Capt. Kris moved around a lot as a child and grew up fishing everything from trout streams and bass lakes up north, to spending a few years fishing down in the Bahamas and Caribbean catching everything from bonefish to billfish. His vast knowledge and travels makes him a wealth of information on how to fish for numerous species of fish all over the country. Read more…

As Discover Boating’s official “Boating Guy,” Keith Ammons is charged with helping introduce non-boaters to the boating lifestyle and current boaters improve their on-the-water experience. Growing up aboard his father’s shrimp boat in the Southeastern United States, Ammons was destined to one day have the title “The Boating Guy.”
With 25 years of boating experience including sportfishing, kayaking, powerboating and sailing, Keith helps boaters within every budget and lifestyle bracket increase their enjoyment on the water. He has been first mate aboard a sportfishing boat on the Gulf Coast and is a recipient of the U.S. Coast Guard’s Gold Safety Coin. Keith travels the country speaking at Boat Shows and outdoor events, and communicates with boating-interested consumers virtually at DiscoverBoating.com.

In his tenure with Discover Boating, he has been interviewed by more than 50 local television affiliates and is a weekly contributor for Sirius’ World of Boating program. In his free time, Ammons takes to the water in one of his several kayaks, powerboat or sailboat, including bare boat sail trips to the Caribbean with his wife. He also enjoys sport fishing and has participated in more than 25 professional tournaments

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“Here’s the funny part,” says Electronics Editor Ben Ellison, “In June, 1971, I moved directly from college graduation in Connecticut onto an old 40′ wooden sloop in Camden, Maine. Some friends and I had bought the boat with plans…well, dreams…of sailing around the world…but I’m still in Camden!”

Ben did cruise that boat twice to the Caribbean in 70’s, as well as run her as a commercial daysailer. He also shipped out aboard everything from oilfield vessels in the Gulf to herring and scallop boats in New England, eventually earning a 100-ton captain’s license.

Ben has always had a fascination with navigation technology, including ancient tools like the sextant, which he’s taught about extensively. In the early 90s he worked for a company which developed tide and current prediction software, a job that evolved into creating tables for Reed’s Nautical Almanacs and eventually to editing the entire Almanac. Soon he was researching and writing about marine electronics and software, which he now does full time for Power & Motoryacht, Sail, and other magazines, as well as at his blog www.panbo.com. Ben is also an active member of the Camden Harbor Committee, and tends to an eclectic fleet of small craft.

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