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Spring Boat Checklist and Inspection

May 2, 2022 / Boating 101 / Checklist, Summerize

DIY and Save Money Prepping your boat for another season is one of the joys of boat ownership. The spring of 2022 will be especially appreciated after being locked up […]

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Anxious About Docking This Year?

April 6, 2022 / Docking, Boating 101 / Captain, Docking

Do you remember all the fun you’ve had boating with family and friends, or are you anxious this year, about the dreaded docking after every fun-filled day of boating? Do

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Boating — The Great Escape

May 3, 2021 / Adventures, Boating 101, Lifestyle / boating, escape

Boating is a great escape from the hustle and bustle of everyday life. Boating is a family recreation enjoyed by millions for family fun, entertaining, relaxing, exploring, fishing and just

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Hey! New Boaters

February 18, 2021 / Boating 101, Docking, Lifestyle / boat handling, Docking

Today, people around the world are looking for ways to enjoy time outside and still satisfy the restrictions for “social distancing”. Reports are coming in from outdoor recreation businesses that

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Have you Heard about the Boat Show?

November 26, 2020 / Lifestyle, Boating 101, Uncategorized / Boat Show, Brochure

In case you haven’t heard, the world will have almost no indoor Boat Shows this winter! Normally, at this time of the year, boaters are all geared up and excited

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Stay Aboard When Docking

September 8, 2020 / Docking, Boating 101 / Docking

Sammy arrived back at the marina preparing for his stay-aboard docking procedure, after he had treated his work buddies to a day of fun and fishing on his sport fisher

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How to Screw-Up a Perfect Boat Docking

August 23, 2020 / Docking, Boating 101

Percy and his First Mate Paula approached their slip in their boat, with precision for a perfectly positioned landing alongside their dock—the precise speed, turns, shifting and stop, etc. What

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Time to Clean

August 18, 2020 / Uncategorized, Boating 101, Lifestyle / clean

Unlike only a few decades ago; when we used to take time to cook before we ate, or schedule a meeting at a later date to discuss items on an

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Want a Boat Brochure Original?

August 4, 2020 / Boating 101 / Boat Brochure, Library

The Old Boat Brochure Library has grown over the last 70 years. As a boat dealer, my Dad, Art Dawson, was collecting brochures during the 1950’s and 1960’s for potential

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Replacing Canvas

August 2, 2020 / Accessories, Boating 101, Lifestyle / Canvas

When your canvas needs replacing, you have a great opportunity to improve the canvas over what was there before. I have a list of things for you to consider when

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Lurking Dock Lines

The Dock Line Trap

July 21, 2020 / Docking, Boating 101 / Docking

Dock lines lurk on the water surface or sometimes partly submerged like a snake hiding in long grass, patiently waiting for an unsuspecting boater to drive his propeller within striking

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Boater Rescue

July 7, 2020 / Lifestyle, Boating 101 / Boater, Rescue

Finding good news today is very rare, so we thought we would share a good news story about a boater who saved a life. In the Owen Sound paper on

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