Sea Quest Kids Trailer A Boat Show Smash Hit

For Immediate Release

January 29, 2009

Contact: Sea Quest Kids; Cell: 404-434-0660

Event: New York and Atlanta Boat Shows

Place: Jacob Javits Center, New York City and World Congress Center, Atlanta

Contact Person: Steve Gronka, Sea Quest Kids Fearless Leader; E-mail – stevegronka@me.com

Web for Sea Quest Kids: www.advanceaf.org or www.seaquestkids.org

Dateline January 29, 2009: Boat Shows have become a big venue for Sea Quest Kids road show trailer, the on the road corporate office and boat building center for Sea Quest Kids.

Starting at the New York National Boat Show the Sea Quest Kids have been coming in out of the cold at boat shows around the country. The Sea Quest Kids trailer with its colorful complete graphics wrap has shown itself to be a major attraction inside convention centers around the country. The graphics feature pictures of kids building Sea Quest Kids boats at various events and venues around the country. Offshore races, Boys and Girls Clubs, fishing tournaments, juvenile justice facilities, and more.

At the New York National Boat Show the Sea Quest Kids exhibit also featured the kids building a Sea Quest 100 one design scow-skiff. The boat built at the New York Show went into the Sea Quest Kids R&D program.

From New York it was on to the Atlanta Boat Show where the Sea Quest Kids shared booth space with a new corporate sponsor Truck Customs by Chris. Chris Walker and his partner George Stickler have been building super trucks since 2001. They are the premier builder of the eye popping super trucks that have been bought by such people as Shaq, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, as well as numerous other sports celebrities, movie stars, and other movers and shakers of world events!

The Truck Customs By Chris at the show was a GMC 5500 with a hydroxy generator built by a company started by Sea Quest Kids Fearless Leader Steve Gronka. The purpose of the hydroxy generator company is to generate ongoing income and an endowment for Sea Quest Kids. The truck was there to draw people to the Sea Quest Kids booth by showing an exotic attraction. Boy did it ever draw attention. The Truck Custom by Chris was probably the main attraction at the show.

Without question the number two attraction at the show had to be the Sea Quest Kids diesel jet drive Sea Quest 100. This Sea Quest Kids’ boat features a 4hp, air cooled, hand start, diesel pump made by Yanmar. The pump is set up as a jet drive for the boat. Always a crowd pleaser, the boat shows that kids can do anything they can imagine! Whether they are gearheads or just want to paddle and sail they can do it all with their broad flat stable 10 foot Sea Quest 100.

As for building boats, Sea Quest Kids showed the ropes to about 70 kids who eagerly learned the basics of handling wood working tools. One family of avid boat builders was being home schooled by their parents. At another exhibit an exhibitor asked the parents about the kids being at the show during school hours. The parents said that they home school the kids and the exhibitor asked the parents what they thought the kids were going to learn while attending a boat show. Obviously that exhibitor hasn’t experienced a Sea Quest Kids build a boat session.

The kids worked with math and did fractions and multiplications. They learned about different kinds and cuts of wood and how plywood is made. They learned how to properly hammer nails, put in screws, line up parts, glue and paint. They used nails and screws, and found out about finishes and different types of metal and when to use each one. They were taught about battens and their purpose and importance in engineering strength into joints. The kids experienced a huge gain in confidence to do things and be successful in pursuing their dreams. The kids had to work as a team on some tasks or they would not have been able to accomplish them and so learned the value of true team effort!

Advance America Foundation, the parent organization of Sea Quest Kids has after analyzing education programs from around the world, found that the number one motivator for kids to learn virtually any academic discipline is for them to build their own boat and learn how to use it! On average it is by far the number one motivator without even a close second.

In Atlanta two boats were built and painted and a third boat already built was painted as well. In all, three boats were given away. Without the faithful sponsorship of Barkley Geib and the McKinney-Geib Foundation Sea Quest Kids would not be able to go to the Atlanta Boat Show. In fact it was the McKinney-Geib Foundation that bought the trailer exhibited at the show and the GMC 3500 Sierra that pulls it. The marine industry should thank Barkley Geib for his investment in the future of the marine industry by being a key supporter of the development of the “little league of boating” Sea Quest Kids.

Winners of Sea Quest 100s were Cole (9yrs) and Grayson (7yrs) Hall of Conyers, GA; Reid Jenkins (11yrs) of Marietta, GA; and the third boat went to the team of Kaitlyn Romaines (15yrs), Travis Romaines (12yrs), Cory Mayfield (14yrs), and Sash Mayfield (11yrs).