If your state has no provisions for the numbering of pleasure boats, you must apply for a number from the U.S. Coast Guard for any kind of boat with mechanical propulsion rated at more than 10 horsepower before it can be used on Federal waterways.

Currently, marina is used to indicate a municipal or commercially operated facility where a pleasure boat may dock and find some or all of the following available: gasoline, fresh water, electricity, telephone service, ice, repair facilities, restaurants, sleeping accommodations, a general store, and a grocery store.

Cruising by boat is a lifestyle that involves living for extended time on a boat while traveling from place to place for pleasure.

Below this site was the Bull Ring ( now a memorial garden ), and a grand pleasure pier, started in 1880, which provided a dance hall, refreshment, promenading and a landing place for boat trips.

* 1878 – Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.

** Fifty-one people die when the Marchioness pleasure boat collides with a barge on the River Thames adjacent to Southwark Bridge.

* September 3 – Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.

Neither prospect appealed to Arion: as Robin Lane Fox observes, " No Greek would swim out into the deep from a boat for pleasure.

The hull shape of a PT boat was similar to the " planing hull " found in pleasure boats of the time ( and still in use today ): a sharp V at the bow softening to a flat bottom at the stern.

Both Wroxham and Hoveton have several boat building and pleasure craft hire yards.

Grosse Ile is considered to be one of the best locations along the Detroit River to observe commercial shipping and pleasure boat traffic.

The town is accessible by boat and is the last deepwater port for pleasure boats going north on the Potomac River.

Applications for jetboats include most activities where conventional propellers are also used, but in particular passenger ferry services, coastguard and police patrol, navy and military, adventure tourism ( which is becoming increasingly popular around the globe ), pilot boat operations, surf rescue, farming, fishing, exploration, pleasure boating, and other water activities where motor boats are used.

It is frequently used for public enquiries, including those into the Ladbroke Grove rail crash, the sinking of the Marchioness pleasure boat, and the Bloody Sunday incident in Northern Ireland.

" When he performed at London Gay Pride parade, he sang on the roof of a hired pleasure boat that floated down the Thames past Jubilee Gardens.

The term junk may be used to cover many kinds of boat — ocean-going, cargo-carrying, pleasure boats, live-aboards.

Others were ferried from the beaches to the larger ships, and thousands were carried back to Britain by the famous " little ships of Dunkirk ", a flotilla of around 700 merchant marine boats, fishing boats, pleasure craft and Royal National Lifeboat Institution lifeboats — the smallest of which was the fishing boat Tamzine, now in the Imperial War Museum — whose civilian crews were called into service for the emergency.

Epitaph refers to the Marchioness disaster of 20 August 1989, where 51 people lost their lives in a collision between a pleasure boat and a dredger in the River Thames.

On August 12, 1985 three people were killed when the Queen of Cowichan ran over a pleasure boat near the Horseshoe Bay terminal.

The typical boats of Chausey are the doris ( dory ), a flat-bottomed boat traditionally propelled by oars or nowadays an engine, used by the fishermen, and the canot chausiais, a small clinker-built sailing boat used for pleasure.

File: Shiga01. jpg | a pleasure boat from the Otsu port

The Rutland Belle pleasure boat taking visitors across the water

* The Marchioness, a pleasure boat that was sunk on the River Thames in 1989.

No greater pleasure has come to me in my own service in this House than to be present today to participate in this tribute to this great Speaker, this great legislator, this great Texan, this great American.

Andronikos ' early years were spent alternately in pleasure and in military service.

Amateur television ( ham TV or ATV ) was developed for non-commercial experimentation, pleasure and public service events by amateur radio operators.

Epicurus ' materialist theories that the gods were physical beings composed of atoms who were unconcerned with human affairs and had not created the universe, and his general teaching that one's own pleasure, rather than service to God, was the greatest good were essentially irreconcilable with Christian teachings.

In economics, utility is the pleasure, happiness, or satisfaction obtained from consuming a good or service.

And further, there is the greatest pleasure in doing a kindness or service to friends or guests or companions, which can only be rendered when a man has private property.

" The members of civil service serve at the pleasure of the President of India and Article 311 of the constitution protects them from politically motivated or vindictive action.

Other than his Latin motets of a religious nature and some poems invoking the horrors of war and captivity, the vast majority of Machaut's lyric poems partake of the conventions of courtly love and involve statements of service to a lady and the poet's pleasure and pains.

: These rides vary highly in their size of the group ( from solo cyclists, group rides, to large organized rides with hundreds to thousands of riders ), in their length ( from a few miles to Century rides of 100 miles — or longer ), in their purpose ( from riding for pleasure to raising money for a charitable organization ) and in their methods of support ( from self-supported day rides, to organized rides where cyclists pay for support or accommodations provided by event organizers — including rest and refreshment stops, marshalling to aid safety, and SAG service.

It may be a matter of wonder to some, what enducements I could have to present the City of London with so many expensive Pictures ; the principal reasons that influence me were these: First: to show my respect for the Corporation, and my Fellow Citizens, Secondly: to give pleasure to the Public, and Foreigners in general, Thirdly: to be of service to the Artists, by shewing their works to the greatest advantage: and, Fourthly: for the mere purpose of pleasing myself.

A seasonal foot passenger ferry service runs from the harbour to Lundy Island and The Balmoral, The Waverley and pleasure boats ply to Porthcawl near Swansea.

The canal is frequently used today for pleasure cruising ; a regular waterbus service operates between Maida Vale and Camden, running hourly during the summer months.

* Altruism: Constructive service to others that brings pleasure and personal satisfaction.

ATV is used for non-commercial experimentation, pleasure and public service events.

They may operate on a charter basis ( including, but not limited to, pleasure flights ), provide scheduled service, or be operated by residents of the area for private, personal use.

This service is currently for pleasure only ; you cannot alight at Hemingfield Basin.

He takes particular pleasure in corrupting the older children into his service as overseers, by giving them preferential treatment in return for them inflicting cruelties on the younger children.

The crew are rounded up and brought down ; Ensign Chekov finds a pampered existence by the service of hundreds of beautiful android women ( who are " fully functional " at physical pleasure ), to be not such a bad idea.

It was no doubt through the influence of Boleyn's sister Anne that Petre came to the notice of Thomas Cromwell ( she sent him presents, and promised him any pleasure it was in her power to give ) and was introduced at court and selected for government service.

When the Stokes Bay company was acquired by the London & South Western Railway in 1875, the ferry service ceased, and Victoria Pier became a pleasure pier only, with public baths at the head and a swimming platform at the dry end.

The previously extensive riverboat service along the Dnieper featuring the Raketa hydrofoil ships is no longer existing, limiting river transport to cargo and tour boats and private pleasure craft.

Petition of right was not available in respect of engagements in the naval, military or civil service, which, were not generally considered as contracts of employment but as appointments enjoyed during the pleasure of the Crown.