Milestone: Jeanneau NC 895 Hull 200
Mention the name Jeanneau and sleek-looking sailboats immediately come to mind but the Jeanneau shipyard first started building small outboard powerboats in 1957 and never stopped.
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Mercury Marine Canada announces an organizational expansion
Mercury Marine Canada announces an organizational expansion and realignment across its group of businesses including Mercury, Land ‘N’ Sea and Paynes, to enhance its customer focus and meet the needs of an expanding Canadian marine industry. These changes are effective immediately.
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Groupe Beneteau has sold the CNB Yacht Builders brand to Solaris
In line with the Let’s Go Beyond! strategic plan, which notably aims to realign the Boat offering around eight global strategic brands in order to benefit from stronger commercial and operational dynamics, Groupe Beneteau is announcing that it signed an agreement with the Italian yard Solaris on April 2, 2021 to sell the CNB Yacht Builders brand.
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Freedom Boat Club Accelerates Midwest U.S. Growth Plans Announcing Expansion into Wisconsin and Two New Chicagoland locations
Freedom Boat Club, a division of Brunswick Corporation (NYSE: BC) and the world’s largest boat club, today announced their continued expansion in the Midwest with the establishment of Freedom Boat Club of Greater Milwaukee, the company’s first Club in the state of Wisconsin, bringing Freedom’s footprint to 32 states across the U.S.
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Brunswick Corporation Enhances Marine Autonomous Technology Capabilities Through New Partnership with Carnegie Robotics
Brunswick Corporation (NYSE: BC) announced today that it has entered into a new partnership with Carnegie Robotics LLC (CRL), a leading provider of advanced robotics, sensors and autonomous solutions for a wide range of commercial and government applications.
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BoatUS Urges Recreational Boaters to Speak Up On Pair of Erie Canal N.Y. Senate Bills to Maintain Full Operating Season and More
Recent moves by the New York State Canal System’s parent New York Power Authority (NYPA) to drastically reduce the 524-mile waterway’s annual six-month operating season would be prevented under a proposed New York Senate Bill S.5958 by establishing a fixed annual operating season from “early May through November.”
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Budget 2021 proposes $300 million investment in Small Craft Harbours
From coast to coast to coast, Fisheries and Oceans Canada owns, operates, and maintains a national system of harbours to provide commercial fish harvesters and other small craft harbour users with safe and accessible facilities.
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Communicating with your boaters on fuel and end-of-life boats
As we come to the start of the season, we have a very timely story from NMMA Canada who is alerting us to the fact that we are likely to see E15 level fuel in the Canadian market this summer. Any marine technician will tell you that running E 10 can be damaging to marine engines and other machines like lawnmowers, chainsaws and snow machines.
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Solid Sail: a new course for Multiplast
The Solid Sail project has reached a new stage, since Chantiers de l’Atlantique announced that a 95-meter mast, fitted with a rigid sail built by Multiplast, would be installed in 2022 at the Saint-Nazaire site.
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Limestone Set to Debut New L-200CC at the Bay Bridge Boat Show
The Limestone® Boat Company, a heritage brand recently re-launched with new ownership, ideals and a revamped model line-up, has announced the first new model introduction to roll off the production line will be debuted and on display at the 2021 Bay Bridge Boat Show – the L-200CC center console.
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Freedom Boat Club Acquires New York Franchise Operation and Territory
Freedom Boat Club, a division of Brunswick Corporation (NYSE: BC), has announced that it has acquired the Freedom Boat Club of New York franchise operation and territory. This announcement comes just four weeks after Freedom announced that it had acquired the franchise operation and territory rights in the Chicago market.
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Ennis Fabrics donates 3.5 million medical grade face masks to Food Banks Canada
Ennis Fabrics has donated 3.5 million face masks to Food Banks Canada. The masks will be distributed to food bank employees, volunteers, and their communities to keep them safe and protected against the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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Brunswick Recognizes Facilities Worldwide for Record-Setting Safety Achievements
Brunswick Corporation (NYSE: BC) has announced the recipients of its 2020 awards for exceptional safety performance in a year in which Brunswick achieved the lowest recordable incident rate in company history.
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Brunswick Corporation’s John Reid Named to Engineering Research Visioning Alliance Advisory Board
New organization convenes engineering voices to identify opportunities, priorities for innovative research. Brunswick Corporation (NYSE: BC) is pleased to announce that John Reid, Vice President of Enterprise Technologies, has been named to the newly-formed advisory board of directors of the National Science Foundation’s Engineering Research Visioning Alliance (ERVA).
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Open now! Nova Scotia & New Brunswick Boat Shows Unite for New Maritime Boating & Outdoor Digital Marketplace
Many businesses have had to be creative and find new ways to offer their services because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The Halifax International Boat Show, Moncton Boat Show, and NB Sportsmen & Fly Fishing Show normally take place each winter, but the 2021 editions of these events have been postponed to 2022.
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Boating Ontario Announces New Clean Marine Program
Boating Ontario is proud to announce the highly anticipated new Clean Marine Program. Established in 1995, Boating Ontario’s Clean Marine Program has successfully certified over 180 proud members.
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Safe Summer Fun in COVID-19
A perspective on the very positive public perception of boating as an activity could well be the idea that boating is a very safe activity and holiday choice compared to many other options.
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TowBoatUS Comox Opens, Bringing 24-Hour On-Water Towing Service to Canada’s Northern Georgia Strait
Local charter fishing guide Capt. Peter Mathews, who as child grew up working in the region’s nascent sailing charter industry, says he cannot remember not being on the water.
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The Maritime Museum of BC Withdraws from the Langford Development Plans
The Maritime Museum of BC has made the decision to withdraw from the cultural development plans known as the Pacific Maritime Centre with the City of Langford. The unprecedented situation with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has created an economic climate that no longer makes it possible for the Museum to proceed.
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NMMA Canada Stands Up for Rental Boat Businesses to Preserve Safety Checklist
In their April 1 NMMA Canada newsletter, the organization announced their position on the Rental Boat Safety Checklist that had recently come under question from Transport Canada.
