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Press Release
Sea Quest Kids™ At The Marathon APBA Offshore Races
Event: Sea Quest Kids™ Boat Building & Water Safety at APBA Offshore Professional Power Boat Races
Dates: May 15, 16, 17
Activity: Boat building and Water safety activities for all kids including all special needs kids.
Saturday – starting at 9:00 A.M. until sundown
Sunday – starting at 9:00 A.M. until 4:00 P.M.
Contact: Steve Gronka: Cell Phone: 404-434-0660 and E-mail: sgronka@cs.com,
Web: www.advanceaf.org
For Immediate Release
Story: Sea Quest Kids™, the official boat building and water safety program for kids for the APBA Offshore Professional Power Boat Racing Tour was in Marathon, Florida with the Tour for the races this past weekend, May 15-17. The Formula Boats sponsored Sea Quest Kids™ mobile production line swung into action! Once again with the help of Formula Boats and the local Home Depot, dreams came true for two local Marathon kids. Children from all over the area were able to come to the Dry Pits Race Village on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday and learn how to build the Sea Quest 100 as well as learn some basic boating and water safety. Tuesday morning on the Good Morning Marathon radio show on WAVK hosted by Dougy Hitchcock, all of the names of the kids were put in a hat and winners of the boats were drawn.
The winners of the Sea Quest 100’s were twelve year old Chris Ellison of Marathon, Florida and 14 year old Stormy Bradway of Marathon, Florida. Chris’s Dad told Sea Quest Kids’™ Steve Gronka that the first thing Chris said on the way home after building boats on Saturday was that he hoped he would win a Sea Quest 100! But, if he did not win a boat he wanted to make a drawing of the boat as soon as he was at home so that he could build his own later. As soon as Chris arrived at home he broke out pencil and paper and made a drawing and listed all of the parts, tools, and materials. He also recorded the procedure to build the boat.
Chris Ellison’s determination to get a Sea Quest 100 one way or another is often seen in this program which is set up to be little league for boating. The dedication, desire and ambition to have a boat of his own under his own command is truly telling of the power to inspire generated by being able to build your own boat.
This is not a one time activity just for the race event. It is the purpose of the APBA Offshore and Advance America Foundation Sea Quest Kids™ to provide a little league comparable activity in boating for kids in the community to enjoy on a year round basis. Talks with the Marathon Recreation Center, Grace Jones Center and Charter School in Big Pine Key have begun and it is apparent that these groups and more want to see the Sea Quest Kids™ become a permanent activity for kids in Marathon and surrounding areas.
Sea Quest Kids™ travel from 40 –60,000 miles a year showing kids how to build boats as the Official Boat Building Program for the APBA Offshore, the Great Lakes Silver Cup Power Boat Race Series, the US Sailing Association Junior Olympics Program, and numerous other organizations. Among our sponsors are Formula Boats, 3M, Sika Corporation, the National Marine Manufacturers Association, Montano-Hartmann Motorsports (Drambuie On Ice), Cigarette Boats, Total Marine Racing, Big Thunder Racing, Cat Can Do Racing, Sea Doo Bombardier, most major boat shows, and others. American Marine Holdings, the parent of Donzi Marine has shown interest in sponsorship and the Donzi team of Snap On Tools has given some sponsorship.
We have also begun talks with ESPN to become part of the Great Outdoor Games that are ESPN’s own outdoor competitions. The next three years will be in Reno, Nevada.
Sea Quest Kids™ is the largest boat building and water safety program for kids in the United States and worldwide. In two days or less kids from five years old and up build their own 10-foot flat bottomed square ended scow-skiff, paddles, oars, mast, sail, sail rig, lee board, rudder system and outboard motor bracket. The kids get boating safety trained as they build the boats and then become part of an international network of kids that have all built their own boats and have organized groups (teams) with ongoing events. The events include sailing regattas, paddle and rowing races, fishing tournaments, overnight campouts, community service doing waterway cleanups, public speaking telling PTA's, Town Councils, Civic Associations why they are building boats and why it is important to them, and show their own boats at boat shows.
This is "the" grass roots, low cost or no cost entry-level activity for kids to get into boating. It includes all special needs kids as well. We get them all into boating in a totally comprehensive package that includes boating and water safety, fishing, and other organized events such as boat races, campouts, community service, and public speaking to town councils, civic associations, state and national legislatures and PTA’s. Our kids have also testified about boating and boating safety before the United States Congress. Our key advantage over other boat building activities is that we are one design, organized, ongoing, National and International, and work with all kids regardless of background and special needs.
Advance America Foundation has spent the last eleven years developing a little league for boating. Now that the details have been for the most part worked out, February of 2002 we began introducing the marine industry to Sea Quest Kids™, the little league of boating.
Marine Trades groups around the country as well as the Coast Guard Reserve, Navy League, Power Squadron, Boys and Girls Clubs, Scouts, Schools and many other groups are showing great interest in getting Sea Quest Kids™ started throughout their areas.
We have been asked to start Sea Quest Kids™ in every major nation. We continually get requests to go to boat shows in Mexico, Spain, South and Central America and throughout the Caribbean to show Sea Quest Kids™ and start Sea Quest Kids™ Boat Building and Water Safety. Requests even include the Far East and the Middle East as well as all of Europe and Africa. Most recently, admirals of the Russian Navy asked us to go to St. Petersburg Russia to show kids how to build boats.
Sea Quest Kids™ is part of the education foundation, Advance America Foundation, a 501 (c) (3) Public Charity education group. In 10 years we have built over 2,100 boats and have worked with over 20,000 kids. We work with the living legends of Sailing, such as Charley Morgan, Halsey Herreshoff, Ted Hood, Gary Hoyt, and Peter Conrad. Our kids are VIP’s at America’s Cup and Volvo Around The World Sail Boat Race as well as major boat shows.
In addition to being the official boat building charity of the APBA Offshore Professional Power Boat Racing Tour and the Great Lakes Silver Cup, we also work with Boy Scouts and Girls Scouts, Boys and Girls Clubs, and numerous other organizations. In Ft. Lauderdale, there are scouts currently trying to go Eagle by teaching kids in their communities how to build boats and then how to use the boats. Churches, community centers, and schools are excited about the Sea Quest Kids™. Politicians love the Sea Quest Kids™ and always jump into paddle races whenever we open programs in their areas.
Press Release
Sea Quest Kids™ At The Marathon APBA Offshore Races
Event: Sea Quest Kids™ Boat Building & Water Safety at APBA Offshore Professional Power Boat Races
Dates: May 15, 16, 17
Activity: Boat building and Water safety activities for all kids including all special needs kids.
Saturday – starting at 9:00 A.M. until sundown
Sunday – starting at 9:00 A.M. until 4:00 P.M.
Contact: Steve Gronka: Cell Phone: 404-434-0660 and E-mail: sgronka@cs.com,
Web: www.advanceaf.org
For Immediate Release
Story: Sea Quest Kids™, the official boat building and water safety program for kids for the APBA Offshore Professional Power Boat Racing Tour was in Marathon, Florida with the Tour for the races this past weekend, May 15-17. The Formula Boats sponsored Sea Quest Kids™ mobile production line swung into action! Once again with the help of Formula Boats and the local Home Depot, dreams came true for two local Marathon kids. Children from all over the area were able to come to the Dry Pits Race Village on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday and learn how to build the Sea Quest 100 as well as learn some basic boating and water safety. Tuesday morning on the Good Morning Marathon radio show on WAVK hosted by Dougy Hitchcock, all of the names of the kids were put in a hat and winners of the boats were drawn.
The winners of the Sea Quest 100’s were twelve year old Chris Ellison of Marathon, Florida and 14 year old Stormy Bradway of Marathon, Florida. Chris’s Dad told Sea Quest Kids’™ Steve Gronka that the first thing Chris said on the way home after building boats on Saturday was that he hoped he would win a Sea Quest 100! But, if he did not win a boat he wanted to make a drawing of the boat as soon as he was at home so that he could build his own later. As soon as Chris arrived at home he broke out pencil and paper and made a drawing and listed all of the parts, tools, and materials. He also recorded the procedure to build the boat.
Chris Ellison’s determination to get a Sea Quest 100 one way or another is often seen in this program which is set up to be little league for boating. The dedication, desire and ambition to have a boat of his own under his own command is truly telling of the power to inspire generated by being able to build your own boat.
This is not a one time activity just for the race event. It is the purpose of the APBA Offshore and Advance America Foundation Sea Quest Kids™ to provide a little league comparable activity in boating for kids in the community to enjoy on a year round basis. Talks with the Marathon Recreation Center, Grace Jones Center and Charter School in Big Pine Key have begun and it is apparent that these groups and more want to see the Sea Quest Kids™ become a permanent activity for kids in Marathon and surrounding areas.
Sea Quest Kids™ travel from 40 –60,000 miles a year showing kids how to build boats as the Official Boat Building Program for the APBA Offshore, the Great Lakes Silver Cup Power Boat Race Series, the US Sailing Association Junior Olympics Program, and numerous other organizations. Among our sponsors are Formula Boats, 3M, Sika Corporation, the National Marine Manufacturers Association, Montano-Hartmann Motorsports (Drambuie On Ice), Cigarette Boats, Total Marine Racing, Big Thunder Racing, Cat Can Do Racing, Sea Doo Bombardier, most major boat shows, and others. American Marine Holdings, the parent of Donzi Marine has shown interest in sponsorship and the Donzi team of Snap On Tools has given some sponsorship.
We have also begun talks with ESPN to become part of the Great Outdoor Games that are ESPN’s own outdoor competitions. The next three years will be in Reno, Nevada.
Sea Quest Kids™ is the largest boat building and water safety program for kids in the United States and worldwide. In two days or less kids from five years old and up build their own 10-foot flat bottomed square ended scow-skiff, paddles, oars, mast, sail, sail rig, lee board, rudder system and outboard motor bracket. The kids get boating safety trained as they build the boats and then become part of an international network of kids that have all built their own boats and have organized groups (teams) with ongoing events. The events include sailing regattas, paddle and rowing races, fishing tournaments, overnight campouts, community service doing waterway cleanups, public speaking telling PTA's, Town Councils, Civic Associations why they are building boats and why it is important to them, and show their own boats at boat shows.
This is "the" grass roots, low cost or no cost entry-level activity for kids to get into boating. It includes all special needs kids as well. We get them all into boating in a totally comprehensive package that includes boating and water safety, fishing, and other organized events such as boat races, campouts, community service, and public speaking to town councils, civic associations, state and national legislatures and PTA’s. Our kids have also testified about boating and boating safety before the United States Congress. Our key advantage over other boat building activities is that we are one design, organized, ongoing, National and International, and work with all kids regardless of background and special needs.
Advance America Foundation has spent the last eleven years developing a little league for boating. Now that the details have been for the most part worked out, February of 2002 we began introducing the marine industry to Sea Quest Kids™, the little league of boating.
Marine Trades groups around the country as well as the Coast Guard Reserve, Navy League, Power Squadron, Boys and Girls Clubs, Scouts, Schools and many other groups are showing great interest in getting Sea Quest Kids™ started throughout their areas.
We have been asked to start Sea Quest Kids™ in every major nation. We continually get requests to go to boat shows in Mexico, Spain, South and Central America and throughout the Caribbean to show Sea Quest Kids™ and start Sea Quest Kids™ Boat Building and Water Safety. Requests even include the Far East and the Middle East as well as all of Europe and Africa. Most recently, admirals of the Russian Navy asked us to go to St. Petersburg Russia to show kids how to build boats.
Sea Quest Kids™ is part of the education foundation, Advance America Foundation, a 501 (c) (3) Public Charity education group. In 10 years we have built over 2,100 boats and have worked with over 20,000 kids. We work with the living legends of Sailing, such as Charley Morgan, Halsey Herreshoff, Ted Hood, Gary Hoyt, and Peter Conrad. Our kids are VIP’s at America’s Cup and Volvo Around The World Sail Boat Race as well as major boat shows.
In addition to being the official boat building charity of the APBA Offshore Professional Power Boat Racing Tour and the Great Lakes Silver Cup, we also work with Boy Scouts and Girls Scouts, Boys and Girls Clubs, and numerous other organizations. In Ft. Lauderdale, there are scouts currently trying to go Eagle by teaching kids in their communities how to build boats and then how to use the boats. Churches, community centers, and schools are excited about the Sea Quest Kids™. Politicians love the Sea Quest Kids™ and always jump into paddle races whenever we open programs in their areas.
Advance America Foundation:
6 South Dillwyn Road
Newark, DE 19711
Phone: 404-434-0660
Web: www.advanceaf.org