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BBLADES Boating News — Spring 2015
Spring fever usually means it’s time to start thinking about getting the boat ready, or, if you’re lucky enough to have your boat in the water and completed your shakedown cruise, to get after those nagging little things corrected before they grow bigger if ignored. BBLADES has programs in place that let you test and tweak your boats performance affordably.
Know What to Look for When Inspecting Props
Don’t forget that prop maintenance is as important as checking out the engine, hull and accessories on your boat. In fact, the following steps should be used every time you take your boat out on the water, but certainly after three or four days of boating fun.
BBLADES OB/F: Versatile Prop for Today’s Big Outboards
The BBLADES OB/F OB/F is perhaps the most versatile outboard propeller available.A four-blade, stainless steel wheel (14.75” diameter available in one-inch pitch increments from 21- to 32- inches and 15” diameter in one-inch increments from 33- to 37-inches), BBLADES’ OB/F features a custom-tuned exhaust tube that reduces drag, improves trim reaction and aides’ time-to-plane and top-end speed.
BBLADES’ Prop & Spacer Plate Test Programs Eliminate the Guess Work
BBLADES offers test props from our own line of quality propellers, as well as those from Mercury, Turbo, Hydromotive and more; BBLADES even offers testing of Hering Offshore propellers , and is the only prop shop to make such an offer available.
Slip Into Something More Comfortable
Prop slip is the difference between actual and theoretical forward travel resulting from a propeller’s angle of attack. Too much prop slip leads to poor performance and lousy fuel economy. Too little slip can create other issues, not the least of which is destroying a drive or gear case components.
BBLADES Boating News — Meet Me In Miami!
We’ll be at the Miami International Boat Show February 12-16! Be sure to swing by the BBLADES booth #4066, and say hello!
BBlades Winter Special – 2015
Here’s a New Year’s Resolution that will be easy to keep: get your propeller in shape for the 2015 boating season and save some money with BBLADES’ Winter Tune-Up Special.
BBLADES Boating News — Winter 2014
Tune-Up Your Prop with BBLADES’ Winter Special. During January and February, BBLADES will inspect and repair your aluminum, Nibral or stainless steel wheel; perform lab finishing to maximize the performance of your prop; or customize any new propeller
BBLADES Back-to-School-End-of-Summer Sale
BBLADES Professional Propellers wants to help you squeeze in as much boating as you can during these last days of summer, so during the month of September we’re offering free ground shipping on any prop repairs or lab finishing; just make sure we receive your props by September 30th to take advantage of this great deal.
BBLADES Boating News: Summer 2014
“Summertime and the living is easy,” unless you have kids in sports, a yard to maintain, or worse—a boat to repair; sometimes it’s a wonder we can get out on the boat at all.
BBLADES Boating News: Spring 2014
Spring has sprung, following a long, hard Winter for most of us, and while winter still clings in some parts, it’s grip is loosening. Time to start thinking about getting the boat in the water, or, if you’ve done your shakedown cruise, to get after those nagging little things that will grow bigger if left unattended.
BBLADES Boating News
Warm enough for you? For most of the nation, it’s been a long, cold, snowy winter. If you’re lucky enough to live in year-round boating, we hope you take advantage of it!
Resolve to Tune-Up that Prop for 2014 with BBLADES Winter Special
If you’re looking for a New Year’s Resolution that is easy to keep, vow to have your favorite propeller fit and at its best for the 2014 boating season with BBLADES Winter Tune-Up Special.
15% Off BBLADES Gift Certificates During December!
As a loyal BBLADES customer, we want to thank you for your business, so during the month of December, we invite you to take 15% off any BBLADES Gift Certificate.
BBLADES Off To See The Worlds And Key West Poker Run
BBLADES is heading South in November to the home of Hemingway and the six-toed kitty cats, but our motive isn’t literary or animal husbandry. We’ll be on-hand assisting and cheering on the various race teams running BBLADES props during the 35th Annual Key West Offshore World Championships and attending the 21st running of the Florida Powerboat Club’s Key West Poker Run November 5th-11th.
BBLADES — Fall Boating News
Fall is hard upon us here in the upper Midwest and there are three types of boaters at this time of year: those lamenting pulling the boat for the season, those who can put on an extra layer of clothing and squeeze several more weeks out of the boating season and those lucky enough to spend the winter in a warm-weather locale with an endless boating season.
BBLADES — Summer Boating News
Here we are in the middle of summer; the boating season is at wide-open-throttle and “working for the weekend” takes on serious meaning. At BBLADES, we’re serious boaters just like you.