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M a k i n g E ve r y t h i n g E a s i e r !

P o w e r B o a t i n g

Learn to:

• Buy, operate, and enjoy a power boat

• Master boating basics, from licensing

and equipment to docking and

maintenance

• Keep the right supplies on board

• Stay safe while having fun

Randy Vance

Editor-in-chief, Boating Life magazine

Power Boating

FOR

DUMmIES

‰

by Randy Vance

Power Boating For Dummies ®

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About the Author

Randy Vance has been boating since he was 8 years old. From family boat to

personal runabout at age 20, he’s bought and sold nearly a dozen boats in his

boating career.

With his family, Randy ran a small resort and marina on Lake of the Ozarks in

Missouri for more than 20 years. During that time, he was a popular outdoors

columnist in local papers and magazines and hosted or appeared on many

radio and television programs covering topics of boating and shing. Later,

Randy began a public relations career at Bass Pro Shops, employing his

enjoyment of boating, outdoors, and writing in one happy position. After a

short stint at the failing Outboard Marine Corporation, Boating Life magazine

publisher John McEver asked Randy to take the helm of his magazine — a

position Randy has enjoyed with co-editors Robert Stephens and Sue Whitney

since 2000. Boating Life magazine and some of Randy’s articles have won

awards in many publishing circles.

During his tenure at Boating Life, Randy has had the pleasure of piloting

thousands of boats in hundreds of different places and conditions. Mexico,

the Exumas, Dry Tortugas, Alaska’s Admiralty Island, Sweden, and Bimini,

Bahamas, are among his favorite boating destinations.

Randy, his wife Linda, and youngest daughter Amy, along with three

champion Cotons du Tulear and a stray Jack Russell Terrier, enjoy a 25-foot

Bluewater offshore boat with twin Evinrude outboards. Most often you’ll nd

him offshore at Cape Canaveral or just outside of Springhill, Florida, or Punta

Gorda, Florida.

Randy and his daughter Amy are in the midst of the long and arduous

process of researching his next book Restoring Old Boats For Dummies . . . just

joking; they’re attempting to bring a 1978 Glastron GT 150 back to its former

glory. The GT 150 was made famous in the 1973 James Bond movie Live and

Let Die when it jumped a levee over the head of a local sheriff.

Randy’s son Justin and wife Shasta are currently raising the next crop of

boating Vances in Phoenix, Arizona, a desert state surprisingly blessed

with beautiful boating waters. Randy’s daughter and fellow boater Megan

Chacon is raising another boating infant named Brody while husband Gabe

Chacon gets his mariner’s x aboard the U.S.S. Lincoln, stationed in Seattle,

Washington, when he’s not boating.

Boating creates strong bonds among those who participate, and Randy’s

primary pleasure has been bringing new boaters into the sport.

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