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Talkin' Boats - Bob Apple

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.

Talkin’ Boats with Michael Peters

Michael Peters Yacht Design

Michael Peters is an internationally known yacht designer whose company, Michael Peters Yacht Design in Sarasota, Fla., has rendered more than 350 boats from 20 to 160 feet.

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Steps for proper EPIRB registration

For pleasure boaters and commercial mariners alike, the Lady Mary snafu underlines the importance of properly registering an EPIRB by mailing, faxing or e-mailing a filled-in beacon registration form to NOAA ...

and making sure the information NOAA has in its computer files about your EPIRB is correct, says NOAA program analyst Dan Karlson.

EPIRB error hinders rescue response

Clerk misread one character in entering the beacon ID code for a scalloper that sank, with the loss of six

There were several missed opportunities to correct Lady Mary's EPIRB identification code. A clerical error in the registration of an EPIRB was a factor in an 87-minute delay in the Coast Guard’s search for the scalloper Lady Mary, which sank off New Jersey in the predawn hours of March 24 with the loss of six of her seven crewmembers.

Mistakes leave repo team in hot water

A couple were in bed below when night raiders began hauling off the wrong boat in the Florida Keys

Walter and Joann Dethier feared the worst when they realized their boat was being taken from the marina. A couple enjoying a quiet night on their boat in the Florida Keys were rousted from bed when a stealth repo team cut the dock lines and water hose, disconnected the shore power, and began to tow them away from the dock.

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