Boating Pants

Stormy's good mate Joel Ryan from C & R Imports keeping dry in his new boat pants recently, while Tuna fishing in Victoria.

Stormy Grenade - Boating Business Acticle

Dragons Abreast Gold Coast

Breast cancer survivor teams from all over the world are preparing to participate in the International Dragon Boat Festival in 2010. The festival will be taking place in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada from June 11 to June 13, 2010. This is the third festival of its kind and previous festivals have been held in Vancouver, Canada and Caloundra, Australia. The venue for the festival will be Little Lake at Del Crary Park in downtown Peterborough. Survivors Abreast, Peterborough’s survivor team, is tickled pink to be hosting this worldwide event.

Stormy Rescue Grenade

Peter Hopkins from MAST on Hook Line and Sinker recently.

Dragon Boat Nationals April 2010

Congratulations to the Tasmanian Dragon Boat Team. It was a great effort to make the National 500m Final at the recent event in Adelaide. (Photo's coming)

Mercury Article - Storms ready to slay Dragons

Check out the article in the mercury featuring the Derwent Storms wearing their fantastic looking new Freedom Yokes.Stormy would like to wish the team all the best at the nationals.

http://www.themercury.com.au/article/2010/04/21/141251_sport-news.html

Hook Line and Sinker

Today Stormy had a visit from Hook Line and Sinkers Nick Duigan. He was here to talk about the importance of lifejackets and there maintenance. Keep an eye out in coming weeks for the segment to air.

Freedom Yoke

The Derwent Storms training for Nationals.

The new Freedom Yoke in the Derwent on Saturday after State training. The water was very cold. Ian and the rescue crew were very quick to rescue her. Thank you!

Derwent Storms Dragon Boat Club New PFD"S

We have been designing a new inflatable for the Derwent Storms Tasmanian Team. They are finished just intime for the upcoming national dragon boat championships which begin next Thursday in Adelaide. The aim to help the paddlers go faster with freedom of movement and safety. The lifejackets are comfortable and light.

Article in Mercury featuring Stormy Inflatable PFD

http://www.themercury.com.au/article/2010/04/15/139881_tasmania-news.html



"...Generally boat users have the necessary safety equipment and they use Personal Floatation Devices(PFD) as required...if PFD's are not serviced then there is a chance they will not inflate properly when required" - Peter Hopkins, MAST manager for recreational boating.



We recommend you service your Stormy products yearly and conduct 'self-checks' regularly to ensure your safety devices are in good working order.
Stay posted for a DIY 'self-check' tutorial on this blog, and also video advice for maintenance, repacking and general care instructions for your Stormy products.

For all your servicing and maintenance instructions see www.StormyAustralia.com.

Some happy snaps from Paul Jack of Bonnet Hill

Some pictures submitted by Paul Jack and family of a recent outing to the Bruny Island area:

The fish were obviously biting and the backdrop created some spectacular

images for the family album!

Great shots of family and friends enjoy the water and staying safe and

comfortable with Stormy Products.

- "Not without my Stormy"

www.StormyAustralia.com

Misty Hill Blog - Tim and Lynne Stredwick

Check out Tim and Lynne's blog, "Misty Hill" detailing their seabound travels in kayaks around the most remote areas of our incredible island...
- Tim keeping busy in the Stormy Kayak Vest with South West Cape in the background.

They are clad in the Current Stormy Kayak vest SKD during their adventures and have provided us with some invaluable positive feedback regarding it's use.

"...the vests are fantastic, comfortable, no chaffing and all the pockets are extremely useful to keep all our bits and pieces for our journey's organised..."

- Lynne taking a well deserved rest and in Conical rocks harbour

In-house testing of Custom Freedom Yoke

Another busy day of testing in the Stormy lab. The latest fantastic product on offer in the Stormy Australia range is the "Custom" Freedom Yoke.

Before, mid-inflation and after.

Helen Moore, Managing Director taking one for the team and playing test dummy for the Custom Freedom Yoke Manual inflation testing.

This product will apeal to many teams, associations and clubs in almost any sport requiring a non-restrictive, comfortable and lightweight lifejacket or PFD.

The "Derwent Storms", a Tasmanian Dragon boating

club which is in preparation for the upcoming

2010 Australian Dragon Boating Championships

has recently had a Custom Freedom Yoke created

and are proudly displaying their team colours

everytime they hit the water. Similarly Queensland

Dragonboat team "Dragons abreast" had a Custom

Pink Yoke manufactured to represent their team in

the most appropriate and impressive way!

Check out some snaps of these ladies in action below:

Tasmanian Fire Service in Stormy Labs

Friday 9th April, 2010

Today in the always frantic stormy facility, we had representatives from the Tasmanian Fire Service helping with the R+D for a Stormy Yoke tailored for the requirements of their job. It is always exciting to see new applications for Stormy products and a fantastic way to help contribute to keeping these men and women safe as they work to protect us!

Here's some action snaps from today's testing:

Welcome!

Hi there, and thanks for dropping by!

We're all about connecting with the people and communities that work and play on the water - helping them stay safe doing what they do. So in 2010, expect to hear lots from us on the web as we try to do that even better.

Looking forward to an awesome year ahead! And please stay in touch - we love hearing from you!

Cheers
Helen Moore, Managing Director