All articles by Tony Esposito – Page 77

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    US jet charter firm moves into yachts

    2019-09-24T13:22:00Z

    US flight charter service Apollo Jets is moving into the yacht market through its acquisition of Cambridge Yacht Group.

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    Florida businessman accused of US$1.5m yacht Ponzi scheme

    2019-09-23T13:25:00Z

    A Florida business owner was arrested Friday and faces multiple charges associated with operating his yacht brokerage firm as a Ponzi scheme and cheating four customers of US$1.5m.

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    Correct Craft eyes future expansion

    2019-09-17T13:52:00Z

    Correct Craft is eyeing future expansion possibilities with the purchase of 60 acres adjacent to its Orlando, Florida headquarters.

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    NTSB: Dive boat crew asleep when fire broke out

    2019-09-13T13:27:00Z

    All six crew members of the ill-fated dive boat Conception, which caught fire 2 September killing 34 people off the California coast, were asleep when the blaze broke out in violation of regulations requiring a commercial vessel to have a crew member stand night watch.

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    Snag-A-Slip buys SlipSure

    2019-09-12T15:21:00Z

    The online boat slip rental category is beginning to consolidate with the acquisition of SlipSure, the largest app for instant and same-day slip bookings, by Annapolis, Maryland-based Snag-A-Slip, positioning the company as “the category leader across all types of boater reservations,” according to a news release from the firm.

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    NauticStar Boats receives NMMA Export Global Star

    2019-09-12T11:08:00Z

    The National Marine Manufacturers Association’s (NMMA) latest Global Star for Exporting recipient is NauticStar Boats.

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    Fire destroys Rhode Island boatbuilding facility

    2019-09-12T09:08:00Z

    A fire at Wickford Shipyard in Rhode Island early Tuesday morning destroyed the building housing George W Zachorne Jr and Sons, a builder of wooden sailboats since the 1980s, as well as Coastal Ironworks.

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    Blue Sea Systems fully operational after fire

    2019-09-11T06:00:00Z

    Eight months after fire took out its warehouse and some US$3m in inventory, Blue Sea Systems in the US has a new facility that is fully operational and all 75 employees of the company are back at work.

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    Honda updates large outboards

    2019-09-10T11:13:00Z

    Targeting what it calls the “heart of the boating market”, Honda Marine has released new versions of its three largest outboard motors.

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    Marine industry rallies for Bahamian relief

    2019-09-09T13:25:00Z

    Hurricane Dorian battered the east coast of the US and Canada over the weekend without nearly the force or destruction predicted earlier in the week. The devastation seems to have been largely in the Bahamas, where the islands of Abaco and Grand Bahama suffered the worst from sustained winds of ...

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    Cayman Coast Guard Commandant joins regulatory push

    2019-09-06T06:00:00Z

      The move toward commercial and recreational boating regulations for the Cayman Islands is gaining momentum with the nation’s Coast Guard Commandant joining the push and drafting regulations that would apply to commercial vessels operating in the islands with laws for private boaters to follow.

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    US boating accidents, deaths down in 2018

    2019-09-05T13:52:00Z

    The United States Coast Guard (USCG) has released safety statistics for 2018 that show a decline in both boating accidents and deaths from the previous year.

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    Minnesota boat dealer pleads guilty to US$3.2m tax fraud

    2019-09-04T15:01:00Z

    A Minnesota marine dealer has entered a guilty plea in Washington County District Court to defrauding the state out of approximately US$3.2m in sales tax, penalties and interest.

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    Investigators begin probing cause of fatal dive boat fire

    2019-09-04T14:03:00Z

    Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) have begun their search for the cause of a deadly fire that swept through a fully-occupied charter dive boat off the coast of Southern California early Monday, killing 34 passengers and one crew member.

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    Tampa show postponed as Hurricane Dorian hits Bahamas

    2019-09-03T15:24:00Z

    Hurricane Dorian devastated the Bahamas over the weekend, stalling over the islands as a Category 5 storm for more than 48 hours. But in welcome news for the state of Florida, Dorian – now a Category 3 hurricane – is expected to stay well offshore as it begins a slow ...

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    Dozens dead in California dive boat fire

    2019-09-03T14:34:00Z

    Twenty-five people are confirmed dead and another nine remain missing following a tragic fire aboard a charter dive boat off the Southern California coast, according to the Associated Press (AP), in what is being called “California’s worst maritime disaster in recent memory.”

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    ORR meets cabinet-level officials to discuss impact of outdoor recreation

    2019-08-30T07:18:00Z

    ORR plans rollout of strategies to recruit next generation of outdoor recreation employees, and meets with staff from the US Trade Representative’s office to reiterate the negative impact of tariffs

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    Pressure mounting on Cayman Islands to enact boating regulations

    2019-08-30T06:47:00Z

    Pressure from assembly could see host of boating regulations passed in 2016 finally enacted into law

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    Brunswick “realigns” Boston Whaler commercial

    2019-08-28T12:48:00Z

    Expansion of Whaler’s main production facility enables integration and consolidation of recreational and commercial vessel production

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    Lippert, Furrion end distribution agreement

    2019-08-28T08:57:00Z

    Tariffs play part in ending four-year partnership