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USCG advisory: Fitting life jackets for kids
Daren Lewis at the US Coast Guard’s 13th District posted some important reminders about children and PFDs over on the District 13 blog. Aboard my boat, children and adults wear PFDs at all times...
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Seattle Boat Show: Highlights for the kids
Besides climbing around making the Hinckley Picnic Boat people nervous, there are lots of other, more appropriate activities for children at the 2010 Seattle Boat Show. In particular, kids of all ages...
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Best free swag from the Seattle Boat Show
My kids are trade show swag aficionados. They’re practically swag dowsers, I tell you, divining the presence of swag from two aisles away. I don’t really understand how they do it. But I do appreciate...
View ArticleCobra and Sea Tow provide Mayday call training for kids at Miami Boat Show
[This is a really great idea! Perhaps something like this should be offered at the Seattle Boat Show. I know I’d like my family to attend such a session. Onward with the press release…] It’s never too...
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Feathercraft BayLee: still a winner
I wrote about the Feathercraft BayLee inflatable dinghies during the 2009 Seattle Boat Show, and now that I’ve had a chance to use my own BayLee 3 HD (the “flagship” of this diminutive fleet) a bit...
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Created in desperation, boat stove becomes business venture
Deborah Bach has this story at Three Sheets northwest: [Roger Lehet with a prototype of the stove he spent about six months developing, which is now being manufactured for sale.] A year ago Roger Lehet...
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Dometic Marine In-Duct Breathe Easy Air Purifier
[Bill Liptak is a product engineer at Dometic Marine responsible for the development of the In-Duct Breathe Easy, which won an Innovation Award during IBEX 2010. He’s written this article on the...
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Wood stoves for heating & cooking aboard
Bob at BoatBits mentioned a few different stoves suitable for boat interiors, and one that I fear may not be suitable at all. I’ll excerpt his post here and add my comments: Part of the problem with...
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Part 2: How Marty drilled 18 holes in his boat and lived to tell the tale
Marty McOmber has the second part of his ambitious do-it-yourself heater installation story over at Three Sheets Northwest. Be sure to read Part 1 first, if you missed it. Last week, I wrote about the...
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Heads up! Three Sheets installs a composting toilet
My friends Marty and Deborah bought a boat with…shall we say… "sanitation issues”. Apparently, those issues have been resolved, and a big part of the solution was the installation of an Air Head...
View ArticleA better solar shower from Duckworks
I have mixed feelings about the conventional gravity-fed floppy-bag solar shower products, and have never used one on my boat. But when Bob at Boat Bits posted about this product—the Duckworks Pump-Up...
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