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15 Years Ago

  • 15 Years Ago

    01 Jun 2007

    This is what the industry was reading about in Boating Business in June 1992: from the vaults of marketing consultants PNTA – www.pnta.co.uk  

Business Matters

  • Tightening the screws on data protection

    01 Jun 2007

    Many businesses continue to bury their heads in the sand, thinking that data protection laws are little more than toothless red tape. Not so, warns Nigel Miller  

Heating & Air Conditioning

  • Latest on F-Gas Regulations

    01 Jun 2007

    With little by way of regulations on the horizon to affect the heating industry, BB searched through the refrigeration sector to find the only regulatory missives concern F-Gas.  

Legal

  • Frustration or registration?

    01 Jun 2007

    I’m sitting at my desk shuffling through the dog-eared bundle of bills of sale, invoices, out of date registration and warranty certificates and other detritus that normally represents the ‘Ships Papers’ of most UK pleasure vessels.  

News

  • Cockerell Centre opens at Lowestoft

    01 Jun 2007

    The new £6.5m Sir Christopher Cockerell Centre at Lowestoft College was recently officially unveiled by Frances Cockerell, the hovercraft inventor’s daughter, writes Debbie Cowan. 

  • Fairline dealers in south coast joint venture

    01 Jun 2007

    Fairline Essex and Fairline Channel Islands are to set up a joint venture to provide sales and service facilities along the UK south and south west coasts from Eastbourne to Bristol.   

  • Windsport needs instructors after Topper deal

    01 Jun 2007

    A Cornish watersports centre has signed a deal with Topper International to offer specialist Topper sailing tuition, customer support and boat sales, writes Katina Read.  

  • Watchmonitor to increase turnover

    01 Jun 2007

    Worldwide links are being forged by a Cornish company that has designed a piece of kit to help give boat owners peace of mind, writes Katina Read.  

  • Marine developments meeting

    01 Jun 2007

    Scottish Enterprise Ayrshire is giving a strong 'green for go' signal to the marine industry in the Clyde with an initiative that could become a template for other places in Scotland, writes Mike Balmforth.  

  • SPS abandons national park plans

    01 Jun 2007

    The Solent Protection Society (SPS) has abandoned its plan to create a marine national park in the western Solent, writes Iain Sutherland. 

  • Communication Aerials reduces prices, increases specs

    01 Jun 2007

    Communication Aerials is offering its Hawk and Whipflex masthead antennas for sailing boats with reduced prices, new engineering and new packaging.  

  • Locals pledge support to bring Honda F4 races to Lowestoft

    01 Jun 2007

    It will cost £30,000 to bring a two-day programme of Honda powerboat racing to Lowestoft this summer, but instead of hard cash, most of the money will be support in kind, writes Debbie Cowan. 

  • New separation scheme off Harwich

    01 Jun 2007

    Admiralty Charts & Publications has issued a completely revamped Thames Estuary Essex and Suffolk Coast North chart folio that will be available from June. 

  • Centek honours ASAP Supplies

    01 Jun 2007

    ASAP Supplies, based in Beccles, Suffolk, has been named by US company Centek Industries as its ‘exceptional international distributor of the year’.   

  • Retailers asked to benefit from C-Quip’s website

    01 Jun 2007

    C-Quip’s new website lists retailers of the company’s products. Ian Cooke says any company not listed is welcome to add their details through the ‘Dealer Search’ link at the bottom right of the site. 

  • Two take Lewmar long service awards

    01 Jun 2007

    Lewmar operations managers Kevin Saunders and Barry Moth received a special award last month to recognise their 15 years of continuous service at the company’s Havant headquarters. 

  • RCD non-compliance: no problem, says Nav&Gen

    01 Jun 2007

    In BB April we explained how Yachting World’s Elaine Bunting set the cat among the pigeons over accessories and RCD compliance.  

  • Sims offers his helmet for charity

    01 Jun 2007

    Andy Sims, operations director of Cooney Marine, is preparing to take on a major challenge for the MotoGP-backed charity Riders for Health www.riders.com 

  • SBS signs to Business Southampton

    01 Jun 2007

    The Southampton Boat Show is the latest organisation to sign up as a member of development group Business Southampton, writes Iain Sutherland.  

  • Loch Lomond sets speed zones

    01 Jun 2007

    Loch Lomond has been one of the most rapidly growing areas for boating business in Scotland, which is a welcome boost for the industry, writes Mike Balmforth.  

  • Boating went to Goodwood

    30 May 2007

    This year’s fifth Boating Comes To Goodwood was another successful event for the industry and for its progenitor, Brian Peters OBE, chairman of Peters~Opal and president-elect of the British Marine Federation (BMF). 

  • IWA condemns BW over privatisation moves

    30 May 2007

    An article appeared in The Times Business Section on May 24 with a headline that suggests the government is considering selling the country’s canals and waterways in a deal that could net the Treasury £1bn. 

  • HMS Bounty to star at Southampton Boat Show

    30 May 2007

    As Pirates of the Caribbean 3 opened across the country, National Boat Shows (NBS) announced HMS Bounty, one of the film’s featured ships, will be at this year’s Southampton Boat Show (SBS). 

  • Scottish marine developments meeting – June 5

    30 May 2007

    Scottish Enterprise Ayrshire is giving a strong 'green for go' signal to the marine industry on the Clyde, with an initiative that could become a template for other places in Scotland, writes Mike Balmforth. 

  • MCA staff take industrial action in pay row

    30 May 2007

    Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) staff began a campaign of industrial action over the Bank Holiday Weekend after a long-running dispute over pay.   

  • NBS adds Ipswich to Road Show tour

    22 May 2007

    After criticism that neither the north nor the east had been catered for, National Boat Shows (NBS) has had to add a second extra Boat Show Road Show.  

  • Middlewich Aqueduct collision – take two

    22 May 2007

    On Monday May 14, a large HGV hit the Middlewich Aqueduct, which carries the Shropshire Union Canal over the A530 Middlewich to Nantwich road. 

  • Whyte & Mackay sold

    22 May 2007

    The Indian spirits producer UB Group has agreed to pay £595 million for Whyte & Mackay, one of Scotland’s last independent whisky distillers and the major sponsor of the Earls Court Boat Show. 

  • Raymarine figures ‘in line with expectations’

    22 May 2007

    Raymarine says trading in the current year is expected to be in line with group expectations, despite a recent softening in the US market.  

  • Sumpter takes Lock Keeper of the Year Award

    22 May 2007

    The 2006 Lock Keeper of the Year Award was presented to Les Sumpter last month by Nigel Hamilton vice chairman of the Association of Pleasure Craft Operators (APCO). 

  • LBS: announcements soon from NBS…

    16 May 2007

    In a week of London boat show developments, BB received a call from Andy Williams, MD of National Boat Shows (NBS), promising there are lots of things almost ready to be announced for the London Boat Show at ExCeL.  

  • Palmer Johnson sets up in Cowes

    16 May 2007

    Top US Superyacht builder Palmer Johnson is set to move into East Cowes, initially creating 70 jobs, writes Iain Sutherland. 

  • Boatyard fire ‘started deliberately’

    16 May 2007

    Investigations were continuing yesterday into a fire that caused tens of thousands of pounds of damage that police say was ‘started deliberately’.  

  • Fareham freight firm in Cowes Week bid

    16 May 2007

    Fareham-based Premier Shipping and Packing is now in talks with Cowes Week to take on the £1.25m regatta sponsorship. 

  • Solent waterfront issues highlighted

    09 May 2007

    Companies from across the region congregated at Southampton Football Club stadium on April 27 to help marine businesses gain greater access to waterfront facilities in the Solent region.   

  • HYS trainee wins Young Apprentice of the Year

    09 May 2007

    Trainee boatbuilder Alice Le Good was presented with the Young Apprentice of the Year Award at the inaugural LSC South East Learning and Skills Awards in April.   

  • MCA workers to ban overtime

    09 May 2007

    A new wave of industrial action has hit the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) after marine surveyors and senior managers voted overwhelmingly for industrial action in a dispute over pay. 

  • DEFRA - a byword for incompetence

    09 May 2007

    The third adjournment debate on waterways funding on April 25 was introduced by Michael Fabricant, writes Stuart Fisher.  

  • Allies to leave BMF

    09 May 2007

    Toby Allies is to leave the British Marine Federation (BMF) after nine years, the last few spent as the federation’s exceptionally gifted director of international development.  

  • Silvertown Quays approved

    09 May 2007

    The revitalisation of the ExCeL area moved a step closer after Newham Borough Council gave its approval for work to begin on the £1.5bn redevelopment of Royal Victoria Docks in East London. 

News In Brief

  • News In Brief

    01 Jun 2007

    Here are a few snippets that hit the newsdesk In Tray in May...  

People

Portsmouth Poll

Seawork Innovations Showcase

Seawork Preview

  • Seawork celebrates its 10th anniversary

    01 Jun 2007

    While this is the 10th anniversary of Seawork International, the show had been running for a while before Mercator Media stepped in and developed it into the event we now know.  

Seawork Products Extra

Seawork products

Training

  • Training - a cost or an investment?

    01 Jun 2007

    Research as part of a recent ‘Train to Retain’ report published by City & Guilds states that the main reason given by a quarter of people when resigning was due to a lack of training and career development.   

Washington Post

Webtrading

  • Fast news with a Feed Reader

    01 Jun 2007

    In my last piece in BB we discussed the truth about Web 2.0, so this month we will look at another mystical web phrase; Really Simple Syndication or RSS.  

Windermere

  • Windermere: one year after the ban

    01 Jun 2007

    So what’s been going on at Windermere, asks Bilge Rat, one year after the Lake District National Park Authority imposed a 10mph speed limit?  

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