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Your Marine Head Units Professionals Understand that Annual Frustrating Inspection Time Raritan Engineering Company  would love to share with you this week this helpful information on how to better understand your life raft inspection time.  Spring is when many sailors have to bite the bullet and have their life raft inspected, an expense that costs 10 to 30 percent of the price they paid for the raft—or more. In the U.S., there is no inspection requirement for life rafts on recreational boats. Inspection guidelines are set by the manufacturer. In Europe and other parts the world, rafts for recreational boats that sail offshore are supposed to meet ISO Standard 9650-1. This standard allows for an inspection interval of up to three years, but manufacturers often specify shorter intervals, especially for boats that spend most of their time in the tropics.  The experience of the owners of the 14-year-old, six-man, valise-stored Avon life raft pictured here reminds us of th

Your Marine Parts Depot Professionals Encourage You to Strengthen Your Team   Raritan Engineering your  marine parts depot  analysts would like to share with you these topics we thought would be of interest to you this month regarding the recipe for great teamwork. Your marine parts depot experts know that teamwork makes the dream work. There's no "I" in team. There are countless sayings because it's such an important aspect to many things in life...including sailing.  Recognition for a successful sailing campaign usually goes to the skipper and/or owner of a boat. Whether at the podium, on the trophy, or in a press release, their names are front and center.  Practice The teamwork we leveraged on- and off-the-water made the regatta both successful and satisfying. With the support of our partner boatyard, Sailing Inc. (Cleveland, OH), and Quantum Sails, the boats were rigged and tuned for the start of practice.  Getting Ready to Rumble To succee

Your Marine Products Specialists Announce That Kite Sailing Is Here to Stay Raritan Engineering your  marine products  analysts would like to share with you these topics we thought would be of interest to you this month regarding an introduction to the kite sailing world. Your marine products experts say, wind junkies beware, there is a new sailing discipline out there that might just force your wallet open, rearrange your life's priorities, and produce a little friction on the home front. But don't worry, those few nights you might have to spend on the couch will be worth it, I can assure you. Kite-sailing (or kite-surfing) has arrived on the scene and is causing quite a disturbance in the households of windsurfers, wake boarders, and small-boat sailors alike. Your marine products distributors professionals know that because they use a large kite to harness the wind, kite-surfers can enjoy the rush of speed sailing, the freedom of wake boarding without a boat, and th

Your Marine Sanitation Analysts Share the Secret to Keep Your Holding Tanks From Smelling Bad Raritan Engineering  would like to share with you this week these tips on keeping your holding tanks from smelling bad. Take a look at this photo and imagine it is your backyard. Or your patio, or balcony. Yep, those are sealed 5-gallon buckets full of iguana poop and “other” waste, ripening in the Chesapeake Bay area's autumn sun. Do you ever wonder whether those bright blue bottles of chemicals that claim to eliminate your head odors actually work? So did we. Readers may remember Frye as the tester who nearly reduced the family washing machine to a bucket of bolts in his quest for a safe and effective method for washing ropes. He’s just that kind of guy. Apart from Frye’s finding that a holding tank is an excellent reservoir for highly explosive gases, one of his more exciting discoveries was that any product's claims of “odor-eating bacteria" should not be taken

Buy Your Next Reverse Polarity Alarm at Raritan Engineering RPA – REVERSE POLARITY ALARM We Know What You Need Essential aid for traveling boaters when connecting to unfamiliar dock side power. The quality of marina wiring can vary greatly from place to place and from plug to plug. That is why most boats designed to plug in to shore power have a polarity indicator. It is an important safety feature that few boat owners fully understand or appreciate. With a couple of exceptions, it should be standard equipment on every boat that is capable of plugging into a common 120 volt AC shore power outlet. At Raritan, we offer dependability where it counts. Be Sure to Get Your Reverse Polarity Alarms at Raritan Engineering