ACTIVE WATER SPORTS

• What: Active’s biggest event of the year: Evening with the Stars
• Where: Active Water Sports, Oregon City |1224 McLoughlin Blvd
• When: 7-10 pm | November 18th, 2011

It’s already that time of year. The transition from the warm summer into the long cold winter. So when you are looking through the frost covered window at your winterized boat, you can look forward to one thing, Evening with the Stars! This is the one event of the off season you won’t want to miss! It is a one-night-only event that is free for everyone.

Enjoy: free food, 40% off all 2011 gear, 10% off all 2012 gear, better-than-boat-show-prices on all our Moomba, Supra, Axis, Malibu, and Nautique boats, and a chance to meet some of the greats in the water sports industry. A raffle drawing will take place, giving you a chance to win product from all your favorite brands.

All raffle proceeds are donated to the Children’s Cancer Association.

What Pros should you expect to see?

Jimmy LaRiche               Kevin Henshaw           Eric Ruck

Oli Derome                                           Mike Ennen                               Silas Thurman

We are excited to spend the evening with you as we say “bye-bye,” to summer and bring in the 2012 season together. If you have any questions on special Evening with the Stars pricing, please call 503-643-5018.

We are very proud to announce, here at Active Water Sports, that a new boat line has found it’s way into the loving hands of our shop. Nautique boats have over 85 years of quality and innovation under their belts. Active Water Sports is honored to be carrying another one of the greats in the boating industry.

Please come and see us at Evening with the Stars as we present, for the first time ever, Nautique boats.

If you have any questions about Nautique, or any of our other boat lines, feel free to call us at the shop.

As half of the AWS crew is setting up in Seattle, the rest of us are left with a bit of a Portland boat show hangover.  After a week of trucking in 22 boats, recreating our retail shop in the middle of the Expo Center, and talking non-stop for 4 days to some of our favorite customers, industry reps, and pros, it’s no wonder we’re left feeling a little down and missing the high of the action packed boat show.

Some people cure their hangovers with Xanax, greasy food, and coffee, but a boat show hangover requires a little more emotional therapy than that.  What better way to brighten our post boat show mood than by re-living some of our favorite boat show memories?  Here’s a quick recap and a few photos that made the Portland Boat Show one of the best for Active Water Sports.

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As the days grow shorter and the nights get cooler, your time on the water is sadly coming to an end.  It’s time to reward your boat for another summer of fun memories.  Fall is the perfect time to bring in your boat for maintenance, repair, and winterization.

The Active Water Sports Service Center is the largest of its kind in the Northwest.  Our AWS Service Technicians are master certified by Malibu, MB Sports, Moomba, Axis, and Supra and are unsurpassed in their experience with all tournament boats.  Call 503.650.5991 to schedule an appointment before the first freeze and treat your boat to a little love.  Thanks for another great summer!

Supra’s new VISION system, or Video Information System with Integrated Onboard Network, is the brains of the company’s rider-friendly boat control. Available for the first time in Supra’s 2010 boat lineup, the VISION system is much more than just an LCD screen in the dash. It’s a fully integrated boat control network that greatly improves the overall boating experience. In this video, Supra wakeboarder Josh Sanders walks you through the ins and outs of the VISION system from the cockpit of the 2010 Supra Launch 24 SSV Worlds Edition.

Rider Profiles: With the Supra VISION, you can create user profiles that automatically adjust ballast levels, wake plate settings and cruise speeds for every rider in your crew.

GPS Chart Plotting and Tracking: VISION’s GPS chart plotting lets you pinpoint your location at all times, and you can always find your way back to the dock with VISION’s built-in tracking system.

Multimedia: Access the multimedia system and control the stereo while also watching video from a tower camera or handheld camcorder. Supra VISION even makes it possible to hook up your video iPod and watch instructional videos that you download from the web.

Full Integration: While there are several other dashboard color displays on the market, the Supra VISION is the only system available that integrates ballast monitoring and control; speed-based automatic Smart Plate control; Zero Off GPS cruise; full GPS chart plotting with depth contours; a true iPod interface with a dedicated multimedia page; automatic speed-based stereo volume control; full engine diagnostics with code descriptions; dedicated day- and night-mode viewing; and much, much more. But the true beauty of the Supra VISION system is when you use it.

User and Wakeboarder Friendly: Supra spent more than three years developing and testing VISION to ensure that the system would be user- and rider-friendly. The developers spent hundreds of hours playing with user interfaces from a variety of similar systems (iPhones, handheld GPS units, smart phones, gaming systems, portable media players, integrated automotive control systems) with the goal of making a system that would allow anyone to sit in the driver’s seat and have a fun and easy driving experience. The end result is a powerful system that anyone can control immediately.

Via: Wakeboardingmag.com