New Reflective Decals Available – 400 Series Introduced

guyhaines — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 22:48:10 +0000

Last month in the July–August Issue of Great Lakes Scuttlebutt featured the Safe-Fill™ Graphics product line of Marine Safety Graphics™ on “Preventing Costly Miss-Filling Incidents.” Since the last issue, Marine Safety Graphics ™ has released two new products lines. In response to popular request Safe-Fill Graphics™ has expanded its current Product line to now offer all products in both reflective and non-reflective graphic materials. This NEW reflective product line provides greater improved visual identification and added safety in low light conditions for all your boat, car, truck or home identification applications.

The second new product, Screen Door Graphic/Magnetic Set offering is available in both reflective and non-reflective graphics for improved safety. Have you ever experienced the costly repair or replacement of a sliding screen door from someone not realizing the door is closed and walking into or through it on your boat or at home? Well, this product is designed to give everyone a heads-up to help avoid those costly repairs or replacement of your now broken screen door. This 3-inch square graphic is sold as a set with a magnetic back and is designed to magnetically attach at eye level to any screen door on your boat, at home or business. Each product ordered comes as a pair of two magnetic panels. Just locate the magnetic side back-to-back one on each side of your screen at eye level for maximum visibility.

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Preventing Costly Filling Mistakes

guyhaines — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 20:56:59 +0000

Why Buy Marine Safety GraphicsTM Products? Safe-Fill™ Graphics was created after a 2019 unfortunate and very expensive miss-filling event of a friend’s 40-foot aft-cabin cruiser. This resulted in the complete loss of his boating season and the necessary purging of the fuel system, along with the removal and rebuilding of both big–block inboard gas engines. This event reminded us of similar events in the general aviation industry from the late 1980s. This resulted in the FAA mandating identification standardization to eliminate this miss-filling problem in GA aircraft. From these previous aviation experiences, Safe-Fill™ Graphic was created in 2019 to fit large to small recreational boats to enhance safety and minimize costly mistakes of cross-filling your boat or miss-filling your water, waste and rod holders with gas or diesel. To fit these multiple designed boats and fillers, each Safe-Fill™ Graphic comes in three sizes and series of large, mid-size, and limited-space graphics. Each graphic is self-adhesive, UV and fuel resistant, and defined by color and corresponding script. An article in Boat U.S. Magazine (February/March 2021) stated, “Make sure you’re putting fuel into the correct tank.”

GEICO/BoatU.S. Marine Insurance receives claims each year from someone pumping fuel into a Rod Holder or Water Tank.” In 2021, the average cost of pumping out just 1 gallon of contaminated fluids from your boat was $5.00. Pumping an average 40-gallon tank can cost $200.00 or more! The fore mentioned average pumping fee DOES NOT include labor or additional disposal fees. Not only do you have to deal with these disposal costs, but now you have to deal with the costs of a fuel system flush out, filter replacement, and, if you ran the boat, your engines might be facing a potential total engine rebuild due to cylinder scoring. CAUTION: Know what you are doing! As published in the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Boating Skills & Seamanship, Core Course Section 4-2; When fueling, it pays to know what you are doing. For example, people have pumped gasoline into water tanks. Gasoline has even been pumped into rod holders. Both of these errors, on occasion, have resulted in explosions and serious injuries. Be certain that you are pumping the gas into your gas tank and not your bilge. – U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary

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