Safety and maintenance

Safety and maintenance

Safety is essential during navigation and every producer knows it only too well.Both on land and at sea, you always need to be ready for any unforeseen event and to be equipped with the necessary tools to face trouble. In this section of our site, you can find the safety accessories for your boat that always have to be at hand in a vessel, from small pleasure boats to large motorsailers.Visit Osculati.com to find a comprehensive catalogue including the best safety and maintenance solutions available on the market. The safety equipment of a boat of any dimension shall include the so-called marine acoustic alarms: ship’s bells and fog whistles, recess-fit or gas horns, bullhorns and electric sirens are compulsory for anyone sailing farther than one mile from the coastline.Other accessories to navigate in safety are distress signals and individual or collective buoyancy aids such as liferafts, lifejackets, dinghies and marine first aid kits. In the Osculati catalogue you’ll also find marine signals, floating rescue lights, radar reflectors, floating anchors and sailing clothing. Maintenance of the boat is another crucial element for the correct and safe use of your vessel. Corrosion, damage to the hull and a flooded engine are the most common causes of a boat’s reduced efficiency. This is the reason why we recommend a regular overhaul of your boat’s operational status both in terms of hull and in terms of mechanical parts such as the engine and the fittings.In our portal you’ll find products for small repairs and boat cleaning of the best brands on the market. Paints, fillers, primers and technical marine sealers are only some of the items that can be purchased in this section. Moreover, the Osculati catalogue also proposes marine lubricants, additives for engines, nanotechnology products for the surface treatment of boats and craft and fastening systems using adhesive tape.