The NSBC began in 1958 as the National Safe Boating Committee and their purpose was to plan for each year’s National Safe Boating Week, said Rachel Johnson, Communications Director at the NSBC. A few years later, an official resolution was passed that designated the full week before Memorial Day weekend National Safe Boating Week.

She said one of the main educational and outreach efforts of the NSBC is the “Wear It!” campaign.

“The campaign is designed to educate boaters about the importance of always wearing a life jacket while boating and offering them information on the different styles that are available so they can choose the right life jacket for their boating lifestyle,” she said.

According to the NSBC, drowning was the reported cause of death in almost 75 percent of all boating fatalities and 88 percent of those were reported as not wearing life jackets. To kick off National Safe Boating Week, the third-annual “Ready, Set, Wear It!” Life Jacket World Record Day will take place on Saturday, May 19.

“The goal of “Ready, Set, Wear It!” is not only to beat the 2011 record of 1,685 life jackets worn throughout the world, but to promote the comfortable and versatile options when it comes to life jackets and to educate the public about life jackets and safe boating in general,” Johnson said.

Prior to the start of National Safe Boating Week, individuals are encouraged to wear their life jackets to work on Friday, May 18, and take a photo of it, according to the NSBC. Participants are encouraged to share their photos with others and post them on the “Ready, Set, Wear It!” Facebook wall.

According to the NSBC, this initiative demonstrates how easy it is to wear a life jacket and helps spread the word about life jacket use.

According to statistics on boating fatalities from the United States Coast Guard, there has been a steady decrease in boating fatalities since about 1960. This supports the claim that boating has gotten safer since the first national observance of NSBW.

Our infographic below displays boating injuries and deaths from 2006 to 2010, and the data show the same pattern of steady decrease.

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We have a series of goodies coming up next week in preparation for National Safe Boating Week, so stay tuned! In the meantime, take a few minutes and check out the FLW Boating Safety Challenge:

http://www.boaterexam.com/challenge/

Entering is easy. Take the 10-question quiz until you pass with seven correct answers. Then, submit your information for a chance to win a trip for two to the FLW Forrest Wood Cup! Share your results on your social media pages for even more opportunities to win!

If you want to brush up on your boating knowledge, here’s our Boaters Safety Quiz:

http://www.manitouboats.com/blog/boating-safety-quiz-from-manitou-pontoon-boats-boatsafe-discover-boating/

The quiz can easily be shared or added to your website.

Image courtesy of National Safe Boating Council

We, as well as everyone involved in National Safe Boating Week, always encourage responsible and safe boating practices. We look forward to the next couple weeks and hope you do, too!

With a grand prize of an all-expense-paid trip to the Forrest Wood Cup, bass fishing’s biggest annual event, this contest is sure to get lots of interest from avid anglers—the most enthusiastic can give themselves a great edge in the draw. By sharing the quiz through Twitter or Facebook, participants can earn extra entries. Every referral that completes the quiz is an extra entry into the draw. It’s as easy as that.

The contest runs until July 8th, 2012. A draw for the winner will be held shortly thereafter and winners will travel to Duluth, Georgia for the event from August 9th-12th, 2012.

To take the quiz and get entered into the FLW Boating Safety Challenge, visit: http://www.boaterexam.com/challenge/.

For those who are interested in polishing and protecting the tubes on your pontoon boat, here is a list of materials and step by step process to make your tubes shine like a mirror.

Start out getting the right tools and supplies.

I bought 2 quarts of Sharkhide Protectant http://www.sharkhide.com/index.html, 2 quarts of Cleaner and 1 can of polish. This ended up being more than enough to do 2 boats, actually.

I used my 8″ 3000 to 8000 RPM Sander/ Polisher and 5 buffing pads

-1 gallon of Lacquer thinner

-About 2 dozen old cotton rags and 1 roll of paper towels

-600 and 1000 grit wet/dry sandpaper to sand out scratches

-1 brass chisel and a small dead blow hammer to knock of welding slag.

-Masking tape, I used 2″ wide

-Plastic to cover the trailer

1. Start out by removing any prior protectant by washing the pontoons off with lacquer thinner poured into a rag. If any protectant is on, you’ll see it dissolve. Get it all off, or the Cleaner won’t attack the aluminum, which is what you want it to do.

2. Next, when drying the pontoon off you can feel any slag which was splattered on the pontoon during the welding process. Remove this with a soft tap on a chisel with a hammer I could even just use my hand in most cases. Wet sand the rest off and any scratches you want to remove. In my case, it was the bad scratches down the center of my pontoons from the previous owners docking technique. I don’t think he had one!

3. Dry again. Then tape of all areas you are not going to treat and cover the trailer with plastic sheeting to protect them from the acid and polishing compound.

4. Get ready to clean…Dilute the Sharkhide Cleaner to strength needed. I diluted mine 3 parts water to 1 part cleaner in a garden sprayer or spray bottle. Spray on the cleaner, evenly, let it foam up. After about 3 minutes of working time, I rinsed it off with water. This left behind a nice white finish that will let the polishing compound do its job more easily.

5. Polish time! Working in about a 3 foot section, I started at the top of the pontoon and worked my way down in an S shape to the masking tape line at the trailer bunk. Clean excess compound from the pad when it builds up and starts to bite hard. Add more compound to the pontoon when it seems like it does not bite any more. You want it to bite into the aluminum to work properly. Clean the pontoon as you finish up each section with lacquer thinner. Go to the next section and repeat all the steps until you are done with that pontoon.

6. After the polishing is complete, wash the pontoon off with lacquer thinner to remove all residue left from the compound. Make sure you remove it all. Use white rags or paper towels and clean until you get no black residue on the rags. If the tube is not completely free of residue the Sharkhide will not stick to the aluminum.

7. After you are done, it is time to apply the Protectant. It does not take much! Use a clean rag and fold it to the size of your palm. Pour a little Protectant to the front of the rag and wipe it on the tube in 6 foot sections. I found that working in a right to left motion from top to bottom worked the best for me. I did miss a few small spots, but after the first coat cures, in about 24 to 36 hours, you apply the 2nd coat; you can catch all the spots, missed. Don’t try to apply to missed spots when it is still wet, it will dissolve the first application and look splotchy. After the second coat is on, you can either stop there or apply a third.

 If anyone has any questions or comments, contact me at sales@ezfender.com

We know many of you out there maintain a blog or website of your own and often times you like to share stories about your fishing or water sports adventures on your Manitou Pontoon. So if you fall into this category, we figured we’d give you a couple of cool badges you can share on your blog or website, or even on Facebook or Pinterest if you’re so inclined. Like what you see? Just copy and paste the code into your html editor to add it to your own site!

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How to tie a bowline knot.

Clove hitch knot

Figure eight/flemish/savoy knot

Fisherman’s Knot (also known as angler’s knot, English knot, Englishman’s bend, halibut knot, true lover’s bend, waterman’s knot)

Lark’s head knot (also known as a cow hitch or lanyard hitch)

Reef/Square Knot

Rolling Hitch (also known as the magner’s hitch, magnus hitch, tautline hitch)

Round Turn and Two Half Hitches

Sheepshank

Sheet Bend (also known as a common bend or flag bend)

Double Sheet Bend

Thief Knot

Thumb Knot/Overhand knot

Timber Hitch

For more knots and info please check out the sources of these great videos:

• Howcast.com
• Ladyjulia.com
• Forest Trenaman
• McGraw Hill
• Self Made Sailor
• Expert Village
• Video Fishing Knots

In the early days of the internet, it was one of the more popular hosting providers, and with its demise also came the demise of an immense amount of websites with a ton of great information. So in an effort to talk about some other things useful to those of you interested in our pontoon boats, we thought we’d point you to a revived version of  a popular old site on GeoCities that we thought had gone down with the ship. For you knot enthusiasts, there’s a new version of the Notable Knot Index formerly available at http://www.geocities.com/roo_two/knotindex.html that you can find here.

The bowrider and pontoon are two entirely different boats, but they are increasingly similar in their performance. This comparison looks at Manitou’s X-PLODE model pontoon—one of the fastest, most comfortable pontoons on the market—and the Cobalt 276—the Bentley of sportboats.

MANITOU X-PLODE

Photo courtesy of Manitou Boats

The Manitou X-PLODE sits at the cross-section of speed, luxury and ultimate comfort. Its innovative design is unlike any other pontoon, with sportboat handling specifications, an impressive platform for watersports enthusiasts, a variety of floor plan options, plenty of features for entertaining and more.

Sport handling package

Let’s look at the X-PLODE’s sport handling package. The X-PLODE is a performance boat unlike any other, because it offers a pontoon feel and V-hull characteristics. Manitou’s trademarked triple tube design is what allows for maximum handling and comfort. The design consists of a lowered center tube with a larger diameter and lifting strakes on each side of the three tubes, that when put into a turn, perform much like a fiberglass V-hull. Your guests will experience more comfort and relaxation as they are not pushed to either side of the boat with each turn.

Standard features

Manitou’s X-PLODE offers standard features that most sport boats don’t include standard or even offer as optional features. Manitou includes features of the likes of portable cup holders, a mooring cover, a stern toy box, privacy curtain kit and a color-matched steering wheel. Here is a complete list of standard features:

• 12 volt outlet and iPod/Mp3 holder and input jack
• AM and FM Sony CD player w/ set of 6 speakers
• Anodized rub rail w/ stainless steel dock guard
• Anodized walls
• Bimini anchor light
• Carpet – shaw (taupe)
• Cooler – 24 can, hard side
• Corner castings – stainless steel
• Crossmembers – extruded aluminum
• Cupholders – portable
• Cupholders – stainless steel
• Deck – limited lifetime warranty
• Depth gauge
• Dinette table
• Docking lights – LED
• Fasteners – stainless steel
• Fuel gauge
• Furniture – Comfort Touch marine vinyl
• Furniture – extended starboard chaise
• Gas tank – built-in, 51 gallon
• Helm chair – reclines mid-back w/ self-leveling arms
• Helm chair – automotive-style slider
• Helm – fiberglass w/ Soft Touch automotive-style top
• Horn
• Hourmeter
• Ladder – stainless steel, stern entry
• Lift gates
• Light – courtesy
• Master on/off battery switch
• Mooring cleats – 4 regular, stainless steel
• Mooring cover
• Mooring eyes
• Motor mount – aluminum w/ splash shields
• Navigation lights – LED
  NMMA certified using ABYC standards
• Nose cones – anti-spray integrated splash fins
• Pontoon tube riser – full-length
• Privacy station curtain kit
• Seat hinges – hands-free loading
• Ski tow bar
• Speedometer
• Steering wheel – color-matched
• Swim platforms – built-in
• Tachometer
• Trim gauge – w/ pre-rig
• Voltmeter
• Waste basket
• Windscreen

Optional features

Still swooning over the X-PLODE’s awesome dose of standard features? That’s nothing. The available options for this model exceed all expectations. Manitou offers optional features like a portable table capable of rolling within the boat; a galley with sink for entertaining and storing tableware and party favors; and a portable barbeque grill. Other options include a bow filler bench, stainless steel bimini frame and a power bimini for those who aren’t a fan of elbow grease. Here is a complete list of optional features:

• BBQ grill
• Battery charging system
• Acrylic tubes
• Bimini top – power arm
• Bow gate filler seat bench
• Center in-tube storage
• Cooler – 24 can, hard side
• Cupholders – portable
• Dock bumper
• Double bimini top – stainless steel
• Dual battery smart switch
• Enclosure – full
• Enclosure – stern
• Galley w/ sink
• Helm chair – reclining high back w/ self-leveling arms and bolster
• Hydraulic pedestal for helm chair
• Ladder – versa-trac, 4 step
• Lighting – blue LED for cupholders
• Lighting – blue LED for exterior
• Lighting – track, blue LED for interior
• Porta potti
• Portable table
• Rear fiberglass decking w/ custom floor mats
• Ski mirror
• Sirius satellite radio
• Ski tow storage rack
• Vinyl floor – full deck

Deck plans

Manitou also offers a variety of floor plans for their X-PLODE model. The standard deck plan offers classic L-shaped lounge seating along the portside, making adventures at the end of the towline easy and exciting to watch. This design provides three entry gates—at the bow, stern and portside. The standard design is wheelchair accessible through the portside gate and boats plenty of room for comfort. Other features of the standard deck plan include two lounges at the bow, an optional dining table, sunpad at the stern and vast wet storage.

The PT floor plan allows for more intimate gatherings in the bow, with two comfortable bucket seats to port. It also maintains the starboard lounge and L-shaped seating, as well as a sunpad with storage.

Color packages

The 2012 X-PLODE comes with a variety of color and graphic options to allow boat designs to match everyone’s style and taste. Each model is available in a unique design and with neutral or colored walls, matching graphics and color-coordinated interior vinyl.

The standard colors are red, black, burgundy and blue. Learn more about the color packages here.

Pricing

The Manitou X-PLODE starts at $68,988 with standard features, but its final price depends on the preferred packages and features of the buyer.

Media

Check out this video of the X-PLODE in action.

COLBALT 276

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The Cobalt 276 offers an advantage in sportboat design and performance with a distinct bow layout and desired specifications. This model comes with a host of standard features and optional items for a luxurious bowrider experience. Its lightweight material construction allows for improved efficiency without sacrificing strength.

Standard features

The 276 has a range of standard features not often seen on boats in class. It has a fiberglass liner, swim platform fully integrated into the hull, molded-in graphics and an electric riser for the motor box. More standard features include:

• AM/FM CD w/ 6 speakers and amplifier
• Aluminum windshield w/ stainless steel cap
• Bow scuff plate – stainless steel
• Carpet in the cockpit
• Depth and water/air temp gauge pkg.
• Engine vents – stainless steel
• Gel coat liner in engine room
• Head – portable
• Mini wet bar – in cockpit
• Outlet – 12-volt Acc
• Porta-potti
• Removable ski pylon
• Swim ladder – starboard boarding
• Swim platform
• Wood/dash trim pkg.

Optional features

Cobalt’s 276 excludes a lot of typical standard features and instead offers them as optional features. This is because not everyone would utilize these items for a boat of this size and price range. The 276’s optional features include:

• Bimini top
• Cockpit cover
• Dinette table for cockpit
• GPS/Chart
• Head – fixed
• Porcelain toilet
• Teak table – port side
• Transom shower
• Trim tabs
• Windlass

Layout

This model is a big bowrider, with a standard, trailerable beam, high freeboard, massive helm seat, advanced cockpit utility and standing-access to the anchor.

Cockpit

The Cobalt’s cockpit contains wraparound seating, a wide companion seat to port that doubles as a lounger and a seatback that bends forward as the stern sunpad’s backrest. The cockpit also includes double-stitched upholstery, snap-in carpet and mini wet bar.

Helm

The helm seat of this model is huge, comfortable and well-built, able to slide fore and aft. It also has a high back and padded flip-up bolster. Its only disadvantage is its inability to be raised and lowered.

Head

Forward of the companion seat, the head includes a wide door to the compartment and comfortable sitting clearance. There is also a small sink to port, as well as a porta-potti.

Bow

The Cobalt’s bow contains an inclined backrest and U-shaped seating without the forward most part, as to create a bow with more utility. This allows passengers to sit facing forward and for easy access to the anchor while standing.

Warranty

Cobalt offers an exceptional warranty for the 276. There is a 10-year limited warranty on the hull and deck, five-year warranty on the engine, five years on the accessories and three years on the gel coat.

Pricing

The base price of the Cobalt 276, powered by a single MerCruiser 8.2L gas engine and Bravo III dual-prop drive is $120,606.

Media

Take a look at the Cobalt 276 on the water.

Another great online resource for courses and licensing is BoaterExam.com, which has a tremendous amount of licensing and safety courses, as well as study material listed by state.

Alabama

Official Website of Alabama Department of Conversation and Natural Resources
Alabama Official Boating Safety Course
Take the Boating License Certification Exam
Alabama Boater License Laws
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Alaska

Alaska Office of Boating Safety
Alaska Boater Education Card Overview & Course Information
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Boating Laws State Requirements for Alaska
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Arizona

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Arkansas

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California

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Colorado

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Connecticut

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Delaware

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Florida

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Georgia

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Hawaii

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Idaho

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Indiana

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Kansas

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Kentucky

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Louisiana

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Maine

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Maryland

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Massachusetts

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Michigan

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Minnesota

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Mississippi

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Missouri

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Titling and Registering Boats in Missouri—Regulations, Applications and Links

Montana

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Nebraska

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Nevada

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New Hampshire

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New Jersey

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New Mexico

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New York

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North Carolina

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North Dakota

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Ohio

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Oklahoma

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Oregon

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Pennsylvania

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Rhode Island

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South Carolina

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South Dakota

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Tennessee

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Texas

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Utah

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Vermont

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Virginia

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Washington

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West Virginia

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Wisconsin

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Wyoming

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