Tuesday, July 31, 2012

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!

Guide to Safe Boating: Part 3

Today we continue the Guide to Safe Boating!


  • Sound Signals
    • All vessels are required to have sound producing devices (either a horn or a whistle) and they must use these during times of low visibility or during emergencies
  • Navigational Lights
    • Vessels must use navigational lights between sunset and sunrise and during periods of low visibility
    • Your boat must display the red and green lights at the front and the white light at the back of the boat
  • Pollution Regulations
    • Do not throw your trash out in the water, throw it in a trash can
    • Report any spills of oil or gas
  • Marine Sanitation Devices
    • If your boat has a bathroom, then the manufacturer had to make sure the sewage is kept in a safe place until you can dump it
The next safe boating post will be on navigation rules so stay tuned! 

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Guide to Safe Boating: Part 2

I hope you found the last blog on Safe Boating helpful! And if you need a boat check out our New and Used Inventory pages on our website!


  • Visual Distress Signals
    • You do not need a VDS if you are on a river, lake or a bay with an opening of less than 2 miles. You are required to have a VDS if you are on open water.
    • Pyrotechnic visual distress signals must be US Coast Guard approved, accessible and ready to use
    • You need at least 3 visual distress signals
  • Fire Extinguishers
    • US Coast Guard approved marine fire extinguishers must be on all boats.
      • must have either B-1 or B-II classification
      • Any boat less than 26 feet must have 1 fire extinguisher with at least B-I classification
      • Any boat from 26-40 feet must have either 2 B-I fire extinguishers or 1 B-II fire extinguisher and 1 B-I fixed system fire extinguisher
  • Ventilation
    • All gas powered boats must have a ventilation system
    • This system is called the blower on most boats
    • IMPORTANT: Make sure you always run your blower and smell for any fumes before you start you boat!

We hope that reading this series will help you stay safe on the water and come back for the next blog on boating safety! 



Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Guide to Safe Boating: Part 1

The National Safe Boating Council has a guide to safe boating out, however, it is 85 pages long. Who has time to read 85 pages of anything these days? Not very many people that I know. So over the next few days, this blog will take the guide and take a few pages and give the "Cliff-notes" version of what the guide says. Please note that this advice is given with no guarantees and Southeast Marine Sales and Service holds no responsibility for the advice given here.


  • Two Methods of Registering your Recreational vessel: Through the State or Federally, through the Coast Guard.
    • The numbers must be displayed on both sides of the boat and towards the front.
  • Equipment Requirements
    • Life jackets: All vessels must carry one for each passenger and any boat 16 feet or longer must carry a throwable flotation device.
    • Children under 13 MUST wear a life jacket while on a boat unless they are in an enclosed cabin.
    • Everyone must wear a Coast Guard approved jacket while engaging in water sports (ie: tubing, waterskiing, wake boarding, etc.)
Check back tomorrow for Part 2!



Friday, July 20, 2012

2012 Sea-Doo GTI 130 for $8800

Southeast is currently running a special where you can get a GTI 130 for only $8800! This is a great deal and one of the best in town! Also, you can step a level up and get the GTI SE 130 for only $400 more, which adds the touring seat, fold-down reboarding step and some additional gauge functions, such as the Virtual Trim System and a compass. These are great deals and we hope that you come in or call today to check these deals out!
 The GTI series will give you everything you need on the water. It has the iBR, (intelligent Brake and Reverse) system for added safety along with the iTC (intelligent Throttle Control) system for maximum control on the water. This model, as with every Sea-Doo has ECO mode, which finds the most fuel efficient speed for you to use on the water.
Call us at 407-851-1965  email Charles, or come in and start living the Sea Doo life!



This price does not include, tax, tag, title or dealer fees.



Thursday, July 19, 2012

2013 X-Star- The Next Generation

The new MasterCraft X-Star is truly amazing. The riders on the Pro Tour are doing unheard  of tricks behind it. It is definitely cements MasterCraft as the boat to have for wakeboarders of all levels. The new MasterCraft has improved to create a monster wake that is sizes previously thought incomprehensible. Here at Southeast Marine we cannot wait to get our hands on the new X-Star and try it out and get it front of all of you. As soon as we can there will be pictures and videos on our Facebook page and website so make sure to follow us! For now, we hope that these videos that we post on here will appease your craving for the new X-Star!

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

A Cobalt Boater's Dictionary

This is a great post from the Cobalt blog to learn a lot of boating terms. E-mail Charles today if you want to become a proud Cobalt owner today!

Your ownership of a Cobalt boat entitles you to use loud and often nautical terms of every stripe: those that have come fully into the vernacular — “learn the ropes,” for example – and those that remain damp and obscure — the onomatopoetic “garbling,” for example,  “the illegal practice of mixing cargo with garbage.” No garbling around here.  None whatsoever, as we invite you to talk the talk just as confidently as your Cobalt  . . . er  . . . walks the walk.  Do be careful then, as nautical terms do sometimes make for unworkable metaphors.
  • Anchor’s aweigh: Your cry to all aboard once the anchor has just cleared the bottom, signaling that you’re underway on a morning of absolute fun.
  • Amidships: midway between the bow and stern of your Cobalt
  • Astern: at the rear of your boat
  • Ballast: a sophisticated set of tanks and their controls used to control buoyancy and stability on the Cobalt WSS boats
  • Beam: the width of your Cobalt at its widest point
  • Belay: to secure a rope by winding on a pin or cleat
  • Bilge: the lower part of the inner hull, the deep-V hull that contributes so mightily to your Cobalt’s smooth, oh so smooth ride
  • Binnacle: the case in which a compass is kept
  • Brightwork: exposed polished metal on your Cobalt, pretty much everywhere on your Cobalt
  • Buoy: a floating object of defined shape and color, anchored at a given position to serve as an aid to navigation, a floating object frequently struck by other boaters staring at your beautiful new Cobalt 243
  • Chine: an angle on the hull, reversed on Cobalt hulls to enhance stability and  strength
  • Escutcheon: that area on the stern where you have lovingly displayed your Cobalt’s given name
  • Freeboard: distance between the waterline and the gunwale on your Cobalt, a safe, eminently workable distance
  • Gunwale: upper edge of your Cobalt’s side
  • Handsomely: in a slow, even motion as in the retrieval of a line, as in “My, my, my. That Cobalt surely does leave the dock handsomely.”
  • Keelhauling: maritime punishment in which the condemned sailor is dragged under the keel of a wooden ship, the barnacles doing their worst on the poor man; in fact, keelhauling simply will no longer work as a punishment for or deterrent to on-the-
  • water misbehavior, such is the smooth perfection of the Cobalt hullKnot: a unit of speed – one nautical mile (1.1508 landlocked mile) per hour
  • Land lubber: a person unfamiliar with being on the sea; also; a person unlucky enough to have never boarded a Cobalt
  • Lanyard: a rope or line for fastening aboard your boat
  • Larboard: the left side of a Cobalt, less common of course than portside, the counterpart of starboard, the right side of the boat
  • Marina: a docking facility for boats and yachts, the scene of obvious and uncontrollable envy on the part of otherwise quite decent, quite lovable owners of boats manufactured somewhere other than Neodesha, Kansas
  • Planing: when a fast-moving Cobalt skims over the water instead of pushing through it; the adverb/adjective pair most frequently attached to a Cobalt’s planning – “essentially instant”
  • Scuttlebutt: a barrel with a hole from which sailors would drink; hence, a shipboard drinking fountain and therefore, in modern naval slang, “gossip”; a term now used almost exclusively at boat shows in the context of the Cobalt innovations about to be introduced for the new model year
  • Skipper: the captain of the boat, as in “Skipper, are you truly this talented, or are you relying on the Livorsi engine controls, standard on all Cobalt twin-engine powertrains to dock your 303?”
  • Transom: the transverse members of the boat’s construction at the stern, an aft wall of sorts to which the drive portion of the sterndrive is attached
  • Windlass: a winch used to raise your boat’s anchor
Anchor’s aweigh fer sure, me hearties!  And the scuttlebutt is that the skipper is just about to stand abeam and order an extra ration of grog for the entire ship’s company.

Monday, July 16, 2012

2012 Lake Conway Wipeout

This weekend at the Sandbar at Lake Conway there will be an on the water Wipeout competition. This is the first year that Southeast Marine Sales and Service is sponsoring the event and we are excited about giving away a CWB wakeboard to the winner of the kids division. We are excited to see the great turn out for this event and hope to see old friends as well as make new ones. Click here to RSVP for the event on Facebook. We look forward to seeing you there and check back on the blog and Facebook page for pictures and video from the event!

Friday, July 13, 2012

Cobalt 200- One of 5 Great boats for under $35,000

Recently, Boating Magazine had an article about the Cobalt 200 being one of the 5 great boats for under $35,000. With the economy still not being back in the best shape everyone wants to know how to get the most for every dollar they spend. And just because this boat is a fraction of the price of most Cobalt's does not mean that they took any of the great benefits of owning a Cobalt away. The Cobalt 200 has plenty of storage, as can be seen in the article. In addition, the boat comes with the Cobalt 5 year warranty and is also made with the fine craftsmanship that is indicative of Cobalt quality. Come in today to see the Cobalt 200 for yourself.

Thursday, July 12, 2012

New Master Craft X-Star Breaking New Ground

The New MasterCraft X-Star wake has been helping athletes break new ground in the past month on the tour circuit. Check out this video to see some of the awesome new tricks that the new X-Star wake is allowing these competitors to pull off!

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Sea Doo's new RXP-X 260 is proving how it is the world's most advanced personal watercraft. The Sea Doo racing team recently won all the podium spots in the stock division at the ISJBA event in Racine, Wisconsin. They won on the exact same model that you can purchase here at Southeast Marine. If you have any questions or are interested in purchasing the RXP-X 260 to show off to all of your friends come in or call today!