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and workable and acceptable solutions to all are a ways down the
road. We can start closer to home.
At present, we haven’t come out with guns blazing on any
one issue as a magazine, although we have certainly embraced
the “Around the Americas” Project with articles and a direct link
from our website. But we can, without getting too preachy, point
to some areas of concern and let people look into these issues as
much or as little as they want. Remember, if everyone decided to
let “the other newspapers and magazines” make the occasional
comment, then there wouldn’t be any.
Pleased and Surprised by Repas Letter
I, like many readers I surmise, was pleased, yet
honestly surprised, to read the letter from the Chairman
of West Marine in your August issue addressing ocean
acidification as one of the most serious consequences of
climate change. It is tempting to be skeptical given West
Marine’s status as the largest corporate marine supply
firm and its role in the demise of many local chandleries
through the years, but that would miss a great opportunity
to help move recreational boating in a more sustainable
direction. Instead, I want to congratulate West Marine
and ask how we, many of us its frequent customers, can
help West assume a true leadership role in the greening of
ULTIMATE DINGHY LADDER
boating.
For recreational boating does contribute significantly
INFLATABLE &
to global warming and water quality loss in many, largely
HARDSIDE MODELS:
ignored ways. These include the typically considered issues
such as head sanitation, wake affects on shorelines, and the
impacts of detergents in the water. But the carbon footprint
of boating is much more critical in terms of imported oil
usage (over production of short-lived fiberglass boats and
overpowered semi-displacement hulls), fuel and oil spills
(often of the legal sort through the use of never-dying but
hugely polluting two-stroke outboards), oversize parking
lots and launch ramps in riparian and esturine zones that
send oil straight into these most sensitive areas, extensive
2 STEP - 40” INFLATABLE
hauling of large boats and trailers by unnecessarily large
tow vehicles over unnecessarily large distances, etc.
Please, Mr. Repas, help us, your customers, know
the carbon footprints and other impacts of what you
• Collapses to 16”
are providing us with, and help move manufacturers
to produce lower impact, longer lasting and more
• Extends Rigidly into Water
maintainable products – as Walmart is increasingly doing
• Stainless Steel Construction
for its customers. We wish you, us, and our only oceans,
2 STEP - 35” 3 STEP - 46”
HARDSIDE INFLATABLE lakes and rivers, great success!
Captain Peter Wilcox
Master, Ama Natura (“She loves Nature”)
MARINE LADDERS
Whether one agrees or disagre’s with Randy and Sally-
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