US Race Teams receive Powerboat P1 support
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Powerboat P1,
11:23 AM Mon GMT
Powerboat P1 USA announced they have finalized an agreement that paves the way for the first class of boats to run under the Powerboat P1 banner in North America
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Victory Team to launch twin Fazza assault on Class 1 World title
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Class 1,
3:51 AM Sat GMT
Following the most successful – and most traumatic – year in their history, the Dubai Victory Team go into the 2010 season looking to defend the UIM Class 1 World Powerboat Championship title with a two-boat line-up.
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Evinrude ETEC outboard takes King of the Rivers title
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Kate Gordon, Auckland ,
10:32 AM Thu GMT
A standard 225 HP Evinrude® ETEC® outboard powered ‘Illusion' to a class win and second overall in the recent Twin Rivers water ski race run by the NZ Water Ski Race Association.
Hamilton's Brendan Macpherson drove ‘Illusion' to second place with a time of 30 minutes and four seconds, a very credible two min, 11 sec behind the winner, a 600+ HP twin-outboard boat called ‘Warlord'.
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BoatU.S. can help you prepare for the hurricane season
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BoatU.S,
5:13 AM Thu GMT
With the release of several early seasonal hurricane forecasts for this year, boaters and marina operators are finding out they could face a much different scenario than last year's relatively mild storm season. Accuweather, a nationwide weather service, recently reported it expects 2010 to be an 'extreme season' with as many as 18 named storms, a 100% increase over 2009.
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Phenomenon is phenomenal
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Bob Wonders, Gold Coast ,
2:06 AM Thu GMT
Monster 'speedboat' aiming for world speed record.
Phenomenon is constructed of high-tech fibreglass composites and boasts four Lycoming turbine engines developing a combined 12,000 horsepower!
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Class 1: Marit Stromoy invited to join Welmax Offshore Racing
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Class 1 F1 H20,
3:40 AM Wed GMT
UIM F1 H2O World Championship driver Marit Stromoy has been invited to join Welmax Offshore Racing two boat team and compete in the opening round of the 2010 UIM Class 1 event on the 26th thru the 28th of March in Rio de Janeiro for the Grand Prix of Brazil.
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Ultimate Ride Team to Jet-ski from London to Auckland
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Angela Jones, Auckland ,
2:03 AM Tue GMT
Adventurer, pilot and author, Jeremy Burfoot, is set to lead a group of New Zealanders in an attempt to break the world personal watercraft record by riding from London to Sydney to Auckland. The 32,000 km epic journey, The Ultimate Ride, sets off from London in August to boost awareness of healthy living, cancer prevention and to raise funds for cancer research.
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Pioneering Deep-Sea Robot lost at sea
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
10:30 AM Mon GMT
pioneering deep-sea exploration robot—one of the first successful submersible vehicles that was both unmanned and untethered to surface ships—was lost at sea Friday, March 5, on a research expedition off the coast of Chile. The vehicle was designed, built and operated by scientists and engineers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI).
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Southern Ocean winds open window to the deep sea
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CSIRO,
2:26 AM Mon GMT
Australian and US scientists have discovered how changes in winds blowing on the Southern Ocean drive variations in the depth of the surface layer of sea water responsible for regulating exchanges of heat and carbon dioxide between the ocean and the atmosphere.
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Lowrance StructureScan or Where would you be if you were a fish?
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Rob Kothe,
11:02 PM Sat GMT
When I was just a small tacker our whole family would spend at least three months of each summer at Bermagui on the NSW South Coast. Looking back I recall my grandfathers mission was to make me think like a fish.
Whether it was on Wallagoot Lake on the shores of the Bermagui River or on rocks near the Blue Pool, as I was set to cast my rod he would say ‘Where would you be if you were a fish?'
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Powerboat P1 embracing cutting edge technology
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Powerboat P1,
10:52 AM Sat GMT
Powerboat P1 Management has today announced the launch of its highly anticipated torque sensor project.
The cutting edge technology, already successfully used in Formula 1 motor racing, is being used for the first time in a powerboat racing competition.
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Peter Bethune, the Earthrace RTW record holder arrested in Japan
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Stuff.co.nz & Powerboat-World.com,
4:03 AM Fri GMT
New Zealander, Round the World Powerboat record holder and anti-whaling activist Peter Bethune has been arrested in Japan after being held on the whaling vessel he boarded last month. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society member has been charged with trespassing after boarding the Shonan Maru 2 - the ship which collided with the Ady Gil in the Southern Ocean.
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Dual Yanmar 4BY2's Power Breakthrough Compact Game Boat
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Connexion PR -, Melbourne ,
2:39 AM Fri GMT
Every now and then a designer backs his hunch and steps outside the accepted design parameters to build and market a fresh design. Chris Headley is one such man who has invested in a breathtaking new concept.
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Powerboat classic set to bring the Hawkesbury River alight
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Bob Wonders, Gold Coast ,
2:16 AM Fri GMT
Sydney's iconic powerboat race set to roar for the 74th time.
Staged along the winding, 112 kilometre course on the Hawkesbury River, in Sydney's north-west, the race attracts some of the fastest boats in Australia.
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Top five reasons why boaters need a tow - and the rise of the battery
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Sail-World Cruising,
7:13 PM Thu GMT
BoatU.S., the Boat Owners' Associatioin of the United States, keep a great count of what they do. The result is statistics which tell a story that probably applies to the rest of the boating world. This time it's about why boaters - yachts and powerboats, need a tow. As many yachts cannot reach their mooring or dock without the help of their engine, yachts are well included in these numbers
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Powerboat P1 buzz on UIM awards
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Powerboat P1,
9:18 AM Wed GMT
Powerboat P1 Chairman, Asif Rangoonwala, attended the prestigious Union Internationale Motonautique (UIM) Awards ceremony on Saturday, to help celebrate the feats of the world championship’s top powerboat racing pilots in 2009.
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UIM honour Scott Curtis (GBR) in Monaco for Formula 4 Championship
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Polygon Marketing,
3:57 AM Tue GMT
Britain’s only current powerboat world champion, Scott Curtis, 26, from Norwich was honoured by the world’s governing body, the Union Internationale Motonautique (UIM), during a star-studded awards ceremony in Monaco at the weekend.
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2010 Powerboat P1 World Championship to launch in Yalta, Ukraine
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Powerboat P1,
11:03 AM Sun GMT
The 2010 Powerboat P1 World Championship will launch in Yalta, Ukraine in early May, replacing Croatia as the first event of the upcoming season
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Marit Strømøy to race in Class 1 Powerboat Brazilian Grand Prix
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Class 1,
3:49 AM Sat GMT
Norway’s Marit Strømøy will become the first woman to race in the Class 1 World Powerboat Championship for over a decade when she makes her debut at the Brazilian Grand Prix in Rio de Janeiro, 26-28 March. Born in Sandefjord, Norway and now living in Oslo, thirty-three-year-old Strømøy made her racing debut in 1989 at the age of twelve.
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There's a new breed on the horizon and it's coming our way
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Bob Wonders, Gold Coast ,
12:04 AM Fri GMT
As impressive a range of vessels as I've ever seen and they hail from Turkey.
The Turkish company builds its vessels in three shipyards, its headquarters in Istanbul, and two yards in Antalya, about 500 miles south of the company HQ.
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UIM F1 World Championship: Qatar team signs on Andy Elliott
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Philippe Stiernon,
11:48 PM Thu GMT
British racer Andy Elliott will join Qatar’s former World Champion Jay Price in F1 Team Qatar’s line-up for the 2010 UIM F1 World Championship campaign, which starts in Portugal on May 8th-9th.
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Photo editing – life has become a Picnik
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MarineBusiness-World.com,
6:32 PM Tue GMT
In this digital world, we find there are lots of people who just don’t have a handle on cropping and editing images.
We cut our teeth on the 1990’s industry classic graphic software Photoshop, so we’ve tended to say to everyone - well that is what you need. The problem is it is an expensive piece of software and it’s really not easy to use.
Now there is a free online solution. It’s called P
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Ancient Corals hold new hope for Reefs
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ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies,
10:20 AM Tue GMT
ossil corals, up to half a million years old, are providing fresh hope that coral reefs may be able to withstand the huge stresses imposed on them by today’s human activity.
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Finnish Flier Sami Selio aims at getting UIM F1 H2O title back in 2010
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Steve Michael Reporting,
10:41 PM Mon GMT
It's coming from three different directions, in three different countries, on two different continents, it's the rolling thunder of a determined group of individuals working together for one goal; gaining back the UIM F1 H2O World Championship for powerboating for the 2010 season.
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Tsunami Event - February 27, 2010 Chile - the Tsunami forecast model
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Sail-World.com & Powerboat-world.com from NOAA inf, ,
10:25 PM Sat GMT
The Chile tsunami was generated by a Mw 8.8 earthquake (35.846°S, 72.719°W ), at 06:34 UTC, 115 km (60 miles) NNE of Concepcion, Chile (according to the USGS).
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Pacific waits for Chile's tsunami waves
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Sail-World & wire services,
7:23 PM Sat GMT
Tsunami warnings have been posted around the Pacific, including New Zealand,Mexico the USA's Hawaii and California, Japan and Russia and the Australian East Coast south of Queenslands Double Island Point to the southern tip of Tasmania after a massive earthquake near Chile's second largest city Concepcion.
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Twenty years since the discovery of the Ozone Hole
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British Antarctic Survey,
3:55 AM Thu GMT
It’s over twenty years since the discovery of the ozone hole drew world attention to the impact of human activity on the global environment. In the 1970s concern about the effect of man-made chemicals, especially chlorofluorocarbons, on the ozone layer were raised by Paul Crutzen, Mario Molina and Sherwood Rowland. Their pioneering work was recognised in 1995 by the award of the Nobel Prize in Che
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Powerboat P1 Team 26 support BladeRun-Western Europe
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Powerboat P1,
3:48 AM Thu GMT
Kim Collins and Dan Cramphorn, have confirmed that they will break from their pursuit of the 2010 Powerboat P1 World Championship title to compete in BladeRun-Western Europe, a three-day powerboat rally that starts in Rotterdam on Thursday July 15th.
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Mercury Racing grabs headlines at Miami
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Bob Wonders, Gold Coast ,
3:34 AM Thu GMT
Awesome new engines are even available in 10 spectacular colours.
Based on a massive 552 cubic inch block, Mercury Racing president Fred Kiekhaefer rates the engines as 'the most sophisticated products in the company's history.'
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Miami Boat Show hopes audience will return
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Bob Wonders, Gold Coast ,
10:55 AM Wed GMT
Cathy and colleague Ben Wold, Vice-president of the NMMA, provide the horsepower that drives the Miami Boat Show.
'The fact that Cathy and I have enjoyed long-term exposure has been very beneficial,' he said.
Long-term exposure indeed, Ben can look back on 33-years hands-on duties with the NMMA, Cathy a ‘mere' 22-years.
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UIM Photo Competition 2010: Paul Lakatos wins the prestigious award
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F1 H2O,
8:31 AM Tue GMT
Professional veteran photographer Paul Lakatos proved once again why he is one of the best photographers in the sport of powerboating worldwide by winning the prestigious 12th Annual UIM Photo Competition announced recently in the principality of Monaco.
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Powerboat P1 World Championship - Siracusa, Sicily confirmed
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Powerboat P1,
8:58 PM Sun GMT
Powerboat P1 Management Ltd, the rights holders to the Powerboat P1 World Championship, is thrilled to conrifm that it will be returning to Siracusa, Sicily on September 17-19.
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Doosan and Rayglass lead NZ offshore powerboat series
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Kate Gordon, Auckland ,
5:46 AM Sat GMT
Racing in some of the most pleasant conditions seen in Gulf Harbour, north of Auckland, for several seasons, a strong field contested the third round of the 2010 Rayglass NZ Offshore Powerboat Championship today (20 February). Line honours in a relatively straightforward 100-mile race went to Sam Fillmore and Cary Gleeson in Doosan.
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