New York Sea Grant's banner display at the 2025 Central New York Boat Show, taken February 12, 2025. Credit: John Cannaday/NYSG

Contacts:
 
John Cannaday, New York Sea Grant Great Lakes Recreation and Tourism Specialist, P: 315-849-4436, E: jdc378@cornell.edu

Ryan Kennedy, President, Boating Industries Association of Upstate New York, P: 315-635-8166

Drew Wickham, Central New York Boat Show Manager, P: 585-526-5460, E: info@cnyboatshow.com

Kara Lynn Dunn, New York Sea Grant Great Lakes Publicist, P: 315-465-7578, E: karalynn@gisco.net

Oswego, NY, January 7, 2024 - New York Sea Grant and the Boating Industries Association of Upstate New York have announced a schedule of activities that includes Marine Industry Careers Day panel presentations for youth and adults, New York State Boater Safety Certification Course days for youth and adults, and boating safety equipment demonstrations at the February 13-16, 2025 Central New York (CNY) Boat Show at the New York State Fairgrounds in Syracuse, New York. 

Marine Industry Careers Day on Thursday, February 13, 2025, at the CNY Boat Show will include a daytime panel presentation for students in BOCES Power Sports programs will feature members of the Boating Industry Association of Upstate New York and marine trades representatives. An evening panel on careers in the marine trades in the Expo Center meeting room at the Fairgrounds will be open to all ages from 7:00-8:00 p.m. 

Activities offered by New York Sea Grant and the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary at the February show also include:

• daily outdoor demonstrations of how to use traditional pop-cap marine flares;

• Other types of flares, including electronic visual distress signals will be on exhibit

• daily demonstrations of inflatable personal floatation devices (PFDs).

The 2025 Discover Clean & Safe Boating education vessel with the required equipment for environmentally-friendly boating on New York waters, bilingual (English and Spanish) information on beach and boating hazards, and, while supplies last, New York State Boating Guides will be available at the New York Sea Grant boater education exhibit.

Seats are still available for the required New York State Boater Safety Certification Courses for youth ages 10-17 that will be taught by the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary  and New York Sea Grant on Saturday, February 15, 2025, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., free of charge, in a conference room of the Expo Center at the Fairgrounds. Each youth registering for the course will receive three free admission tickets to the CNY Boat Show. Registration is required, contact New York Sea Grant Great Lakes Recreation and Tourism Specialist John Cannaday at 315-849-4436. (The adult course for the show has filled.)

More than 400 all-new models of power, sail, and non-motorized boats, personal watercraft, previously-enjoyed boats, docks, and boating accessories will be on exhibit in the Expo Center and Exhibit Center at the New York State Fairgrounds during the Central New York Boat Show February 13-16, 2025. Show hours are Thursday and Friday 1-8 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m.-8 p.m. and Sunday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Admission is $12 per person, 13 and younger free; free parking and shuttle provided. Learn more at www.cnyboatshow.com.

More Info: New York Sea Grant

Established in 1966, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s National Sea Grant College Program promotes the informed stewardship of coastal resources in 34 joint federal/state university-based programs in every U.S. coastal state (marine and Great Lakes) and Puerto Rico. The Sea Grant model has also inspired similar projects in the Pacific region, Korea and Indonesia.

Since 1971, New York Sea Grant (NYSG) has represented a statewide network of integrated research, education and extension services promoting coastal community economic vitality, environmental sustainability and citizen awareness and understanding about the State’s marine and Great Lakes resources.

NYSG historically leverages on average a 3 to 6-fold return on each invested federal dollar, annually. We benefit from this, as these resources are invested in Sea Grant staff and their work in communities right here in New York.

Through NYSG’s efforts, the combined talents of university scientists and extension specialists help develop and transfer science-based information to many coastal user groups—businesses and industries, federal, state and local government decision-makers and agency managers, educators, the media and the interested public.

New York Sea Grant, one of the largest of the state Sea Grant programs, is a cooperative program of the State University of New York (SUNY) and Cornell University. The program maintains Great Lakes offices at Cornell University, SUNY Buffalo, Rochester Institute of Technology, SUNY Oswego, the Wayne County Cooperative Extension office in Newark, and in Watertown. In the State's marine waters, NYSG has offices at Stony Brook University and with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Nassau County on Long Island, in Queens, at Brooklyn College, with Cornell Cooperative Extension in NYC, in Bronx, with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County in Kingston, and with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Westchester County in Elmsford.

For updates on Sea Grant activities: www.nyseagrant.org, follow us on social media (Facebook, Twitter/X, Instagram, Bluesky, LinkedIn, and YouTube). NYSG offers a free e-list sign up via www.nyseagrant.org/nycoastlines for its flagship publication, NY Coastlines/Currents, which it publishes 2-3 times a year.