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- 1/13/2012 Enjoy the water on a personal watercraft and get your feet wet in the boating lifestyle
- 9/19/2011 2011 Personal Watercraft Industry Association (PWIA) Grants Boating Safety Leadership Award
Florida and Maryland state officials honored for their efforts to develop titling and registration standards
PWC News
Barnegat Bay personal watercraft riders could be restricted by conservation zones
Barnegat Bay personal watercraft riders could see their style crimped if new conservation zones are created in the bay’s shallows and eelgrass beds. But for now, environmental workers would be happy just to see riders obey the existing speed limit.
Borough tables law that would limit size, number of boats on property
Shore News Today
In order to park a boat or personal watercraft in the borough, residents will have to abide by a few guidelines.
The borough initially introduced the limitations after resident Bill Hoeger of Atlantic Avenue told the commissioners about a property near his home where 22 watercraft were stored during the winter, including two boats and 17 jet skis. Read more
FWP Commission votes to limit motorboats on rivers around Missoula
New river rules around Missoula should make the waters safer for floaters but leave some parts of the year available for motorboat users. Commissioners also accepted a late proposal to completely ban personal watercraft like Jet Skis. Read more
State to Increase the legal age for boating licenses
The Oakland Press
Starting this month, Michigan law is increasing the legal age allowed to operate a private water unsupervised craft from 14 to 16 in order to reduce accidents and deaths related to PWCs. Read more
PWC Used in Life-Saving Rescue
It had been more than three hours since a wave flipped Norm Manley’s towboat and tossed him into St. Augustine Inlet on Florida’s northeast coast. Manley was trying to rescue a trio of sailors who had run aground, but he turned out to be the one who needed saving.
Manley, a 60-year-old towboat operator for the TowBoatU.S. franchise in St. Augustine, spent three and a half hours battling eight-foot seas and hypothermia before he was rescued in dramatic fashion. “I started violently vomiting,” he says. “I really never gave up hope, but I had pretty much made my peace that I was going to run out of time.”
Read the whole story at SoundingsOnline.com
Check out this great article from Delta Sky Magazine
How a personal watercraft can get you into the boating lifestyle