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The boating world comes together each year for 64 hours in Washington, D.C. to hear about the top issues facing the $121 billion industry at the American Boating Congress (ABC). …

Boaters pay a lot in taxes and fees. While not exactly earth-shattering news, it’s worth mentioning and highlighting what the 250,000 registered boats (not to mention the visiting vessels) do …

What’s the best boating advice you have ever received? Maybe it’s “red, right, return” or as my former colleague Tony Floor would say, “If you can see the bait [in …

Stats are for baseball fans. Stick to stories. There’s nothing like going on a long cruise. In my case, I had the great pleasure last summer of spending time on …

$180 billion. That amount is the grand total spent by advertisers in the United States in 2015, according to statista.com. If you do the math, $180 billion is $553 spent …

Well, I had this column all written out in my head and then last Thursday occurred to put a real wrinkle on everything. What was supposed to be a pretty …

Given the current presidential noise, I’m going to leave sex out of this column. Good grief, have we had enough already with the dumbing down of issues of national significance? …

I would forgive you if you do not know the name James Unruh. He was the former California state treasurer who coined the expression that “money is the mother’s milk …

Northwest Yachting columnist Peter Schrappen sent this message out to NMTA member companies about an important deadline, the message applies to boaters who aren’t “in the biz” as well. One of …

Ed. Note: Peter has been following this issue closely, and in this piece for the Puget Sound Business Journal, he takes it a step further and offers up some creative thinking to …

Howdy, folks! We are in the throes of campaign season. That’s right. This is one time of year when you can count on hearing from your elected officials and those …