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Book NOW for this year’s Leather & Lycra
Places are running out on the 4th running of the popular Leather & Lycra event at this year’s PSP Southampton Boat Show, so you need to get your booking in ASAP to make sure of a place as a runner or a rider. 31 Aug 2010
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Leisure show partners with ITV Meridian
The organisers of the British Leisure Show say the attendance at the 2010 show was 21,886 and the 2011 show will be run in association with ITV Meridian, offering promotion of the show to an even bigger audience. 31 Aug 2010
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BMEA Conference Day 2010
The 2010 British Marine Electronics Association Conference runs on Wednesday October 20 at the Portsmouth Marriott Hotel, with presentations by distinguished speakers and, of course, the BMEA Awards. 31 Aug 2010
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Thames to get £3.8m maintenance spend
The Environment Agency will spend £3.8m on River Thames maintenance works over the 2010-11 winter. Major projects to replace lock gates and refurbish chambers at Hurley and Sandford will take up nearly half the sum. 31 Aug 2010
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Suzuki signs up to Liverpool Boat Show
The latest big name to sign up for the Liverpool Boat Show is Suzuki, with a full range of outboard motors, powerboats and RIBs that will be shown on a 1,000 sq m land site and eight pontoon berths. 31 Aug 2010
End of Life Options for FRP Composites
About 160,000 tonnes of FRP waste is produced each year and needs to be dealt with. A call for papers has been issued for a technical workshop on end of life options for FRP composites on December 2 in Chesterfield, UK. 31 Aug 2010
ASAP gets 100% in IIP re-assessment
Having an Investors In People re-assessment in the middle of a company restructure seems not to have fazed ASAP Supplies at all as the IIP assessors came back with a report that the staff have a ‘100% satisfaction level’. 25 Aug 2010
Castle acquires historic Dinorwic Marina
The south coast-based Castle Marinas Group, which owns five inland and two coastal marines, has embarked on a new phase of expansion of their marinas portfolio with the acquisition of the historic Port Dinorwic marina. 17 Aug 2010
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If something's getting up your nose
Some boaters are coming in complaining of a ‘nasty niff’ emanating from their onboard toilet areas but what do you check? Stevie Knight talks pooh to find out. 03 Aug 2010
Pump out: finding a fitting end
Although they might have done the conscientious thing about blackwater waste, there’s still no guarantee boaters will find an ‘adequate reception’. 30 Jul 2010
When watermakers go bad
It isn’t just the ‘blackwater’ that can create unmentionable nastiness. Lindsay Ross of Fischer Panda explains, ‘if you have ever had occasion to open up a watermaker system on a boat that has been left with sea water sitting in it for a year or more then you would not forget it.' 30 Jul 2010
New bi-stable power relay
E-T-A Circuit Breakers has introduced a new bi-stable power relay designed for single-pole switching of loads in vehicle and watercraft applications. 15 Jul 2010
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