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Wooden Boat’s reschedules Stargazing & Star Hopping for March 7
Stargazing & Star Hopping Making Sense of the Nighttime Sky DATE OF EVENT: Wednesday March 7, 2012 Time: Noon -1:30 FREE EVENT – RESERVATIONS REQUIRED Where: The Wooden Boat Chandlery Food & Espresso available at Cafe Email: chandlery@nwmaritime.org or call 360.385.3628 x101 Featured Guest: Mark B. Peterson, cartographer, astronomer, planetarium designer The starry sky …
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Tacoma Yacht Club Sponsors Yachts and Car Show
“LOTS OF YACHTS AND CLASSIC CARS” The Shipmates, the women’s auxiliary of Tacoma Yacht Club, will present the 2012 Tour of Boats on Sunday May 20th from 12:00 to 4:00 PM. Tickets are $3.00 each or 6 for $15.00 and can be purchased at the event. All proceeds from this event benefit local …
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Change
Change happens out of a need to venture along path’s many different courses. It requires teamwork, dedication, and ingenuity making the results – outstanding. Case in point; the newest jet fighter AF 37, staging for catapult trails, the Boaters Resource Center’s new website continues to be developed with the boater in mind. Your input is …
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Billionaire’s Super Yacht Sinks
Some billionaire just had a really bad day. The Proteksan-Turquoise designed and built superyacht, YOGI, sank this morning off the coast Skyros, a small Greek island located in Aegean Sea. The 60.2m superyacht, which has only been up for charter since the summer of 2011, was reportedly in the area for “minor warranty” work …
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Under Construction
That’s correct. The Boater’s Resource Center is under construction. Watch for a completely new format. It’s going to be dazzling. Check back often. Target date is before the end of February. Captain Jim.
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Inside Passage Training Cruise
Northwest Navigation Co. Adds Two New Inside Passage Training Cruises to Their 2012 Summer Schedule February 8, 2012 – Bellingham, WA. Northwest Navigation Co., is announcing two new 12-day Learn to Cruise–Passage to Alaska training trips in the Inside Passage aboard the Motor Vessel David B. Northwest Navigation hopes to fill a niche for yacht …
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C-Map Chart Support
C-MAP CHART SUPPORT Coastal Explorer now supports C-MAP by Jeppesen cartography. The C-MAP charts include, excellent chart coverage for a given region, photos and diagrams of ports and marinas, land elevation information, and tides and tidal stream data. This means they are an ideal source of information for boaters headed outside of the United States, …
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How to Use Currents in Trip Planning
February 6, 2012 How to Plan your Sailing Trip the easy way . . . using Tides & Currents What. . . Learn how to use Currents in Trip Planning! Discover the fun ways to take advantage of the tides and currents to get there faster. Using Washburn’s Tables, Ports and Passages and …
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Seattle Boat Show – It’s a Wrap
Well the 2012 Seattle Boat Show is over, the lights are off, and the vendor’s are headed home. Time to take a couple days off and tally the results. For some the show was mediocre. Other’s left with pockets bulging with new orders. As for the Boater’s Resource Center, it has become clear from the 99.99% …
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