World of inflatable boats, Jets and RIB Tenders: WideDeck Series

World of inflatable boats, Jets and RIB Tenders: WideDeck Series: Storm 12 WideDeck Series

Gel Coat Spray Booth - Aquascan Yacht Tenders

Installing an Aquascan tender into a Pershing 62 Yacht

Engine Power

A lot of discussions and arguments are spend in the amount of power propulsion is need in a boat.
Many theories have develop regarding the safety issues that over powering a boat, any kind of brand or size boat can create.

Many times we have discuss with customer the same issues of what is appropriate and necessary to install as engine in a boat.
And then....... I get this picture and wonder what kind of thought pattern or what is the physical and mechanical advantage to have some kind of bass boat rigged with 9 yes I say 9 outboard engines of 25HP each.
Usually I get overwhelm when I see the same kind of boat with one 300 HP or two; but this....?
Some one please explain to me what is the concept or theory or ??????

World of inflatable boats, Jets and RIB Tenders: The working of our minds

World of inflatable boats, Jets and RIB Tenders: The working of our minds: Gut Bacteria Might Guide The Workings Of Our Minds Could the microbes that inhabit our guts help explain that old idea of "gut fe...

The working of our minds

Gut Bacteria Might Guide The Workings Of Our Minds

Could the microbes that inhabit our guts help explain that old idea of "gut feelings?" There's growing evidence that gut bacteria really might influence our minds.
"I'm always by profession a skeptic," says Dr. Emeran Mayer, a professor of medicine and psychiatry at the University of California in Los Angeles. "But I do believe that our gut microbes affect what goes on in our brains."
Mayer thinks the bacteria in our digestive systems may help mold brain structure as we're growing up, and possibly influence our moods, behavior and feelings when we're adults. He says, "It opens up a completely new way of looking at brain function and health and disease."
So Mayer is working on just that, doing MRI scans to look at the brains of thousands of volunteers and then comparing brain structure to the types of bacteria in their guts. He thinks he already has the first clues of a connection, from an analysis of about 60 volunteers.
Mayer found that the connections between brain regions differed depending on which species of bacteria dominated a person's gut. That suggests that the specific mix of microbes in our guts might help determine what kinds of brains we have - how our brain circuits develop and how they're wired.
Credit: Benjamin Arthur for NPR
Of course, this doesn't mean that the microbes are causing changes in brain structure, or in behavior.
But other researchers have been trying to figure out a possible connection by looking at gut microbes in mice. There they've found changes in both brain chemistry and behavior. One experiment involved replacing the gut bacteria of anxious mice with bacteria from fearless mice.
"The mice became less anxious, more gregarious," says Stephen Collins of Mc Master University in Hamilton, Ontario, who led a team that conducted the research.
It worked the other way around, too - bold mice became timid when they got the microbes of anxious ones. And aggressive mice calmed down when the scientists altered their microbes by changing their diet, feeding them pro biotics or dosing them with antibiotics.
by ROB STEIN

World of inflatable boats, Jets and RIB Tenders: Easy bording to a tender

World of inflatable boats, Jets and RIB Tenders: Easy bording to a tender: A short demonstration to get in and out of an Aquascan tender. The Runner 16 in this video has a lot of custom features requested by t...

Easy bording to a tender

A short demonstration to get in and out of an Aquascan tender.
The Runner 16 in this video has a lot of custom features requested by the client.

A very elegant and sleek designed is a must in the tender that is reflecting the personality of a yacht owner.
A very spacious and comfortable interior, custom seating and cushions; a very soft and easy care floor are just some of the optional in the Runner 16.Aquascan Rib

World of inflatable boats, Jets and RIB Tenders: Inflatablee fenders

World of inflatable boats, Jets and RIB Tenders: Inflatablee fenders: Aquascan Inflatable fenders are designed to be used by Motor Yachts, Yachts and super Yachts as well as any other vessel. Each fende...

Inflatablee fenders

Aquascan Inflatable fenders are designed to be used by Motor Yachts, Yachts and super Yachts as well as any other vessel.

Each fender is custom made with hypalon fabric offering the maximum protection.
The choice of color is very large; the most popular among users is grey, navy blue or black.
Inflatable fenders are UV resistant the ideal fender for the marine enviromet.
The custom fenders are easily stowed and will last for years. Another advantage is that they  are easily reparable.
The fenders can be customize with the name of you vessel adding an extra elegant touch to your yacht!

World of inflatable boats, Jets and RIB Tenders: Diesel jet tender Aquascan

World of inflatable boats, Jets and RIB Tenders: Diesel jet tender Aquascan: AQUASCAN has developed the Cobra DJ series. The DJ series solves the issue of diesel fuel requirement without compromising the safety, per...

World of inflatable boats, Jets and RIB Tenders: Jet Tenders

World of inflatable boats, Jets and RIB Tenders: Jet Tenders: AQUASCAN has developed the Sprinter FJet series to service the needs of the "no compromise" yacht tender market. In response ...

Life Jackets

Boaters enjoy the feel of sun and spray. So it’s tempting to boat without wearing a life jacket – especially on nice days. But modern life jackets are available in a wide variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. Many are thin and flexible. Some are built right into fishing vests or hunter coats. Others are inflatable — as compact as a scarf or fanny pack until they hit water, when they automatically fill with air.

There’s no excuse not to wear a life jacket on the water!

Things to Know:

• Certain life jackets are designed to keep your head above water and help you remain in a position which permits proper breathing.
   
• To meet U.S. Coast Guard requirements, a boat must have a U.S. Coast Guard-approved Type I, II, III, or V life jacket for each person aboard. Boats 16 feet and over must have at least one Type IV throwable device as well.

• All states have regulations regarding life jacket wear by children.
   
• Adult-sized life jackets will not work for children. Special life jackets are available. To work correctly, a life jacket must be worn, fit snugly, and not allow the child’s chin or ears to slip through.

•  Life jackets should be tested for wear and buoyancy at least once each year. Waterlogged, faded, or leaky jackets should be discarded.
   
• Life jackets must be properly stowed.
   
• A life jacket — especially a snug-fitting flotation coat or deck-suit style — can help you survive in cold water.

Always wear a life jacket when boating!

Aquascan Storm - Rigid inflatable boat

World of inflatable boats, Jets and RIB Tenders: Anchoring restrictions in Florida

World of inflatable boats, Jets and RIB Tenders: Anchoring restrictions in Florida: Under Florida law, boaters who use their boats for navigation (even if only occasionally) cannot be restricted from anchoring by a local ...

BEE APOCALYPSE NOW

Scientists discover what’s killing the bees and it’s worse than you thought

By Todd Woody @greenwombat July 24, 2013

Outlawing a type of insecticides is not a panacea. AP Photo/Ben Margot

As we’ve written before, the mysterious mass die-off of honey bees that pollinate $30 billion worth of crops in the US has so decimated America’s apis melliferapopulation that one bad winter could leave fields fallow. Now, a new study has pinpointed some of the probable causes of bee deaths and the rather scary results show that averting beemageddon will be much more difficult than previously thought.

Scientists had struggled to find the trigger for so-called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) that has wiped out an estimated 10 million beehives, worth $2 billion, over the past six years. Suspects have included pesticides, disease-bearing parasites and poor nutrition. But in a first-of-its-kind study published today in the journal PLOS ONE, scientists at the University of Maryland and the US Department of Agriculture have identified a witch’s brew of pesticides and fungicides contaminating pollen that bees collect to feed their hives. The findings break new ground on why large numbers of bees are dying though they do not identify the specific cause of CCD, where an entire beehive dies at once.

When researchers collected pollen from hives on the east coast pollinating cranberry, watermelon and other crops and fed it to healthy bees, those bees showed a significant decline in their ability to resist infection by a parasite calledNosema ceranae. The parasite has been implicated in Colony Collapse Disorder though scientists took pains to point out that their findings do not directly link the pesticides to CCD. The pollen was contaminated on average with nine different pesticides and fungicides though scientists discovered 21 agricultural chemicals in one sample. Scientists identified eight ag chemicals associated with increased risk of infection by the parasite.

Most disturbing, bees that ate pollen contaminated with fungicides were three times as likely to be infected by the parasite. Widely used, fungicides had been thought to be harmless for bees as they’re designed to kill fungus, not insects, on crops like apples.

“There’s growing evidence that fungicides may be affecting the bees on their own and I think what it highlights is a need to reassess how we label these agricultural chemicals,” Dennis vanEngelsdorp, the study’s lead author, told Quartz.

Labels on pesticides warn farmers not to spray when pollinating bees are in the vicinity but such precautions have not applied to fungicides.

Bee populations are so low in the US that it now takes 60% of the country’s surviving colonies just to pollinate one California crop, almonds. And that’s not just a west coast problem—California supplies 80% of the world’s almonds, a market worth $4 billion.

In recent years, a class of chemicals called neonicotinoids has been linked to bee deaths and in April regulators banned the use of the pesticide for two years in Europe where bee populations have also plummeted. But vanEngelsdorp, an assistant research scientist at the University of Maryland, says the new study shows that the interaction of multiple pesticides is affecting bee health.

“The pesticide issue in itself is much more complex than we have led to be believe,” he says. “It’s a lot more complicated than just one product, which means of course the solution does not lie in just banning one class of product.”

The study found another complication in efforts to save the bees: US honey bees, which are descendants of European bees, do not bring home pollen from native North American crops but collect bee chow from nearby weeds and wildflowers. That pollen, however, was also contaminated with pesticides even though those plants were not the target of spraying.

“It’s not clear whether the pesticides are drifting over to those plants but we need take a new look at agricultural spraying practices,” says vanEngelsdorp.

The Lakota Nation

The Lakota Nation is suffering

Pine Ridge is the poorest area of the United States with the statistics of a third world country, lack of housing, lack of heat and running water, 85% unemployment, 70% school drop out, high rates of alcoholism and drugs, very high teenage suicide rates, poor health and nutrition, and a life expectancy of only 47 years. The current reality is that Lakota people are at a precipice—unless something is done to affect change, this once noble nation will be “just pages in history books.”


http://www.sunkawakan.org/

Anchoring restrictions in Florida

Under Florida law, boaters who use their boats for navigation (even if only occasionally) cannot be restricted from anchoring by a local jurisdiction (city or county) outside of permitted mooring fields. Cities and counties are expressly forbidden to “enact, continue in effect, or enforce any ordinance or local regulation ... regulating the anchoring of vessels other than live-aboard vessels outside the marked boundaries of mooring fields.” (Note definition of live-aboard below.)

Local governments may regulate anchoring within the marked boundaries of properly permitted mooring fields.

 As of September 2012 these are:

 Key West Mooring Field, Ft. Myers Beach Mooring Field, Fernandina Beach Municipal Mooring Field, Miami Dinner Key Mooring Field, City of St. Augustine Mooring Field, Titusville City Mooring Field, City of Sarasota Mooring Field, City of St. Petersburg Mooring Field, City of Naples Mooring Field, City of Punta Gorda Mooring Field, and Fort Myers Beach Mooring Field.

Inflatable Boat

We use all kind of tools and new technologies to build the best boat possible and then the only really you need is immagination.

It is really amazing what people can do when they are open to let creativity and ingineuty come to the rescue!

World of inflatable boats, Jets and RIB Tenders: Water test of a new jet tender Aquascan

World of inflatable boats, Jets and RIB Tenders: Water test of a new jet tender Aquascan:   Testing the ‪#‎ Aquascan‬ jet F14 before delivering it to the yacht.  Each ‪#‎ inflatable‬ ‪#‎ tender‬ must be tested, here the captai...