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Yamaha Rightwaters recently expanded its partnership with Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute (HSWRI) through a renewed three-year agreement, which provides HSWRI with two new outboards that will help the organization fulfill research and marine mammal rescue work in Florida and California. A Yamaha 115-horsepower outboard will power the primary response vessel for HSWRI’s Marine Mammal Stranding Team and a 50-horsepower Yamaha outboard will power the HSWRI skiff that services offshore white seaba
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Yamaha Rightwaters will repower and support The University of Georgia’s® (UGA®) Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant fleet, which works to improve the environmental, social and economic health of the Georgia coast through research, education and extension, over a 5-year period. Yamaha Rightwaters recently provided three Yamaha 150-horsepower outboards in 2025 and will continue to provide outboard power in 2026 and 2027 with one Yamaha 90-horsepower outboard, one 115-horsepower outboard, one 15
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Report Showcases Company’s Commitment to Environmental Responsibility, Highlights Future Ambitions
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Yamaha Rightwaters is a new International Game Fishing Association (IGFA®) sponsor, lending support to the IGFA Passport to Fishing Program and the IGFA Great Marlin Race. Together, Yamaha Rightwaters and the IGFA will work to generate and promote conservation efforts in North America.This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241022389550/en/Yamaha Rightwaters is a new International Game Fishing Association (IGFA®) sponsor, lendi
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Zach Gordon Pursuing Master’s Degree in Biology
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The Yamaha U.S. Marine Business Unit recently donated two Yamaha WaveRunners to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission (FWC) to enhance enforcement of the Weeki Wachee Springs Protection Zone. In July of 2023, FWC Commissioners approved the Springs Protection Zone, which prohibits beaching, mooring, anchoring and grounding of vessels on the spring run of the Weeki Wachee River extending from the spring boil within Weeki Wachee State Park to the Rogers Park Boat Ramp.This press release features
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Yamaha Rightwaters renews its partnership with Ducks Unlimited through the Southeast Wetlands (SEWI) and Great Lakes initiatives (GLI), two multi-year conservation projects dedicated to water conservation and improving and rebuilding wetlands lost to erosion. This latest commitment, which includes a contribution of $250,000 over a three-year period, will advance critical conservation projects and steward natural resources in Wisconsin and Florida.This press release features multimedia. View the
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Yamaha Rightwaters™ recently renewed its sponsorship of Bonefish & Tarpon Trust® (BTT), a relationship that began in June of 2022 when Yamaha became the official outboard of BTT. With continued support from Yamaha Rightwaters, BTT will advance its international mission to conserve bonefish, tarpon and permit species as well as their habitats.This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240627678366/en/With continued support from Yam
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Yamaha becomes the new official outboard and vessel of Partnership for the Delaware Estuary (PDE) as the nonprofit organization forms a new relationship with Yamaha Rightwaters. Through the five-year agreement, PDE will power its 20-foot-long G3 Gator Tough jon boat with a Yamaha V MAX SHO® 115 outboard, both provided by Yamaha.This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240618599175/en/Yamaha becomes the new official outboard and
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Yamaha Rightwaters™ marked its fifth anniversary on Saturday, June 8, World Oceans Day 2024. During the past five years, Yamaha Rightwaters supported programs that made significant progress in the fight to keep waterways clean and promote sustainability for generations to come. Several key metrics include:This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240610698709/en/Yamaha Rightwaters marks its fifth year supporting projects that hel
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Difficult weather conditions drive anglers to search a wider area for invasive species
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Yamaha Pro Angler Ish Monroe teamed up with Keep the Tennessee River Beautiful (KTNRB) and a group of volunteers on May 5 to clean up Guntersville Lake. Led by KTNRB Executive Director Kathleen Gibi, the group pulled over 1600 pounds of trash near Guntersville, Ala.This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240507150661/en/Yamaha Pro Angler Ish Monroe teamed up with Keep the Tennessee River Beautiful (KTNRB) and a group of volunte
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Through a renewed Yamaha Rightwaters™ sponsorship, Yamaha continues as the official outboard of Conch Republic Marine Army (CRMA), powering the organization’s clean-up boat with a Yamaha 225-horsepower outboard.This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240312725755/en/Through a renewed Yamaha Rightwaters™ sponsorship, Yamaha continues as the official outboard of Conch Republic Marine Army (CRMA), powering the organization’s clean
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Yamaha continues as the official outboard of Conch Republic Marine Army (CRMA), powering the organization’s second clean-up boat with a Yamaha 225-horsepower outboard through a renewed Yamaha Rightwaters™ sponsorship.This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231115396555/en/Yamaha continues as the official outboard of Conch Republic Marine Army (CRMA), powering the organization’s second clean-up boat with a Yamaha 225-horsepower
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Yamaha Rightwaters™ continues its support of Tennessee Wildlife Federation (TWF) by donating $10,000 toward ensuring Tennessee’s abundant water resources flourish through conservation policy efforts. TWF is a consistent advocate for science-based, common-sense policy solutions to problems facing our wildlife, nature and water.This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231019324985/en/“Water is one of Tennessee Wildlife Federation’
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Yamaha Rightwaters™ joined forces with Georgia Southern University’s (GSU) College of Science and Mathematics and the Georgia Department of Natural Resources Coastal Resources Division to initiate a new conservation project designed to restore degraded oyster beds on the Georgia coast. The research gathered during the project will help determine the carbon burial potential of newly formed oyster reefs off the coast of Georgia.This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: ht
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Yamaha becomes the new official outboard of Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute (HSWRI) as the renowned research organization forms a new relationship with Yamaha Rightwaters™. Through the two-year agreement, HSWRI will power its research boat with an F70 Yamaha outboard.This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230622189056/en/Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute (HSWRI) forms a new relationship with Yamaha Rightwaters™, and through
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Tournament Helps Remove Approximately 25,000 Invasive Lionfish from Gulf of Mexico
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Fishing’s Future®, an organization that provides opportunities to reconnect with nature and learn about angling through family-oriented fishing activities, has a new official outboard sponsor, thanks to Yamaha Rightwaters™.This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230524005124/en/Fishing's Future "ICAN" vessel, now powered by a Yamaha F175 outboard, provides disabled families with the opportunity to enjoy the water by incorporati
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During the 2023 American Boating Congress (ABC), May 8-10 in Washington, D.C., Yamaha and other industry leaders conducted dozens of meetings on Capitol Hill educating legislators about the benefits of sustainable marine fuel, the need to mitigate aquatic invasive species, and the industry’s desire to deploy technical solutions to reduce the risk of vessel strikes to marine mammals.This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230517
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During its 45th Expedition, OCEARCH, a global non-profit ocean research organization, recently tagged and named a new white shark in honor of its relationship with Yamaha Rightwaters™. “Umi,” which translates to “sea/ocean” in Japanese, is a 13-foot, 3-inch female weighing approximately 1,225 pounds. OCEARCH will track Umi through the Global Shark Tracker™ in an effort to learn more about how white sharks contribute to healthier oceans.This press release features multimedia. View the full releas
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Yamaha Marine U.S. Business Unit will soon begin to use plant-derived cellulose nanofiber (CNF) reinforced resin in the production of specific watercraft parts. The CNF reinforced resin, developed through a collaborative agreement between Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. in Japan (“Yamaha Motor”) and Nippon Paper Industries Corporation, Ltd., represents what appears to be one of the world’s first practical use of sustainable material for watercraft parts.*This press release features multimedia. View the f
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Yamaha Rightwaters™ continues its support of the Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown, Mass., by helping the marine rescue organization repower a boat with new 300-horsepower outboards. The F300s will power the twin-engine Ibis, a whale disentanglement vessel used to assist with several research and rescue programs in the Cape Cod Bay area.This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20221017005256/en/New Yamaha F300 outboards w
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Yamaha becomes the new official outboard of OCEARCH® as the renowned research organization forms a new relationship with Yamaha Rightwaters™. Through the three-year agreement, OCEARCH will power its chase boats with Yamaha outboards. The first boat will have twin 300-horsepower Yamaha V6 Offshore outboards, while two additional boats will have Yamaha F150 and F60 power.This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220803005067/en/Yam
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Yamaha Rightwaters™ announced it's the official outboard of Bonefish & Tarpon Trust® (BTT). With this sponsorship, Yamaha is committed to BTT’s mission to conserve bonefish, tarpon and permit—the species, their habitats and the larger fisheries they comprise.This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220627005393/en/Yamaha Rightwaters™ announced it's the official outboard of Bonefish & Tarpon Trust® (BTT). With this sponsorship, Y
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Valhalla Boatworks is the most recent addition to the list of boat manufacturers currently recycling plastic protective covers through the Yamaha Rightwaters plastics recycling program. To date, the program, which launched in August 2021, is responsible for returning 17,911 pounds of Polyethylene and Polypropylene sheet plastics back into base materials, reducing the amount of plastics in U.S. waterways.This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.
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Yamaha Rightwaters recently joined forces with Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi’s® Harte Research Institute and the Coastal Conservation Association (CCA®) to initiate a new conservation project designed to evaluate the role of oyster reefs in capturing and storing carbon in St. Charles Bay in the Gulf of Mexico. The ultimate goal is to then potentially scale the program to a larger scope.This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/hom
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Yamaha U.S. Marine Business Unit executives joined 225 representatives from the boating and fishing industries in Washington D.C. for the 2022 American Boating Congress (ABC), May 11-13. During the three-day event, Yamaha leaders conducted 70 meetings on Capitol Hill educating legislators about the challenges of electrification in boating, the need to support research and approval of biofuels, and requesting improved labeling for E15 fuel through the Consumer Protection and Fuel Transparency Act
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Wounded Nature–Working Veterans, a non-profit group dedicated to the removal of debris from hard-to-reach coastal areas, has a new V MAX SHO® 115 outboard on the back of the organization’s 18-foot SeaArk aluminum work boat thanks to support from Yamaha Rightwaters. Technicians from Yamaha Marine University™ also rigging service resources and equipped the boat with Siren Marine technology.This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20
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The Yamaha Rightwaters plastics recycling program returned more than 10,000 pounds of Polyethylene and Polypropylene sheet plastics back to base materials during 2021, proving a pilot concept the sustainability initiative hopes to expand in 2022. Yamaha Rightwaters announced the program in August and continues to work with Nexus® of Atlanta, Georgia and Tommy Nobis Enterprises® of Marietta, Georgia, to develop a larger national program intended to reduce plastic waste in America’s waterways.“Pol
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Topic at Kenai Classic Roundtable on Recreational Fishing
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Company Targets Industry-wide Collaborations in Health and Safety, Pandemic Preparedness, Tech Inclusion and Carbon-Neutral Computing
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Application Open for Grants to Enable Communities to Implement Local Waste Recovery Programs