The Recreational Boating Industries Educational Foundation Grants |
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The Recreational Boating Industries
Educational Foundation
Grants $7,000 to 12 Michigan
Students Interested in Marine Industry Careers
Livonia, MI, June, 25, 2010 - - The Recreational Boating
Industries Educational
Foundation (RBIEF) awarded $7,000 in scholarship funds to 11 students
for the
2010/2011 school year. The RBIEF
scholarship fund was developed in 1984 by the Michigan Boating
Industries
Association (MBIA) as a support program for students interested in
pursuing
careers in the recreational boating industry. more |
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2010 Bayview Mackinac Race Updates |
Pure Michigan Returns as
Title Sponsor
for 2010 Bayview Mackinac Race
Sponsoring Race Tracking Transponders
The Race
Committee is very excited to announce that Pure Michigan has returned as
the title sponsor for the 2010 Pure Michigan Bayview Mackinac Race. We
feel that our race embodies all those ideals that Pure Michigan
supports, and we're elated that they feel the same way. more |
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Chicago's Mackinac Cup - Looking forward to Chicago's next Cup |
 The prestigious Mackinac Cup is up for
grabs in the 102nd Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac
Chicago
has mastered the ice; now it’s time for the water. The next Cup on the
minds of Chicagoans and thousands of Midwest sailors is the prestigious
Mackinac Cup, the perpetual challenge emblem for the oldest and largest
freshwater sailing race this side of the world — the Chicago Yacht Club
Race to Mackinac, presented by Veuve Clicquot.
The Mackinac
Cup was commissioned in 1905,12 years after Lord Stanley’s, although
the NHL has been using the Cup as its championship for only 83 years,
where the honor of the Mac Cup will be contested for the 102nd time this
year. The 2010 Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac, presented by Veuve
Clicquot, begins July 24th . more |
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Marquette, Mich., a Superior destination |
 The exhibit at the Marquette County History Museum tried to dispel any
misperception of "yoopers" as uneducated people. In fact, according to
"Anatomy of a Yooper," literacy rates in Marquette, the best-known city
in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, are higher than the state average.
Curious, I asked a guest at a cocktail party in the northern Michigan
college town whether she considered herself a yooper, the word often
used to describe Upper Peninsula residents. "Of course," she said.
"We're proud of it." more...
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MBIA Members Receive 5% Insurance Dividend |
| June 25,
2010 – Livonia, MI – 48 Michigan Boating Industries Association
(MBIA) members participating in the MBIA endorsed Great Midwest
Insurance
Company (GMIC) Program, have qualified to receive a 5% dividend check as
a result
of participating in the 2009 MBIA/GMIC insurance program. more |
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Does Alcohol Mix with Water? |
The Busiest Boating Day of the
Year and Alcohol's Influence
ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 29,
2010 - The July 4th holiday is expected to bring record numbers of
boaters, sailors and anglers to the water. Along with hot dogs and apple
pie, alcohol will be on hand for many on this national day of
celebration. Boat Owners Association of The United States(BoatU.S.) has three
tips that can help ensure it's also a safe holiday for everyone aboard. more |
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2010 Chicago Mac Party Season Details |
| Hello Mac Racers – it is
the 2010 Mac Party Season! The 2010 Mac Race Party season is right
around the corner. Check out the details.
Wednesday, July 21st - Family Night - 6-8pm CDT
Free fun
activities for the kids – open to all race participants and Chicago
Yacht Club members. more |
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Ohio Supreme Court takes on the issue of who owns the Lake Erie shoreline |
Traditionally you could walk or fish from anywhere along Lake Erie's
shore. Or is it the other way around? Property owners have always had
the right to limit who steps on their land right up to the water's edge. more...
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Legal battle brews over War of 1812 shipwreck |
Could a 76-year-old issue of The Beaver -- the venerable Canadian
history magazine -- scuttle the controversy over a well-preserved Lake
Erie shipwreck? more...
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Smooth move: Ospreys thriving in new home at Iroquois Lock |
 A family of ospreys that built a nest atop a crane
near the Iroquois Lock has now settled into its new home.
At least one chick has hatched since the ospreys were relocated
by St. Lawrence Seaway staff and experts on May 21, reports Seaway
communications officer Andrew Bogora. more... |
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FORMATS AND FOULS |
So, the
America’s Cup has begun a new era in the stewardship of Larry Ellison,
Russell Coutts and BMW Oracle. And the hope for those involved in
professional sailboat racing is for a brave new world of media friendly
sport – in which television will play
an integral part. more...
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Misty beach |
 These are the best times when you have a good paddle, sitting on the
beach and watching the misty rain move in just after you got off the
water. more...
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