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Your Marine Products Analysts Help You to Find Your Way Around Those Icy Waters Raritan Engineering  would like to keep you posted on marine products and also wants to show you the ropes for sailing in Siberia's icy waters. The otherworldly landscape of flat ice and consistent breeze makes Russia's Lake Baikal in southern Siberia and ideal ice-sailing destination. At over 5,000 feet deep, Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world and the largest by volume, holding approximately 20 percent of Earth's unfrozen fresh water, more than all the Great Lakes combined. The lake formed from a rift valley in the heart of Siberia 25 million years ago.  Proper ice sailing is best performed on smooth ice with consistent winds, conditions most often found along the so-called Ice Belt, between 40 and 50 degrees N. With its dry climate and extremely long winters, Baikal is basically ice-sailing nirvana. The vast landscape is raw, remote and unspoiled. It's far off the grid...

With Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark (GBR) having already won the Women's 470 gold medal, the battle for silver and bronze came down to a six-way fight between New Zealand, USA, France, Japan, the Ne read more

Your Boat Toilets Experts Know All the Secrets of Harvesting Seafood From Your Boat Raritan Engineering Company your boat toilets  specialists would like to share with you these topics we thought would be of interest to you this month regarding how to become a master chef harvesting seafood from your boat.  Your boat toilets analysts help get your own delicious ingredients by learning how to harvest local seafood from your boat. Lobsters are supreme hiders, and I'm instructed to keep a keen eye out for the telltale sign of their long antennae, which peek out from hiding spots. Once I have one in my crosshairs, I'm to let go of the rope, dive underwater, lure the lobster out of its hole with the tickle stick and pop it in my net.  Although long considered one of the most edible riches of the sea, lobsters aren't the only shellfish that are fun to catch and tasty to eat. Folks with access to a boat and a coast can harvest a bevy of delicious sea life, such as scall...

Your Ball Valves Specialists Help You To Maximize Your Distance Without Using the Ignition Raritan Engineering Company your ball valves  analysts would like to share with you these topics we thought would be of interest to you this month regarding the 3 top ways to sail in light wind. Your ball valves experts know that many years ago I voluntarily turned my back on the most powerful aid to light wind sailing known to man – when I gave up smoking. Your ball valve dimensions professionals know that the world's most high-tech wind indicators are crude and insensitive compared to the curling wisp of tobacco smoke.  When ghosting along in a breeze that barely ruffles the sea surface and only just fills your sails, it's all too tempting to sit back and drift on until things kick in again.  However, sometimes we need to keep the knots up when the wind starts to become light. Perhaps it's simply that we're loathe to break the silence with the engine.  Trying one or ...

Your Macerating Pump Experts Know Why a 5.2m Sail Is More Managable in July Than December   Raritan Engineering Company  would like to share with you this week why many people think that cold air is heavier than warm air, and why macerating pumps are so beneficial. Is cold air heavier than warm air? For a given wind speed, do you heel more in summer, or winter? Credit: Graham Snook/YM Windsurfers and racing yacht skippers have long been aware that the heeling moment exerted on a yacht's sail varies according to the relative density of the wind. Many a windsurfer has puzzled over why a 5.2m sail is quite manageable during the summer holidays in the Mediterranean but seems impossibly overpowered for the same wind speed in early December in the UK.  The 'weight of the wind' is an old saying that, perhaps unusually, has more than a grain of truth, although it is a fairly small grain. The effect will be compounded by the fact that moist air is less dense than dr...

Your Marine Products Professionals Have All The Answers To Your Sailing Questions Raritan Engineering Company your marine products  analysts would like to share with you these topics we thought would be of interest to you this month regarding how to become a pro at sailing downwind. Which is the best way to sail downwind? Your marine products experts know that downwind cruising can offer some of the most relaxing sailing of the season. Just ease the mainsheet, pole out the genoa, engage autopilot, mix a drink and let the miles tick away as a cooling breeze rolls across the transom. You might start wondering, if progress is a little slow, whether you would be better off digging the spinnaker out of its home in the forepeak? Would the bothersome cat's cradle involved in putting it up and the tricky business of gybing, potentially perilous for a couple, pay off in time saved? These are questions that any cruising sailor might ask, but what is the answer? The likelihood of a ...

See Why Your Seacocks Professionals Say Performance Boaters Don't Deserve the Bad Rap Raritan Engineering Company  wants to keep you abreast of how to keep safe while enjoying fast speeds out on the water. Performance boaters have long taken a bad rap for being gold-chained, fat-walleted, egotistical blowhards who quickly swap a check for 2,000 hp marine missiles and menace the waterways. Forget that stereotype. Today's go-fast boaters are more cerebral, more competitive and less likely to assume they know it all. The prevailing attitude is that with speed comes responsibility.  Apt Pupils Jim Waters, a top-level Hollywood executive, is a longtime boater. He recently acquired a DCB (Dave's Custom Boats) twin-engine catamaran. Faced with a more aggressive hull style and increased horsepower, he decided to seek out additional training. “I was tired of that. I wanted to know more about how to handle the boat, dock it, launch and load it. I wanted to be more ...

Your TruDesign Experts Know Great Antifouling Paint Is Vital for Peak Performance  Raritan Engineering Company your TruDesign  professionals would like to share with you these topics we thought would be of interest to you this month regarding the best antifouling paint solution for you. Your TruDesign analysts know that if your boat stays in the water at least part of the year, good antifouling paint is critical for keeping it performing its best, and for reducing fuel costs. Most boaters find bottom painting messy and tedious, but it's one of the key preventative maintenance jobs that keep your boat in shape.  Antifouling paint keeps marine organisms, taking the forms of shell (animal fouling from barnacles and zebra mussels), weed (plant growth) and slime (single-celled algae) from attaching themselves to your boat.  Choosing an antifouling paint is regional, as boaters in the Great Lakes, Pacific Coast, Southeast, Gulf Coast and other regions tend to choose similarly to th...

It was the most frustrating day so far for sailing at Rioa 2016, with the wind refusing to play fair on Guanabara Bay. read more

As the RS:X fleets sailed their decisive Medal Races, the Finns, 470s, and Nacra 17 fleets continued their racing. Giles Scott has won gold in the Finn with a race to spare. read more

Further Olympic medals have firmed up day six of the Rio 2016 Olympic Sailing Competition, with Croatia gaining it first ever sailing medal. read more

It was a light and frustrating day for many in the Olympic sailing competition, but not for the London 2012 gold and silver medallists in the Men's Windsurfer, with the Netherland's Dorian van Rijs read more

The previous word of the day was 'tricky'. read more

Day three of sailing at Rio 2016 had two very differing complexions with the inshore courses forcing the sailors to make the best of a light-wind lottery, while out to sea it couldn't have been mor read more

Aside from Brazilian legend, Robert Scheidt, who is gunning for a sixth Olypmic sailing medal this week, one of the most capped Olympic sailors competing at Rio 2016 is Team GBR’s RS:X vetera read more

  Your Marine Head Units Specialists Recommend Changing Out Jacks With Frequent Usage Raritan Engineering Company your marine head units  analysts would like to share with you these topics we thought would be of interest to you this month regarding how to change out your own trailer tongue jacks. Your marine head units experts know that I go through a heavy-duty trailer tongue jack every three to four years. Corrosion, frequent use, and a hefty boat and trailer take a toll on these jacks, so I have become adept at changing them out.  Sometimes the jack gets broken when boaters forget to raise it after they hitch up the trailer; it drags on the pavement and becomes damaged. Getting Started Skill Level: 1.5/5 Time to Complete: 1 Hour Tools and Supplies * Fulton 2,500-pound square-tube tongue jack ($78.99, anchorexpress.com) * Floor jack * 6-by-6-inch wood blocks * Jack stands * 3-by-3-foot sheet of ½-inch plywood * Box/open-end wrench set * C clip pliers ($15.99, acehardware.com...

Public Domain from pixabay Your Marine Heads Professionals Turn You Into a Master Fisherman Raritan Engineering Company  keeps you informed about marine heads and these four amazing fishing tips. Assume the Position: Two boats get in position around a rock jetty, fishing both the point and steep drop-off. Not all passes are this calm and uncrowded, especially on the weekends. If inlets and passes are the main thoroughfares for game fish to and from the ocean, jetties represent that one exit with all the restaurants. Rocky breakwaters are a veritable buffet table for species like striped bass, flounder and redfish. Even with pesky boat traffic, ocean swells and nearby shoals, these pervasive fishing structures remain popular for boat and shore fishermen. I went to five experts to learn how they avoid common jetty blunders and out-fish their close-quarter compatriots. Don't Let Your Presentation Stray from the Rocks Even when fishing off the jetty, keep your presentation cl...

Your Marine Parts Specialists Share Amazing Tips on Efficient Sailing Teamwork Raritan Engineering Company your marine parts  professionals would like to share with you these topics we thought would be of interest to you this month regarding how teamwork is needed for sailing success. Your marine parts experts know that sailing and teamwork are crucial. Last Friday to Saturday I had the good fortune of being invited to crew on my friend Mark Hansen's boat Sweet Lorraine (a beautiful J-145) in the 2012 Vineyard race.  The course starts near the Stamford Harbor, goes up to the Buzzard's Bay Light Tower and then returns south of Block Island all the way to Stamford for a total length of about 238 nautical miles.  We are the rightmost boat in the picture below, taken shortly after the start. The boat parts for less professionals know that the crew consisted of extremely experienced and successful sailors including several national/world champions in their respective boat class...

After a sensational week of racing, that included eight inshores, one 24 hour overnight offshore race and a round the Isle of Wight race held in 20-25 knots and brilliant sunshine, one race was hel read more

Your Marine Parts Source Professionals Know How Important It Is to Remove the Confusion image credit: outsideimages.com Raritan Engineering Company your marine parts source  analysts would like to share with you these topics we thought would be of interest to you this month regarding how to decipher multiple boat rules Your marine parts source experts know that when two boats meet, the rules are often clear, but when more boats pile up, things can get confusing. Let's consider what, at first glance, seems to be a very simple three-boat incident. The diagram shows Luke, Molly and Willie on starboard tack on a downwind leg. The boats are lightweight one-design boats, each sailing the course that maximizes its Velocity Made Good to the leeward mark.  We'll examine how the rules apply at each position shown. Because the boats are on the same tack, either Rule 11 or Rule 12 always applies to each of the three possible pairs of boats (Luke-Molly, Luke-Willie and Molly-Wil...