Boat Show Tickets Available On-Line

Boat/US Magazine, Sept, 2000

This year it's easier than ever to visit a boat show. You can now order tickets for NMMA-sponsored boat shows on-line at BoatUS.com, buy them at a BoatU.S. Mafine Center, or order them by telephone from catalog sales, 800-937-2628. Even better, BoatU.S. members can get a 20% discount for NMMA shows!

Listed below are all the boat shows where BoatU.S. will be exhibiting, so be sure to stop by the booth while at the show. It's a great time to renew your membership, upgrade your towing, or just say hello to the BoatU.S. staff. And best of all, after each show, a drawing will be held for a Garmin 48 Navigator hand-held GPS. The only way to enter your name is to stop by the booth!

Bugged by Boat Repairs?

Best-selling boating author and maintenance guru Don Casey has joined the BoatUS.com team, and his expert advice and do-it-yourself tips are just a mouse click away.

You can print out one or all of Casey's 34 how-to articles on subjects ranging from changing engine oil, installing bilge pumps and solar panels to repairing gelcoat scratches. If you have a specific question, you can post it on-line -- Casey answers selected questions once a week. Casey is the author of This Old Boat, Sensible Cruising and seven other boating repair and maintenance books, also available at BoatUS.com, in the BoatU.S. Marine Centers or through catalog sales at 800-937-2628.

If that isn't help enough, there are 80 other boat repair and maintenance guides at BoatUS.com, and links to almost every boating equipment manufacturer in the business. And if you're still stumped by a question while shopping on-line at 3 a.m., you can now reach a BoatU.S. customer service representative by phone 24 hours a day, seven days a week -- just call 800-937-2628.

Members Get MIBNA Rebates

For the past eight months, BoatU.S. members have received thousands of dollars in credit rebates simply by using their BoatU.S. credit cards. Since January, every time you use your MBNA BoatU.S. credit card to purchase equipment at a BoatU.S. Marine Center, on-line at BoatUS.com, or through the catalog, you are eligible to get a 3% credit rebate. Credit card holders get this same rebate when they buy fuel, services or repairs at over 500 BoatU.S. Cooperating Marinas.

If you haven't applied for your BoatU.S. Platinum Plus or Scenic Mastercard yet, call MBNA at 800-847-7378 and mention priority code E8BB or log onto www.BoatUS.com/member.> GPS Winner Announced

Congratulations to BoatU.S. member Richard Binder of Camdenton, MO, who won the Garmin eTrex GPS receiver from BoatU.S. His name was drawn from among the thousands of BoatU.S. members who sent us their e-mail addresses in order to update our database following our offer in the July issue. We're glad to tell those who didn' t win that they now have a second chance to try for a Garmin eTrex by taking the BoatU.S. Foundation's on-line safety course. Whether you pass or fail, your name will be entered into a monthly drawing for another eTrex. Just log on to BoatUS.com/Foundation and take the course by December 31.

Still More News

The BoatU.S. Foundation's Life Jacket Loaner Program for Kids, operating in 41 out of the 50 states, lent out more than 8,000 life jackets this summer for a day or more.

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