Hard calls, high principles

Politics is also about principle and perspective €” and both realities are underscored by the two biggest stories in today€™s edition.

Call For Boat Licence Reform

AS BOAT registrations climbed more than 25 per cent in a decade, the number of boaties to have died in NSW has soared - but attempts to tackle the problem have so far failed dismally.

Rio On The Road To Spruik Aluminium

RIO Tinto gets the chance today to lend some weight to its claim that it would rather be the world's No. 1 aluminium producer than the 60th-ranked oil producer like its hostile takeover suitor, BHP Billiton.

Authorities Net Illegal Prawnies

TWO men have been caught illegally prawning in the Hunter River with a hand-hauled net from an aluminium boat.

Port Capsize Drama

A 14-YEAR-OLD Woonona boy was resuscitated on the rocky shore of Port Kembla's Big Island early yesterday, after an aluminium boat capsized in wild seas.

Surfers To The Rescue, But Jobs Harder To Save

Boat capsize: Two Sydney men have a lucky escape after their 5m aluminium boat sinks in heavy seas off Waniora Point. Three surfers come to their rescue.

It's Madness

TWO Sydney men are lucky to be alive after their 5m aluminium boat capsized and sank in treacherous surf conditions off Bulli yesterday.

Mother Hit By Falling Boat Sues Council

A DISTRICT Court hearing continued yesterday into whether alleged negligence by Wyong Shire Council led to a boat falling on top of a mother of five, leaving her with an alleged serious back problems.

Boat Crash Prompts Call To Light Pylons

POLICE divers combed the bottom of the Hawkesbury River yesterday to search for the body of a 60-year-old man whose boat crashed into a pylon on the Brooklyn bridge.

Boat Crash Sparks Call To Light Pylons

POLICE divers combed the bottom of the Hawkesbury River yesterday to search for the body of a 60-year-old man whose boat crashed into a pylon on the Brooklyn bridge.

Fisherman Badly Hurt By Own Boat

DOCTORS were fighting last night to save a man's leg after he was run over by his own boat on a lake in the Upper Hunter.

Multinational Gets Savage

THE world's biggest recreational boating manufacturer, Mercury Marine, recently acquired 101-year-old Melbourne-based boatbuilders Savage with a view to exporting boats to China, Northern Europe and South America. Along with the Bermuda Sportsboat brand of aluminium boat, Mercury Marine makes Rus

Boat Fantasies Made Real

BILLED as `the greatest recreational boating exhibition in the Southern Hemisphere', the Sydney International Boat Show opens its doors this week. The 1999 show, from July 22 until July 27, will be in the Darling Harbour Exhibition Centre and the adjoining marina in Cockle Bay. More than 300 e

Husband And Wife Saved From Sea

An elderly Kiama couple narrowly escaped drowning after their aluminium boat capsized in Kiama Harbour yesterday. The 69-year-old man and his 71-year-old wife spent about 20 minutes in choppy water before they could be pulled to safety by fishermen and a crewman from the Westpac Lifesaver 3 hel

Boat Rammed In Prawn Wrangle

A commercial prawn catcher rammed his boat into another vessel on Lake Illawarra after a dispute over fishing territory, Wollongong Local Court heard yesterday. David Allen Parkinson acted with a ``full head of steam" when he navigated a fibreglass boat into the path of another vessel, inju

Sydney Boat Show Drops Anchor At Darling Harbour

Australasia's largest recreational boating exhibition sails into Darling Harbour on Thursday. The Sydney International Boat Show will tie up in the harbour until July 28. The show will be an extravaganza this year with millions of dollars worth of boats, engines, electronics and accesssories

Bird Researchers Get New Boat

Illawarra industries have joined forces and acquired a new boat and trailer which will enable vital wildlife research to continue. Southern Oceans Seabird Study Association founders Lindsay Smith and Janice Jenkin-Smith said the acquisition of the boat would allow SOSSA to continue research o

A Tinnie With Glass Class

Like a breath of fresh air, the new Quintrex 488 Sea Breeze makes a refreshing change from the usually staid aluminium runabouts, writes DAVID LOCKWOOD. QUINTREX Australia is out to stamp its authority on pressed-aluminium boat-building, or so it hopes, with a polished 16-foot family runabo

Bermuda Craft Has Many Uses

WITH the metal boat market lacking its former lustre, specialist aluminium boat builder Bermuda Sportsboats has produced a multi-use craft it calls the Discovery 130. The craft is made from aluminium of an even 1.6 millimetre thickness and is designed to be operated with a 38-centimetre ``short&

Aluminium Price Rise Puts Dent In `little Tinny' Sales

THE basis of the boating business, the aluminium fishing or utility boat ``little tinny", with which so many Australians began their career in boating, has fallen on hard times. For a quarter of a century, the little aluminium boat which is light enough to be easily manhandled ashore and pro