Boating Safety And Accident News

Boating News:

Trolling for Treasures This Weekend at the 3rd Annual Indian River Nautical ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The nautical flea market will have antique collectibles and maps, marine artifacts, rods, reels, lures and lines, boating apparel, taxidermy, diving equipment, and much more. Visit and troll for some super discounts on liquidation, closeouts, new, 


Boating Safety News:

The Lake in 2012
Mooresville Tribune
Unlike other boat operators age 26 and under, people who drive rental boats are not required to pass a boater safety class. Bob Yannacci, the education officer of the Lake Norman Sail & Power Squadron, said last last week that due to that incident, 

 Cold weather boating requires extra caution, preparation
SanJuanIslander.com
WASHINGTON – While the majority of boaters in colder parts of the country have winterized their boats or put them into storage until spring, many still rely on their vessels for hunting, fishing or necessary transportation in cold weather, ...

 Coast Guard reports 51 Northeast boating deaths in 2011
Trade Only Today
Recreational boating and paddling fatalities on waters in the northeastern United States remained nearly the same for the second year in a row. The 1st Coast Guard District recorded a preliminary total of 51 deaths during 2011. There were 50 fatalities ...

 Will The State Close The Department Of Boating And Waterways?
Patch.com
Jerry Brown's latest budget proposal includes shutting down the state Department of Boating and Waterways, which is the agency that loaned Martinez the money in 1959 to build the Marina, and which has kept the facility afloat over the years, .

Boater Education: 

Boating safety course offered
The Township Journal Sun, 15 Jan 2012 23:47 PM PST
Lake Hopatcong The US Coast Guard Auxiliary is offering a boating safety course on Saturday, Jan. 28, at the Hopatcong Senior Center, 32 Lakeside Blvd. in Hopatcong. The course starts at 8:30 a.m. and runs to 4:30 p.m. The cost is $65 and includes lunch. Pre-registration is required. Call 973-398-7869 to register and for further information

 Flotilla Offers Boating Safety Class
Wanderer
Flotilla 65 of the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary offers Boating and Sailing Safety and Seamanship. Registration is on Monday, January 23 at 7:00 pm and classes begin on Monday, January 30 from 7:00 to 9:00 pm at the Flotilla's 80 Middle Street, ...

 Pender News & Notes - Eagle Scout; boating class; Alzheimer's presentation
StarNewsOnline.com
HAMPSTEAD | The Greater Topsail Area Coast Guard Auxiliary, Flotilla 10-09, will offer a Boating Skills and Seamanship course. This course is open to boaters at any skill level. Students will learn which safety equipment is required by law,

 Sanya to open sailboat training camp for the young free of charge
People's Daily Online
16 (Xinhua) -- Young children aged from 7-12 can be registered to take part in OP-level sailboat training camp, which will open to them from February 8 to 12 for free as a part of the activity of Sanya Stop of the Volvo Ocean Race 2011-12, ...

Fatalities:

Yacht delivery firm accused of negligence
BBC News
A British yacht delivery company has been accused of negligence, resulting in the deaths of five sailors. Family and survivors claim Nick Irving, boss of Farnborough-based Reliance Yacht Management, pressured skippers to sail into bad weather against .

 Girl, 11, 'drowned after freak gust of wind capsized boat she was sailing ...
Daily Mail
The girls, who had been wearing buoyancy aids and were in the craft alone, were quickly joined by rescue staff, who dived from their boats to pluck the twins to safety before freeing Laura. Laura, a pupil at £10110-a-year Nottingham Girls' High School, 

 Missing Wicomico Boater Body Is Found
WBOC Salisbury Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:01 PM PST
Maryland National Resource police say they've recovered the body of a missing Wicomico county boater. NRP recovered the body of 25 year old Tyler Cordrey early Monday morning near Annapolis. The Eden man went missing after his boat capsized on December 17th near the Sandy Point Lighthouse. Cordrey's high school sweetheart survived, but another boater also died in the Chesapeake Bay. 

 Man Dead, Wife Injured In Boating Accident
KTXS Abilene Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:10 AM PST
Authorities say a boating accident on a choppy East Texas lake has left a man dead and his wife hurt.

Boating Accidents:

10 foreigners on pleasure trip rescued as yacht drowns
Times of Oman
MUSCAT: Ten foreigners were rescued by a British Navy ship and handed over to the Royal Oman Police (ROP) Coast Guard when their yacht drowned off Ras Al Hadd coast in Sur in the wee hours of yesterday. The yacht was on its way to Mombassa, Kenya, ...

 CG rescues boater off Cape Hatteras
WAVY-TV
Coast Guard Sector North Carolina was contacted around 3 pm after a personal locator beacon registered to the sailing vessel The Answer started broadcasting a distress signal, a Coast Guard news release said. "Emergency beacons are an important piece 

Boat sinks; 4 scramble to safety
Monterey County Herald
Workers aboard a Moss Landing Harbor District boat, above, direct a sailboat entering the harbor around the bow of a sailboat that capsized Sunday afternoon. ¼Three men and a woman in an 18-foot open boat managed to scramble ashore safely after their ...


Tourist yacht hits reef
Warwick Daily News
The 30m yacht, which is used for tourist trips, began taking on water after it struck the reef, damaging its hull, at about 6.30am or 7am, passengers said. The crew sailed the boat to Blue Pearl Bay, where Hayman Island workers helped them pump out