Bakers Landing Marina has been added to the East Coast United States Marinas on www.worldmarineguide.com . The marina is the second of the four marinas run by the Baker family and is situated on the calm protected waters of Pleasant Bay on the Shrewsbury River.

The marina can accomadate 78 yachts with room for boats of up to 17 metres in length. For more details of the facilities at the marina click here

Thanks to Tom Moreford for recomending the marina

The final agreements for the construction of a new marina for Limsol, Corfu. During the contract signing ceremonyMr. Paschalides said “The marina can host hundreds of vessels and includes dry storage in the port space, a vessels maintenance spot, shops and a cultural centre. It also provides for free access to the public and a remarkable coastal pedestrian road”.

Plans for the marina include 586 berths for craft of various sizes, restaurants, cafes, shops and conference space. They also include 280 units (housing, trading, leisure and cultural) – some 160 of which will have their own private moorings – and luxury apartments, all with the aim of attracting more high-end tourists and a bigger share of the Mediterranean yachting market.

The project is expected to cost over €350 million and will enclose a land area of 100,000 m², and a sea area of 170,000 m² .

Source Cyprus Property News

Bakers Marina and Boat Yard has been included into World Marine Guides grow list of American marinas. This East coast marina is one of four family run marinas that pride itself on offer a high service. The yard is capable of lifting up to 35 tonnes with its travel crane and the marina has 150 berths.

For more information view Bakers Marina on the Bay

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METS is the world’s largest trade exhibition of equipment, materials and systems for the international marine leisure industry. The show will be held from the 16th to the 18th of November.

The Amsterdam RAI is the largest exhibition and convention centre in Holland and the venue offers 12 exhibition halls with 87,000 sqm floor space. The centre is only 15 minutes away from Schiphol International Airport and is served by its own rail link, along with good roads the RAI benefits from excellent accessibility.

The RAI is surrounded by good hotels, restaurants and bars, while the city centre with its attractive canals, pavement cafés, tourist attractions and entertainment facilities is just ten minutes away by public transport.

For more information click Marine Exhibition Trade Show

The 2010 round Guadaloup race will be held between the 1st to the 5th of April. The organisers are hopin to attract around 40 yachts for this years race. yachts will depart from Gosier and then pass points such Saint-Louis in Marie Galante, St François or Port Louis, Deshaies, Les Saintes before returning to Gosier.

If you like Rum Sun And Sailing this event is for you. For more information on this event visit www.triskellcup.com

Three boats owned by disgraced Bernie Madoff where sold at auction, with the proceeds going to the victims of the worlds largest fraud.

Bull a 1969, 55 foot sports fisher went fo £420,000; Sitting Bull a 2003, 38 foot Shelter Island Runabout went for £192,000 and Little Bull a 24 foot centre console fisher sold for £12,000.

The boats were just part of 200 items seized by the USA authorities to be auctioned off. Madoff is currently serving a 150 year prison sentence for the £40bn fraud.

The Motorboat Museum is racing against the clock to try to find a new home after Basildon Council decided to change the use of the building into a more enviromentally friendly visitor attraction. The Museum situated at the Wat Tyler Country Park in Essex has until May to find another Local Council that would be prepared to house the Motor boat museum.

The museum at the moment attracts 17,000 visitors per year, but Basildon Council who fund the project at a cost of £100.000 per year has said that it is no longer cost effective and are under severe spending pressure.

The Motorboat musem has approched other councils including Southhampton and Poole which could be interested but all have funding issues though admitting the potential of having the museum. Until a new home can be found the museum has closed its doors to visitors from the 4th December 2009.

With the London Excel boat show already up and running here is a list of some of the future boat shows for 2010

20-24 January, New York Boat Show, New York, www.nyboatshow.com

23-31 January, Boot, Dusseldorf Germany www.boot.de

11-15 February, Miami International Boat Show, Florida, www.miamiboatshow.com

23-28 February, Boat & Caravan Show, Birmingham, UK, www.boatandcaravan.co.uk 

9-13 March, Dubai International Boat Show, www.boatshowdubai.com

11-14 March, Auckland Boat Show, NZ, www.aucklandinternationalboatshow.com

11-20 September, Southampton Boat Show, UK

20-22 Septmber, Monaco Yacht Show, Monte Carlo, www.monacoyachtshow.com

2-10 October, Genoa International Boat Show, Italy,

28 Oct-1 Nov, Fort Lauderdale Boat Show, USA. Fort Lauderdale boat show

6-14 November, Barcelona Boat Show, Spain,

16-18 November, METS, Marine Equipment Trade Show, Amsterdam

6-11 December, Antigua Charter yacht Show, www.antigua-charter-yacht-meeting.com

If you would like to avertise your Boat Show please contact nick@worldmarineguide.com

The 2009 ARC is over and plans for the 2010 Arc are already underway. Las Palmas Marina in Gran Canaria are confident that they can fullfill a promise to provide a record 250 berths for this years event. This will mean that the ARC organisers may be able to acheive their goal of setting a new record for the largest transocean event.

As part of the Canarian marinas 1.8 million €uro investment an extra 180 space dry storage area will be created, swipe card entry to the pontoons, Wi-Fi throughout the marina and improvements to the marina security system.

The ARC 2010