(thesunnews)  Six months after a boating accident that killed three passengers on
their way home to Sandy Island, the driver of the boat has been fined
for safety violations.  Tiffany Tucker was issued several
citations Tuesday for not having proper flotation devices in the
14-foot fiberglass boat, carrying six people on Feb. 18, said Lt.
Robert McCullough with the state Department of Natural Resources.  Source

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• Sandy Iceland boat operators tickets

    (thesunnews)  Six months after a boating accident that killed three passengers on their way home to Sandy Island, the driver of the boat has been fined for safety violations.  Tiffany Tucker was issued several citations Tuesday for not having proper flotation devices in the 14-foot fiberglass boat, carrying six people on Feb. 18,

• Australian Standard PFD for New Boaters

     (powerboat-world) Australia’s marine safety authorities have agreed to accept Personal Flotation Devices made to the new Australian Standard 4758 by 1 July 2010.  Source

• New York City Law staged Cold Weather PFD

     (windcheck) New York Governor David Paterson recently signed a bill that was passed by the state Legislature in the spring, thus making New York the first state to require everyone aboard all small boats to wear life jackets during the coldest half of the year. As of November 1, kayakers, canoeists and those aboard

• Stuck yacht near Jetty

     (nbc) A crowd of people watched as salvage crews tried to retrieve a 60-foot pleasure boat stuck near a jetty in Oceanside Sunday.  The boat was having engine problems before it drifted into the jetty at the northern end of Harbor Beach Saturday night. By the next morning the

• Debt Trips Up Hinckley, ladies Yacht Maker

     (nytimes)  David Rockefeller Sr. ordered a new boat last year, a $3 million 55-foot powerboat.  Mr. Rockefeller, now 94 years old, may not have needed a new boat. It was, after all, the sixth he has bought from Hinckley Yachts in Southwest Harbor. But Hinckley Yachts and its workers certainly

• Coast Guard rescues 2 in the vicinity of Little Egg Inlet, NJ

     (coastguardnews)  The Coast Guard rescued two people aboard a 40-foot boat near Little Egg Inlet, N.J., Monday.  Source

• Coast Guard Station Menemsha destroys boat house on fire

     (mvtimes) A mid-afternoon fire that broke out at 2:42 pm destroyed the Coast Guard boathouse in Menemsha, and its pier, and a truck and trailer for a 25-foot boat. The fire has been extinguished.  Source

• Good Samaritan saves 8 in the vicinity of Cape May, NJ

     (coastguardnews)  A Good Samaritan rescued eight people who were aboard a sinking 48-foot boat 55 miles east of Cape May Saturday.  Source

• Coast Guard assists in multiple-agency rescue near Wantagh, N.Y.

     (coastguardnews) The Coast Guard is assisting in a multiple-agency rescue of injured boaters after their 40-foot boat ran aground near Wantagh, N.Y., at approximately 7:30 p.m. today.  Source

• Coast Guard boats and commercial catamaran collide

     (coastguardnews) A 25-foot Coast Guard small boat and the Thriller, a 43-passanger power catamaran, collided in Charleston Harbor Saturday at approximately 8:21 p.m.  Source