How To Swap Your Prop

How To Swap Your Prop

The propeller is a critical – yet often overlooked – part of virtually every boat you’ll ever encounter. After all, it’s the part of the propulsion system that turns the engine’s rotational motion into thrust, and it is the only ...

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How to Replace Sacrificial Anodes on an Outboard Motor

How to Replace Sacrificial Anodes on an Outboard Motor

Inspecting and replacing the sacrificial anodes on an outboard or sterndrive is an important maintenance task that is often overlooked by boat owners. It’s a great DIY task, and Mercury offers replacement anode kits for every popular engine brand, all ...

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What is a prop hub and why it’s important

What is a prop hub and why it’s important

It’s time to head back to the dock. You drop the throttle, and your engine revs up like crazy, but your boat doesn’t move. Or maybe it moves very little, almost like there’s no propeller on the engine. You shut ...

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How to Winterize Your Outboard

How to Winterize Your Outboard

Winterizing is Really Important Correctly preparing your outboard motor for the off-season will help insure that it’s ready to go next spring. In cold climates, freezing weather can cause costly damage to an engine that isn’t winterized properly. Even in ...

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Ten Tips for Safely Enjoying Tow Sports

Ten Tips for Safely Enjoying Tow Sports

As the water gets warmer, it entices you to get in and enjoy. For boaters, that often means hooking a rope to the back of the vessel and towing friends and family around your favourite waterways. Whether your riders are ...

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Tips if you get caught boating in rough weather

Tips if you get caught boating in rough weather

A few raindrops and a bit of chop on the water isn’t enough to deter an avid boater from heading out for a fishing tournament or crossing the bay to visit a friend’s at the cottage. Weather can turn on ...

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How to flush your outboard

How to flush your outboard

Most boaters know it’s imperative to flush an outboard with freshwater after boating in saltwater or brackish water. Failure to do so can allow corrosion to take hold in your motor’s water passages, compromising your cooling system and shortening the ...

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