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Montreal Boat Show Opens Tomorrow

The Montreal Boat and Water Sports Show runs from January 28 to February 1 at Place Bonaventure, Montreal, Quebec. With more than 400 different boats, 150 exhibitors and about 30,000 visitors expected, this 11th annual boating extravaganza has all sorts of boats from cruisers to kayaks, fishing boats, sailboats, parts, accessories, clothing and more. For more info, see the show website by clicking here.

Mercury Announces New Bravo Three Propellers

Mercury Marine has introduced new versions of the 20-, 21- and 22.5-inch pitch front propellers in Mercury's Bravo Three propeller lineup. The three new propellers provide improved performance, including a significant reduction in time to plane. The three-blade rear propeller continues in production unchanged.

“The lower-pitch front propellers in the Bravo Three lineup have been redesigned from top to bottom,” says Mercury Product Manager, Dirk Bjornstad. “These changes result in better acceleration across the board with light and heavy loads.
The differences are most pronounced on boats with slower acceleration times. We've seen up to eight percent faster acceleration with the new four-blade front propeller in heavier applications."

A Bravo Three propeller set consists of two counter-rotating propellers mounted in tandem on the same drive. The Generation II Bravo Three propellers feature a four-blade front and a three-blade rear while the Generation I Bravo Three propellers used a three-blade front and rear.  

“Our engineers have made refinements to the rake profile to provide the kind of holding customers expect with a four-blade front propeller,” said Bjornstad. “The new low pitch propellers ensure the complete line of Generation II models will accelerate and hold better than their predecessors.”

Production of the latest revision of the 20, 21 and 22.5 Brave Three series began on January 22.

Campion Sells First 'Bio-Boat'

Campion Marine, Kelowna, BC, broke new ground at  the Toronto International Boat Show last week with the sale of its first bio-resin, bio-diesel-powered boat.

Campion General Manger Brock Elliott announced “we have just contracted the first-ever Envirez boat to be run on bio-diesel. The Campion Allante 645i bowrider will be powered by new Volvo Penta D3 200 horsepower engine, and will be built using resin from renewable resources.”

Campion Allante 645i

The boat was purchased by an Ontario boater named Mr. Mark Hayhoe, on the heels of Campion's announcement at the start of the Toronto International Boat Show that the company will build all its boats going forward using Ashland’s environmentally-friendly Envirez product.

“I have wanted an ecologically-friendly boat for some time, but the right combination has not been available until now,” says Hayhoe. “I have spent a lot of summers on the Muskoka lakes and I am impressed with Campion's vision towards a more ecologically responsible boating experience. This will be an exciting project and I look forward to picking up my Campion bio-boat and getting out on Lake Muskoka.”

Brock Elliott announced that Campion will become the first boat builder in the world to manufacture all of its product with Envirez, a renewably-sourced bio-derived resin from Ashland Performance Materials, at the beginning of the Toronto show. Envirez resin is descried as using a substantial amount of soybean oil and corn-derived ethanol in its formulation.

“Ashland's bio-based resin delivers the performance characteristics we want for our boats and it reduces our reliance on petroleum-based counterparts,” says Elliott. “We are putting Envirez resin in all our boats, not only because of its superior performance relating to strength and elongation, but because it's the right thing to do for our world. We have tested the Envirez resin hulls in our Chase 550 and 600 on Lake Okanagan for the past two years, and it has proven itself. We will now use the product to form all of our hulls, liners and decks.”

Elliott notes that Campion's adoption of Envirez resin will eliminate more than 100,000 pounds of carbon monoxide from entering the atmosphere.

Halifax Boat Show Photo Contest Deadline Extended

How would you like to win a $200 gift certificate to spend at the Halifax International Boat Show? Or a new digital camera?

The Atlantic Marine Trades Association (AMTA) has extended the entry deadline for its 2010 Halifax International Boat Show photo contest to February 15. If you have some snappy photos of boating in Atlantic Canada, here's your chance to win a new digital camera, courtesy of Fairway Insurance, or one of  a pair of $200 gift certificates to spend at this year's Halifax International Boat Show courtesy of Discover Boating. 

Silver Fox Yacht Club, Summerside, PEI.

Entries can be submitted electronically to editor@advocatemediainc.com as 300 dpi high resolution files, or printed and mailed to the 2010 Halifax International Boat Show Photo Contest, 162 Trider Cres., Dartmouth, NS, B3B 1R6.

All entries will be displayed at the 2010 Halifax International Boat Show.

Visit www.atlanticboatingnews.com for further details.