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Boat show returns to cny Inflate-A-Fleet exhibit featured
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ew York Sea Grant is bringing its InflateA-Fleet Feb. 15-18 to the 2018 Central New York Boat Show, sponsored by the Boating Industry Association of Upstate New Yirj at the New York State Fairgrounds in Syracuse. The traveling exhibit that debuted in New York City in 2017 consists of assorted inflatable and folding vessels, including a boat, kayak, and backpack paddleboard. These unusual vessels are the educational tools for the 2018 New York Sea Grant Discover Clean and Safe Boating campaign with a “Get Out on the Water: Everyone Can Enjoy Boating” theme. “Every year we select a different style of boat to showcase the diverse ways to enjoy the fabulous waters of New York State and to teach how to be safe, in compliance with boating law, and environmentallyfriendly on the water,” says Discover Clean and Safe Boating campaign creator
and award-winning boating educator Dave White, a Great Lakes coastal recreation and tourism specialist with New York Sea Grant, Oswego, NY. White notes that the unique Inflate-A-Fleet components are considered boating vessels subject to applicable boating laws and standards. Discover Clean and Safe Boating activities at the 2018 show include a 15-minute introduction to the “Suddenly In Command” training offered by the US Coast Guard Auxiliary and New York Sea Grant aboard a pontoon boat in the Oneida Lake Marina Booth E-21 in the Exhibit Center building on Thursday and Friday at 6:30 p.m., and on Saturday and Sunday at 2:30 p.m. The introduction covers the key points of the training designed to help a passenger who is not a boater manage the boat in the event of an unexpected emergency on the water. The Great Shipwrecks of New York’s Great Lakes exhibit will be on display at Booth H-14 in the Horticulture Building. New York Sea Grant developed the exhibit highlighting details about historic shipwrecks in wa-
ters across New York State. New York Sea Grant has received New York State, National Association of Boating Law Administrators and U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary awards for the Discover Clean and Safe Boating campaign. The Central New York Boat Show features more than 500 boats; water recreation equipment; marine accessories; and waterfront destinations, tourism organizations, and law enforcement agencies in three buildings at the NYS Fairgrounds. Show hours are 1-9 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 15 and Friday, Feb. 16, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 17, and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 18. Show admission is $10 per person, 13 and younger free. Free parking and shuttle are provided. Learn more at cnyboatshow.com. New York Sea Grant is a cooperative program of Cornell University and the State University of New York, and one of 33 universitybased programs under the National Sea Grant College Program of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. For more information visit nyseagrant.org.
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The New York Sea Grant Inflate-A-Fleet educational exhibit that made its debut on the New York City waterfront in 2017, above, is coming to the Central NY Boat Show February 15-18, 2018.
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