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Richard Schwartz, founder of BoatUS, Dies at Age 85
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (LOG NEWS SERV- ICE) — Richard Schwartz, chairman and founder of Boat Owners Association of the United States (BoatUS), died Feb. 11 after a short ill- ness. He was 85. The creation of the nation’s largest and most influential recreational boating organization began with a day on the
water towing service in the nation, the red boats of BoatUS Towing Services. Schwartz created the
Richard Schwartz
water back in the early 1960s. Schwartz was invited aboard a friend’s boat, and, soon after departing the dock, the ves- sel’s owner was given a ticket for improper engine compartment venti- lation — which Schwartz viewed as clearly unfair, as the owner had no responsibility for the boat’s construc- tion. A Princeton and Yale Law School graduate and young anti-trust attorney at the time, Schwartz asked his boating friends if there was anyone fighting for their interests and the answer was “no.” With that incident, BoatUS was born with the mission of “service, sav- ings and representation.” Just a few years later, Schwartz’s
Capitol Hill testimony resulted in the watershed federal Boat Safety Act of 1971, which gave the U.S. Coast Guard the power to hold manufacturers accountable for certain safety stan- dards and created the U.S. Coast Guard Office of Boating Safety. His efforts at shaping national boat- ing policy helped secure passage of the Recreational Boating Safety and Facilities Improvement Act of 1979 — also known as the Biaggi Bill — which affirmed that taxes and fees paid by boaters should support boating pro- grams.
When Congress directed the U.S.
Coast Guard to stop providing routine on-the-water assistance in the 1980s, Schwartz created the largest on-the-
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Several years later, the EPA permitted gas stations to use E15 blends in an attempt to keep pace with the stan- dard’s mandates. The EPA reportedly approved E15 blends to reduce green- house gas emissions. However, the American Automobile Association challenged the EPA’s claim in 2012, issuing a statement that E15 potential- ly damaged fuel lines. An investigative report published by the Associated Press (AP) in November 2013 corroborated claims of the harms caused by fuels with corn-based ethanol. “The government’s predictions of the benefits have proven so inaccurate
only Consumer Protection Bureau for boaters as well as a Dispute Mediation Program. He also made BoatUS a major influ- ence on the national boating safety stage with the development of the 501(c)(3) nonprofit BoatUS Foundation for
Boating Safety and Clean Water. The BoatUS Marine Insurance pro-
gram, started in 1967, offered the first recreational boat policy in clear, understandable language rather than the unintelligible, centuries-old, com- mercial ship language from Lloyd’s of London. Schwartz retired from a 47-year run as the leader of the half-million-mem- ber boating association on July 1, 2013. He remained chairman of the BoatUS board of directors as well as chairman of the BoatUS National Advisory Council and retained the positions until his death. Ironically, in the early years
Schwartz didn’t own a boat. However, he grew his fleet of watercraft to include a favored 22-foot Chris Craft rumble seat runabout and 42-foot catamaran deckboat for family runs to the local crab shack. “We’ve become the largest boat
owners’ organization in the U.S. and fought major boating battles along the way, making life better and safer for boaters and all the while creating the services that make the boating experi- ence better. Boating should be a pleas- ure — not a hassle. I am proud to have led this organization,” Schwartz said at his 2013 retirement. Schwartz is survived by his wife,
Beth Newburger Schwartz, seven chil- dren and 16 grandchildren.
that independent scientists question whether it will ever achieve its central environmental goal: reducing green- house gases,” the AP report stated. “The numbers behind the ethanol mandate have become so unworkable that, for the first time, the EPA is soon expected to reduce the amount of ethanol required to be added to the gasoline supply.”
When the bill was introduced Feb.
4, the EPA reportedly did not set blend mandates for 2015 and 2016. The Log will continue to track this bill — H.R. 704 — as it moves through the House’s Energy and Commerce Committee. To become law, the bill would have to be approved by a major- ity vote in both houses and then signed by the president.
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