One of the hottest new water toy lines to be offered in the UK and Europe is from SportsStuff, Inc.

of Omaha in the USA (IMDA Email: gregh@sportsstuff.com, www.sportsstuff.com). The company recently began this distributororiented expansion program for their popular inflatable boating towables and winter sport products.

Gilbert Cauvin, Lafayette Marine, LLC , (IMDA Email: Gilcauvin@aol.com) ex-OMC and Genmar export director, has recently joined IMDA's Global Marine Network , as international sales manager and will headquarter in Cannes, France beginning in March. One of his lines is the new high-tech brushless and slotless electric outboards from Outboard Electric in the USA (IMDA Email: afishman. jpc@snet.net, www: outboardelectric.org), said to deliver equivalent thrust to a 10 hp.

2-stroke outboard. It utilises former US Navy technology.

Singapore marine distributor, Mavis Lim, Kemsa (Far East) Pte Ltd (IMDA Email: kemsa@mbox2.singnet.com.sg;

www.KemsaFarEast.com) is searching for new marine lines to carry in Southeast Asia, particularly those compatible with Resinex, Carmanal Tech and Urethane Products - their current offerings.

Jim Caudill, owner of MunsonHammerhead LLC in Bow, Washington, USA (IMDA Email: Hammerhead@fidalgo.net) has licensed his first builder (in Venezuela) for his electronically lofted commercial aluminium boat designs. Caudill wants several licensees in the UK, particularly for the second generation of the original SAFE boats he built for the US government in the late 1990's, now being used for terrorist control in harbour areas, including drone boats.