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A four-year, $10 million grant from NOAA’s Marine Debris Removal Program to the BoatUS Foundation for Boating Safety and Clean Water aims to rid the nation’s shores of abandoned and derelict vessels (ADVs), and remove the associated pollution, navigation and safety hazards that can harm waters for years. The grant, funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, is part of NOAA’s larger mission to address marine debris, ...

TowBoatUS Oyster Bay, a 24/7 provider of on-water towing and assistance for recreational boaters with additional locations in Huntington, New York, and Norwalk, Connecticut, recently celebrated three decades in business. Now former owner Capt. Mitch Kramer has stepped aside with a new owner at the helm, Tom Vetere. Kramer isn’t going too far, however. He’s staying aboard along with other ...

Capt. Tray Hudgens rode bulls in the Professional Rodeo Cowboy Association for three years and spent 32 years commuting three hours a day to a corporate job. He’s also a tiki hut dinner cruise captain, boat rental operator and private charter captain who loves helping people on the water. Now the U.S. Coast Guard-licensed Hudgens is on his way to ...

Five years ago, when Capt. Daimin Barth began as a part-time captain for a TowBoatUS company on Florida’s Gulf Coast, “I always knew that I wanted to do my own thing,” says the 36-year-old and former auto mechanic. After helping to manage the port’s growth and a near tripling of the volume of on-water response cases, the desire to become ...

His great grandfather was a Cape Lookout Lighthouse keeper in the 1930s, so it’s perhaps befitting that Capt. Stephen Lilly is the new owner of TowBoatUS Beaufort and TowBoatUS Swansboro, two local towing ports that help boaters in the Inner and Outer Banks region with routine on-water troubles. The business is a first for Lilly, who purchased it from his ...

For more than a decade, Capt. Chris Parker has been helping recreational boaters on the Chesapeake Bay get home, first as a hired captain and later a port manager of several TowBoatUS on-water towing ports in the Tidewater region. Wanting his own TowBoatUS on-water towing and assistance company, he journeyed east across the bay in 2019 to open TowBoatUS Crisfeld ...

For the last four years, Tommy Overton has helped out on occasion at TowBoatUS Norris Lake. Jumping aboard as part-time crew, he provided needed relief to towing captains on long towing jobs, and Overton found a calling for the on-water work after a long career in the hospitality industry. The company’s owners, Robert Dial and Duran Carmany, have now sold ...

Chris Edmonston, president of the BoatUS Foundation for Boating Safety and Clean Water, has been inducted into the prestigious Boating Safety Hall of Fame. The honor recognizes individuals who have made, or continue to generate, substantial and lasting contributions toward the advancement of recreational boating safety. Edmonston was feted during the National Safe Boating Council (NSBC)’s annual gathering April 16 for his relentless push ...

Husband-and-wife team, Captains Branson Mosier and Megan Mosier, new owners of TowBoatUS Jordan Lake and TowBoatUS Falls Lake, are preparing their on-water towing fleet – three red 20-foot response vessels – for a busy summer boating season ahead. It will be the Mosiers’ first full summer running their own TowBoatUS locations after purchasing them last winter from Capt. Seth Owens. ...

Boat Owners Association of The United States (BoatUS) is applauding a recently passed Broward County, Florida, ordinance that, according to the recreational boating advocacy, services and safety group, could lead to a successful path ahead in fairly balancing the needs of both local communities and responsible cruising-boat owner’s rights when it comes to anchoring. The ordinance revolves around two small ...