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Boat safety class a perk at Spokane Boat Show

Finishing touches: Tyrone Sprenkel, left, and Josh Gilbert, employees of Boat World, polish boats for the 2013 Spokane National Boat Show at the Spokane County Fair and Expo Center. The 2015 show, sponsored by the Spokane Yacht Club, starts Feb. 4. (Tyler Tjomsland)
Finishing touches: Tyrone Sprenkel, left, and Josh Gilbert, employees of Boat World, polish boats for the 2013 Spokane National Boat Show at the Spokane County Fair and Expo Center. The 2015 show, sponsored by the Spokane Yacht Club, starts Feb. 4. (Tyler Tjomsland)

WATERSPORTS -- The 61st annual Spokane Boat Show, is ready to start its 2015 run --  Feb. 4-8 -- at Spokane County Fair and Expo Center. Info: (509) 991-1002, spokaneboatshow.com

A boating safety class – required for everyone born on or after Jan. 1, 1955, in order to operate a power boat in Washington – also is scheduled.

Register in advance and get free admission to the Spokane Boat Show. The eight-hour course is taught in two-hour sessions starting at 7 p.m. on Feb. 4-7.

Sign up and get materials at West Marine, 5306 E, Sprague Ave., 533-5532.

Cost, including Boat Show admission, $48 or $73 for two family members.

Rich Landers
Rich Landers joined The Spokesman-Review in 1977. He is the Outdoors editor for the Sports Department writing and photographing stories about hiking, hunting, fishing, boating, conservation, nature and wildlife and related topics.

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