Raymarine cleaning products.......

[mannmade]

I received an email this morning with an announcement of a new line of boat cleaning products from - Raymarine! Why would a leading electronics firm go into cleaning/maintenance products? Is this conglomerate business at its finest, or did they just want to diversify due to the down turn in new boat sales? I wonder whose product line they repackaged!

 

[Shadowcruzr]

You sure it isnt just for cleaning their display screens?

 

[Sandy]

Or Ray's Marine??

Raymarine Marine Shield Professional Finishing System : http://www.raymarine.com/article.aspx?site=1&section=43&page=860&content=10529#cbm10529

It does sound rather bizarre, though one of the products is indeed for cleaning electronic display screens.

 

[knomad]

I was a part of RayMarine's consumer testing of those products approximately 1 1/2 years ago. I found their cleaners and waxes to be excellent. The only thing I did not try was the rubbing compound. I don't know how they priced them, but I would not hesitate to purchase any of them.

 

[mannmade]

knomad, how did you get selected to participate in the initial test program? Do you know someone high on the food chain at headquarters or was it "random selection?"

 

[tullydf]

George,

How are you?

I joined the forum at your advise and already found something that I had been looking almost a year for.

Hope you are on the mend.

Getting real antsy for Spring!

 

[knomad]

A couple of years back RayMarine, through their website, was looking for volunteers to be on their "Consumer Advisory Board" and I was selected.
We viewed new product designs (on paper) and answered a number of surveys. We even got a tour of the US facility in NH.
The only products we actually got to test were the cleaning products.
I haven't heard from them in about a year, so I don't know if they still are doing this.