you receive this issue of the magazine, the political events of November and December will, hopefully, be history and as the new year gets underway it will be time to turn your thoughts to less weighty...

Sound Technology Deserves Hearing.
January 1, 2001... Electoral votes weren't the only issue embroiling Floridians as last fall descended on the Sunshine State. A debate over manatees and what should be done to protect these "sea cows" made it all the way to the in-box of Florida Governor Jeb Bush...

Advisory Council Tackles Policy Issues.
January 1, 2001... The 15 members of the BoatU.S. National Advisory Council met in Key Largo, FL, in November for a wide-ranging discussion on a host of issues of concern to recreational boat owners and the Association. A considerable amount of time was...

Oceanographic Ship Saves Three.
January 1, 2001... The research vessels of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration typically do everything from fisheries research to hydrographic surveying. But the 170-foot Oregon II, a fisheries research trawler plying the waters off the Florida...

Marine Protected Areas Endorsed.
January 1, 2001... If there was ever any doubt that there's a strong push for increased regulation of the world's oceans, a report from the National Research Council (NRC) provides scientific support for greater controls to "sustain healthy ocean ecosystems,"...

Loran Gets New Lease on Life.
January 1, 2001... With the shift in federal policy to keep Loran-C in operation for at least the next eight years, Congress voted last fall to provide $25 million for Loran equipment upgrades and maintenance. The funding was part of the Department of...

First Boatbuilders Certified.
January 1, 2001... Fifteen major boat manufacturers have met the requirements of a new marine industry program designed to improve service and product quality. Under the MIC program, short for Marine Industry Certification (see BOAT/US. Magazine, The Real...

Hudson River No Discharge Area.
January 1, 2001... New York State has filed a petition with the Environmental Protection Agency to make 153 miles of the Hudson River a "no discharge" area for sewage, treated or untreated, from vessels. The area would be bounded by the Federal Dam at Troy to the...

GPS: A Sticky Situation.
January 1, 2001... Some owners of Apelco GPS 11 units are having trouble buttoning up. They've noticed that it's possible for the "page" and "enter" keys to stick when they're pressed and then released. When the buttons on the keypad stick, the GPS display...

Sea Scout Skipper Says Thanks.
January 1, 2001... BoatU.S. Chairman Richard Schwartz welcomed "fellow Scout" Charles Holmes to BoatU.S. last month. Holmes, who is national director for the Venturing/Sea Scouting programs at Boys Scouts of America, traveled to Association headquarters to thank...

MEMBER FORUM.
January 1, 2001... Owning Up to a Problem Every issue, I flip to the Consumer Alert section of BOAT/U.S. Magazine. It's especially valuable because no other marine magazine I know of prints this type of information, and you certainly don't often hear of...

Correction.
January 1, 2001... The fatality rate figures cited in the text of our November story that are based on the new per-million hours of exposure should have been preceded by a decimal point. The figures shown in the accompanying chart are correct. We regret any...

DEVIANT READINGS[C].
January 1, 2001... In a stunning new development in the continuing controversy surrounding the first presidential election of the 21st century, a recently released report from the Boater News Service (BNS) indicates that the decisive role in selecting our...