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Talkin’ Boats

With Bob Apple, Senior V.P. Sales, Marketing – Volvo Penta

Bob Apple is the senior vice president of sales and marketing of Volvo Penta North America, based in Chesapeake, Va. Before joining the engine manufacturer, Apple, 50, spent 22 years in the automotive industry, including 11 years for Saturn Corp., where he was instrumental in helping build the new car company.

Two boats, two accidents, two lawsuits

Crownline and a construction company face legal actions after 10 die in separate barge crashes

The 22-foot Crownline was carrying 14 people, two more than its rated capacity. In separate accidents within weeks of one another, two powerboats this spring struck barges moored in protected waters, leaving 10 people dead and prompting two lawsuits.

Designer was ‘instant boat’ champion

Philip Bolger, who designed everything from dories to the ‘Master and Commander’ frigate, has died at 81

Bolger at work in his Gloucester, Mass., office in 1982. Philip C. Bolger, known for his inventive and freethinking boat designs and fondness for self-built “everyman’s” boats, died in May. He was 81.

Agencies debate the health of GPS system

Air Force insists there will be no degradation, despite critical government report on satellites

Concerns have been raised over the ability of the Air Force to maintain the full constellation of GPS satellites at its current level. The General Accounting Office has warned that worn-out satellites may not be replaced quickly enough to keep the global positioning system operating at current levels. The Air Force, however, which maintains GPS, says it is confident it can keep the system working fine.

Dispatches

CATCH A WAVE

British solo sailor Alex Thomson, 34, tries his hand at “stand up foiling” with a Carafino Hydrofoil board behind his IMOCA Open 60 Hugo Boss in the Solent, off the Isle of Wight. “It’s pretty extreme,” Thomson says. “At a certain speed, the hull is lifted above the water and the craft skims along on the hydrofoils at great speeds. It’s like snowboarding, just on water.” Thomson recently completed his “3 in 3” trifecta of three round-the-world races in three years. His next bluewater race will be in the Rolex Fastnet Race in August.

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