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...recent Sunday, Keley Hill piloted a 39-ft. (12 m) Midnight Express powerboat near the border. The boat sloshed in the 4-ft. (1.2 m) chop, running lights out to avoid detection. Supervisory agent Mark White stood on the bow, peering through night-vision goggles that revealed an empty sea clear out to Coronado island, 8 miles (13 km) away. Hill, director of the CBP's marine-interdiction unit in San Diego, busied himself scanning the green squiggles on the radar screen and radioed to agents in helicopters hovering above the coastline. "They're the bird dogs," Hill says...
Whether you use water skis, tubes, kneeboards or wakeboards, the truest test of the powerboat that tows you is its sound system. The new wakeboard tower audio system from Infinity ($1,100; infinitysystems com features an amplifier and waterproof speakers designed to pump high-decibel music up to 50 ft. past the stern--even when you're knifing full throttle through the water. The system includes a microphone that enables people in the boat to talk to whomever they're towing. It may not improve your water skiing, but at least you can have a good sound track...
...weeds that wrapped themselves around the propeller and threw the rotation of the shaft off true, causing a slight vibration in the tiller. Otherwise, the boat was frictionless and silent - a dreamlike passage. A few sailboats were out, luffing around a course. Now and then, a powerboat would approach us on a snarling Doppler, would rooster noisily past, and recede...
...Navy officials and pilots uniformly deride the Chinese claim that the lumbering turboprop airplane, which can travel only half as fast as the pair of Chinese F-8s that were shadowing it, was to blame for the accident. "That claim makes as much sense as a guy in a powerboat complaining when he hits a sailboat," one senior Navy officer said. "It's the powerboat guy's responsibility - just like it's the jet pilot's responsibility - to avoid the slow mover...
Convinced that my wife and I were finally comfortable with steering and docking procedures, Steve said goodbye, jumped into his powerboat and quickly disappeared. My stomach sank a little when he left--and at least one daughter noticed. "It's easy, Dad," coaxed Nicole, one of the twins, then wisely advised, "Just don't sink...