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Valentine’s promise

February 7, 2017 / Lifestyle

Roses are red Violets are blue Captains love boating First Mates should too. Give your First Mate a Valentine promise To put your yelling aside. Improve your docking skills so […]

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Boat Shows Cure “foot-itis”

January 17, 2017 / Lifestyle / Boat Show

Boaters love looking at boats and what better place to look than at a Boat Show! Whether “just looking” for interest sake, or because they are suffering from “foot-it is”

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Boat Show Overload

January 8, 2017 / Lifestyle / Boat Show

Are you in the market for a new boat? Boat Shows are the best place to go, to see, to touch and to compare a variety of new boats (and

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Crew Had to perform Antics! – No more

September 13, 2016 / Lifestyle / First Mate, Safety

We’ve all heard horror stories of bad boat dockings—some of us have even experienced them. There is nothing worse than a bad docking to put a damper on boating, a

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The Ultimate Dock Crawl

September 2, 2016 / Lifestyle

There are all types of boaters and all types of boats, but they all have one thing in common—the love of boating. In the July Issue of Upper Bay Boating,

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The Last 50 Feet—SCARY!

July 27, 2016 / Lifestyle / Docking

We love to hear your docking stories about how our docking lessons have improved your docking skills, built your confidence and given many of you a reason to stay in

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It Ain’t Necessarily So!

July 27, 2016 / Lifestyle

Anyone can put anything on the internet; similarly, in a newspaper or a magazine—even a boating magazine. They don’t even have to know what they are talking about. The danger

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Boater’s Bucket List

June 28, 2016 / Lifestyle

Bucket Lists come in all shapes and sizes with everything under the sun on the list. We have simplified it for boaters, challenging them to become the best boaters they

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Thank You Dad

June 14, 2016 / Lifestyle

My dad taught me very valuable lessons and gave me excellent advice when I was a young boy. I didn’t realize just how valuable they were until I grew up

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Save a First Mate Today!

May 5, 2016 / Lifestyle / First Mate, Safety

There is no better time to Save a First Mate than today —unless of course, your Mother is a First Mate. Then what better time to save a First Mate

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Soaked Ego

April 20, 2016 / Lifestyle / Captain

“You’re the ramp guy in that Youtube video” the waiter laughed as he seated Joe (not his real name for obvious reasons) in a window seat in the corner of

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7 Boat Trailering Fuel Saving Tips

March 22, 2016 / Lifestyle / Trailering

Spring is here, although you’d never know it—in some parts of North America, March is going out like a lion. Spring officially arrived last weekend, so boating isn’t far off—fingers

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