Interlux Launches Waterfront Challenge 2011

Marinas &amp Yards
Interlux Launches Waterfront Challenge 2011

Boating Industry
Friday February eighteen, 2011

MIAMI — Interlux introduced Thursday that the Waterfront Challenge will award $ fifty,000 in grants in October 2011 to organizations to create sustainable waterfront environmental improvements in their communities. 8 grants from $ 4,500 to $ twenty,000 will be awarded to groups in the U.S., Canada and the Caribbean.

A 5-judge panel of marine business leaders who reveal a passion for safeguarding our waters — with the support of boaters voting on Facebook for their favourite projects between the applications — will pick 7 regional winners to be awarded grants of $ four,500 each and every and a grand prize to be awarded a grant of $ twenty,000. Grant awards will be produced at the Ft. Lauderdale International Boat Show in October 2011.

At a press briefing at the Miami International Boat Show, Elenor Ekman, Advertising and marketing Supervisor of Interlux explained, “We are thrilled about launching the Waterfront Challenge 2011. The health of our bays, streams, lakes and oceans is crucial to the long run of boating. The Waterfront Challenge is an possibility for absolutely everyone to make a variation.”

The judges for the 2011 Waterfront Challenge are: Thom Dammrich, President of the National Marine Producers Association Fred Daoust, Standard Supervisor, Interlux North The united states John Kelly, Chairman of the American Coatings Association Antifouling Doing work Group and a member of the California State Lands Commission Fouling Technical Advisory Group Dan Pingaro, CEO of Sailors for the Sea and Susan Shingledecker, Director of Environmental Packages for the BoatU.S. Foundation for Boating Safety Clear Water.