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Riviera awarded large exporter of the year

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The Riviera team celebrated being awarded the ‘Best Marine Industry Export Performance – large business category’ which was announced at the 2013 Australian Marine Industry Export Awards held on May 21.

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Affordable, fixed thermal night vision has arrived

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Marine electronics and navigation specialist, Errol Cain has supervised the installation of marine electronic systems into thousands of Riviera luxury cruisers in his 27 years experience. In this issue, Errol talks about Raymarine’s affordable, fixed thermal night vision cameras.

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R Marine Jones gives a touch of Southern Comfort

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Riviera owner Chris Buchanan has always wanted to take his 45 Open Flybridge, Southern Comfort, to Fraser Island, but the thought of navigating the notorious Wide Bay Bar was daunting for this boating enthusiast

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Riviera stages multiple new model releases at Sydney International Boat Show

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Riviera will stage multiple new model releases with the world release of the new 50 Enclosed Flybridge and Sydney release of the new 565 SUV at the upcoming 2013 Sydney International Boat Show, which will be held from August 1 to 5.

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Win one of our amazing new Mercury 150hp FourStroke outboards

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Mercury is giving away one of its new 150hp FourStrtoke outboards – the engine which is far and away the best in its class.

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Happy Captain boathook has a worldwide evolution

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The Evolve Group has recently signed a deal with Happy Captain Australia Pty Ltd which will see Evolve officially launch the world’s ultimate boathook, along with its extensive range of innovative products.    Happy Captain chose to sign over the manufacturing, sales and marketing of their range of products to Evolve as they identified Evolve’s unique ability to launch products onto the Australian and international stage, whilst also being able to continue the research and development into new products and continue to build the range.    Happy Captain was launched in 2012 as a culmination of a three-year dream, a lot of hard work and world-class designing for good friends  and avid boaters Murray Bragg and Arthur Nommensen who were themselves looking for a practical boathook.   The ‘ultimate boathook’ has a patented shuttle designed to thread a leader rope through cleats, rungs and buoys for easy mooring.   Evolve…