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BOATING BC CONFERENCE – MARINA SEMINAR ANNOUNCED

Boating BC Marina Seminar

Oct 30, 2018

Registration is open for the 2018 Boating BC Conference presented by Mercury Marine. If you work in the marine industry in BC, don’t miss out – it’s the West Coast industry’s event of the year! 

Back for a second year, the Boating BC Marina Sector Seminar will be held on Monday, November 19, 2018. This will take place the night prior to the 2018 Boating BC Conference presented by Mercury Marine. The event is open to all marina businesses and is not a member-only event. It will be held in the Maple Room, Pacific Gateway Hotel, 3500 Cessna Drive, Richmond, BC, from 7:00-9:30 pm.

Presentations will be hosted by: Mike Short, False Creek Fuels and Don Prittie, Canoe Cove Marina.

To register for the event please visit: https://www.boatingbc.ca/events/2018-boating-bc-marina-sector-seminar.

And why not register for the entire conference, here: https://www.boatingbc.ca/events/2018-boating-bc-conference-1.

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