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Avoiding Costly Boating MistakesIt's critical to learn from the mistakes of other boaters.
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[April 21, 2008]Watauga Lake, TennesseeTed Tipton looks out at Watauga Lake in northeastern Tennessee every day. Nobody has a more poignant view of it because 47 years ago Tipton built a dock along the waterfront and a small restaurant up a staircase from it. Since then, he's seen his Lakeshore Resort and Marina grow to a spread of 450 boat slips, heated swimming pool, motel and a string of furnished cabins that peek down on the emerald water through a bank of trees. A visitor to the Appalachian foothills will stand on the marina dock and stare out over the lake, mesmerized. Tipton will look at the visitor in equal, but different, wonderment.
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[March 31, 2008]Shell Game 1Thump-thump. The sound of trailer tires pounding over imperfections in the road was as hurried as it was constant. The workhorses (mud-splotched duallies and oxidized light-duty trucks) headed down a two-lane strip of patchy asphalt to the nearby launch ramps on the morning of the year's biggest boating day in the Gulf coast town of Crystal River, Florida.
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[March 3, 2008]Wynoochee Lake, WashingtonWhen one thinks of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state, two thoughts might come to mind: mountains and forests. They ought to come to mind. Within the peninsula, across Puget Sound from Seattle, is a national park with mountains peaking at nearly 8,000 feet. There are also old-growth rainforests (yes, rainforests) with trees aged over 1,000 years.
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[February 6, 2008]Old Battles, New 'NoogaChattanooga, steeped in Civil War history, has emerged as a prime boater's destination in the heart of Tennessee River country.
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[July 5, 2007]10 Best Places to Live And Boat 196Somewhere the grass is always greener and the water always bluer.
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[May 1, 2001]Buckaroo BanzaiThe adventures of a westerner encountering the odd sport of boat racing in Japan.
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[April 1, 2001]South of DisorderHave environmentalists and George W. Bush stopped the Intracoastal Waterway?
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