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Protecting Your Outboard From Corrosion

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Easy to Follow Steps to Keep Your Outboard Running Smoothly Raritan Engineering Company your   marine hose  specialists would like to share with you these topics we thought would be of interest to you this month regarding protecting your outboard from corrosion. Your outboard continuously draws water in, circulates it around high-heat components to cool them, and then discharges the water. We recommend flushing after use in salty, muddy or contaminated water because deposits can cling to inside passages and break down those surfaces at a molecular level. Plus, flushing helps to prevent clogs that could impede the flow of coolant water. The flushing port on Mercury outboards makes this easy. With the engine off, trim it to the vertical position, attach a freshwater hose, open the spigot halfway and flush for 15 minutes.  I flush my outboard with Star Brite Salt Off after a day on the water. It’s cheap insurance. I do this right away, while the engine’s still hot. Your...

Check Out These Great Ways to Become a Boater

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Follow These Simple Suggestions to Begin Your Boating Hobby Raritan Engineering Company your  toilet macerator   specialists would like to share with you these topics we thought would be of interest to you this month regarding great ways to become a boater. It’s one thing to interpret a navigational marker from a desk chair. It’s another to do so in the glaring light of day, with vessels moving in every direction, at 20 mph. Don’t Be Intimidated Sure, it’s a 3,000-pound, three-dimensional arrowhead cutting through a watery landscape with who-knows-what below the water line. (Crab pots! Oyster bars! Sunken boats!) Your toilet macerator experts talk about how boating is nothing to be taken lightly. But consider this: every day we get into metal machines and fly in formation only a few feet apart at 70 miles per hour.  Browse through our macerating pump selection here  at Raritan Engineering, where we always take care of your marine sanitation supply needs. Take a Boate...

Ownerless Sailing Means Less Costs for You

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Check Out These Ownerless Sailing Options Raritan Engineering Company your   boat toilets  experts   would like to share with you these topics we thought would be of interest to you this month regarding how ownerless sailing could mean less costs for you. Times have changed and the sport of sailing has indeed felt that change in many ways. Technological advancement has given us great tools like colorful chart plotters and EPIRBs, but it has also facilitated a mentality and attention span that runs obverse to the time and patience sailing requires.  However, to be sure, there are other factors, perhaps even challenges, that need to be considered when we think about how to get out sailing on a regular basis in this day and age. On the top of the list are the economic realities. Your boat toilets specialists talk about how thirty years ago sailing was frankly, a cheaper activity to pursue.  Fractional ownership (formal and informal) More and more people are coming ...