Boating — December 2018

BOAT BUYERS GUIDE 2018 | 44 | BOATINGMAG.COM

including Slick Mist Marine Speed Wax, which can detail your boat’s gloss and

protect from UV damage in minutes, plus products such as multipurpose grease

to keep your trailer bearings lubed, cool and spinning smoothly for a safe journey

to your favorite waters.

LUCAS MARINE PRODUCTS SPAN THE ENTIRE

SPECTRUM OF BOATING MAINTENANCE,

I

n a marketplace like marine

appearance and lubricant

products, it’s hard to know what’s

in the bottle unless you are a

chemist with a spectrometer.

Intuitively, you can look at a

company like Lucas Oil and peruse

its racing partners to draw a pretty

good picture of its products’ effi cacy

in extreme conditions. That’s an

especially good gauge of quality if its

partners are winning.

And they are.

Likewise, just as you can tell the

quality of a person by the friends

they keep, you can tell the quality

of a brand by the brands with which

they partner.

Take Ranger Boats. Long the top

of its fi eld in bass boats, and one of

the most popular brands in salt water

too, Ranger builds its boats, hangs its

motors and factory-fi lls them with

Lucas Oil lubricants —

unless they come with full

lubricant reservoirs.

“We didn’t make that

decision easily,” says Matt

Raynor, marketing director

at Ranger Boats.

“We got to know each other as we

both had marketing relationships

with the same people, and

partnered in the Texas Team Trail

in 2012. The more we worked

together, the deeper

the partnership became,”

says Raynor.

Soon, the relationship solidifi ed,

and as Lucas was developing a

line of marine-specifi c products,

Ranger engineers were testing and

incorporating them throughout

the factory.

“We were really fortunate to align

with a company that shared a similar

culture and produced products that

were best in class.”

After extensive testing, the whole

Ranger team was on board, and they

began the factory-fi ll program for

lubricants, hydraulic fl uids, gear cases

and trailer bearings. Then they did

the same for their delivery

trucks and corporate

vehicles.

The Way We Look

Every Ranger Boat also

comes with a Lucas Oil

appearance kit that includes Lucas

The Marine Speedwax is

The Interior Detailer is

water-based and good

for vinyl, acrylic,

plastic and rubber.

It’s not greasy and,

like Slick Mist, it adds

UV protection to your

boat’s more delicate

features. It’s pH neutral,

and that’s good for

your boat as well as the

environment.

For high-speed, high-

load trailer tires, fast

and easy Tire and Trim

Shine does more than