Month: September 2013
Mercury Racing 520
Mercury Marine has introduced of a new 8.6-liter sterndrive — the Mercury Racing 520 — that bridges the gap between two of its other 8.2-liter engines, the 430-hp MerCruiser for recreational boats and the 525-hp Mercury Racing engine. Backed by a two-year warranty, the 520 uses the same cylinder block as its […] Read More
The Complete Listing of Marinas and Locks on the Inland and Gulf Intracoastal Waterways
Digital Yacht GPS150 DualNav GPS/GLONASS Sensor
The new GPS150 DualNav positioning sensor from Digital Yacht combines a super accurate 50 channel GPS with GLONASS, the Russian funded satellite positioning system that is now on line and providing an excellent back up or alternative to GPS. This “smart” sensor will automatically switch between the systems, or the the user can manually […] Read More
Sail Like Columbus
Remember that poem: In fourteen hundred and ninety-two, a gravedigger, a history teacher and a bartender sailed the ocean blue. True, it once was Christopher Columbus in that childhood poetry, but now the sailors on his ships, replicas of the Nina and Pinta, are a diverse crew of mostly volunteers. Allison Asher […] Read More
USA Today Calls Ethanol Mandate “Obsolete”
An editorial written by USA Today’s Editorial Board deals harshly, but factually, with the ethanol mandate contained in the 2007 Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). The article begins bluntly, “When members of Congress decided in 2007 to require that Americans put 36 billion gallons of ethanol and other biofuels in their gas tanks annually by […] Read More
Barges for Paducah Riverfront Project Halted
The City of Paducah has released the barges that have been used to transport more than 300,000 tons of stone for its Riverfront Development Project. According to the city, this was to prevent a $6,000-per-day charge to reserve the barges for potential work. The City Commission decided in a closed meeting not […] Read More