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Hybrid Surfboard, Sailboat and Rescue Platform Launched by Los Angeles Firm

By Anonymous

Los Angeles, CA March 25, 2004 – Leon Halfon, a surfer extraordinaire for five decades, today introduced an experimental watercraft that is as unique as the inventor himself. The new hybrid surfboard-kayak platform is designed for recreational use and water rescue with unparalleled stability. Christened the “Multi Banana Boat” for its versatility, unique shape, and bright lifejacket yellow color, the 12-foot long, flat-topped craft is constructed in a seamless sandwich structure of rotomolded Super Linear Polyethylene foam, a lightweight, durable and virtually unsinkable material.

The boat’s inventor and company president, Halfon, says it is highly maneuverable, safe for all ages, and the most versatile personal watercraft on the market today. It will sell for $995 through surfboard and kayak retailers and via the Internet at www.multibananaboat.com.

The novel boat is as “multi” in its power sources as it is in its uses. With rapid adjustment, the board can be paddled, sailed, surfed, and motored. “You can stand on it like a surfboard and paddle it like a kayak or put up a sail and glide across the water. For fishing, you can add a small outboard motor and scoot across any lake,” Halfon said. For transport on land, the 81-lb. foam boat can be hand-carried, pulled on a two-wheeled dolly or hefted onto a car rack.

A strong supporter of the Multi Banana Boat is Michael Brady, an award-winning Hollywood stuntman and former head lifeguard at Malibu Beach. “As a rescue aid, the boat offers incomparable advantages. Lifeguards can ride the boat to the drowning swimmer faster than they can swim there,” Brady says. The rescuer can pull the victim onto the platform without risking his own life and then perform resuscitation instantly without the usual delay of pulling the victim to shore. “The first 10 minutes in a water rescue can mean the difference between life and death. If you spend that time dragging the individual to shore, you’ve lost precious time performing resuscitation,” Brady added.

A lifeguard in his teens, Halfon envisioned the concept and developed the first model in 1960, built of wood and fiberglass and weighing 300 lbs. With it, records shows he rescued over 275 people. Unlike a surfboard, the boat has no protruding fins or sharp edges. The unsinkable foam has been tested and performed well in storms, as Halfon demonstrates in a free DVD offered at his website.
                             
Now in his 60s, Halfon creates quite a stir at the Santa Monica beach, a site frequently used as a proving ground for the boat’s development over several decades. “When Leon shows up fully dressed in street clothes and launches the board at a beach full of surfers, the reactions are amazing, as he appears to be strolling on the water,” Brady says. On this super stable doublewide surfboard, Halfon seldom gets wet, as he rides the waves standing fully upright.




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How To Start A Garage Sale Biz

By BB Lee

How To Start A Garage Sale Biz
by BB Lee (C)2001
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A Garage Sale could be a one time event for an individual, single family, group of families or a charity organization. But, to be really profitable you have to plan carefully. Most people do not have the time, or even skills to put together a Profitable Garage Sale. This is where you, The Garage Sales Specialist, will enter the picture.

Duties:
Your primary duty is to establish a professional resell busines of items, donated or collected from people who do not have the time to put together a garage sale. Essentially, you will be the liquidator of people's junk through actively promoting garage sales.

Skills:
Held a garage sale for yourself, family, friends. Be well organized and like dealing with people. Watched how others handled garage sales. Read books on garage sales, antiques, collectables.

Equipment:
Telephone, answering machine, portable cash register, record keeping books, bags for customers, tags, receipt books, advertising signs. A computer would be essential for record keeping and Internet contacts.

Startup Cost:
$100 and up. Of course, this depends heavily on the size and length of the sale or if you or the customer are responsible for advertising.

Pricing:
Draw up a contract with your clients which clearly outlines your terms of service. Average commissions are 10 percent to 20 percent of sale.

Income:
Varies, depending on your sales skills and the quality of the merchandise you sell. It is reasonable to assume that a one day sale could gross $1,500. If you charge a 20 percent commission your take would be $300 for one days work.

Marketing:
Place classified ads in your local papers with the date and time of the garage sale. Place posters where it is permitted around your neigborhood announcing your garage sale. Place flyers on bulletin boards and distribute them widely. Print up business cards and hand them out every chance you get. Tell your friends, tell your relatives,
tell your neighbors, tell everyone!

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Philadelphia Man Sailing Solo Across the Atlantic Ocean to Ireland in July 2004

By Anonymous

Ocean City, NJ May 17, 2004 -- Joseph P. Ferry, 57, resident of Springfield, Delaware County, is planning to set sail from Philadelphia to Ireland this summer. Ferry’s voyage will begin on July 4th, from Ocean City, New Jersey and he expects his voyage will take 30-45 days to travel the Atlantic Ocean in his 32 foot sailboat.

Ferry chose July as his departure date because it is the safest time of the year for a small boat to cross the North Atlantic – well past the time of the spring gales, and before the onset of the hurricane season.

Ferry’s father was born on a farm that fronts the Atlantic coast, outside the village of Falcarragh in Country Donegal in the Republic of Ireland. Joe Ferry and his wife, Kitty Gallagher Ferry, once owned a small farm in the Derryveagh mountains of Donegal that overlook the sea.

Making a living in Ireland at that time proved to be a challenge, so Ferry and his wife moved back to Philadelphia where he became a parochial school teacher, then a social worker for the City of Philadelphia. They raised three children, Kathleen (30), Jody (28) and Danny (25).

Ferry has been planning this trip across the Atlantic since 2002, charting his course, researching weather patterns, and studying the meanderings of the Gulf Stream and North Atlantic Drift.

Some years ago, Ferry lived with Salmon fisherman on Inis Bo Finne, an island nears his Dad’s birthplace. The fisherman there expect Ferry to arrive by the Roarta Mor an Muire – the spring tides that fall on the feast of the Assumption. He is hoping they will guide him his last few miles of ocean, then over the bar of Ballyness Bay and to the Falcarragh’s pier.

For additional information or photos contact: Joseph P. Ferry at 610.613.8287

Joseph P. Ferry currently teaches at Chestnut Hill College and Widener University. He is director of internet learning programs for the Institute for Caregiver Education, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Previously, he was the Executive Director of Bethesda Project in Philadelphia, and a social worker for the City of Philadelphia.

He is a long time member of Crescent Boat Club on Boathouse Row, and had been a delegate to the Schuylkill Navy. He was a sergeant in the United States Marine Corps from 1966-1968.

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Joseph P. Ferry
610 328 7911

For further information and photos, please visit http://www.tenebrae.org/wanderings/voyage




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