Miami Beach, FL -- February 23, 2007 -- Channel Blade Technologies, a leading provider of web sites for builders and dealers in the recreational industry, received accolades when two customer web sites took top honors at last week's Miami International Boat Show. The awards represented top honors in two of the five categories in the annual North American Marine Industry Web Awards competition.

The winning Dealer/Broker site, HMY Yacht Sales (www.hmy.com) and OEM/Manufacturer site, Meridian Yachts (www.meridian-yachts.com) both rely on graphical interface, hosting and lead management solutions created by Channel Blade.

"These awards speak volumes about the importance of content and product driven sites for both OEMs and Dealers," said Chuck Lewis, Channel Blade executive vice president. "Channel Blade is proud to support HMY and Meridian with its set of web solutions and congratulate them on their well-deserved recognition."

Representatives from both HMY and Meridian were quick to highlight Channel Blade's efforts.

"Channel Blade has been a key solution provider in Meridian's e-business strategies since day one," said Meridian Yachts' marketing director, Matthew Vetzner. "Not only do they provide a powerful set of back-end tools to manage our site and leads, but they have worked with our internal team to deliver brand messaging that is consistent with our off-line marketing materials."

Says Mike Dickman, Director of Marketing of HMY Yacht Sales: "As a new boat dealer also representing brokerage boats, our web site needs to function a little differently. Channel Blade listened to our needs and created a user-friendly environment for web-browsing prospects to find the data they are looking for. On the back-end, they developed a lead response interface that has cut our lead response time not by minutes, but by days. Channel Blade has been a true partner in our effort to brand HMY as well as a business development advocate."

Launched in 2004, the Marine Web Awards program recognizes company Web sites that demonstrate a higher standard of excellence in creative design, ease of navigation and the presentation of up-to-date content. Judges for the awards were polled from a wide range of backgrounds. Industry executives participating this year included Tim Brunelle, senior partner and executive creative director, Carmichael Lynch Agency; Rebecca Sillin, The Zeno Group; Julie Adams, art director, Arc Worldwide; Enam Noor, founder, Desme; Fernando Regueiro, director, Internet services, NMMA); and James Nolan, group general manager of boats.com & yachtworld.com.