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Raritan Boat Cleaning Products Suppliers Share Tips on How to Keep Your Portlights in Good Repair Raritan Engineering  your boat cleaning products manufacturers are excited to share with you this week information regarding the benefit of keeping your portlights clean. Leaky portlights and hatches are one of the more frustrating projects to face on an old boat. The best case scenarios are easiest to deal with, and these are usually the ones in which bedding has dried out and a simple removal, cleanup, and re-bed game plan is all it takes. When an acrylic (Plexiglas) or Lexan (polycarbonate) lens is removed, be very careful with solvents used to clean away old bedding because they can destroy the surface of once clear plastic. Raritan Boat Cleaning Products Experts Discuss Further How Easy Portlight Maintenance Can Be Your  boat cleaning products  suppliers talk about how to reattach the mechanically fastened lens, use a thick, adhesive butyl-rubber tape or eq...

  Your Boat Toilets Specialists Talk About Effective Cleaners For Getting Rid of Mildew Raritan Engineering  would like to share with you this week some amazing tips on how to prevent mildew. We tested the most effective cleaners for mildewed fabrics in 2009 and published a follow-up on long-term treatments in 2015. In the 2015 test, we were delighted to discover that some DIY formulas and common pool treatments like Clorox Algae Eliminator can do as well as pricey store bought miracle-cures.  Canvas dodgers and biminis are the hallmark of a cruising yacht, keeping the sun at bay and allowing the crew to “dodge” the worst of the weather. Canvas also protects sails, windows, and machinery.  Clorox Pool and Spa Algae Eliminator proved to be an inexpensive cleaner/protectant. For maximum water repellency, boat owners could use impervious waterproof fabric instead of canvas, but that typically isn’t a good idea. Waterproof sail covers hold moisture, milde...

Raritan Marine Hot Water Heater Distributors Give Great Pointers to Help Your Dog Enjoy the Journey Raritan Engineering your  marine hot water heaters  suppliers would like to share with you these topics we thought would be of interest to you this month regarding amazing tips to keep your dog safe while sailing. Your marine hot water heaters specialists discuss how your dog will likely enjoy being out on the open ocean as much as you will, but just like with human passengers, safety measures must be taken! Create an Emergency Plan Make sure you consider an emergency plan of what you’ll do in the event that your dog falls overboard. Choose who will navigate the boat and who will keep visuals on the floating dogs.  Dogs don’t have the ability to wave to signal where they are, and their small floating heads can easily get lost among the waves. Your marine parts suppliers give reasons as to why it’s essential to assign specific people to the task of keeping an ...

Your Marine Sanitation Device Suppliers Share Further Need-to-Know Tips for You and Your Crew Raritan Engineering  your marine sanitation device distributors would like to share with you this week some great information regarding potentially life saving tactics for getting through tough summer squalls. Summer is here and the time is right . . .  for testing your squall-busting tactics. The comparison of jibe-taming devices in the July 2017 issue of Practical Sailor is an appropriate topic for the summer when afternoon squalls so frequently add a little excitement during the leg back to the marina, or the approach to the next anchorage.  The ideal sail plan for dealing with squalls will vary by boat, visibility, sea conditions, and intensity of the squalls. Ideally, the helm is still relatively well-balanced and responsive for whatever point of sail you choose. Our gaff-rigged ketch reefed down with a double- or triple-reefed main and staysail could handle ab...

Your Marine Ice Makers Distributors Share Crucial Sailing Strategy With You Today Raritan Engineering your  marine ice makers  specialists would like to share with you these topics we thought would be of interest to you this month regarding how to avoid having tunnel vision while competing. Dang it! We’ve all been there. You just had to cover that one competitor, no matter which way they went. Your marine ice makers professionals further discuss how you just had to follow the local knowledge, high-tailing it to one part of the course. You just had to tack immediately off the start, to set you up for the right hand shift the weather forecast said was coming.  Oops. It didn’t work out. While the classic version of sailboat racing’s “tunnel vision” is focusing in on one competitor and letting a whole pack sail by, tunnel vision or hyper-focusing on one element can affect several parts of our sailboat racing game. This complexity can be befuddling. To ...

Raritan Marine Holding Tank Distributors Share Great Knot Tying Skills With You Raritan Engineering  would like to share with you this week these awesome knot tying skills that will make your journeys much more enjoyable. I’m as prone as anyone to being enchanted by the big picture—but I learned quickly where that can lead. About 10 miles off the coast of Colombia, in a gale that tragically swept a poor French cruiser right off his boat, the smallest cheapest block on board our little ketch exploded in a mess, leaving the club-footed staysail swinging around the foredeck like a Louisville slugger in the arms of an angry Skunk Ape (that’s Florida-speak for Big Foot). The article looked at a seemingly mundane subject, the kind of article no one but a serious sailor would take notice of, but the implications were far reaching.  The most familiar knot of this type is a rolling hitch. While an ordinary rolling hitch might work fine on an awning, it loses its effect...