Spend less time and money on the Web. This CD-ROM set delivers the world's biggest collection of power boats right to your desktop! Get more --- much more --- information on all the boats, all in one place. Searchable, and printable. Consistent presentation of information makes comparing power boats a snap.

ANYONE LOOKING for a new power boat will find no better reference than BoatShow on CD-ROM: Power Boats. It is the largest and most complete guide available to in-production power boats on today's market.

BOATSHOW on CD-ROM: Power Boats is a huge resource. If it were a book it would easily be 4,000 pages. The set contains a vast 4,000 photos and drawings. It has more than 500,000 words of boat commentary - as much as five good-sized books. Boats also come with builder's spec sheet and pricing.

VOLUME 1 contains information on 658 boats, including bass boats, runabouts, sportboats, pontoon boats, power cats, cuddy cruisers, cruisers and more.

VOLUME 2 contains information on 725 boats, including cruisers, motoryachts, trawlers, and sportfishers.

BOAT information is searchable, and printable. Consistent presentation of information and an attractive interface makes comparing boats a snap.

Most boats are displayed with:

• Several full-screen, screen-optimized photos
• Drawings of the deck and/or cabin plan and profile
• Detailed specifications in metric and standard measurements
• Prices
• Builder's commentary
• Builder contact information, including phone, fax and e-mail

Features:

• The BoatFinder search engine lets you find and display boats with the features you want ­ for instance, boats in your size-range and price-range.
• Boats can be "bookmarked" to a personal list.
• Commentary and specs and drawings can be printed out at laser or inkjet quality resolution for further study.
• Slide show mode lets you sit back and watch boats pass by on-screen for several hours.
• Attractive, easy-to-use interface.

Minimum Requirements:

PC - Windows® 3.1 with 8 MB RAM, or Windows 95, 98 or NT with 5.7 MB free RAM, 256 color monitor, CD-ROM drive, 386 processoror better (Pentium recommended).
Macintosh® - System 7 with 8 MB RAM or Mac OS 8 with 16 MB RAM, color monitor, CD-ROM drive, 030 processor or better (PowerPC recommended).

On coming to the BoatFinder, select whether you want to Do A Search or view your Marked List (if you have one). If you select Do A Search, the list of all boats on the CD-ROM shows in the results box in the navigation bar (bottom center).

Criteria headings turn gold to show they are active. Hold the mouse down on a heading to bring up a menu of search selections. As you make selections, the list of boats is reduced through the elimination of those that do not meet your criteria. The number of boats in the results list is displayed. You can undo or change selections, or reset entirely using the RESET button.

We used this low-resolution JPEG for faster loading. The actual artwork looks fabulous full-screen.