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Oriental Boat Show 2012
Rotary Club Gets Great Weather and A Crowd of More than 1700 April 19, 2012
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Boating to the Boat Show. Carina and Jon Doyle of Raleigh arrived with their three children via boat. They were camping in the area and looking for a bigger boat…. A while after arriving they’d take part in the Coast Guard’s safety demonstration on flare use.
Coast Guardsmen gave a demonstration on how to light a flare in an emergency — strike one end against the removable end that serves like a match book. Here, a smoke flare to use during daytime hours
At the Coast Guard’s flare demonstration, a flare for use at night. It came with a visible lesson in why you would hold a flare out over the water in an emergency: molten magnesium drops periodically from the flare during the three minutes it’s lit. It can melt through a boat’s deck, exacerbating the emergency.
Bob Webster of the local Coast Guard Auxiliary which had a fire extinguisher demonstration planned. (The Coast Guard’s own demonstration on flares did not require use of a fire extinguisher.)
Down below on “Sosegada” a Caliber brought to the show by Triton Yachts.
Capt. John Arliss of Beaufort advertised that he made boat deliveries and boat models. He might even deliver a model….
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Posted Thursday April 19, 2012 by Melinda Penkava
