Happy Thanksgiving From Our Family to Yours!

On this wonderful Thanksgiving Day, we at Southeast Marine are very thankful for every one of our customers. We hope that you have a wonderful day with family and friends.

And as you are shopping on Friday and Saturday, don't forget to stop by and check out our awesome deals!

Woody is Back!

Southeast Marine Sales and Service is proud to announce that David Wood, much better known as Woody is back in the Service Department at Southeast Marine Sales and Service. We are very excited to have Woody back and helping our customers get their boats in prime operating condition. Woody worked at Southeast Marine in the past for 37 years and he is a genius at fixing any boat! He comes back to us in the role of Service Estimator and Service Technician. We hope that you are as thrilled as we are to have him back on our team. Woody has a real passion for both boating and customer service and will make your experience at Southeast Marine much more enjoyable.

Sea-Doo Closed Loop Cooling

The Closed Loop Cooling System on the Sea-Doo PWC's are just another reason why they are so much better than the competition. The coolant for the engine in the Sea-Doo's is not taken from the water but is internally looped to cool the engine therefore keeping any debris or corrosive saltwater from hurting the engine. This keeps maintenance costs low for you and will keep your Sea-Doo on the water for a long time.

MasterCraft X-10 Surf Wake

Do you want the best surf wake and the best wakeboard wakeboard wake on your boat? Well, look no further than MasterCraft's X10. As this video shows, it not only has a great surf wake with only stock ballast, but it also has a great wakeboard wake.
The reason that the surf wake is so great is because of the 2010 " Boating Innovation of the Year," the surf tabs. These create a lean in the boat without adding additional weight.

We hope that you come in today to check it out for yourself! And make sure to check out our pre-owned boat inventory! 

Thanks to our friends in Michigan at Action Water Sports for the video!

Guide to Safe Boating: Part 5

• Boating Under the Influence
• Do not do it, it is stupid and will lead to civil and criminal punishments
• Make sure you listen to everything that officers say on the water
• This includes the local police, the sherrif, your state's fish and game officers as well as the Coast Guard
• Reporting Boating Accidents
• If you are in an accident in your boat, then make sure that you report it to the police if it results in loss of life, a person dissappearing off the vessel, personal injuray that requires medical attention, property damage more than $2,000 or complete loss of the boat
• Immediate Action is required for fatal accidents
• Otherwise, if there is personal injury or a dissappearance of a person, then report the accident within 24 hours
• If there is property damage, then report the accident within 10 days
• Rendering Assistance
• If the driver of a boat sees somone at sea in danger, then they must provide any assistance that they can safely provide
• Vessel Safety Check
• The items checked during a VSC are
• Navigation Lights
• Sound Producing Devices
• Voice Communications
• Life jackets and throwable flotation devices
• fire extinguishers
• Visual Distress Signals
• Backfire flame control
• Overal Vessel condition
• Ventilation
• Proper Display of Numbers
• Pollution placard
• MARPOL trash placards
• Marine sanitation device
• registration/documentation
• navigation rules book
• Stae and/or local requirement

Check back tomorrow for Safety and Survival Tips!

Guide to Safe Boating: Part 4

Navigation: Rules of the Water

• Crossing Situation: When two boats are coming towards each other from a 90 degree angle.
• The stand-on vessel should maintain its course and speed
• The Give-way vessel should alter its course to pass behind the stand-on vessel.
• Both boats should give 1 short blast of the horn.
• Overtaking Situation: When a boat is going faster than and passes the one in front of it.
• If the overtaker is passing on the left he should give two short blasts of the horn and if passing on the right, should give one short blast of the horn.
• When two boats meet head on, passing on the port, or left is preffered.
• Once the two drivers realize that there are coming towards each other, one short blast should be given, which will let the drivers know to pass each other on each others left, similar to driving on the road.
• If the drivers give two short blasts, they should pass on the right, similar to how people drive in Britian.
• Lateral Navigational Aids
• When moving upstream, keep the green, or odd number markers on your left, and the red, or even mumber markers on your right.
• When moving downstream, do the opposite, with the green on your right and the red on your left.
• Information and Regulatory Markers
• Orange Diamond: Alerts Boaters to hazards
• the hazard will most likely be written inside the diamond
• Orange Circle
• Restricted Operation, such as no wake zone or a speed limit
• Orange Diamond with a cross in the middle means that boats are prohibited in the area
• Orange Square provides helpful information

More tomorrow on boating safety

2012 Sea Doo Wake Models

PersonalWatercraft.com recently did a review of the Wake edition Sea-Doo's. There are two versions, the Wake 155 and the Wake Pro 215. Both of these models offer the brake, eco mode and many other standard Sea-Doo functions. This is a great article to check out and and make sure to come into Southeast to check out these great models and make one your own today!