The great app raffle a big success!

We had a great time last night at the Lighthouse Point YC for the Hillsboro Inlet Sailing Club’s monthly general meeting where I gave a slide show presentation on my sailing voyages with the Star Clippers and threw a huge raffle! Thanks to the hearty folks who stayed for the slide show and were rewarded [...]

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You’re Invited! Thurs 4/14 – Lighthouse Pt. YC, Free Mobile Apps & Nav Software!

Please join me at the Lighthouse Pt. Yacht Club for the monthly Hillsboro Inlet Sailing Club’s General Meeting and a special event! After the General Meeting I will present a slide show of my recent Tall Ship cruises on the both the Royal Clipper & the Star Flyer. Our Special Event is a raffle of hundreds of Mobile Apps for boaters & sailors as well as Online Sail Training & Certification, Top-notch Navigation Software for PC/Mac, iPhone & iPad cases, GPS boosters for iPhone and more! All Proceeds will go to benefit the Youth Sailing Program at HISC!

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Mobile Boat Ramp Application Receives Honorable Mention at NMMA Awards

The Recreational Boating & Fishing Foundation (RBFF) was honored today for innovative achievement by the National Marine Manufacturers Association (NMMA) and Boating Writers International (BWI) at the 70th annual Miami International Boat Show & Strictly Sail Miami. RBFF received an Honorable Mention in the 2011 Innovation Awards for its state-of-the-art Take Me Fishing Boat Ramp App.

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BoatU.S. SmartPhone App for Android and iPhone – Available Now!

Get the App that revs up the fun factor in your boating lifestyle! Available now for iPhone and Android phones.
BoatUS – THE Boat Owners Association of the United States – knows boaters like to share with friends and family breathtaking cruising destinations, the hottest fishing holes, ‘uh oh’ grounding spots to avoid and best of all – their boats current location.

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2010 Best Boating, Cruising, Travel Gear & Gift Guide

It’s that time of year again, when Your Cruising Editor reviews all her reviews for the BEST stuff your money can buy. And since we’re all doing some belt-tightening, I’ve included many HOT items that won’t make you part with BIG BOAT BUCKS!

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A New Way to Locate Boat Shows Around the World – iBoatShows, iPhone App Available Now!

Finally there’s an App For That! iBoatShows™ delivers boat show information on iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad. iTapTouch, LLC, a mobile applications development company, announced that their first app – iBoatShows™ — has been approved and is now available in the Apple App Store. The application was designed in response to the growing demand for key information on boat shows and other marine-industry events. iBoatShows, available today as a free download at the Apple App Store

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iPhone app helped find lost boat in Irish waters

With no flares, flash lights or VHF radio onboard, the Wee Rascal was unable to signal its position to rescuers. It was then that the Belfast Coastguard resorted to mobile phone technology a locator iPhone app was able to give rescuers the vital latitude and longitude they needed.

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The Most Innovative Way To Make Yourself Understood with Your iPhone!

Surely this is the most bizarre yet useful iPhone travel app yet? Make yourself understood in French, German or Arabic with this clever app from Emirates.

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Cool Stuff at Miami International Boat Show!

Day One: I’m off to the Miami Beach Convention Center for my first take on the show…we did a side-by-side comparison using my older 3G and his newest 3GS. There are some significant changes and all for the better. They finally added all the things that they should have put into the first version,but didn’t, in their infinite wisdom.

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