March 2014

  • Published On: March 1, 2014

    Leib Oehmig, president of Glen Raven Custom Fabrics LLC, has been named chief operating officer of Glen Raven Inc. He will work closely with Allen E. Gant Jr., president and CEO. Gant and Oehmig will share executive leadership for Glen Raven over the next four years, culminating in Oehmig assuming the role of president and [...]

  • Published On: March 1, 2014

    How did you get started? I belong to a sailing club, and one year, I helped a friend put his canvas on the boat in the spring. He had just gotten a new dodger, and I looked at it and saw lots of small details I didn’t like. He encouraged me to look into doing [...]

  • Published On: March 1, 2014

    Our retro sport top on an old Lyman boat. As with all wood boats, repairs are in progress. Years ago, sport tops with tails were considered the norm. In those days, we fabricated them with vinyl that had a denim backing. Most of the frames were vinyl-covered galvanized pipe, not stainless as is [...]

  • Published On: March 1, 2014

    Taylor Made Systems of Gloversville, N.Y., has been named the American Boatbuilders Association’s Preferred Supplier of Choice for glazing and canvas systems. The Taylor Made brand will supply items such as windshields, doors, roof systems and hull windows, while its fabric engineering and manufacturing arm, Ameritex Fabric Systems, will supply items such as bimini tops, [...]

  • Published On: March 1, 2014

    Rallee Chupich, co-owner of Gordy’s Lakefront Marine of Fontana, Wis., is the 2013 Darlene Briggs Woman of the Year. The honor is given annually to an outstanding woman in the marine industry. A 30-year-plus veteran of the boat business, Chupich has served in a wide variety of roles at the dealership, from ski instructor and [...]

  • Published On: March 1, 2014

    For the second consecutive year, Legendary Marine of Destin, Fla., has been named the No. 1 boat dealer in North America for 2013 by Boating Industry magazine. “Legendary wowed us with the wave of improvements the company made over the last year, from the Five Star Military VIP Program to the Legends Boating Club,” editor [...]

  • Published On: March 1, 2014

    The Landing School of Arundel, Maine, and the Laramie, Wyo.-based WTI Foundation were selected as recipients of 2013 MRAA Technical Scholarships. The MRAA Technical Scholarship Fund was founded to offer financial assistance for technical training of dealership personnel and was initially underwritten by the OMC Foundation. For several years, the foundation has used the scholarship [...]

  • Published On: March 1, 2014

    Davis Instruments of Hayward, Calif., has acquired the Simply Brilliant Shockles and SolLight product lines. Both are suited for the marine, camping, RV and other outdoor recreation markets. Shockles are shock-absorbing solutions for many outdoor and industrial uses. Most feature sun- and abrasion-resistant webbing sewn over special progressive-tension design shock cord with a patented internal [...]

  • Published On: March 1, 2014

    Stuart, Fla.-based Martek of Palm Beach, a marine electronics engineering and support company, has named Martin Bader as chief financial officer. Bader will be responsible for all financial operations of the company, which designs, installs, and services electronics aboard super yachts and other vessels around the world. Bader previously was CFO of OceanView Technologies, a [...]

  • Published On: March 1, 2014

    Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), leading a bipartisan consortium including eight other U.S. senators, in December introduced a bill that would eliminate the federal government’s rule that requires the corn-based fuel be included in the country’s gasoline blend. The current law has been opposed by a variety of industries that have claimed [...]